Renewable energy and lightings - logically or artificially?

Author

Wieland, F. ; Gueldner, Henry ; Hild, O.R.

Author_Institution

Power Electron. Lab., Tech. Univ., Dresden, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

11-14 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Renewable energy and high energy efficiency are big challenges today and for the future in research and development. While more than 55 % of the whole generated electric energy is used in electrical drives, lighting systems are not negligible and need up to 20 % (according to the Department of Energy in the USA even 22 %) of power going into the grid. This amount can be reduced by more than 25 % by using new lighting technologies like LED or OLED Light sources [1]. Due to European regulations, inefficient incandescent lamps will be banned from the European market by the End of 2016. By now, solid state lighting is already one of the strongest growing application markets in the electronics sector. The Paper discusses the electric parameters and aging effects of OLEDs and new drive concepts for LED/OLED. Further insights of problems arising from large lifetimes (for example: LED 10⁵ hours [3] ) and their demands on driving circuits are discussed.

Keywords

driver circuits; electric drives; energy conservation; lighting; organic light emitting diodes; renewable energy sources; European market; European regulations; LED-OLED; driving circuits; electric energy generation; electrical drives; electronics sector; energy efficiency; lighting systems; renewable energy; research and development; solid state lighting; Capacitors; Light sources; Lighting; Materials; Organic light emitting diodes; Voltage control; LED; OLED; flyback; light; medicine; spectrum;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nagasaki

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2328-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2329-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477351

Filename

6477351