Electrical and Thermal Effects of Tunable LED Systems on Lighting and Non-Visual Biological Characteristics

Abstract

The color, electrical, optical and thermal properties of light-emitting diode (LED) systems are highly dependent on one another. This paper proposes an analysis model that links the optical power, correlated color temperature (CCT), and circadian action factor (CAF) together with the electrical and thermal effects of phosphor-converted LEDs. The proposed model applies to tunable white LED systems with various color temperatures of LEDs whose spectral power distribution (SPD) can be individually controlled. The total optical power is due to the combined emitted optical power of both LEDs, the overall CCT is built upon a non-linear empirical LED model, and the overall CAF is quantified based on an extended Gaussian SPD model. The proposed prediction model consists a series of optical and chromatic evaluation, with which it is simple for LED system designers to comply. In model verification, the bi-color white LED source made up of a warm color LED (2700 K) and a cool color LED (7600 K) is adopted, with good agreement between the calculated and experimental results.

Measurement model of circadian action factor of phosphor-converted white LEDs based on photometric, electrical, and thermal properties

“…The relationship between them is determined solely by the constant coefficient K m . As P(λ) of PC-WLEDs has been confirmed to vary with operating temperature and current [25], it is reasonable to assume that specific connections exist between luminous flux Φ v and temperature, as well as between luminous flux Φ v and current. If this assumption is valid, the expression ´780nm 380nm P(λ)V(λ)dλ might also relate to temperature and current by similar connections.…”

Analysis and Tunable Models for Phosphor-Converted White Light-Emitting Diode Based on Spectral Compensation

“…Since the tristimulus value Y represents luminance and generally is proportional to the luminous flux φ v , while chromaticity coordinate y can be approximated as in proportion to CCT [24], (6) therefore will be transformed into…”