WO2003019680A1 - Photonically engineered incandescent emitter - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to incandescent lamps, and more particularly to incandescent lamps made from photonically engineered thermal emitters.
- Incandescent lamps offer very high quality lighting, are inexpensive, and are the most popular lighting technology for residential use. They are also, unfortunately, the least efficient (energy to useful light) lighting technology used commercially today.
- An excellent overview of incandescent lamp technology is given in Bergman et al., Filament Lamps, GE Research and Development Center, Report 98CRD027, Feb. 1998.
- Luminous efficacy is frequently defined as the luminous flux divided by the total radiant power in units of lumens/Watt.
- the luminous flux has units of lumens, and is the radiant flux weighted by the human eye response.
- a better description for the efficiency of a lamp is to divide the luminous flux by the total input power to the lighting source, so that the electrical performance can be factored into the comparison of lighting technologies.
- This disclosure will use the latter definition for luminous efficacy, since some lighting approaches have inherently less efficiency in converting input electrical power into radiant power.
- the luminous efficacy of a 60W incandescent lamp using a tungsten filament is only about 15 lumens/Watt.
- the luminous efficacy of the incandescent lamp is low because much of the light (around 90%) is emitted by the tungsten filament in the non-visible infrared (wavelengths longer than 760 nm) portion of the spectrum.
- Fluorescent lamps are much more efficient than incandescent lamps, and have luminous efficacies between 75 and 100 lumens/Watt.
- the theoretical maximum luminous efficacy for high-quality white lighting using a broad spectral source is around 200 lumens/Watt.
- An incandescent lamp works by heating up a tungsten filament to a sufficiently high temperature (typically around 2800°K) that it radiates in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 380 to 760 nm).
- a sufficiently high temperature typically around 2800°K
- Such high-temperature bodies are commonly referred to as “emitters” or “radiators”.
- the radiation from a high-temperature emitter is described by the theory of blackbodies.
- An ideal blackbody emits the theoretically maximum radiation. Real emitters do not radiate as well as an ideal blackbody.
- the emissivity is the ratio of the radiation from a real emitter to the radiation of an ideal blackbody, and is unitless with a value between 0 and 1.
- the luminous efficacy of the incandescent lamp can be improved by modifying the emissivity of the emitter.
- the optimum emitter for lighting purposes would have an emissivity of unity in the visible portion of the spectrum and an emissivity of zero in the non-visible portions of the spectrum. Such an emitter would emit all the light in the useful visible portion of the spectrum and no light in the non-useful non-visible portion of the spectrum.
- a 2800°K emitter with such an optimized selective emission would have a luminous efficacy approaching 200 lumens/Watt, or over 10X improvement compared to current incandescent lamps and 2X improvement compared to current fluorescent lamps.
- the present invention provides a photonically engineered incandescent emitter, comprising a photonic crystal having a characteristic lattice constant and comprising an emitter material having a first dielectric constant and at least one other lattice material having at least one other dielectric constant and wherein the characteristic lattice constant, the emitter material, and the at least one other lattice material are chosen so as to create a photonic bandgap that suppresses or modifies thermal emission above a desired cutoff wavelength.
- the emitter material can comprise a refractory non-metal or a refractory metal, such as tungsten.
- the photonically engineered incandescent emitter can thereby be tailored to selectively emit thermal radiation in the visible and near-infrared portions of the spectrum, enabling a more efficient incandescent lamp.
- the present invention further provides a method for fabricating the photonically engineered structure, suitable for the incandescent emitter, comprising forming a lattice structure mold of a sacrificial material on a substrate; depositing a structural material into the lattice structure mold; and removing the sacrificial material from the lattice structure mold.
- Silicon integrated circuit technology is particularly well suited to forming the lattice structure mold to enable the formation of photonic crystals of refractory materials with lattice constants on the order of the wavelength of visible light.
- Figure 1 shows the estimated luminous efficacy of an optimized incandescent source where the emissivity is unity above and zero below a cutoff wavelength.
- Figure 2 shows a schematic illustration of a three-dimensional (3D) "Lincoln-Log” type photonic crystal structure.
- Figure 3 illustrates a fabrication sequence for a four-layer Lincoln-Log type tungsten photonic crystal.
- Figure 4 shows a cross-sectional scanning electron micrograph of a four- layer tungsten photonic crystal built on a (001 ) oriented silicon substrate.
- Fig. 4a shows the tungsten photonic crystal prior to removal of a silica sacrificial mold.
- Fig. 4b shows the tungsten photonic crystal after removal of the silica sacrificial mold.
- the one-dimensional tungsten rod used to form the crystal has a rod width of 1.2 ⁇ m and the rod-to-rod spacing of 4.2 ⁇ m.
