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LEDs IN DEVELOPING WORLD

GINTAUTAS TAMULAITIS

Semiconductor Physics Department and Institute of Applied Physics, Vilnius University, Universiteto 3, Vilnius, Lithuania

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Every fifth inhabitant of our planet has no access to electric lighting. Most of them are poor people living in remote areas of developing countries. Recent progress in solid-state lighting technologies offers good opportunities to develop, commercialize and introduce off-grid lighting systems based on application of white light emitting diodes (WLEDs) in combination with photovoltaic solar panels, wind generators or tiny hydro power plants. Though strongly dependent on the mainstream progress in implementation of LEDs for general lighting, application of this technology in developing world has specific challengers, difficulties and even advantages. Lighting technology the developing world is up to leapfrog from splinters and kerosene wick lamps directly to LED lamps leaving incandescent and fluorescence lamps behind. Achievements and problems, history and future of implementation of solid-state lighting in remote villages of developing counties are discussed in this chapter.

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