High-Efficiency Nitride Based Photonic Crystal Light Sources

Investigating Organization
University of California, Santa Barbara

Principal Investigator(s)
James S. Speck, Claude Weisbuch, Evelyn Hu

Subcontractor
None

Funding Source
Building Technologies Program/NETL

Award
DOE Share: $1,800,000; Contractor Share: $730,171

Contract Period
08/01/06 - 07/31/09

UCSB proposes to maximize the efficiency of a white LED by enhancing the external quantum efficiency using photonic crystals to extract light that would normally be confined in a conventional structure.

Content dated 2/08