Current Status of GaN-Based Solid-State Lighting

MRS Bulletin ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuji Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Charge Separation ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
White Leds ◽  
Semipolar Gan ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Nonpolar Gan

AbstractThe continuous improvement in luminous efficacy of “white” light-emitting-diode (LED) sources offers the potential of considerable energy savings in general lighting applications. Recent experiments at UCSB have demonstrated 117 lumens per watt (lm/W) in white LEDs, with further improvements expected in the near future. Considerable progress has also been achieved using nonpolar GaN, such as a-plane {1120} and m-plane {1100} GaN, or semipolar GaN substrates. Such devices avoid the deleterious effects of charge separation due to spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization inherent in most c-axis-oriented devices.

scholarly journals Increased Plant Quality, Greenhouse Productivity and Energy Efficiency with Broad-Spectrum LED Systems: A Case Study for Thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.)

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 960
Author(s):  
Jenny Manuela Tabbert ◽  
Hartwig Schulz ◽  
Andrea Krähmer
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Thymus Vulgaris ◽  
Light Spectrum ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Biomass Yields ◽  
Lighting Systems

A light-emitting diode (LED) system covering plant-receptive wavebands from ultraviolet to far-red radiation (360 to 760 nm, “white” light spectrum) was investigated for greenhouse productions of Thymus vulgaris L. Biomass yields and amounts of terpenoids were examined, and the lights’ productivity and electrical efficiency were determined. All results were compared to two conventionally used light fixture types (high-pressure sodium lamps (HPS) and fluorescent lights (FL)) under naturally low irradiation conditions during fall and winter in Berlin, Germany. Under LED, development of Thymus vulgaris L. was highly accelerated resulting in distinct fresh yield increases per square meter by 43% and 82.4% compared to HPS and FL, respectively. Dry yields per square meter also increased by 43.1% and 88.6% under LED compared to the HPS and FL lighting systems. While composition of terpenoids remained unaffected, their quantity per gram of leaf dry matter significantly increased under LED and HPS as compared to FL. Further, the power consumption calculations revealed energy savings of 31.3% and 20.1% for LED and FL, respectively, compared to HPS. In conclusion, the implementation of a broad-spectrum LED system has tremendous potential for increasing quantity and quality of Thymus vulgaris L. during naturally insufficient light conditions while significantly reducing energy consumption.

Growth and Light Properties of Fluorescent SiC for White LEDs

2012 ◽  
Vol 717-720 ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
Mikael Syväjärvi ◽  
Rositza Yakimova ◽  
Motoaki Iwaya ◽  
Tetsuya Takeuchi ◽  
Isamu Akasaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Silicon Carbide ◽  
White Light ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Visible Range ◽  
White Led ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Blue Led ◽  
White Leds ◽  
New Type

The LED technology started to developed many years ago with red light emitting diodes. To achieve the blue LED, novel growth technologies and process steps were explored, and made it possible to demonstrate efficient blue LED performance from nitrides. The efficiency was further developed and blue LEDs were commercially introduced in the 1990’s. The white LED became possible by the use of the blue LED and a phosphor that converts a part of the blue light to other colors in the visible range to combine into white light. However, even today there are limitations in the phosphor-based white LED technology, in particular for general lighting, and new solutions should be explored to speed the pace when white LEDs will be able to make substantial energy savings. In this paper we overview gallium nitride materials evolution and growth concepts for LEDs. We describe the fluorescent silicon carbide material prepared by a novel growth technology for a new type of white LED in general lighting with pure white light. This paper introduces an interesting research in fundamental growth and optical properties of light emitting silicon carbide.

Design, Measurements and Characterization of Smart Electronic Board for PV Streetlight based on LED and High Intensity Discharge Lamps

2013 ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
Paolo Visconti ◽  
Daniele Romanello ◽  
Giovanni Zizzari ◽  
Vito Ventura ◽  
Giorgio Cavalera
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Electronic Board ◽  
Lighting Systems ◽  
And Control ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Hid Lamps

This work presents an electronic board for driving and control of High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps and Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps. The proposed electronic board is able to drive HID or LED lamps by means of a reconfigurable output. This feature allows using the ballast in lighting systems that currently use traditional discharge lamps, as well as keeping the same ballast when discharge lamps are replaced by LED modules in the near future, when LED street lighting systems will be more affordable. Additionally, since the lighting system is designed to be used in rural areas where there is no public electricity, each lighting point incorporates a system to convert solar energy into continuous voltage by means of photovoltaic panels. In this work, energy saving issues are taken into account.

