Focus

LED technology

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Light-emitting diodes are transforming the lighting industry and play a primary role in high-tech displays and other applications. This focus issue highlights the materials and technological advances that contributed to the success of these light sources, and discusses the future prospects and challenges of this technology.

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Editorial

Let there be light p453

doi:10.1038/nmat4287

Inorganic semiconductors, organic emitters and colloidal quantum dots are pushing the LED revolution in lighting and displays.


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Commentaries

A revolution in lighting pp454–458

Philipp Pust, Peter J. Schmidt and Wolfgang Schnick

doi:10.1038/nmat4270

Key materials discoveries have prompted the rise of inorganic light-emitting diodes in the lighting industry. Remaining challenges are being addressed to further extend the impact of this technology in lighting, displays and other applications.

Complementary LED technologies pp459–462

Sebastian Reineke

doi:10.1038/nmat4277

Organic semiconducting molecules and colloidal quantum dots both make for excellent luminescent materials. Compared with the more established solid-state light-emitting technologies, organic LEDs and quantum-dot LEDs are in their infancy, yet they offer unique properties.


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