Life of LED-based white light sources

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 167-170

  Narendran, Nadarajah ^a,b,c,d   Gu, Yimin ^a,c,d  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Rensselaer's School of Architecture   (United States)

^c Illuminating Engineering Society of North America   (United States)

^d Intl Soc for Optical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation; Life; Light source; White light emitting diode (LED)

Indexed keywords

LIFE; P-N-JUNCTIONS; WHITE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (WLED); WHITE LIGHT SOURCES;

EXTRAPOLATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 27744468281     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2005.852510     Document Type: Article

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