Improving the performance of mixed-color white LED systems by using scattered photon extraction technique

Huiying Wu; Nadarajah Narendran; Yimin Gu; Andrew Bierman

doi:10.1117/12.746777

17 September 2007 Improving the performance of mixed-color white LED systems by using scattered photon extraction technique

Huiying Wu, Nadarajah Narendran, Yimin Gu, Andrew Bierman

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Proceedings Volume 6669, Seventh International Conference on Solid State Lighting; 666905 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.746777
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

One of the methods for creating white light with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is mixing radiations from several different colored LEDs. Mixed-color LEDs are expected to have greater luminous efficacy because they do not undergo down-conversion losses like phosphor-converted white LEDs. However, in reality mixed-color LED systems require extra optical elements to reduce spatial color variation and create uniform white light. Optical diffusing techniques commonly used for these purposes cause light loss, because some portion of the light is scattered back toward the LEDs where it is absorbed and lost. In 2004, a technique known as scattered photon extraction (SPE) was used to extract backscattered light from the phosphor layer of phosphor-converted white LEDs to increase overall light output. In this study, it was hypothesized that by using similar SPE optics with optical diffusers, the spatial color uniformity of mixed-color white LED systems could be improved without sacrificing the overall luminous efficiency. With this new approach, both a microsphere-doped diffuser and SPE optics were utilized. The experiments showed that the proposed setup did increase the spatial color uniformity of the mixed-color LED system with more than 79% overall optical efficiency. This study also demonstrated the effects of microsphere size, concentration, and diffuser thickness on spatial color uniformity and optical efficiency.

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Huiying Wu, Nadarajah Narendran, Yimin Gu, and Andrew Bierman "Improving the performance of mixed-color white LED systems by using scattered photon extraction technique", Proc. SPIE 6669, Seventh International Conference on Solid State Lighting, 666905 (17 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.746777

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