- Figure 5 shows the measured reflectance and transmittance spectra for the light propagating along the ⁇ 001 > axis of the four-layer tungsten photonic crystal.
- Figure 6 shows the tilt-angle reflectance spectra from the four-layer tungsten photonic crystal.
- Figure 8 shows the spectral emissivity of the four-layer tungsten photonic crystal having a lattice constant of 4.2 ⁇ m.
- the present invention comprises a photonically engineered incandescent emitter that is more efficient than conventional incandescent lamps and a method for making the same.
- the more efficient incandescent emitter of the present invention is enabled by improving the emission selectivity of a high-temperature emitter using photonically engineered structures.
- Photonically engineered structures consist of materials with a periodic variation on the order of the wavelength of light. The periodic variation changes the allowed optical modes in the medium, leading to many varied and useful properties. Some photonic structures completely eliminate optical modes in all directions for a specific band of wavelengths. These structures are said to exhibit a three-dimensional (3D) photonic bandgap.
- FIG. 1 shows the luminous efficacy for an optimized incandescent source having an emissivity of unity above and zero below a cutoff wavelength. The luminous efficacy is maximized by moving the cutoff wavelength as close as possible to the long-wavelength edge of visible light (i.e., 760 nm).
- Luminous efficacies approach 200 lumens/Watt with such an optimized emitter.
- the photonic bandgap of the photonic crystal must be closer to the long-wavelength edge of visible light than was obtained with the silicon photonic crystal of Lin et al.
- the photonic crystal can have smaller dimensions and use materials that have greater dielectric contrast and can tolerate high temperatures (e.g., 2800°K).
- the most common material used for incandescent lamp filaments are tungsten-based materials.
- tungsten also offers the advantage of a large refractive index when used in a photonic crystal.
- a large difference in the refractive index enhances the effect of the periodic variation of the refractive index on the optical modes in the photonic crystal, thereby producing a photonic crystal with a large photonic bandgap wherein the emissivity is reduced.
- the present invention discloses a 2D or 3D photonic crystal that selectively emits at visible and near-infrared wavelengths.
- Various types of photonic crystal structures that exhibit a 2D or 3D photonic bandgap known to those in the art are suitable for the present invention.
- Some examples of photonic crystal structures and the fabrication thereof are disclosed in U.S. Patent Application 09/296,702 to Fleming and Lin, which is incorporated herein by reference.
- a common type of photonic crystal exhibiting a 3D photonic bandgap that will be used as an illustrative example in the present disclosure is the Lincoln-Log type of photonic crystal structure 200 shown schematically in Figure 2.
- the 3D Lincoln-Log type structure comprises alternating layers 210, each layer 210 further comprising an evenly spaced row of parallel "logs" or rods 220 of material with a first dielectric constant. The spaces between the rods 220 are filled by a material 230 having a second dielectric constant. For simplicity as well as for high dielectric contrast, material 230 is often air.
- the one-dimensional rods 220 have a stacking sequence that repeats itself every four layers with a repeat distance of c.
- Photonic crystal structures exhibiting 2D or 3D photonic bandgaps suitable for the present invention can be fabricated by various methods known to those skilled in the art.
- the vertical topology of the 3D photonic crystal structure can be built by repetitive deposition and etching of multiple dielectric films in a layer-by- layer method.
- One layer-by-layer method for fabricating the photonic crystal is to build up the structure directly with the structural material, as was done for the silicon photonic crystal of Lin et al., described above.
- the fabrication process can comprise forming a lattice structure mold for the structural material in a sacrificial material, selective deposition of the structural material into the lattice structure mold, and finally removing the sacrificial material from the backfilled mold to leave a photonic crystal of the structural material.
- the latter method may have advantages for structural materials that can otherwise build up large residual stresses during a direct layer-by-layer fabrication process.
- This fabrication process can be used to form photonic crystals of a wide variety of structural materials that can be deposited by a conformal process, including metals, metal alloys, and semiconductors.
- tungsten photonic crystal suitable for the incandescent emitter of the present invention.
- Photonic crystals of other refractory metals and non-metals, such as tungsten alloys, silicon carbide, carbon, and titania are also suitable for the photonically engineered incandescent emitter of present invention.
- the lattice structure mold can be formed by sequential deposition of a cavity-forming structural material, such as polysilicon, in alternating patterned layers of a sacrificial mold material, such as silica (SiO 2 ).
- a cavity-forming structural material such as polysilicon
- a sacrificial mold material such as silica (SiO 2 ).
- the basic layer-by-layer polysilicon in silica fabrication sequence is described by Lin et al. in Nature 394, 251 (1998) and in the copending U.S. Patent Application 09/296,702 to Fleming and Lin.
- the layer-by-layer fabrication method disclosed by Fleming and Lin enables layered material composition with precise thickness, planarity, and alignment control.
