DOE selected 14 solid state lighting funds to support R & D projects

The U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory (National Energy Laboratory) on behalf of the U.S. Department of energy (DOE), has selected 14 projects, access to solid state lighting (SSL) project funding for the Technology.

Should be the fifth round of core technology and product development bidding statement (Round 5 of Core and Product DevELopment Funding Opportunity Announcements), and the selection of these projects. It is expected that these selected projects will help to achieve the goal of solid-state lighting program to develop advanced solid-state lighting technology, that is, to achieve more energy saving, longer life, and more cost-effective technology.

The goal of these technologies is to improve the system efficiency of the product to 50%, and to achieve the accurate reproduction of the spectrum of solar light.

All 14 selected projects have been released by DOE in June 2005 with the special environmental measurements (Exceptional Circumstances Determination). The selected items are as follows (negotiated):

Research on the 7 core technologies selected

Provide authorized knowledge or data, is expected to fill the gaps in key technologies, and symbol of solid state lighting technology based on significant progress. Total funding for selected projects for core technology research is $10 million 400 thousand.

Item 1: Eastman (Eastman Kodak Company): high performance colloidal quantum dots phosphor

Project 2:Kaai (Kaai, Inc.) project: high performance m-Plane (LED) grown with low defect density gallium nitride (GaN)

Item 3: American QD Vision (QD Vision, Inc.) subject: OLED solid state lighting quantum dot optical substrate technology team members: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Item 4: (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) project: polarization controlled metal vapor phase epitaxy of high performance green LED team members: Kyma Technologies (Kyma Technologies)

Item 5: (University of Florida) project: high efficiency organic light emitting lighting team members: Lehigh University (Lehigh University)

Item 6: (University of Florida) topic: top emitting white light OLED with high light extraction efficiency

Item 7: (University of San Diego) project: the use of phosphors near UV LED can produce effective white light team members: OSRAM Sylvania, USA

Selected 7 product development projects

Focus on the development or improvement of commercially viable materials, equipment or systems. The key goal of the technical activities is the fully qualified price, the luminous efficiency, and the necessary performance parameters of other successful products.

Project 1:CREE (Cree, Inc.) project: solid state lighting (SSL) lamps using a new drive structure

Item 2: DuPont Displays (Dupont, Inc.) project: small molecule OLED lamps for interior lighting

Item 3: Eastman (Eastman Kodak Company) project: OLED lighting control panel

Project 4:Osram Sylvania products company (Osram Sylvania Products, Inc.) subject: high efficiency small waveform factor LED lamp

Item 5: North American PHILPS Lighting Electronics Company (Philips Lighting Electronics North America) topic: for efficient electronic device driver team general lighting LED lamps: PHILPS Research Division (Philips Research)

Item 6: LED (Rohm and Haas Company): high refractive index package, high thermal and photochemical stability for high brightness applications

Item 7: Michigan (Universal Display Corporation) topic: for the cabinet of high efficiency phosphorescent OLED lighting system team members: University of Michigan (University of)