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13 September 2005 Improved performance white LED
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This paper describes work leading to the development of a new packaging method for white LEDs, called scattered photon extraction (SPE). Previous work by our group showed that the traditional placement of the phosphor close to the die negatively affects the overall luminous efficacy and lumen maintenance of phosphor-converted white LEDs. The new SPE method enables higher luminous efficacy by placing the phosphor at a remote location from the die and by shaping the lens surrounding the die to extract a significant portion of the back-transferred light before it is absorbed by packaging components. Although the remote phosphor concept is not new, SPE is the first method to demonstrate efficient extraction of back-transferred light and show over 60 percent improvement in light output and efficacy compared to similar commercial white LEDs. At low currents, the prototype white LEDs based on the SPE technique showed over 80 lumens per watt. The SPE concept was tried on two types of commercial packages and both showed similar improvements.
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Nadarajah Narendran "Improved performance white LED", Proc. SPIE 5941, Fifth International Conference on Solid State Lighting, 594108 (13 September 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.625921
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KEYWORDS
Light emitting diodes

Luminous efficacy

Epoxies

Blue light emitting diodes

Reflectors

Internal quantum efficiency

LED lighting

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