Light-emitting diodes
Revised and fully updated, the second edition of this graduate textbook offers a comprehensive explanation of the technology and physics of LEDs such as infrared, visible-spectrum, ultraviolet, and white LEDs made from III-V semiconductors. Elementary properties such as electrical and optical charac...
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780511343940 0511343949 9780511648298 0511648294 9780511343537 0511343531 9780511344374 0511344376 9780511790546 0511790546 9780511344763 0511344767 0521865387 9780521865388 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (x, 422 pages) : illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- History of light-emitting diodes
- Radiative and non-radiative recombination
- Theory of radiative recombination
- LED basics : electrical properties
- LED basics : optical properties
- Junction and carrier temperatures
- High internal efficiency designs
- Design of current flow
- High extraction efficiency structures
- Reflectors
- Packaging
- Visible-spectrum LEDs
- The AIGaInN material system and ultraviolet emitters
- Spontaneous emission from resonant cavities
- Resonant-cavity light-emitting diodes
- Human eye sensitivity and photometric qualities
- Colorimetry
- Planckian sources and color temperature
- Color mixing and color rendering
- White-light sources based on LEDs
- White-light sources based on wavelength converters
- Optical communication
- Communication LEDs
- LED modulation characteristics.