SBIR Phase II: GEMM Materials for High-Efficiency and Low-Cost III-Nitride LED Technology for Solid-State Lighting

该小型企业创新研究二期项目将支持Lightwave Photonics，Inc.S用于固态照明的新型发光二极管技术的开发和商业化。LED固态照明的采用仍然受到商业化LED固态照明产品高昂的前期成本的限制。Lightwave Photonics开发了一种独特的材料结构，将使LED制造商能够提高LED设备的性能和效率，并降低制造成本。在第二阶段，光波光电子将致力于进一步提高他们的LED技术的性能，开发商业上可行的制造工艺，设计利用光波？S技术优势的先进LED器件。光波光电还将与商业LED制造合作伙伴合作，将他们的先进LED设备集成到商业LED制造设施中，并将Lightwave？S LED技术用于量产制造。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发商业上可行的技术，以提高固态照明的性能和效率，并降低成本。根据美国能源部(DOE)的数据，在2010-2030年的20年间，美国广泛采用固态照明累计节省的能源约为2,700太瓦时，按S今天的能源价格计算约为2,500亿美元。这些节省还可以减少18亿公吨碳的温室气体排放。光波？S先进技术将使LED研究人员能够设计新的、新颖的先进LED器件结构，而在光波？S技术最近的发展之前，这些结构是不可能以可制造的方式实现的。通过提高固态照明的性能和降低前期成本，Lightwave Photonics将加快固态照明的广泛安装。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will support the development and commercialization of Lightwave Photonics, Inc.?s novel light emitting diode (LED) technology for use in solid-state lighting. Adoption of LED solid-state lighting is still constrained by the prohibitive upfront cost of commercially available LED solid-state lighting products. Lightwave Photonics has developed a unique material structure that will enable LED manufacturers to improve LED device performance and efficiency as well as reduce the manufacturing costs. During Phase II Lightwave Photonics will work to further improve the performance of their LED technology, develop a commercially viable manufacturing processes, design advanced LED devices that take advantage of the benefits of Lightwave?s technology. Lightwave Photonics will also work with commercial LED manufacturing partners to integrate their advanced LED devices in a commercial LED fabrication facility and qualify Lightwave?s LED technology for production manufacturing. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the development of commercially viable technology for improving the performance and efficiency and reducing the cost of solid-state lighting. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), over the 20-year period spanning 2010?2030, the cumulative energy savings from widespread adoption of solid-state lighting in the United States is estimated to total approximately 2,700 terawatt-hours, representing approximately $250 billion at today?s energy prices. These savings could also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1,800 million metric tons of carbon. Lightwave?s advanced technology will allow LED researchers to design new and novel advanced LED device structures that, until the recent development of the Lightwave?s technology, were not possible in a manufacturable way. By improving the performance of solid-state lighting and reducing the upfront cost, Lightwave Photonics will accelerate the widespread installation of solid-state lighting.