《Evaluation of LED application in general lighting 》.pdf

Optical Engineering 467, 074002 July 2007 Evaluation of LED application in general lighting Muqing Liu Abstract. This article analyzes the efficacy of the light sources and their Fudan University limitations in theory and in technology. The LED’s spectra were simu- Department of Light Sources and Illuminating lated by a Gaussian model to calculate the efficacy. The conventional Engineering light sources have been compared with LEDs; the results show that sig- 220 Handan Road nificant increase of LEDs’ internal quantum efficiency and extraction ef- Shanghai 200433, China ficiency is essential for LED application in general lighting. © 2007 Society of E-mail: mqliu@ Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. DOI: 10.1117/1.2752500 Subject terms: LED; general lighting; efficacy. Bifeng Rong Paper 060715R received Sep. 12, 2006; revised manuscript received Dec. 29, Huub W. M. Salemink 2006; accepted for publication Jan. 28, 2007; published online Jul. 2, 2007. Delft University of Technology Faculty of Applied Science Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Lorentzweg 1 2628 CJ, Delft, The Netherlands 1 Introduction 780 K P V d m Power consumption for illumination is increasing every Fv 380