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LED Lights: The Future of Lighting. Lowen Okamoto Mentor: Dan O’Connell. Reasons of Interest. Cost of energy is quickly increasing Cut costs on electricity bill Maintain green & sustainable environment. Overview. What is an LED? How do they work? My Project on LED lights
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LED Lights:The Future of Lighting Lowen Okamoto Mentor: Dan O’Connell
Reasons of Interest • Cost of energy is quickly increasing • Cut costs on electricity bill • Maintain green & sustainable environment
Overview • What is an LED? • How do they work? • My Project on LED lights • Overall Benefits
Incandescent Bulb Tungsten filament Glows when red hot Much energy is wasted LED Light Emitting Diode Small silicon crystals “doped” with phosphor atoms Free electrons become excited producing photons No heat output How do they work?
My Project • Spectrophotometer • Typically used for filters • Fiber-optics emission Spectrometer • Displays readout of light spectrum
Approach • Aperture to house different light sources • Allows for comparing different light bulbs on spectrometer
Wasted energy Visible spectrum 400-780 nm 780 400
179.7 LUX / Watt 15.36 LUX / Watt 15.19 LUX / Watt 2.96 LUX / Watt Light Source
Conclusion • Advantages • Less wasted energy • No hazardous materials • Superior Long Life • GREAT way to maintain green & sustainable environment • In the near future incandescent lighting methods will be phased out
Acknowledgements MAHALO TO: HNU TEAM Dan O’Connell Terry Born Richard Puga Chris Taylor Jeff Korcan Nathan Sabin Mary Liang Chad Sithar PROGRAM DIRECTORS Scott Seagroves Lani LeBron Lynne Raschke Lisa Hunter Also Thank You to Mark Hoffman The Akamai Internship Program is funded by the Center for Adaptive Optics through its National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center grant (#AST-987683) and by grants to the Akamai Workforce Initiative from the National Science Foundation and Air Force Office of Science Research (both administered by NSF, #AST-0710699) and from the University of Hawaii.