Color Tuning of Biomass-Derived Carbon Nanodots by Reaction Temperature Toward White Light-Emitting Diodes

NANO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2050159
Author(s):  
Yi Gong ◽  
Yanbing Han ◽  
Fang Zhang ◽  
Mingyue Zhai ◽  
Xing Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Temperature ◽  
White Light ◽  
Heating Temperature ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Peak Position ◽  
Carbon Nanodots ◽  
One Pot ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
White Leds ◽  
Band Emission

In this work, carbon nanodots (CNDs) were synthesized from extract of mango leaves. Sphere nanodots were formed rapidly by one-step microwave heating. The photoluminescence (PL) of the CNDs was found greatly dependent on the reaction temperature. The emission peak position of the CNDs changed from 550[Formula: see text]nm to 430[Formula: see text]nm when the heating temperature increased from 120[Formula: see text]C to 150[Formula: see text]C. Particularly, the CNDs synthesized at 130[Formula: see text]C showed multi-band emission at 411[Formula: see text]nm, 480[Formula: see text]nm and 530[Formula: see text]nm, providing emitting color from blue to yellow. Moreover, the free chlorophyll molecules in the solution added red fluorescence at 670[Formula: see text]nm, and the integrated emitting color of the CNDs solution was close to white. Coated on a commercial 365[Formula: see text]nm light-emitting diode (LED) chip, the CNDs showed greenish white light with CIE coordinates of (0.37, 0.44). This work provided a one-pot, rapid and green method to obtain multi-emissive CNDs toward white LEDs.

Discomfort glare caused by white LEDs having different spectral power distributions

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 921-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
WJ Huang ◽  
Y Yang ◽  
M Ronnier Luo
Keyword(s):  
White Light ◽  
Spectral Power ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
White Leds ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Discomfort Glare ◽  
Led Lights ◽  
Green Leds

This paper describes an experiment to investigate discomfort glare caused by white light-emitting diode (LED) lights having different spectral power distributions. It included two groups: a ‘Metamerism’ group and a ‘correlated colour temperatures (CCT)’ group. In the former group, it was found that white lights at 7000 K constructed from different blue LEDs and the same red and green LEDs gave about the same glare perception. In the latter group, there was a significant difference in glare perception between white lights having different CCTs. Finally, glare models, including unified glare rating (UGR) and the newly derived QUGRspd, and mUGRspd models, were tested using the data from the experiment. All of them gave quite accurate predictions of the data.

scholarly journals Full-Color III-Nitride Nanowire Light-Emitting Diodes

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi Teja Velpula ◽  
Barsha Jain ◽  
Ha Quoc Thang Bui ◽  
Hieu Pham Trung Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Output Power ◽  
Light Emitting Diodes ◽  
Light Output ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Core Shell ◽  
Nonradiative Recombination ◽  
Carrier Distribution ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
White Leds ◽  
Full Color

III-nitride nanowire-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been intensively studied as promising candidates for future lighting technologies. Compared to conventional GaN-based planar LEDs, III-nitride nanowire LEDs exhibit numerous advantages including greatly reduced dislocation densities, polarization fields, and quantum-conned Stark effect due to the effective lateral stress relaxation, promising high-efficiency full-color LEDs. Beside these advantages, however, several issues have been identified as the limiting factors for further enhancing the nanowire LED quantum efficiency and light output power. Some of the most probable causes have been identified as due to the lack of carrier confinement in the active region, non-uniform carrier distribution, electron overflow, and the nonradiative recombination along the nanowire lateral surfaces. Moreover, the presence of large surface states and defects contribute significantly to the carrier loss in nanowire LEDs. Consequently, reported nanowire LEDs show relatively low output power. Recently, III-nitride core-shell nanowire LED structures have been reported as the most efficient nanowire white LEDs with a record-high output power which is more than 500 times stronger than that of nanowire white LEDs without using core-shell structure. In this context, we will review the current status, challenges, and approaches for the high-performance IIInitride nanowire LEDs. More specifically, we will describe the current methods for the fabrication of nanowire structures including top-down and bottom-up approaches, followed by characteristics of III-nitride nanowire LEDs. We will then discuss the carrier dynamics and loss mechanism in nanowire LEDs. The typical designs for the enhanced performance of III-nitride nanowire LEDs will be presented next. The color-tunable nanowire LEDs with emission wavelengths in the visible spectrum and phosphor-free nanowire white LEDs will be finally discussed.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.

