Review of Recent HV-LED Technology

LEDs for lighting application are becoming widely adopted due to economic, energy and environmental reasons. LEDs are conventionally powerd by low-voltage DC sources. More and more recent research works have been focusing on an integrated LED chip directly driven by high-voltage DC power supply (HV-LED). The chip structure, the key manufacturing processes and its driving technologies are discussed respectively in this paper, which indicates the advantages of HV-LED including higher luminous efficiency, lower cost and enhanced reliability, and base on this, a HV-LED flip chip is proposed.