LED References

Teaching General Chemistry: A Materials Science Companion,by A. B. Ellis, M. J. Geselbracht, B. J. Johnson, G. C. Lisensky, W. R. Robinson.

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Solid State Resources - a CD/ROM available from JCE:Software

Kansas State University Physics Education Group Tutorials

and

COMPUTER SIMULATION OF P-N JUNCTION DEVICES

http://www.phys.ksu.edu/perg/vqm/online/index.html

George C. Lisensky, S. Michael Condren, Cynthia G. Widstrand, Jonathan Breitzer, Arthur B. Ellis, "LEDs Are Diodes", J. Chem. Ed..Vol. 78, 1664A(2001).

S. M. Condren, G. C. Lisensky, A. B. Ellis, K. J. Nordell, T. F. Kuech, and S. A. Stockman, "LEDs: New Lamps for Old A Paradigm for Ongoing Curriculum Modernization", J. Chem. Ed., Vol. 78, 1033(2001).

D. J. Campbell, T. F. Kuech, G. C. Lisensky, J. K. Lorenz, M. S.Whittingham, A. B. Ellis, "The Computer as a Materials ScienceBenchmark." J. Chem. Educ. Vol. 75, 297(1998)

A.B. Ellis, "Elements of Curriculum Reform: Putting Solids in theFoundation," J. Chem. Ed., 74, 1033 (1997)

R. A. Pounce and D. P. Bour, "Nitride-based semiconductors for blue andgreen light-emitting devices," Nature, 386, 351, 27 March 1997.

G. B. Stringfellow and M. George Craford, "High Brightness Light EmittingDiodes", Semiconductors and Semimetals Vol 48, Academic Press, San Diego,CA, 1997.

Major manufacturer/supplier of LEDs:

LumiLeds

LumiLeds Lighting is a joint venture between Agilent Technologies(formerly HP) & Philips Lighting.
http://www.lumileds.com/

Distributors of LEDS

Arrow Electronics http://www.arrow.com/

Future Electronics http://www.futureelectronics.com/

On-Line References

AlInGaP LEDs

http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9709/Steigerwald-9709.html
III-V Nitride Semiconductors for High-Performance Blue and Green Light-Emitting Devices

Automobile Lighting

http://www.lumileds.com/newsandevents/articles/elecdesign_headlamp.pdf
Prototype car using LED headlights

Blue LED

http://chemistry.beloit.edu/BlueLight/

Build a Better CD Player:
How Can You Get Blue Light from a Solid?
Module written by George C. Lisensky, Arthur B. Ellis, Herbert Beall, DeanJ. Campbell, and Joanne Stewart.
Quicktime Movies by G. C. Lisensky and J. M. Blackwell

http://hbled.com/bluespectrum.htm

Blue Spectrum LEDs and Laser Diode Breakthroughs

http://hbled.com/bluelasers.htm

What are Blue Spectrum Lasers?

LEDs

http://misty.com/people/don/ledx.html
Don Klipstein's LED Main Page

http://hbled.com/whatarethey.htm
What are High Brightness LEDs?

http://www.dialight.com/index.html
Dialight Corporation develops and marketsLED lighting systems for trucks, buses, and traffic signals.

http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/Fed-Ct/Circuit/fed/opinions/97-1403.html
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 97-1403

http://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/devices/semicdev/led0.html
Light Emitting Diodes (LED)

http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pw99/confs/OE02.html
Light-Emitting Diodes: Research, Manufacturing, and Applications III(OE02)

http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/Ltgtrans/led/leds.htm
LEDs: From Indicators to Illuminators?

http://www.avtechpulse.com/faq.html/IV.23/
Non-silicon LEDs?

Light Therapy
http://www.LightForceTherapy.com/
LEDs used to help healing and to reduce pain.

Outdoor Lighting

http://www.conceptron.com/articles/very_large_screen_displays.html
Very Large-Screen Video Displays

NBC Astrovision by Panosonic at New York's Time Square
http://www.panasonic.com/MECA/press_releases/meca_pr_96.08.21.html
Press release anouncing new display

LEDs light up Times Square
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19991228S0020

Smartvision Large Area Displays
http://www.smartvision.com/

Photonic Devices

http://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/devices/index.html
Photonic Devices

Polymer Light Emitting Devices

http://www.ee.calpoly.edu/~dbraun/polyelec/moreinfo.html
More Information about Polymer Electronics

http://www.chipcenter.com/eexpert/dbraun/main.html
David Braun's Polymer and Organic Flexible Displays

Traffic Lights

http://www.electro-techs.net/640-1.htm
Electro-Tech's introduced the Light Emitting Diode traffic signal more than fourteen years ago, and has been the leader in the LED transportation lighting industry ever since. Over 50,000 Electro-Tech's LED signals are serving motorists and saving energy throughout the United States. All Electro-Tech's products are manufactured and assembled in the United States to the highest quality standards.

http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/Ltgtrans/led/led-tech.html
Optimizing the Design and Use of Light-Emitting Diodes for Visually Critical Applications in Transportation and Architecture

http://www.atip.or.jp/ts/fasol.html
"Blue Light Emitters for Displays, Data Storage, and Traffic Signals - Recent Breakthroughs by Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd., Background & Implications

White LEDs

http://hbled.com/whitelight.htm
Pure White Light; the Holy Grail of LEDs

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