Optimizing the external light extraction of nitride LEDs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4776, Issue , 2002, Pages 223-234

  Stefanov, Emil ^a   Shelton, B S ^a   Venugopalan, H S ^a   Zhang, T ^a   Eliashevich, I ^a  

^a GELcore LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chip shaping; Encapsulation; LED optical modeling; Light extraction; Refractive index; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ENCAPSULATION; GALLIUM NITRIDE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SURFACE TREATMENT;

CHIP SIZE SCALING; FLEXIBLE RAY TRACING MODEL; LIGHT EXTRACTION;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0036982719     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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