Progress and prospects of GaN-based LEDs using nanostructures

Progress with GaN-based light emitting diodes(LEDs) that incorporate nanostructures is reviewed,especially the recent achievements in our research group.Nano-patterned sapphire substrates have been used to grow an Al N template layer for deep-ultraviolet(DUV) LEDs.One efficient surface nano-texturing technology,hemisphere-cones-hybrid nanostructures,was employed to enhance the extraction efficiency of In GaN flip-chip LEDs.Hexagonal nanopyramid GaN-based LEDs have been fabricated and show electrically driven color modification and phosphor-free white light emission because of the linearly increased quantum well width and indium incorporation from the shell to the core.Based on the nanostructures,we have also fabricated surface plasmon-enhanced nanoporous GaN-based green LEDs using AAO membrane as a mask.Benefitting from the strong lateral SP coupling as well as good electrical protection by a passivation layer,the EL intensity of an SP-enhanced nanoporous LED was significantly enhanced by 380%.Furthermore,nanostructures have been used for the growth of GaN LEDs on amorphous substrates,the fabrication of stretchable LEDs,and for increasing the3-d B modulation bandwidth for visible light communication.     

室内可见光多维CAP空间调制

针对室内可见光通信（VLC）光链路发射源（LED器件）有限的调制带宽问题,基于多维无载波幅度相位调制（CAP）技术,提出一种频带利用率高效的光空间调制方案（OSM-CAP）。OSM-CAP系统将输入信息序列分成两部分,一部分进行空域映射即空间调制,其结果用来选择激活的LED;另一部分进行信号域映射,即CAP调制。其中,CAP调制采用序列二次规划算法求取的时域正交多维CAP滤波器组实现。对于采用强度调制/直接检测（IM/DD）的VLC系统,该CAP信号还将进行单极化处理,文中提出两种相应的解决方案,即采用添加直流偏置（OSM-DCO/CAP方案）和零值位置极性编码（OSM-U/CAP方案）。基于朗伯体辐射模型,且可见光背景噪声建模为加性高斯白噪声,推导了OSM-DCO/CAP、OSM-U/CAP调制方案的误码率理论解,仿真验证了其准确性。在5 m×5 m×3 m的室内场景下,探讨了无载波幅度相位调制维度以及接收机个数、发射机间距、收发平面距离以及链路遮挡情况等信道参数对系统性能的影响。结果表明,星座调制阶数相同时,CAP调制维度越高,误码性能越好;接收机个数增多、发射机间距加大以及收发平面距离减小与系统可靠性存在正相关关系;链路存在遮挡情况时,会提高信道间的差异性,改善系统性能。     

室内可见光无载波幅度相位调制系统性能分析

针对室内可见光通信调制技术问题,提出翻转光无载波幅度相位调制和单极性光无载波幅度相位调制两种功率有效的调制方案,二者分别采用"正、负模块极性分组"以及"零值位置极性编码"方法实现信号单极性处理,以满足可见光通信"强度调制/直接检测"的要求.基于朗伯辐射模型,考虑到高斯背景光噪声的可见光直射传输信道,推导了包括直流偏置光无载波幅度相位调制在内的三种调制方案的误比特率闭式表达式,仿真验证了其准确性.在此基础上,分析比较了三者频带利用率,讨论了信道参量对光无载波幅度相位调制系统误码性能的影响,结果表明,在5m×5m×3m的室内场景下,与发射机辐射角为30°和45°相比,0°时的系统误码性能分别优于6.9dB和29.9dB;收发机距离为1m时,误码性能比2m时改善近12dB.     

Matching theory based user-grouping for indoor non-orthogonal multiple access visible light communication heterogeneous networks

This Letter proposes a model of indoor visible light communication(VLC) heterogeneous networks entirely based on LEDs with different specifications and applies non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA) to it because of the narrow modulation bandwidth of LEDs. Moreover, a user-grouping scheme that is based on matching theory is proposed to improve the network achievable sum rate. Simulation results indicate that when each NOMA cluster contains 6 users, the proposed scheme has a 49.54% sum-rate enhancement compared with the traditional user-grouping scheme. As the number of users in each NOMA cluster increases, the proposed scheme performs better at the cost of computational complexity.     

