The effect of the phosphor particle sizes on the angular homogeneity of phosphor-converted high-power white LED light sources

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1181-1188

  Sommer, Christian ^a   Krenn, Joachim R ^a,b   Hartmann, Paul ^c   Pachler, Peter ^c   Schweighart, Marko ^c   Tasch, Stefan ^c   Wenzl, Franz P ^a  

^a JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c LEDON Lighting Jennersdorf GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

LEDs; Simulation; Solid state lighting

Indexed keywords

BLUE LEDS; COLOR CONVERSIONS; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH-POWER; LEDS; OPTICAL RAY TRACING; PHOSPHOR PARTICLES; SCATTERING FUNCTIONS; SCATTERING PROCESS; SIMULATION; SOLID-STATE LIGHTING; UNIT VOLUME; WHITE LED;

LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHORS; SCATTERING;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 70349311406     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2015677     Document Type: Article

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