Study on the Optical Properties of Conformal Coating Light-Emitting Diode by Monte Carlo Simulation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 1673-1675

  Hu, Run ^a   Luo, Xiaobing ^a,b   Liu, Sheng ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Angular color uniformity (ACU); correlated color temperature (CCT); light emitting diodes (LEDs); Monte Carlo simulation; phosphor conversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008038650     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2166381     Document Type: Article

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