LED照明的光栅光调制器光学特性分析与实验

针对一种新型的光凋制器--光栅光调制器,研究用LED作为其照明光源时对光学调制特性的影响.以部分相干光理论为依据,结合MATLAB仿真,推导出用LED照明光栅光调制器时,光源带宽对成像对比度具有较大的影响,通过滤色片将光源带宽减小到13 nm时,像面上的对比度约为150,进一步减小带宽至10 nm,对比度将达到225.光源的尺寸在与光源到光栅光调制器之间的距离相比小于0.03时,对光栅光调制器的光学信息处理不会有影响,并通过实验加以证实,从而说明采用LED作为光栅光调制器照明光源的可行性.     

发光二极管材料与器件的历史、现状和展望

文章介绍了发光二极管材料和器件的研究、开发的历史，概述了发光二极管技术的发展现状和进展．通过与其他类型光源的比较，向读者展示了发光二极管未来的重要地位和光明前景．发光二极管的最近的成就是实现了有色光方面的成功应用．高功率白色发光二极管已开始应用于便携式和特殊照明．而在通用的照明领域要成功地应用发光二极管，则需要通过性能和价格方面的继续突破来实现．     

多光谱可见光通信信道串扰分析

在可见光通信领域, 通过波分复用技术可以增加信道个数, 从而提高系统通信容量. 然而发光二极管(LED)的辐射光谱具有一定线宽, 当信道个数增加, 信道间隔将变小, 尽管有滤光片的通道选择, 但LED的辐射光谱会出现重叠从而产生信道串扰. 本文基于LED光谱重叠现象分析了多光谱波分复用可见光通信系统的信道串扰问题. 首先结合LED的物理机制和实际LED的光谱形状对其光谱进行建模; 然后根据光谱重叠现象和可见光通信信道推导出信道串扰公式; 最后利用不同中心波长的LED在两通道可见光通信系统中验证了信道串扰公式的正确性. 仿真和实验结果表明, 当两信道的信道间隔大于28 nm时, 两信道之间的信道串扰不超过-13.6 dB. 对多光谱波分复用可见光通信系统的信道串扰分析对未来可见光通信增加信道数量有一定指导作用.     

基于蚁群算法的室内可见光高精度三维定位系统

为了提高室内定位精度,实现三维定位,提出一种基于蚁群算法的的可见光通信室内高精度三维定位系统。本系统采用了码分多址(Code Division Multiple Access,CDMA)调制技术,解决了室内可见光通信多信号源之间的符号间干扰.系统中与发光二极管(Light Emitting Diode,LED)光信号源地理位置相关的ID信息码经过直接扩频调制后加载至发光二极管驱动电路,以光信号的形式在室内传播.光信号经过放大、滤波、采样处理后,根据码分多址调制技术中扩频码的正交性恢复出ID信息及光强衰减信息.经过计算获得来自不同发光二极管的信号光强衰减因子,利用蚁群算法的全局搜索性确定最优定位点.引入误差修复因子,利用蚁群算法的并行搜索性对光强衰减因子偏差进行修正.仿真结果表明,信噪比为30dB,20dB,10dB的条件下,算法的定位精度分别为2cm,4cm,8cm.当计算的精度高于45cm时,蚁群算法定位解的搜索效率明显高于遍历法.在10dB的信噪比条件下,对光强衰减因子进行修正后100%的测试点都实现了5cm定位精度.实验结果表明,20dB信噪比条件下,92.59%的测试点的定位误差小于8cm,96.29%的测试点定位误差小于10cm,最大定位误差为11.30cm.经过误差修复后,96.2%的测试点实现了3cm的定位精度,61.6%的测试点实现了2cm的定位精度.本算法在实现了高精度定位,减少了获得最优定位解的计算量.     

大功率LED脉冲位置调制解调设计

脉冲位置调制是室内可见光通信的主要调制方式之一,它具有功率利用率高,频带利用率好,抗干扰性强的特点.为实现室内大功率白光LED照明通信,在分析PPM的原理基础上提出了一种改进的调制方式,给出了这种PPM符号的结构,并设计了大功率LED的驱动电路.其主要特点是由单片机直接输出帧同步信号加PPM信号,不设置保护时隙,其利用...     

