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DOE Announces Selections for SSL Core Technology
(Round 6), Product Development (Round 6), and U.S.
Manufacturing (Round 1) Funding Opportunities
18 Jan, 2010
The National Energy Technology Laboratory, focused on achieving significant cost Team Members: University of Delaware, The
on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy reductions and enhancing quality through Crowell Corporation
(DOE), is pleased to announce the following improvements in manufacturing equipment, Summary: This project seeks to
selections for solid-state lighting (SSL) processes, or monitoring techniques. demonstrate a highly reflective, highly
funding opportunities under the American Projects address the technical challenges diffuse, low-cost composite material that is
Recovery and Reinvestment Act. that must be overcome before prices fall to a able to withstand at least 50,000 hours of
level where solid-state lighting will be luminaire operation.
Seventeen projects were chosen in competitive with existing lighting on a first-
response to Core Technology (Round 6), cost basis. The total value of manufacturing Product Development Selections
Product Development (Round 6), and U.S. selections is $23.5 million; the performers Recipient: Cree Inc.
Manufacturing (Round 1) Funding will provide an average of 51 percent as cost- Title: Ultra-Compact High-Efficiency
Opportunity Announcements. These share. A major DOE objective in funding Luminaire for General Illumination
selections are anticipated to significantly these projects is to develop, establish, and/or Summary: This project seeks to create an
contribute to the goal of the SSL program: maintain the solid-state lighting technology ultra-compact 80-lm/W SSL luminaire that
and manufacturing base within the U.S., emits at a color temperature of 3000 K with
By 2025, develop advanced solid-state which will create jobs and promote our a Color Rendering Index (CRI) of 90. The
lighting technologies that, compared to nation’s role as a leader in the field. project will involve synergetic LED
conventional lighting technologies, are much component, optic, thermal management,
more energy efficient, longer lasting, and The nine selections that fall under core and driver developments to enable the
cost competitive by targeting a product technology and product development are specified luminaire performance. This
system efficiency of 50 percent with lighting covered under the Exceptional integrated approach will establish a
that accurately reproduces sunlight Circumstances Determination issued by technology platform capable of providing
spectrum. Three selections have been made DOE in June 2004. All of the selections are high-efficiency LED components that can be
in response to Core Technology Funding listed below (subject to negotiation). adopted across a variety of SSL
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA- applications.
0000082. These selections are expected to Core Technology Research Selections
fill key technology gaps, provide enabling Recipient: Cambrios Recipient: General Electric
knowledge or data, and represent a Title: Solution-Processable Transparent Title: Optimized Phosphors for Warm-White
significant advancement in the SSL Conductive Hole Injection Electrode for LED Light Engines
technology base. The total value of Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) SSL Team Members: University of Georgia
selections for Core Technology Research is Team Members: Plextronics Inc. (UGA)
$4.0 million; the performers of cooperative Summary: This project seeks to develop a Summary: GE Global Research, in
agreements will provide an average of 23 replacement for the combination of a collaboration with GE Lumination and the
percent as cost-share. sputtered ITO electrode and hole injection University of Georgia, seeks to develop
layer. Solution-processable transparent optimized phosphor systems and packaging
Six selections have been made in response conductors offer the potential to significantly for LED down-conversion. This program will
to Product Development FOA DE-FOA- reduce the cost of manufacture of the build upon the materials and understanding
0000055. These selections are focused on anode layer for OLED lighting devices. developed in prior DOE programs between
the development or improvement of GE and UGA that have led to new
commercially viable materials, devices, or Recipient: University of Rochester phosphors and light engine prototypes with
systems. Technical activities are focused on Title: Development and Utilization of Host ~70 lm/W steady-state efficacy at
a targeted market application with fully Materials for White Phosphorescent OLEDs Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) ~3100
defined price, efficacy, and other Summary: This project seeks to produce K and CRI ~90.
performance parameters necessary for white OLEDs with >100 lm/W efficiency
success of the proposed product. The total after light extraction enhancement and Recipient: Lightscape Materials Inc.
value of Product Development selections is >10,000 hour operating time, by making a Title: Nitride- and Oxynitride-Based
$10.3 million; the performers will provide an new class of emissive materials. Phosphors for SSL
average of 23 percent as cost-share. Summary: This project seeks to develop a
Recipient: WhiteOptics LLC set of high-efficiency, novel nitride- and
Eight selections have been made in Title: Low-Cost, Highly Lambertian Reflector oxynitride-based phosphor products. The
response to U.S. Manufacturing FOA DE- Composite for Improved LED Fixture performance goals for the phosphors are:
FOA-0000057. These selections are Efficiency and Lifetime quantum yield >90%, thermal quenching
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