Patent ID: 8419975

Claim:
A light-emitting device comprising a light-emitting element and a phosphor layer, the light-emitting element being a blue light-emitting element that emits light having an emission peak in a wavelength range of 440 nm to less than 500 nm, the phosphor layer containing a green phosphor having an emission peak in a wavelength range of 500 nm to less than 560 nm and a red phosphor having an emission peak in a wavelength range of 600 nm to less than 660 nm, the red phosphor being a nitride or oxynitride containing Eu 2+ as a luminescent center ion, the green phosphor and the red phosphor being excited with light emitted by the blue light-emitting element, and output light of the light-emitting device containing light-emitting components emitted by the green phosphor, the red phosphor, and the blue light-emitting element, wherein the phosphor layer substantially contains no phosphor other than those activated with Eu 2+ or Ce 3+ , the green phosphor has an excitation peak on a shorter wavelength side than an excitation wavelength as a peak of the light emitted by the blue light-emitting element.