Photo-reception properties of common LEDs

The article proves that common LEDs may act as photodetectors with limited sensitivity, if they are polarized with an appropriate reverse voltage. The measured responsivities are ranged between 0.002 and 0.156 A/W and they depend on the LED type. The only one exception are white (phosphorescent) LEDs which do not exhibit any photosensitivity. There have also shown that a bandwidth of LEDs, which were examined in a role of photodetectors, is of a few tens of MHz, which is an order of magnitude greater than their modulation bandwidth as transmitters. The reasons of the observed LEDs behaviour are explained theoretically. The obtained results are indicated that some of them may be used as both transmitters and receivers in the VLC links working in a bi-directional half-duplex mode.     

A Systematic Exploration of InGaN/GaN Quantum Well-Based Light Emitting Diodes on Semipolar Orientations

Optics and Spectroscopy - Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on group III-nitride semiconductors (GaN, AlN, and InN) are crucial elements for solid-state lighting and visible light communication...     

GaN-based LEDs for light communication

Rapid improvement in the efficiency of GaN-based LEDs not only speed up its applications for general illumination, but offer the possibilities for data transmission. This review is to provide an overview of current progresses of GaN-based LEDs for light communications. The modulation bandwidth of GaN-based LEDs has been first improved by optimizing the LED epilayer structures and the modulation bandwidth of 73 MHz was achieved at the driving current density of 40 A/cm² by changing the multi-quantum well structures. After that, in order to increase the current density tolerance, different parallel flip-chip micro-LED arrays were fabricated. With a high injected current density of ～7900 A/cm², a maximum modulation bandwidth of ～227 MHz was obtained with optical power greater than 30 mW. Besides the increase of carrier concentrations, the radiative recombination coefficient B was also enhanced by modifying the photon surrounding environment based on some novel nanostructures such as resonant cavity, surface plasmon, and photonic crystals. The optical 3 dB modulation bandwidth of GaN-based nanostructure LEDs with Ag nanoparticles was enhanced by 2 times compared with GaN-based nanostructure LEDs without Ag nanoparticles. Our results demonstrate that using the QW-SP coupling can effectively help to enhance the carrier spontaneous emission rate and also increase the modulation bandwidth for LEDs, especially for LEDs with high intrinsic IQE. In addition, we discuss the progress of the faster color conversion stimulated by GaN-based LEDs.     

基于白光LED照明光源的室内VLC系统

LED照明与可见光通信技术相结合,构建出基于LED可见光无线通信系统。对室内VLC(Visible Light Communication)系统的白光LED光源特性和系统信道模型分析,提出照明光源布局设计与接收光功率分布的关系;对强度调制直接检测方式的室内VLC系统中信噪比和多径效应引起的码间串扰分析,提出采用光分集接收技术克服码间串扰和提高信噪比,并给出光检测器阵列布局的模型。建立VLC系统仿真模型,给出OOK-NRZ (On-Off Keying & Non-Return Zero)和OOK-RZ(On-Off Keying & Return Zero)调制方式的误码率和均方根时延扩展之间的关系曲线。仿真结果表明,接收光功率相同时,均方根时延扩展时间大于1.0 ns时,OOK-RZ特性优于OOK-NRZ。     

利用激基复合物发光的有机白光电致发光器件

以NPB为空穴传输材料,(dppy)BF为发光层,Alq为电子传输层和色度调节层,制备了有机白光电致发光器件.该器件的白光发射是来自于(dppy)BF与NPB的固界表面形成的激基复合物发光,以及NPB与(dppy)BF发射的蓝光.该白光器件的色度稳定,在电压10～25V的变化范围内,色坐标变化由(0.29,0.33)到(0.31,0.35).器件在4V开启,12V电压下亮度和效率分别为200cd/m²和0.45lm/W.     

Research on phosphor-conversion laser-based white light used as optical source of VLC and illumination

Visible light communication (VLC) based on light emitting diodes (LEDs) or laser diodes (LDs) has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Due to the advantages of laser diodes based on nitrides, such as small size, high brightness, visible light and high bandwidth, it can be applied to illumination and communication at the same time. In this paper, blue laser and yellow phosphors were employed to synthesize white light. And “efficiency droop” is not observed in the LIV characteristics of LD-based white light either. The bandwidth measurement system with high reliability was set up. The bandwidth of blue laser diode and phosphor-conversion laser-based white light was measured. The maximum of optical ?3 dB bandwidth of blue LD is around 1.8 GHz at 80 mA and maximum of optical ?3 dB bandwidth of white light is about 1.3 GHz at 60 mA. The color parameters of the synthetic white light were characterized through integrating sphere. Moreover the trends of test data with injection current were analyzed in detail. The problem of thermal degradation of yellow phosphors has been improved by a special design that can keep a certain distance between the blue laser diode and phosphors. The experiment results verified that laser diodes based on nitrides have promising applications in lighting and communications.     

