Despite revolutionizing illumination, even top-of-the-line nitride LEDs are far from their maximum efficiency when operating at the high power needed for lighting applications. Logan Williams and Emmanouil Kioupakis at the University of ...
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In 2014, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of the gallium-nitride-based blue-light LED and its use for new, efficient LED-based white lamps. The development efforts in this field, however, do not stop there. The ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that UK-based Plessey Semiconductors Ltd has ordered an AIX G5+ C cluster system (for delivery in third-quarter 2016) to expand its production capacity for ...
Researchers from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan have created highly flexible, efficient white LEDs with potential use in wearable displays and non-flat surfaces, such as curved and flexible television screens. While the design ...
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Researchers based in Singapore and Turkey have been developing a hole accelerator structure with a view to improving the performance of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Zi-Hui Zhang et al, Appl. ...
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Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have suggested a method that could significantly increase the efficiency of green-blue-ultraviolet LEDs based on GaInN/GaN, AlGaN/GaN and AlInN/GaN quantum wells. It is reckoned that ...
Researchers in China have developed a selective area epitaxy (SAE) approach to create nanopyramids of nitride semiconductor 'white' light-emitting diodes (LEDs) without using phosphors [Kui Wu et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol103, p241107, ...
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"These guidelines should permit the discovery of new and improved phosphors in a rational rather than trial-and-error manner," said Ram Seshadri, a professor in the university's Department of Materials as well as in its Department of ...
Tags: Optimizing Phosphors, Lighting
By determining simple guidelines, researchers at UC Santa Barbara's Solid State Lighting & Energy Center (SSLEC) have made it possible to optimize phosphors –– a key component in white LED lighting –– allowing for ...
LG Electronics Materials and Components Laboratory in South Korea has used aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) superlattice structures (SLs) to improve lateral current spreading from the n-side of nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes ...
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Researchers in Taiwan have used nanopyramid nitride semiconductor structures to explore long-wavelength green, olivine and amber light-emitting diode (LED) structures [Shih-Pang Chang, Optics Express, Vol. 21, p23030, 2013]. The team was ...
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Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University has developed near-green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) using a new indium gallium nitride (InGaN) growth process that gives devices with a higher peak external quantum efficiency of 48.6% ...
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Germany's Azzurro Semiconductors AG has reported uniformity measurements for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes on large-diameter silicon substrates up to 200mm [Andrea Pinos, etal, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p095502, ...
Tags: InGaN Silicon substrates, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Jimei University in China has used indium gallium nitride (InGaN) p-type contacts to increase light output power by 45% over a reference device [Wang Min-Shuai and Huang Xiao-Jing, Chin. Phys. B, vol. 22, p086803, 2013]. The researchers ...
Tags: InGaN LEDs MOCVD, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers in South Korea and USA have been developing graded-composition superlattice electron-blocking layers (GSL-EBLs) for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jun Hyuk Park et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol103, p061104 ...
Tags: LED, droop GaN EBL, Electrical, Electronics, nitride semiconductor