Focus
LED technology
- Focus:
- May 2015 Volume 14, No 5
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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.
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.
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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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