Optimized photoelectric receiver to enhance modulation bandwidth of visible light communication system

In the visible light communication (VLC) system which combines lighting and communication functions, the 3-dB modulation bandwidth is mainly limited by the light-emitting diode (LED) suffered high-frequency response attenuation. An optimized photoelectric receiver was proposed to enhance the 3-dB modulation bandwidth. The frequency response of the photoelectric receiver was derived. Theoretical analysis predicted that a gain peak would appear in the high-frequency response of the photoelectric receiver. The value of the gain and the frequency point of the gain peak can be adjusted by selecting appropriate values of feedback resistor and capacitor. Then, the measurement platform of 3-dB modulation bandwidth for blue-LED VLC system was established. Experimental measurements demonstrated that the photoelectric receiver with proper sets of feedback resistor and capacitor can compensate the high-frequency response attenuation of a normal LED. The 3-dB modulation bandwidth obtains 56% enhancement if the photoelectric receiver was replaced from a commercial one to our optimized design. In order to further expand the 3-dB modulation bandwidth, an equalization circuit consists of two-stage transistor amplifier and an emitter-follower was introduced to suppress the low-frequency response. The 3-dB modulation bandwidth for the VLC system with our optimized photoelectric receiver can be expanded to 241 or 281 MHz, while the circuit was, respectively, arranged as pre-equalization or post-equalization.     

应用分集接收技术的LED可见光音频传输演示装置

演示装置通过在接收端以多个光敏二极管进行分集接收的形式完成信号接收,达到演示可见光光通信目的。该装置性能稳定、操作方便,能直观演示整个传输过程,能够使学生更深入全面地理解可见光通信技术的实际应用。     

Bandwidth-efficient visible light communication system based on faster-than-Nyquist pre-coded CAP modulation

With the rapid development of the light-emitting diode(LED) industry, interest in visible light communication(VLC) is growing. The limited bandwidth of commercial LEDs is one of the main challenges to achieve highspeed VLC. In this Letter, a kind of bandwidth-efficient VLC system based on carrierless amplitude and phase(CAP) modulation is proposed, where a simple differential faster-than-Nyquist(FTN) pre-coding scheme is employed to compress the spectrum and further improve the overall system baud rate. The system is experimentally demonstrated with a data rate of 1.47-Gb/s over 1.5 m free space transmission. The results indicate that an improvement of 80 Mbaud is achieved by FTN-CAP4 at 20% subband overlap and 40 Mbaud rate improvement by FTN-CAP16 at 7.5% subband overlap. Compared with traditional CAP, the FTN pre-coded CAP shows a better performance in spectral efficiency(SE) and intercarrier interference resistance. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time to employ FTN pre-coded CAP in indoor high-data-rate VLC systems.     

二级级联式室内可见光通信光学接收天线设计

针对室内可见光通信系统的传统光学接收天线无法同时满足高增益和大视场的问题, 设计了一种二级级联式光学天线. 通过分析信噪比、通信速率与接收天线视场角的关系, 发现视场角为40°–60°的光学天线最适用于室内可见光通信系统. 通过光学仿真软件TracePro的模拟及计算, 给出了所设计的二级级联式光学天线的增益随信号光入射角的变化关系. 结果表明, 相较于传统接收天线, 二级级联式光学天线具有更好的光学性能, 视场角为菲涅耳透镜单独接收时的4 倍. 利用Matlab对二级级联式光学天线竖直向上时的接收功率分布进行仿真, 结果显示探测器接收到的信号功率提升效果明显, 平均值较直接探测时增大了7 dBm, 进一步证实该二级级联式光学天线适用于室内可见光通信系统.     

可见光通信中的白光LED非线性噪声分析

针对LED的非线性特征,提出一种计算OOK调制可见光通信系统的非线性噪声的方法,进而求出传输信噪比以及误码率。运用Matlab仿真分析得出LED直流偏置点和误码率的关系曲线,并通过可见光通信系统图像传输实验验证了该曲线的正确性。该曲线对于LED的型号和最佳偏置点的选取具有很好的指导意义。