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英语原文： Life of LED-Based White Light Sources The interest for using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for display and illumination applications has been growing steadily over the past few years. The potential for long life and reduced energy use are two key attributes of this rapidly evolving technology that have generated so much interest for its use in the above mentioned applications. Traditionally, the lamp life of light sources commonly used in illumination applications is determined by subjecting them to a predetermined on/off cycle until half the number of light sources cease to produce light. Unlike these sources, LEDs rarely fail catastrophically; instead, their light output slowly degrades over time. Even if an LED is technically operating and producing light, at some point the amount of light produced by the LED will be insuf?cient for the intended application. Therefore, the life of an LED should be based on the amount of time that the device can produce suf?cient light for the intended application,rather than complete failure. Based on this argument, a recent publication from an industry group de?nes the life of an LED device or system for use in general lighting applications as the operating time, in hours, for the light output to reach 70% of its initial value. The most widely used white LEDs incorporate a layer of phosphor over a GaN-based, short-wavelength light emitter. Usually, the phosphor is embedded inside an epoxy resin that surrounds the LED die. Some portion of the short-wavelength radiation emitted by the LED is down-converted by the phosphor, and the combined radiation creates white light. Early white LEDs were packaged similar to the indicator-style colored LEDs, speci?cally 5 mm and SMD (surface mount devices). Although these products demonstrated the concept of a white light source, they did not produce suf?cient light for display and illumination applications. Furthermore, these indicator-style white LEDs had a relatively short life, 5000–10