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Title: Prediction of L70 Life and Assessment of Color Shift for Solid-State Lighting Using Kalman Filter and Extended Kalman Filter-Based Models

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability

Solid-state lighting (SSL) luminaires containing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have the potential of seeing excessive temperatures when being transported across country or being stored in nonclimate controlled warehouses. They are also being used in outdoor applications in desert environments that see little or no humidity but will experience extremely high temperatures during the day. This makes it important to increase our understanding of what effects high temperature exposure for a prolonged period of time will have on the usability and survivability of these devices. Traditional light sources “burn out” at the end of life. For an incandescent bulb, the lamp life is defined by B50 life. However, the LEDs have no filament to “burn“. The LEDs continually degrade, and the light output decreases eventually below useful levels causing failure. Currently, the TM-21 test standard is used to predict the L70 life of LEDs from LM-80 test data. Several failure mechanisms may be active in a LED at a single time, causing lumen depreciation. The underlying TM-21 model may not capture the failure physics in presence of multiple failure mechanisms. The correlation of lumen maintenance with underlying physics of degradation at system level is needed. In this paper, Kalman filter (KF) and extended Kalman Filters (EKF) have been used to develop a 70% Lumen Maintenance Life Prediction Model for LEDs used in SSL luminaires. Ten-thousand-hour LM-80 test data for various LEDs are used for model development. System state at each future time has been computed based on the state space at preceding time step, system dynamics matrix, control vector, control matrix, measurement matrix, measured vector, process noise, and measurement noise. The future state of the lumen depreciation are estimated based on a second-order Kalman Filter model and a Bayesian Framework. The measured state variable are related to the underlying damage using physics-b- sed models. Life prediction of L70 life for the LEDs used in SSL luminaires from KF- and EKF-based models are also compared with the TM-21 model predictions and experimental data.

Research Organization:
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
DOE Contract Number:
EE0005124
OSTI ID:
1212880
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, Vol. 15, Issue 1; ISSN 1530-4388
Publisher:
IEEE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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