Highly Efficient UV and Visible Light Sources
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2018) | Viewed by 37459
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Interests: photonics and nanoscience; optoelectronics; biomedical photonics
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Interests: integrated optics; physics of semiconductor lasers; nanoelectronics
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Interests: biophotonics; optical measurements in vivo, fluorescence spectroscopy; microcirculation measurements; hyperspectral imaging; optical biopsy and assessment of tissue vitality
Interests: optoelectronics; LEDs; semiconductor lasers; applied optics; mode-locked lasers; VECSEL
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Dear Colleagues,
The progress in the development of light sources for different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum has been non-uniform, primarily due to the introduction of appropriate materials and technological advances. The near-IR region has seen tremendous development, and, nowadays, has benefited the most efficient light sources. The progress in visible light sources seems to be less steep, despite the numerous achievements of the last few decades. However, countless applications of visible wavelengths, ranging from lighting to visible light communication and biomedical applications, will greatly benefit from the progress made in the development of efficient light sources.
This Special Issue, on “Highly-Efficient Visible Light Sources”, offers to bring together the most recent research focused on practical and theoretical approaches for the further improvement of the efficiency of visible light sources. The topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- III-V semiconductor lasers and LEDs
- LED efficiency droop: mechanisms and mitigation
- UV light sources
- New visible lasers and LEDs concepts and optimisation
- Defects and their effects on emission efficiency
- Visible light sources via frequency conversion and efficiency
- Visible light for biophotonics and emerging applications
Prof. Dr. Edik U. Rafailov
Prof. Dr. Grigorii Sokolovskii
Dr. Evgeny Zherebtsov
Dr. Amit Yadav
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Light-emitting diodes
- Laser diodes
- Quantum dots
- III-V semiconductors
- Nonlinear phenomena
- Novel semiconductor-based lighting devices
- Biophotonics and emerging applications
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