Dear Colleagues,

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are widely used in many application fields, such as general lighting, electronic displays, traffic lights, communications and detection, etc. During the past several decades, the luminous efficiency of the LEDs significantly improved with the advances in the design and manufacturing technologies of functional structures, for instance optical structures, material structures and electronic structures. In this Special Issue, we welcome contributions that focus on the structure design and synthesis of LEDs. The articles for consideration may contain theoretical and experimental studies on functional structure design or manufacturing including, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Lighting design, including general high-quality lighting, healthy lighting, high-power lighting and laser lighting, etc.;
• Display design, including RGB LED components, mini LED displays, Micro LED displays, local dimming and holographic displays, etc.;
• Lens design: including the simulation and manufacturing of freeform surface lenses, lens systems, compound lenses, Fresnel lenses, collimating lenses and microlens arrays, etc.;
• Design and simulation methods, including finite difference time domain (FDTD), ray tracing (RT), finite element method (FEM), boundary element method (BEM), and method of moments (MoM), etc.;
• Metamaterials or metastructures, including metasurfaces or micro/nano structures with novel functions;
• Fluorescent conversion components: phosphor in glass (PIG), phosphor in silicone (PIS), phosphor in ceramic (PIC) and YAG crystals, etc.;
• Flexible electronics and wearable electronic devices designs, simulations and manufacturing;
• Visible light communication, including low-junction-capacity light sources, antennae, signal modulation and demodulation, and visible light locations;
• Thermal management of LED systems, including diversified cooling methods, temperature control methods, high-thermal conductive material, high-efficient heat transfer method, etc.

Dr. Xinrui Ding
Guest Editor

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• light-emitting diode
• optical structure
• lighting
• laser
• display
• light conversion
• thermal management
• metamaterial
• metastructure