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A bright future for color-controlled solid state lighting

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The development of luminescent phosphors for controlled color in solid state lighting (SSL) applications, based on light-emitting diode (LED) technology, has been an actively growing research area over the last two decades. In this short review, we outline the role that materials science developments have had on the advancement of white SSL technologies. In particular, we discuss the potential for using semiconducting quantum dot phosphors for precise color tuning in efficient white light LEDs.

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Acknowledgments

We thank collaborators V. Venkataramanan, H. Kumar, N. Dyck, and R. Li at Lumentra, Inc. for helpful discussions.

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K. M. Poduska received research funds from Lumentra, Inc. (Toronto, Canada) through a Collaborative Research and Development Grant from the Natural Science and Engineering Resource Council of Canada (Grant Number CRDPJ 417799 - 11) that funded C. Xu’s post-doctoral work.

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Xu, C., Poduska, K.M. A bright future for color-controlled solid state lighting. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 26, 4565–4570 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-015-3086-0

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