How to Color LEDs

LEDColor

Standard Brightness High Brightness

ChipMaterial

lpk(NM)

Iv(mcd)

ViewingAngle

ChipMaterial

lpk(NM)

Iv3

(mcd)ViewingAngle

Red GaAsP/GaP 635 120 35 AS AlInGaP

635 900 30

Orange GaAsP/Gap 605 90 30 AS AlInGaP

609 1,300 30

Amber GaAsP/Gap 583 100 35 AS AlInGaP

592 1,300 30

Yellow Gap 570 160 30 -- -- -- --

Green Gap 565 140 24 GaN 520 1,200 45

Turquoise -- -- -- -- GaN 495 2,000 30

Blue -- -- -- -- GaN 465 325 45

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•The approach is based on encapsulating semiconductor quantum dots and engineering their surfaces

•Doing so will effectively emit visible light when excited by near-ultravioletlight emitting diodes (LEDs).

How to Color LEDs

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•The quantum dots strongly absorb light in the near UVrange and re-emit visible light that has its color determined by both their size and surface chemistry.

How to Color LEDs

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•The discretized nature of quantum dot bands means that the energy separation between the valence and conduction bands (the band gap) can be altered with the addition or the subtraction of just one atom, making for a size dependent Band gap.

•Predetermining the size of the QLEDs dots would fix the emitted photon wavelength at the appropriate specified color, even if it is not naturally occurring, an ability limited only to dots.

•The extremely small size and versatility of form for quantum dots allows them to be inserted into any medium necessary, paint, water, plastics and more.

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How to Color LEDs

General Applications of LEDs•Architectural Lighting

–Used for Exterior and Interior Lighting–The GardenLED Series by LEDtronics Only Requires Only 12-Volts DC to Operate

•Traffic Lights–Currently Being Installed in California

•Remote Controls–Infrared LEDs

Sources:

1) “LED Uses 12 Watts of Power” By Loretta Conley <http://www.ledtronics.com/product_news/mae_article_020005.htm>

2) “California 'Green Lights' Energy Savings With New Traffic Signals” By Rob Schlichting <http://www.energy.ca.gov/releases/2002_releases/2002-03-14_led_signals.html>

3) Mills, Evan (2005). "The Specter of Fuel-Based Lighting". Science 308: 1263-1264. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED#Blue_and_white_LEDs>

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General Applications of LEDs

•Christmas Lights–Use About 1/10 of the Electrical Current Used By Incandescent Lights

• Dot Matrix Arrangements– Used for Message Displays

Sources:

1) “What are LED Christmas Lights?” By Bryan Pedersen <http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-led-christmas-lights.htm>

2) Mills, Evan (2005). "The Specter of Fuel-Based Lighting". Science 308: 1263-1264. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED#Blue_and_white_LEDs>

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Applications of LEDs with Quantum Dots

•Screens and Displays–Still in Development–Quantum dot-Organic Light-Emitting Devices (QD-OLED) Will Replace Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD)– Unlike LCDs, Quantum Dots Generate Their Own Light and Can be Tuned to Emit Any Color–Displays Thin and Very Bright

Sources:

1) “Quantum-Dot LED May Be the Future of Screens” <

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Applications of LEDs with Quantum Dots

–White Light LEDs• Used to Emit White Light in Laptops, Car Interiors, Building Interiors, and Flashlights

Sources:

1) “Mighty Small Dots” <http://www.llnl.gov/str/Lee.html>

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White Light LEDs–Researchers at Vanderbilt University Have Recently Created a True White Light LED

•Before This Development, White LEDs Had a Blue Tint

Sources:

1) “Quantum Dots That Produce White Light Could Be the Light Bult’s Successor” By David F. Salisbury <http://www.physorg.com/news7421.html>

2) Mills, Evan (2005). "The Specter of Fuel-Based Lighting". Science 308: 1263-1264. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED#Blue_and_white_LEDs>

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–How Does It Work?•Extremely Small Quantum Dots Coat a Blue LED•Quantum Dots Glow White in Response to the Blue Light•Creates Light Similar to That Created by Common Incandescent Bulbs

Advantages of LEDs

• Can emit light of an intended color without the use of a filter.

• Design of the package allows light to be focused.

• Insensitive to vibration/shock.

• Hard to break.

• Long life span and give off less heat.

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Disadvantages of LEDs

• Currently more expensive than traditional lighting.

• “Performance largely depends on the ambient temperature of the operating environment.”

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Why use Quantum Dot LEDs?

• Can be tuned to emit at any visible or infrared wavelength (color).

• Can be fabricated into a great variety of forms and media.

• Allows for incredible flexibility of form, letting quantum dots operate in matrixes, sheets, films, water solutions, gels, inks, and three-dimensional arrays.

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Advantages over Organic Light Emitting Diodes

• Retain high quantum yields.

• Retain luminosities over long lifetimes.

• OLEDs have poor photostability and a short lifetime.

Tiny quantum dots in a glass tube produce white light when stimulated by an ultraviolet laser beam.

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Other Advantages of QLEDs

• The Department of Energy has estimated that LED lighting could reduce U.S. energy consumption for lighting by 29 percent by 2025, saving the nation's households about $125 million in the process.

• Infrared radiation in light bulbs produces large amounts of heat which accounts for low energy efficiency

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