Ultimate limit and temperature dependency of light-emitting diode efficiency

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Heikkilä, Oskari ^a   Oksanen, Jani ^a   Tulkki, Jukka ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATERIAL; ACTIVE REGIONS; BARRIER LAYERS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LED STRUCTURE; SIMULATION RESULT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES; WALLPLUG EFFICIENCY;

COOLING; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 67249097051     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3125514     Document Type: Article

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