LED Utility Software simplifies and automates the procedure for modeling LEDs. It simulates novel LED structures and all materials involved, utilizing a CAD environment to describe the geometry and material properties. It also uses the FullWAVE simulation tool, which is based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) algorithm.
RSoft Design Group
Ossining, NY
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PRESS RELEASE
RSoft Releases New LED Utility
Developed to simplify and automate the procedure for modeling LEDs.
November 9, 2011, RSoft Design Group, the leader in Photonics Design Automation software, announced the release of its New LED Utility. LEDs are widely used in a wide range of applications and there is increasing demand for optimized structures with higher extraction efficiency and improved color uniformity. An LED designer is given the task of creating more efficient structures, but characterization and fabrication times can delay the process and increase costs. RSoft’s LED Utility can shorten processing time and save development cost by providing accurate computer-based simulation and design optimization.
The LED Utility accurately simulates novel LED structures and all materials involved. It utilizes RSoft’s CAD Environment to describe the geometry and material properties and uses RSoft’s flagship simulation tool FullWAVE. The RSoft CAD Environment interface is a fully parametric, highly flexible user-friendly design environment with 3D editing capabilities to simplify the description of complex LED geometries. The underlying FullWAVE simulation is based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) algorithm. This is a rigorous approach for solving Maxwell’s equations with no inherent approximations, which makes it well suited to accurately model the intricacies of an LED structure.
The complexities of LED optical design arise from various factors including; multiple interfaces with widely differing sizes, the use of novel materials and structures, dispersion, surface roughness, the use of gratings to enhance extraction efficiency, and the incoherent nature of the output light. The LED Utility accounts for all these situations and performs all necessary pre- and post-processing to generate the desired results including extraction ratio and radiation patterns.
Moreover, the LED utility makes full use of FullWAVE’s clustering feature which can distribute the simulation workload over several cores and/or networked computers resulting in faster and larger simulations. The simulations can be performed over a broad parameter space and the design can be optimized through using the LED Utility with RSoft’s multi-variable scanning and optimization tool MOST.
For further information, a demo of the LED Utility, or for events featuring the software, please contact RSoft Design Group at [email protected] or visit our website at www.rsoftdesign.com.
About RSoft Design Group, Inc.
RSoft Design Group is the worldwide leader in photonics design automation software and serves several industries including optical communication, optoelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing. Within optical communications, RSoft is the only company to provide a full range of design, optimization and planning software for the entire component to network-level hierarchy. RSoft also provides design tools for passive and active optoelectronics components and subsystems as well as advanced electromagnetic modeling software for optical metrology and lithography. RSoft Design Group, Inc. is a privately held corporation with offices in the US, Japan and Europe. RSoft Design Group also supports nurmerous distributors worldwide.
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