Study on the promotion of non-toxic LED coating materials in Oregon

American Pacific Light Technologies (PLT) company is conducting research related to LED coating materials, the results may be LED users save hundreds of billions of dollars in lighting costs.

The study will likely increase the LED's luminous efficiency by 50%, while allowing the LED to issue a warmer light with the usual shades of blue and white. The coating will further eradicate the problem of toxic heavy metals in the product, while further reducing production costs. PLT company in the study with the aid of Oregon State University equipment and manpower in order to adjust the production process of the coating. The coating is composed of quantum dots, which can make the blue LED more efficiently.

Juanita Colting, co-founder and chief technology officer, said: "this project is designed to promote a reasonable price of non-toxic lighting, which will bring great energy saving effect of PLT. If the use of a reasonable proportion of LED lighting, then by 2030 the total lighting power consumption will be reduced by about 50%. "

Oregon State University professor of chemical engineering at Oregon and building environment and sustainable technology researcher Greg Hermann as the project leader, study in Oregon solar cell production technology innovation center of Oregon State University. In a news conference, Professor Herman said: we believe that we can accurately control the size of quantum dots in the 5-10 nm, thus controlling the light emitted by LED. This project is very suitable for our laboratory, it is my interest, because it focuses on the use of non-toxic materials and improve energy efficiency. If we can do all of the LED lighting, the energy savings will be huge. "