- the thickness of silica layer 310 is greater than the desired thickness of the first structured layer 340 of the photonic lattice, whose thickness is typically in the range 0.02-10 ⁇ m, depending on the cutoff wavelength of interest.
- the thickness of the structured layer 340 can be 1.6 ⁇ m
- the initial thickness of silica layer 310 can be approximately 2.0 ⁇ m.
- Fig. 3b shows the first silica layer 310 patterned to form a plurality of evenly spaced and parallel spacer bars 311 with approximately rectangular cross-section.
- Such patterning can be accomplished using a photolithographic etch mask (not shown) over silica layer 310 with a plurality of openings in the etch mask at the locations where the material in layer 310 between the spacer bars 311 is to be removed.
- An anisotropic etching process can then be used (e.g., reactive ion etching directed normal to the surface), resulting in bars 311 having approximately rectangular cross-section.
- the etching step is preferably performed to etch completely down through layer 310 to the substrate 300.
- the etch mask can then be stripped, resulting in the structure of Fig. 3b.
- the pitch between adjacent spacer bars 311 can be 4.2 ⁇ m and the width of the spacer bars can be 3.0 ⁇ m.
- polysilicon 320 can be deposited by chemical vapor deposition to fill in the regions between the silica spacer bars 311. Again, the polysilicon thickness can be greater than the desired final thickness of the first structured layer 340. Depositing the polysilicon 320 generally leads to a complex and non- planar surface 321. Such a rough and uneven surface could result in a poor quality photonic crystal, due to scattering and uncontrolled reflections at the growth surface. Therefore, chemical-mechanical-polishing (CMP) of the growth surface is performed to planarize the growth surface prior to deposition of subsequent structural layers.
- CMP chemical-mechanical-polishing
- a first structured layer 340 comprising a planar pattern of silica spacer bars 311 and polysilicon rods 341 is thereby produced.
- the polysilicon rods 341 are elongate, roughly rectangular in cross section, and can be 1.2 ⁇ m wide and 1.6 ⁇ m thick.
- multiple structured layers 340 can be grown on top of the substrate 300 to form the desired photonic lattice structure 350 with polysilicon.
- the orientation of the polysilicon rods 341 is rotated 90° between each structured layer 340, and between every other layer the rods 341 are shifted relative to each other by half of the pitch d.
- the structure 350 thereby has a face-centered-tetragonal lattice symmetry.
- the polysilicon rods 341 can then be removed to form the lattice structure mold 360.
- the polysilicon rods 341 can be removed using a 6M, 85°C KOH etch, which has a selectivity of -100:1 (Si to SiO 2 ).
- Over-etch during the KOH process which is desirable to ensure the removal of all the polysilicon 341 , can result in the formation of a "V" structure 361 on the bottom of the layer 340 contacting the silicon substrate 300. This is due to etching of the underlying silicon substrate 300 and is dependent on the substrate crystallographic orientation.
- the KOH etch effectively stops when the etch-front encounters the slow etching (111) planes of the silicon substrate 300, thereby forming the "V" groove 361.
- the lattice structure mold 360 can be backfilled with a structural material.
- a variety of deposition processes such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD), electroplating, or infiltration with spin-on glasses or nanoparticles, can be used for the backfilling of the mold 360, so long as the sacrificial material (e.g., silica) can later be selectively removed from the backfilled structural material.
- CVD chemical vapor deposition
- sacrificial material e.g., silica
- Ill-V compound semiconductors, ll-VI materials, single and mixed oxides, nitrides, oxynitrides, metals, and metal alloys can be deposited by CVD.
- a precursor conducting coating can be applied to the lattice structure mold 360 and a wide variety of metals can be electroplated from a solution to backfill the mold 360.
- Typical electroplated metals include copper, nickel, gold, iron, silver, cobalt, and chromium.
- the lattice structure mold 360 can be backfilled with tungsten via CVD to form tungsten rods 370 embedded in the silica mold material 311.
- a precursor 50 nm thick TiN adhesion layer (not shown) can be deposited on the mold 360 by reactive ion sputtering, since the blanket CVD tungsten film does not adhere to silicon dioxide.
- Tungsten can be deposited at high pressure (e.g., 90 Torr) from WF 6 and H 2 .
- the chemical vapor deposition of tungsten results in films of very high purity.
- the tungsten film can have a resistivity of 10 ⁇ Ohm-cm.
- Backfilling of the mold 360 with CVD tungsten 370 can result is a rough and uneven tungsten growth surface 371 on the top surface of the mold 360.
- the top surface of the backfilled mold 360 can planarized by CMP to remove the excess tungsten.
- a scanning electron micrograph of a tungsten-backfilled, planarized mold 360 is shown in Fig. 4a.
