Generation of solar spectrum by using LEDs

Pengzhi Lu; Hua Yang; Yanrong Pei; Jing Li; Bin Xue; Junxi Wang; Jinmin Li

doi:10.1117/12.2235834

7 September 2016 Generation of solar spectrum by using LEDs

Pengzhi Lu, Hua Yang, Yanrong Pei, Jing Li, Bin Xue, Junxi Wang, Jinmin Li

Proceedings Volume 9954, Fifteenth International Conference on Solid State Lighting and LED-based Illumination Systems; 99540N (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2235834
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Light emitting diode (LED) has been recognized as an applicable light source for indoor and outdoor lighting, city beautifying, landscape facilities, and municipal engineering etc. Conventional LED has superior characteristics such as long life time, low power consumption, high contrast, and wide viewing angle. Recently, LED with high color-rendering index and special spectral characteristics has received more and more attention. This paper is intended to report a solar spectrum simulated by multichip LED light source. The typical solar spectrum of 5500k released by CIE was simulated as a reference. Four types of LEDs with different spectral power distributions would be used in the LED light source, which included a 430nm LED, a 480nm LED, a 500nm LED and a white LED. In order to obtain better simulation results, the white LED was achieved by a 450nm LED chip with the mixture of phosphor. The phosphor combination was prepared by mixing green phosphor, yellow phosphor and red phosphor in a certain proportion. The multichip LED light source could provide a high fidelity spectral match with the typical solar spectrum of 5500k by adjusting injection current to each device. The luminous flux, CIE chromaticity coordinate x, y, CCT, and Ra were 104.7 lm, 0.3337, 0.3681, 5460K, and 88.6, respectively. Because of high color-rendering index and highly match to the solar spectrum, the multichip LED light source is a competitive candidate for applications where special spectral is required, such as colorimetric measurements, visual inspection, gemstone identification and agriculture.

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Pengzhi Lu, Hua Yang, Yanrong Pei, Jing Li, Bin Xue, Junxi Wang, and Jinmin Li "Generation of solar spectrum by using LEDs", Proc. SPIE 9954, Fifteenth International Conference on Solid State Lighting and LED-based Illumination Systems, 99540N (7 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2235834

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