scholarly journals Comparison of Intracanopy Light-emitting Diode Towers and Overhead High-pressure Sodium Lamps for Supplemental Lighting of Greenhouse-grown Tomatoes

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celina Gómez ◽  
Robert C. Morrow ◽  
C. Michael Bourget ◽  
Gioia D. Massa ◽  
Cary A. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Fruit Production ◽  
Light Sources ◽  
Node Number ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Supplemental Lighting

Electric supplemental lighting can account for a significant proportion of total greenhouse energy costs. Thus, the objectives of this study were to compare high-wire tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) production with and without supplemental lighting and to evaluate two different lighting positions + light sources [traditional high-pressure sodium (HPS) overhead lighting (OHL) lamps vs. light-emitting diode (LED) intracanopy lighting (ICL) towers] on several production and energy-consumption parameters for two commercial tomato cultivars. Results indicated that regardless of the lighting position + source, supplemental lighting induced early fruit production and increased node number, fruit number (FN), and total fruit fresh weight (FW) for both cultivars compared with unsupplemented controls for a winter-to-summer production period. Furthermore, no productivity differences were measured between the two supplemental lighting treatments. The energy-consumption metrics indicated that the electrical conversion efficiency for light-emitting intracanopy lighting (LED-ICL) into fruit biomass was 75% higher than that for HPS-OHL. Thus, the lighting cost per average fruit grown under the HPS-OHL lamps was 403% more than that of using LED-ICL towers. Although no increase in yield was measured using LED-ICL, significant energy savings for lighting occurred without compromising fruit yield.

scholarly journals Using Movable Light-emitting Diodes for Electricity Savings in a Plant Factory Growing Lettuce

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 546-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Li ◽  
Qi-Chang Yang ◽  
Yu-Xin Tong ◽  
Ruifeng Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Energy Savings ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Light Utilization ◽  
Lettuce Growth ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Plant Yields ◽  
Butterhead Lettuce ◽  
Main Factor

In this study, the effects of light-emitting diode (LED) panels with different illumination schedules and mounted above butterhead lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. capitata) seedlings on lettuce growth and photosynthesis were examined, and the performance of the vertical and horizontal movable system on energy savings was evaluated. The illumination schedules used were fixed LED [F-LED (four LED panels illuminated the area below)] and movable LED [M-LED (two LED panels moved left and right once per day to illuminate the same area as F-LED)] at distances of 10 and 30 cm above the seedlings. The plant yields were uniform in all LED treatments. The highest light utilization efficiencies and lowest electricity consumption were found for the treatments with irradiation from a shorter distance above the seedlings. The true leaf numbers and ascorbic acid concentrations were the highest in the M-LED and F-LED treatments at a distance above the seedlings of 10 cm, while the leaf lengths and sucrose concentrations in these groups were significantly lower than those in the 30-cm treatment. These results indicate that illumination with M-LED can halve the initial light source input while maintaining yield and that sustained illumination from a shorter distance above the seedlings is the main factor in electricity savings.

Flexible quantum dot–PVA composites for white LEDs

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arzu Cosgun ◽  
Renli Fu ◽  
Weina Jiang ◽  
Jianhai Li ◽  
Jizhong Song ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Dot ◽  
Blue Light ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Red Emission ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
White Leds

Integration of blue light-emitting diode (LED) chips with yellow phosphors has been the most practical way to achieve white lighting, but finding a low-cost alternative for Y3Al5O12:Ce3+ (YAG:Ce) phosphors, which are expensive and lack red emission, is still a great challenge.

High quantum efficiency Ce:(Lu,Y)3(Al,Sc)2Al3O12 transparent ceramics with excellent thermal stability for high-power white LEDs/LDs

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (46) ◽  
pp. 16427-16435
Author(s):  
Yuelong Ma ◽  
Le Zhang ◽  
Tianyuan Zhou ◽  
Chen Hou ◽  
Jian Kang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Stability ◽  
Quantum Efficiency ◽  
High Power ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Transparent Ceramics ◽  
High Quantum Efficiency ◽  
Excellent Thermal Stability ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
White Leds ◽  
High Quantum

Transparent ceramics (TCs) with high quantum efficiency and excellent thermal stability are essential for the applications in high-power remote excitation white light-emitting diode or laser diode (LED/LD) lighting devices as color convertors.

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