Effective Heat Dissipation from Color-Converting Plates in High-Power White Light Emitting Diodes by Transparent Graphene Wrapping

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• 作者：Eden Kim ; Hyeon Woo Shim ; Sanjith Unithrattil ; Yoon Hwa Kim ; Hojin Choi ; Ki-Jin Ahn ; Joon Seop Kwak ; Sungmin Kim ; Hyeonseok Yoon ; Won Bin Im
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 26, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：10
• 期：1
• 页码：238-245
• 全文大小：522K
• ISSN：1936-086X

文摘

We have developed a hybrid phosphor-in-glass plate (PGP) for application in a remote phosphor configuration of high-power white light emitting diodes (WLEDs), in which single-layer graphene was used to modulate the thermal characteristics of the PGP. The degradation of luminescence in the PGP following an increase in temperature could be prevented by applying single-layer graphene. First, it was observed that the emission intensity of the PGP was enhanced by about 20% with graphene wrapping. Notably, the surface temperature of the graphene-wrapped PGP (G-PGP) was found to be higher than that of the bare PGP, implying that the graphene layer effectively acted as a heat dissipation medium on the PGP surface to reduce the thermal quenching of the constituent phosphors. Moreover, these experimental observations were clearly verified through a two-dimensional cellular automata simulation technique and the underlying mechanisms were analyzed. As a result, the proposed G-PGP was found to be efficient in maintaining the luminescence properties of the WLED, and is a promising development in high power WLED applications. This research could be further extended to generate a new class of optical or optoelectronic materials with possible uses in a variety of applications.