1 Background
In principle, the luminescence phenomenon of semiconductor devices can be roughly divided into three types: photoluminescence, electroluminescence, and cathode ray luminescence. The first form of luminescence is that when a certain amount of light shines on the semiconductor, the electrons and holes in the semiconductor absorb the energy of the light and emit light. The second form of luminescence is that when a forward voltage is applied to the semiconductor device, the electrons and holes move due to the energy obtained, thereby stimulating the luminescence phenomenon.
Cathodoluminescence is a luminescence phenomenon in which when certain rays shine on a semiconductor, the carriers of the semiconductor absorb energy and produce composite luminescence.
LED itself is also a semiconductor device. The spontaneous luminescence of LED is caused by the recombination movement between electrons and holes. Its luminescence principle is based on the principle of electroluminescence, and does not adopt the luminescence principle similar to traditional light sources such as incandescent lamps and energy-saving lamps. The most important part of LED is the PN junction, which is composed of N-type semiconductor and P-type semiconductor, and a thin vacuum depletion layer is formed between P-type semiconductor and N-type semiconductor. The luminescence process of PN junction can be roughly divided into three processes: carrier injection under forward voltage, recombination radiation, and light energy transmission. The very small semiconductor crystals are all encapsulated in clean epoxy resin. When the electrons pass through the wafer, the electrons are freed to the hole area and recombine with them. At this time, the holes and electrons disappear at the same time and photons appear. The energy of the photons generated by the recombination movement of electrons and holes is proportional to the electrons and holes themselves. However, the energy of the photons generated by the recombination movement is also one-to-one corresponding to the color of the light generated by the photons. Generally speaking, within the spectrum range of visible light, the energy carried by spectrums of different frequencies is different. Purple and blue light usually carry the most energy, while red and orange light usually carry the least energy. It is precisely because of the difference in band gaps between different materials that different materials can emit light of different colors.
2 Imaging optics of high-power LED lighting fixtures
As a new type of solid-state cold light source, LED has the advantages of small size, long life, high luminous efficiency, energy saving and environmental protection. The broad market prospects of high-power LED lighting fixtures have triggered a climax of research on LED applications, especially in high-power lighting applications. However, since the light emitted by LED chips is Lambertian distributed, if such a light field distribution is directly applied to actual high-power lighting without secondary optical design, it will cause serious light waste. The problem of LED secondary optical design has become the main problem restricting the further promotion of LED in lighting applications. In order to overcome the shortcomings of traditional lighting design methods that cannot make wrong predictions, a method combining non-imaging optical theory, lighting design software and computer programming is used to carry out secondary optical design of high-power LED lighting fixtures. According to the classic optical extension conservation and edge light principle in non-imaging optics, the surface equation of the lens is obtained, and then the discrete points of the free-form surface lens are calculated by Matlab programming, three-dimensional modeling is carried out, and the correctness of the design is verified by simulation in Tracepro. The basic packaging structure of LED is to encapsulate a semiconductor module with electroluminescent structure in epoxy resin, and use pins as positive and negative electrodes to support it. The LED structure is mainly composed of five materials: bracket, silver glue, chip, gold wire, and epoxy resin. The structure of a packaged high-power LED lamp bead is shown in Figure 1:
Imaging optics of high-power LED lighting fixtures In the design of imaging optics, the optical system is the main imaging tool. The law of light propagation is mainly studied through the concept of geometric light. There is a lack of corresponding research on the changes caused by the transfer of energy in light propagation. However, non-imaging optics is different from imaging optics. From the perspective of physics, it is believed that light carries corresponding radiation energy during the propagation process, so the direction of light propagation is also the propagation direction of the corresponding radiation energy. Therefore, from the perspective of studying energy changes, the optical system itself is also a medium for transmitting the corresponding radiation energy, and the light propagation process itself is also the corresponding energy transmission process. The theory of non-imaging optics mainly studies the entire optical system from the perspective of the law of energy propagation. The main purpose of the application of non-imaging optical theory is to study the entire lighting system, but this lighting system itself plays a controlling role in the transmission of light energy during the propagation of light, rather than playing an imaging role similar to the imaging optical theory. However, the imaging problem cannot be excluded from the non-imaging design. The non-imaging optical theory is mainly generated to solve two major problems. One is how to maximize the energy transmitted, and the other is how to obtain the illumination distribution that meets the lighting requirements on the target plane. These two problems are usually called light collection and illumination in the field of general lighting. Concentrators can usually be divided into two categories, one is called a three-dimensional concentrator, and the other is a two-dimensional concentrator. The two-dimensional concentrator can also be called a linear concentrator. The convergence ratio of a linear concentrator is usually expressed by the ratio of the input to output dimensions on the cross section. For two-dimensional concentrators and three-dimensional concentrators (with axial symmetry), the maximum value of c can be obtained. Assuming that the input and output media have the same refractive index, when a circular light source emits light at an infinite distance with a divergence angle of iθ. When passing through the optical system, the maximum value of the convergence ratio maxC reaches 21/siniθ, and when the angle of the outgoing light and the outgoing surface converge to form a secondary light distribution. The optical expansion has a certain physical meaning: the optical expansion can be used to evaluate the impact of optical components on the energy utilization of the entire optical system, and can also be used to describe the characteristics of the light beam itself. For specific optical components, the optical expansion represents the optical component's ability to converge the light beam. Using the concept of optical expansion, the degree of matching between the lighting system and the imaging system can be determined.