- a keyhole 382 can be formed in the center of the more deeply embedded lines of the tungsten rods 370, since the step coverage of the CVD tungsten deposition process is not 100%.
- the film thickness is far greater than the skin depth of tungsten for electromagnetic radiation in the visible and infrared.
- the silica spacer bars 311 can be removed from the tungsten-backfilled and planarized lattice structure mold 360 by selective etching with a 1:1 HF-based solution.
- the result is a 3D tungsten photonic crystal 380 comprising stacked tungsten rods 370 on the silicon substrate 300.
- Fig. 4b shows a scanning electron micrograph of the four-layer tungsten photonic crystal 380 comprising the stacked tungsten rods 370 on the silicon substrate 300.
- the tungsten photonic crystal 380 has a stacking sequence that repeats itself every four layers, and has a face-center-tetragonal lattice symmetry.
- the tungsten rod 370 width is 1.2 ⁇ m
- rod-to-rod spacing is 4.2 ⁇ m
- the filling fraction of the high index tungsten is 28%.
- the tungsten photonic crystal 380 retains sufficient structural integrity to be handled readily.
- This fabrication process can be extended to create almost any interconnected photonic crystal having selective emissivity at visible or infrared wavelengths.
- current state-of-the-art silicon integrated circuit processing tools are capable of shrinking the minimum feature sizes to those required for structures that have photonic bandgaps in the near infrared and have selective emissivity in the visible. See, e.g., "International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors," 1999 Edition [retrieved on 2001-08-09]. Retrieved from the lnternet: ⁇ URL: http://public.itrs.net/files/1999_SIA_Roadmap/Home.htm>.
- the optical properties of the 3D tungsten photonic crystal 380 fabricated according to the above process were characterized using a Fourier-transform infrared measurement system for wavelengths ranging from 1.5 to 25 ⁇ m.
- Figure 5 shows the absolute reflectance spectrum 510 and transmittance spectrum 520 of a four-layer tungsten photonic crystal 380.
- the dashed line 530 shows the transmittance of a 6000A uniform tungsten film for reference. Light propagates along the ⁇ 001> direction of the tungsten photonic crystal 380 and is unpolarized.
- the reflectance 510 exhibits oscillations at ⁇ 5.5 ⁇ m, raises sharply at ⁇ 6 ⁇ m (the band edge) and finally reaches a high reflectance of 90% for ⁇ > 8 ⁇ m.
- the transmittance 520 shows distinct peaks at ⁇ 5.5 ⁇ m, decreases sharply at ⁇ 6 ⁇ m (the band edge) and then vanishes to below 1% for ⁇ > 8 ⁇ m.
- the simultaneous high R and low T at wavelengths greater than 8 ⁇ m indicates the existence of a photonic band gap in the tungsten photonic crystal.
- the multiple oscillations at ⁇ 5.5 ⁇ m are attributed to photonic density-of-states oscillations in the photonic allowed band.
- tilt-angle reflection spectra were taken to determine the angular dependence of the photonic band gap.
- the tungsten photonic crystal 380 was mounted on a rotational stage and the rotational angles spanned from light incident angles from 0° to 60°, measured from the surface normal (i.e., the ⁇ 001> direction).
- the crystal orientation is tilted from the ⁇ 001> to ⁇ 110> axes.
- the light incident angle is therefore systematically tilted away from G-X' toward G-L of the first Brillouin zone.
- Four tilt-angle spectra are shown in Fig. 6, for light incident angles of 10, 30, 40, and 50°, respectively.
- Both the oscillating features at ⁇ ⁇ 6 ⁇ m and the high reflectance at longer wavelength remain for all light incident angles. Therefore, a large complete 3D photonic band gap exists, from ⁇ ⁇ 8 ⁇ m to ⁇ > 20 ⁇ m, for the tungsten photonic crystal 380.
- the dashed line is a reference spectrum for a uniform 6000A tungsten film.
- the theoretical transmission spectra were calculated according to the method of Sigalas et al. in Phys. Rev. B52, 11744 (1995).
- FIG. 8 shows the spectral emissivity of the tungsten photonic crystal 380.
- the crystal 380 has a photonic bandgap (region with nearly zero emissivity) over a large range in the far infrared (8 ⁇ m ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ 25 ⁇ m) portion of the spectrum.
- the very large photonic bandgap and large reduction in emissivity in the far infrared is due to the use of metal for the photonic crystal.
- the photonic band gap completely frustrates infrared thermal emission and selectively forces the radiation into near-infrared and visible emission.
- the lattice constant and refractory material of the photonic crystal can be determined by the fabrication process. Therefore, the emission band can be tailored to be in the visible when the photonic crystal is heated up to an elevated temperature of >1500°C, giving rise to a highly efficient incandescent lamp.
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