New chip architecture could boost LED efficiency

A novel LED chip architecture developed jointly by the National Institute of Standards (NIST), University of Maryland, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center has the potential to be a real game-changer in terms of device efficiency.

The new design promises the potential for an orders-of-magnitude increase in brightness, anywhere from 100 to 1,000 times that of current submicron-sized LEDs, making this design an attractive alternative for emerging technologies in a variety of applications.