Characteristics of the LED light source

Voltage

LED low voltage power supply, power supply voltage between 6-24V, depending on the product, so it is safer than the use of high-voltage power supply power supply, particularly in public places.

Efficacy

Energy consumption reduced by 80% than the same luminous efficiency of incandescent

Applicability

Very small, small piece of each unit LED is 3-5mm square, so the device can be fabricated into various shapes, and is suitable for the environment variable

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Stability

100,000 hours, the light fades to 50% of the initial

Response time

Incandescent response time of milliseconds, the response time of the LED lights for a nanosecond

Of environmental pollution

No harmful metallic mercury

Color

Materials of light-emitting diodes by chemical modification methods, adjusting the energy band structure and band gap, red yellow blue orange multicolor light. Red tube voltage is small, different colors of red, orange, yellow, green, and blue light-emitting diode operating voltage is increased successively.

Price

LED price is now more and more civilians, due to the LED power-saving features, perhaps in the near future, people are the incandescent LED lights. Now, some cities in our country roads, schools, factory and other places have switched to the the Wan LED street light, energy-saving lamps.

Monochromatic LED types and history of the development

The LED light source made of the earliest applications of semiconductor PN junction light-emitting principle is introduced in the early 1960s. Use at the time material is GaAsP, red (λp = 650nm), the drive current of 20 mA, the luminous flux is only thousandths of a few lumens, luminous efficiency of about 0.1 lm / W

The mid-1970s, the introduction of elements of In and N, generated by the LED green (λp = 555nm), yellow (λp = 590nm) and orange (λp = 610nm), luminous efficiency is also increased to a lumens / watt.

To the early 1980s, there has been a GaAlAs LED light source, the red LED luminous efficiency of 10 lumens / watt.

The early 1990s, of red, yellow the GaAlInP and green, blue GaInN two new materials successfully developed, so that the LED luminous efficiency has been greatly improved. In 2000, the former is made of LED in red, orange District (λp = 615nm) light efficiency of 100 lm / W, while the latter is made of LED luminous efficiency in the green region (λ p = 530nm) can reach 50 lm / watts.

Monochromatic LED applications

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The initial LED as the light of the instructions of the instrumentation, then a variety of light-colored LEDs in traffic lights and a large area display a wide range of applications, resulting in a good economic and social benefits. To 12 inches of red traffic lights, for example, in the United States was long-lived, low-efficiency 140-watt incandescent lamp as a light source, it produces 2000 lumens of white light. The red filter, the light loss of 90%, leaving only 200 lumens of red light. In the light of the new design, Lumileds uses 18 red LED light source, including circuit losses, the total power consumption of 14 watts to produce the same luminous efficiency.

The car lights are also an important area of ​​the LED light source applications. 1987, China began to be installed in the car CHMSL LED response speed (nanosecond), an early stage so that the trailing vehicle drivers know that driving conditions to reduce rear-end accidents.

In addition, LED lights in the outdoor red, green, blue full-color display, mini flashlight key chain field have been applied.

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