3 High-power LED lighting fixture lens model
For an ideal optical system, when reflection, refraction, scattering and other losses are not considered, the optical expansion degree is conserved after the light beam passes through the optical system. In non-imaging optical design, this is a very important factor that needs to be considered in the design process. It should be said from two aspects. For the light source, the smaller the optical expansion degree, the better. However, for optical elements, the situation is just the opposite. The optical expansion degree should be as large as possible for optical elements. Of course, the larger the optical expansion degree, the better. Because the increase in optical expansion degree does not necessarily bring the same degree of energy efficiency improvement to the entire optical system, it will cause a significant increase in the complexity of optical system design and production costs. Therefore, when designing a non-imaging optical system, the concept of optical expansion degree should be reasonably used to control the trend of light and realize the conservation of optical expansion degree, so as to obtain the ideal light energy utilization rate and meet the requirements of the lighting uniformity index. The solid model of the lens can be obtained by rotating the curve around once. The outer surface of the lens model of the high-power LED lighting fixture is the desired free surface as shown in Figure 2.
The heat transfer of high-power LED lighting fixtures is the heat transfer process of materials under the action of temperature difference. Whether inside an object or between some objects, as long as there is a temperature difference, heat will be spontaneously transferred from high temperature to low temperature in one or several ways. There are three basic ways of heat transfer: heat conduction (heat conduction), heat convection, and heat radiation. Compared with traditional light sources, the outstanding features of LEDs are small size, compact structure, and convenient embedding in various lamps. As a carrier of light source, the heat dissipation design of lamps is crucial for LED to exert its advantages. If the heat dissipation efficiency of lamps is designed to be high, it can not only extend the service life of LEDs, but also reduce the weight of lamps and expand their application range. On the contrary, it will affect the advantages of LEDs and even become a bottleneck in their application.
Therefore, this chapter focuses on the design of the radiator. We know that there are usually two ways of heat dissipation: the first is active heat dissipation, that is, heat dissipation through forced cooling methods such as external fans, water cooling or heat pipe loops, microchannel cooling, semiconductor cooling, etc., which is characterized by high heat dissipation efficiency, small radiator size and compact structure. The disadvantage is that it will increase additional power consumption, and considering the protection level and other requirements of the lamp, it will also increase the difficulty of lamp design; the second is passive heat dissipation, which mainly relies on the natural convection of air, and the heat generated by the heat source is naturally dissipated into the air through the heat sink. The heat dissipation effect is related to the size of the heat sink. This method has a simple structure, but the heat dissipation efficiency is relatively low. For the lighting system, since this heat dissipation method is easy to combine with the lamp structure, the structure is relatively simple, and no additional power consumption is required. At the same time, due to comprehensive considerations of processing, material cost, maintenance coefficient, etc., the overall cost of using passive heat dissipation is relatively low. At present, the mainstream direction is to adopt the second method, through the reasonable design of the radiator to maximize the heat dissipation requirements of the lighting system, while maximizing cost savings. A high-power LED street lamp radiator sold by our company is specifically optimized and designed. The radiator consists of two identical modules. The appearance of the optimized design heat sink of high-power LED lighting fixtures is shown in Figure 3.
5 Conclusion
High-power LED has been one of the hot spots of research and application in recent years. Especially after the emergence of high-power LED chips, high-power LED has been applied to the lighting field and has a great trend of replacing traditional lighting. At present, LED still faces problems in driving power supply design, light distribution design and heat dissipation design. This paper conducts secondary optical design for Lambertian high-power white light LED, and designs free-form surface lenses with uniform circular spots and uniform rectangular spots respectively. At the same time, this paper also studies the heat dissipation of high-power LEDs, explains the optimization process of using ANSYS optimization function to write a program for high-power LED flat heat sinks, and gives a specific product design process.
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