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LED system and method

  • US 20080080166A1
  • Filed: 10/01/2007
  • Published: 04/03/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An LED comprising:

  • a quantum well region operable to generate light; and

    a shaped substrate having an interface with the quantum well region, wherein light generated by the quantum well region traverses the interface, the shaped substrate comprising;

    an exit face opposite from and a distance from the interface, wherein the substrate is shaped so that a portion of the light entering the shaped substrate through the interface will exit the shaped substrate through the exit face and wherein the exit face has at least 70% of a minimum area necessary to conserve radiance for a desired half-angle of light projected from the shaped substrate; and

    a set of sidewalls, wherein each sidewall is positioned and shaped so that at least a majority of rays having a straight transmission path from the interface to that sidewall reflect to the exit face with an angle of incidence at the exit face at less than or equal to a critical angle at the exit face.

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