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The use of LEDs as light source is a very promising direction. With its small size and low cost they are very effective. However, they are good, where low power is sufficient, for example - a flashlight, or as part of backlight mobile phone. There is a problem: if we increase the applied to the LED voltage, trying to get a brighter glow, most of the energy will go into a field produced by a semiconductor, which makes LEDs inefficient for lighting large areas.
A team from the University of California, under the direction of materials science Yuji Zhao , seems to have found a way out of this situation . They applied a special crystal growth substrate from Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation production, which itself is being made from gallium nitride, allows a special orientation of the crystal lattice and does not allow the appearance of unwanted fields. Scientists were able to create a blue LED with a peak efficiency of 52%, with 20 mA. By increasing the amperage supplied by 10 times, we can observe the fall of LEDs efficiency to less than 14%, whereas in the light-emitting diodes used today, it falls to 60%. Related Products :
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