White-Light GaN-μLEDs Employing Green/Red Perovskite Quantum Dots as Color Converters for Visible Light Communication

Xiaoyan Liu; Langyi Tao; Shiliang Mei; Zhongjie Cui; Daqi Shen; Zhengxuan Sheng; Jinghao Yu; Pengfei Ye; Ting Zhi; Tao Tao; Lei Wang; Ruiqian Guo; Pengfei Tian

doi:10.3390/nano12040627

Nanomaterials (Feb 2022)

White-Light GaN-μLEDs Employing Green/Red Perovskite Quantum Dots as Color Converters for Visible Light Communication

Xiaoyan Liu,
Langyi Tao,
Shiliang Mei,
Zhongjie Cui,
Daqi Shen,
Zhengxuan Sheng,
Jinghao Yu,
Pengfei Ye,
Ting Zhi,
Tao Tao,
Lei Wang,
Ruiqian Guo,
Pengfei Tian

Affiliations

Xiaoyan Liu: College of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, and National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for RF Integration and Micro-Packaging Technologies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Langyi Tao: College of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, and National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for RF Integration and Micro-Packaging Technologies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Shiliang Mei: Institute for Electric Light Sources, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Zhongjie Cui: Institute for Electric Light Sources, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Daqi Shen: College of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, and National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for RF Integration and Micro-Packaging Technologies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Zhengxuan Sheng: College of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, and National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for RF Integration and Micro-Packaging Technologies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Jinghao Yu: College of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, and National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for RF Integration and Micro-Packaging Technologies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Pengfei Ye: College of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, and National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for RF Integration and Micro-Packaging Technologies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Ting Zhi: College of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, and National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for RF Integration and Micro-Packaging Technologies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Tao Tao: Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China
Lei Wang: College of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, and National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for RF Integration and Micro-Packaging Technologies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Ruiqian Guo: Institute for Electric Light Sources, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Pengfei Tian: Institute for Electric Light Sources, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12040627
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 4
p. 627

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GaN-based μLEDs with superior properties have enabled outstanding achievements in emerging micro-display, high-quality illumination, and communication applications, especially white-light visible light communication (WL-VLC). WL-VLC systems can simultaneously provide white-light solid-state lighting (SSL) while realizing high-speed wireless optical communication. However, the bandwidth of conventional white-light LEDs is limited by the long-lifetime yellow yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) phosphor, which restricts the available communication performance. In this paper, white-light GaN-μLEDs combining blue InGaN-μLEDs with green/red perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) are proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Green PQDs (G-PQDs) and red PQDs (R-PQDs) with narrow emission spectrum and short fluorescence lifetime as color converters instead of the conventional slow-response YAG phosphor are mixed with high-bandwidth blue InGaN-μLEDs to generate white light. The communication and illumination performances of the WL-VLC system based on the white-light GaN-based μLEDs are systematically investigated. The VLC properties of monochromatic light (green/red) from G-PQDs or R-PQDs are studied in order to optimize the performance of the white light. The modulation bandwidths of blue InGaN-μLEDs, G-PQDs, and R-PQDs are up to 162 MHz, 64 MHz, and 90 MHz respectively. Furthermore, the white-light bandwidth of 57.5 MHz and the Commission Internationale de L’Eclairage (CIE) of (0.3327, 0.3114) for the WL-VLC system are achieved successfully. These results demonstrate the great potential and the direction of the white-light GaN-μLEDs with PQDs as color converters to be applied for VLC and SSL simultaneously. Meanwhile, these results contribute to the implementation of full-color micro-displays based on μLEDs with high-quality PQDs as color-conversion materials.

Published in Nanomaterials

ISSN: 2079-4991 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials

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