Degradation of optical materials in solid-state lighting systems

Materials for Solid State Lighting

Dramatic improvement in the efficiency of inorganic and organic light emitting diodes (LEDs and OLEDs) within the last decade has made these devices viable future energy efficient replacements for current light sources. However, both technologies must overcome major technical barriers, requiring significant advances in material science, before this goal can be achieved. Attention will be given ...

Automatic diagnosis and control of distributed solid state lighting systems.

This paper describes a new design concept of automatically diagnosing and compensating LED degradations in distributed solid state lighting (SSL) systems. A failed LED may significantly reduce the overall illumination level, and destroy the uniform illumination distribution achieved by a nominal system. To our knowledge, an automatic scheme to compensate LED degradations has not yet been seen i...

Hybrid Solid-State Lighting Design

The transition from incandescent lighting to more energyefficient options is projected as a major opportunity for solid-state lighting (SSL.) The current prevailing technology for white-light SSL uses a nitride semiconductor blue LED combined with a downconverting YAG:Ce yellow phosphor. The residential use of LED lights presents challenges beyond efficiency, because of very-high color-renderin...

Energy-efficient control of solid-state lighting

Lighting control is in the midst of radical change. Presentday state-of-the-art lighting systems tend to be extremely complex. They exhibit very flexible actuation possibilities with many degrees of freedom that can be exploited to answer dynamiclighting needs. However, user interfaces to these systems are woefully lacking. They are frequently denigrated to a panel of buttons that select partic...

Basic Research Needs for Solid - State Lighting