Fourth-generation automotive light sources: LED

Now more and more complex the structure of auto lamps, more and more sophisticated manufacturing process, functions become more perfect. Is the heart of automotive lighting lamps, automotive lamps have experienced the evolution of the main four stages, and the fourth generation of the emergence of LED car light, car lights on the far-reaching changes. First-generation car by the fuel source (candles, kerosene or acetylene) Direct burning LED, it can meet the requirements of early stage lights, but there is a very low luminous efficiency, light, strong or weak, the performance of unstable and complicated to operate, such as obvious shortcomings. Second-generation car is the incandescent light source: Edison invented incandescent lamp in 1879, the United States in 1913 incandescent technology first used in the Cadillac vehicle headlamps, auto lamp revolutionary changes have taken place, from the car into the electrical lighting times. Then, one after another vehicle mirror there, start machines, generators and batteries and other new technologies, began in 1925 entered the car a real era of incandescent automotive lamps. The 20th century appeared Halogen 50s, it quickly became the main vehicle strong light bulbs. Third-generation car is a gas discharge lamp lighting (HID): It has a high luminous efficiency, high brightness and high reliability, etc., will replace incandescent, halogen headlamps become the new light vehicle. Fourth-generation light source is a car LED: LED is a semiconductor PN junction diode, when a forward bias imposed on the PN junction at both ends, so that excitation PN junction system, carrier-state transition from low energy to high-energy state, when high-energy state of instability in

the carrier when returned to low-energy state complex, according to the original energy conservation Rationale, excess photon energy will be released form, it is the principle of LED electroluminescence. It is not through thermal heating and light-emitting object can, by direct conversion of solar energy, emission wavelength depends on the energy carrier that is poor and low-energy high-energy state of the poor state. As the light source inside the vehicle, the use of more and more the case of LED, in particular the use of auxiliary LED lighting inside the lamp, as well as the instrument version of the LED backlight and so on. LED auto lamps before the basic structure of five parts: 1.LED array, 2. Mirror, 3. With light microscopy, 4. Radiator, 5. Drive circuit. The development of automotive LED lamps and LED light source directly associated with the development only if the technological progress LED lighting, LED light sources used in car headlights will be more popular. With the LED will be the next LED to enhance the quality, lower prices, LED light source lighting there will be another outbreak of revolution, of epoch-making significance, it will further affect the changes in automotive lamps.