摘要
This work proposes a method to scientifically quantify the quality of normally distributed visible spectra from the viewpoint of energy concentration: high transmittance, narrow spectral width, and small deviation from the target wavelength in the target region. In the proposed method, the spectral width of the spectrum is compared with that of a reference spectrum before its deviation from the target wavelength is examined. After extracting the maximum transmittance, a performance index of the spectrum is obtained in a percentile value. The effectiveness of the proposed method was analytically proven by surface plasmon resonance-generated spectra with five design features and five variations in each feature. The results indicated that the proposed method not only substantially reflected the predictions made by intuitive visual inspections, but also avoided misleading and ambiguous results evaluated by existing full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) method, figure-of-merit (FOM) method, and coordinates on the chromaticity diagram. In addition to the numerical analysis, the experimentally obtained spectra of phosphors in white light emitting diodes were also evaluated. The results proved that the proposed method can successfully highlight the scaled performance difference among the spectra, which is not supported by existing FWHM and FOM methods by simultaneously considering the aforementioned three characteristics of a spectrum.