Review Articles of Overview of Solid-State Lighting

Solid-state lighting is an exciting and rapidly moving area of research and development.� For the latest developments, please see the Science and Business News section of this website.� Here, we have compiled a list of review articles covering various aspects of solid-state lighting science, technology and engineering.

� June 2004. Nanoscience and solid-state lighting, presented by George Craford of Lumileds at the DOE Nanosummit, covers technology background and status, applications, technical challenges, and nanotechnology approaches.

� May 2004.� A detailed review, in IEEE Circuits and Devices, of the various lamp, chip and materials design choices that will be faced as solid-state lighting technology improves to the point of meeting long-term roadmap targets.� This article, by Jeff Tsao at Sandia National Laboratories, is titled Solid-state lighting:� lamps, chips and materials for tomorrow.

� March 2004.� Article in Compound Semiconductor magazine featuring white LED applications.� The article, titled Lighting community outlines challenges for LED industry, reported on the conference "LEDs: Meeting the Design and Performance Challenges," held in London in January 2004.

� February 2004.� The Solid state lighting program planning workshop report, summarizing a workshop sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Program).

� November 2003.� A comprehensive study estimating the energy that could be saved if white-light, solid-state lighting devices (LEDs, OLEDs) were to achieve projected price and performance targets; based on an econometric model in which solid-state and conventional technologies (incandescent, fluorescent, HID) compete for available sockets in the U.S. market.� The study, written by Navigant Consulting under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Energy, is titled Energy savings potential of solid-state lighting in general illumination applications (pdf 1 MB).

� August 2003.� Article by Arpad Bergh in The World & I.� The article, entitled Cool lights are hot, discusses the history of LED advancements since the 1970s.

� May 2003. Lighting Answers: LED Lighting Systems This 47-page document, written by John Bullough at RPI's Lighting Research Center, answers a number of commonly asked questions about LED lighting systems.

� September 2002.� The executive summary of the 2002 updates to the U.S. SSL roadmaps (both inorganic and organic).� This summary is titled The promise of solid state lighting for general illumination: Light emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) update 2002 (pdf 261kb).� The 2002 updates were co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Program), the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.

� October 2002.� The full 2002 update to the U.S. SSL-LED roadmap.� This roadmap is titled Light emitting diodes (LEDs) for general illumination update 2002 (pdf 1.7MB), and contains a comprehensive tutorial treatment of solid-state lighting.� It was co-sponsored by the Department of Energy (Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Program), the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.� An overview of this roadmap update was also published in Laser Focus World in May 2003, in an article by Jeff Tsao entitled Roadmap projects significant LED penetration of lighting market by 2010.� That article also discusses in more detail the potential energy and environmental benefits of solid-state lighting.

� August 2002.� The full 2002 update to the U.S. SSL-OLED roadmap.� This roadmap is titled The organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) for general illumination update 2002 (pdf 1.3MB).� It was co-sponsored by the Department of Energy (Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Program), the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.

� December 2001. Physics Today article The promise and challenge of solid-state lighting, by Arpad Bergh, George Craford, Anil Duggal, and Roland Haitz.

� September 2001.� Laser Focus World article The future looks bright for solid-state lighting, by Paul Martin.

� August 2000.� Scientific American article: Blue chip - Shuji Nakamura beat the titans to blue LEDs and lasers��

� April 2000.� This white paper, co-authored by Hewlett-Packard Co and Sandia National Laboratories, was among the first articles to bring attention to the promise and potential of solid-state lighting, and was the first to quantify how solid-state lighting might someday be competitive with traditional lighting and how it might lead to enormous energy savings.� It is entitled The case for a national research program on semiconductor lighting� (pdf 303kb).