The new selections represent the fourth round in a series seeking to examine high-priority research and development activities that will advance the state-of-the-art SSL used for general illumination applications. The selections have a total value of $27.8 million.
Six selections relate to Product Development and are focused on the development or improvement of commercially viable materials, devices, or systems. Technical activities are focused on a targeted market application with fully defined price, efficacy, and other performance parameters necessary for success of the proposed product. The total value of Product Development selections is $17.1 million; the performers will provide an average of 32 percent as cost-share.
Among the notable project goals are the development of a warm-white LED with a efficacy of 135 lm/W and an output of 1050 lm.
Seven selections relate to Core Technology and are expected to fill key technology gaps, provide enabling knowledge or data, and represent a significant advancement in the SSL technology base. The total value of selections for Core Technology Research is $10.8 million; the performers of cooperative agreements will provide 20 percent as cost-share.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SELECTIONS
Recipient: Cree, Inc.
Title: Efficient White SSL Component for General Illumination
Summary: This project seeks to develop a high-efficiency, low cost LED component for solid-state illumination applications that is capable of replacing standard, halogen, fluorescent and metal halide lamps based on the SSL system efficiency and life time cost savings.
Recipient: General Electric
Title: Affordable High-Efficiency Solid-State Replacement Down-Light Luminaries with Novel Cooling
Team Members: GE Lumination, University of Maryland
Summary: This project seeks to develop an illumination quality SSL luminaire based on LED cooling using synthetic jets combined with optimized system packaging and electronics.
Recipient: Osram Sylvania Development Inc.
Title: High Quality Down Lighting Luminaire with 73% Overall System Efficiency
Summary: This project seeks to develop a highly efficient integrated down lighting luminaire that minimizes thermal, optical and electronic losses and will achieve a luminous steady state output of 1300lm with a high quality of light.
Recipient: Philips Lumileds Lighting, LLC
Title: 135 lm/W, 1050 lumen Warm White LED for Illumination
Summary: This project seeks to develop pre-production prototypes of a warm white LED that has efficiency of 135 lm/W while at the same time generating 1050 lm of warm white light in the Correlated Color Temperature range between 2800K and 3500K with a Color Rendering Index of greater than 90.
Recipient: Arkema Inc.
Title: Application of Developed APCVD Transparent Conducting Oxides and Undercoat Technologies for Economical OLED Lighting
Team Members: Philips Lighting
Summary: This project seeks to develop a commercially viable process for an OLED substrate. The substrate would consist of the actual substrate of soda lime glass, a barrier undercoat and, a transparent conducting oxide (TCO).
Recipient: Universal Display Corporation
Title: Development of High Efficacy, Low Cost Phosphorescent OLED Lighting Luminaire
Team Members: Armstrong World Industries, University of Michigan, University of Southern California.
Summary: This project seeks to develop high efficiency OLED lighting luminaires as part of an integrated ceiling illumination system.
CORE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH SELECTIONS
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-PS26-07NT43130
Recipient: Add-Vision Inc.
Title: Low Cost, High Efficiency Polymer OLEDs based on Stable p-i-n Device Architecture
Team Members: University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Santa Cruz
Summary: This project seeks to develop a polymer OLED (P-OLED) lamp technology using advanced material synthesis and a modified device architecture to enable large-scale manufacturing of robust P-OLED lamps.
Recipient: Crystal IS, Inc.
Title: GaN-ready aluminum nitride substrates for cost-effective, very low dislocation density III-nitride LEDs
Team Members: Philip Lumileds Lighting Company, LLC
Summary: This project seeks to develop GaN ready substrates with defect densities below 105/cm2. This GaN ready substrate will then be tested by growing high efficiency blue LEDs.
Recipient: Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Fundamental Studies of Higher Efficiency III-N LEDs for High-Efficiency High-Power Solid-State Lighting
Team Members: Luminus Devices
Summary: This project seeks to understand in a fundamental way the impact of strain, defects, polarization, and Stokes loss in relation to unique device structures upon the internal quantum efficiency of LEDs and to employ this understanding in the design and growth of high-efficiency LEDs capable of highly-reliable, high-current, high-power operation.
Recipient: Lehigh University
Title: Enhancements of Radiative Efficiency with Staggered InGaN Quantum Well Light Emitting Diodes
Summary: This project seeks to solve the problem of low radiative efficiency in green LEDs which is caused by a reduced wavefunction overlap from the existence of polarization field inside the quantum well.
Recipient: PhosphorTech Corporation
Title: High Extraction Luminescent Materials for Solid State Lighting
Summary: This project seeks to develop highly efficient phosphors for high brightness LEDs. The proposed phosphors have broad and size-tunable absorption bands, size and impurity tuned emission bands, size-driven elimination of scattering effects, and a distinct separation between absorption and emission bands.
National Laboratory Call (DE-PS26-07NT43170) Selections for Core Technology Research
Recipient: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Title: Charge Balance in Blue Electrophosphorescent Devices
Summary: This project seeks to develop new organic phosphine oxide electron transporting/hole blocking materials in combination with ambipolar phosphine oxide host materials for achieving charge balanced blue phosphorescent OLED system, a necessary component of white OLEDs.
Recipient: Sandia National Laboratories
Title: Novel Defect Spectroscopy of InGaN Materials for Improved Green LEDs
Summary: This project seeks to develop a novel defect spectroscopy platform centered around deep level optical spectroscopy (DLOS) capable of interrogating deep levels throughout the InGaN band gap.
