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White LED Spice Model

Here's a white LED Spice model that I created by fitting to data points of a real device. Unfortunately I've misplaced which actual device number it was :-(

****************************************************************** **** My White LED **** .SUBCKT MyWhiteLED A K D_D1 N_1 0 D1N4148 F_F1 N_3 K VF_F1 1 VF_F1 N_2 N_1 0V E_E1 N_2 0 N_3 K 0.228 R_R1 A N_3 5 .ENDS MyWhiteLED ******************************************************************

Schematic and PSpice simulation results at...

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If you have data points for other LED's... measure VF at many currents (*)... PULSED to avoid heating, send the data to me and I'll make a model for them.

(*) Measure VF at IF = 0.1mA 0.2mA 0.5mA 1mA 2mA 5mA 10mA 20mA 50mA ...Jim Thompson

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I found my old HP-41C curve fit program card. Then I found my old HP-41C.

The model I get from your curve is:

.MODEL MyWhiteLED D

  • IS = 4.4249E-9
  • N = 8.3923
  • RS = 7.7980

No subcircuits required.

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That N looks frightening.

Jon

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Jon Kirwan

Yes, but it seems to work for the white LED (probably a blue LED) curve. I haven't gotten into the physics of the problem, but the emmission coefficient (N) seems to track the band gap of the junction involved. So this isn't as bizarre as it appears.

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Here's a white LED Spice model that I created by fitting to data points of a real device:

****************************************************************** **** My White LED **** .SUBCKT MyWhiteLED A K D_D1 N_1 0 D1N4148 F_F1 N_3 K VF_F1 1 VF_F1 N_2 N_1 0V E_E1 N_2 0 N_3 K 0.228 R_R1 A N_3 5 .ENDS MyWhiteLED ******************************************************************

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to see simulation versus data points. ...Jim Thompson

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I'm not sure if that will work over temperature.

It would be interesting if someone could take data at several different temperatures. It'll be tricky, you have to be quick or self-heating will screw up the result. Maybe with a plotting curve tracer? ...Jim Thompson

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BTW: "your curve"? Whose curve? You clip too much, Paul. ...Jim Thompson

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That's a good point. N is often used as a 'fudge factor' for Vt, so for wild values of N (greater than 2.0 or less than 1.0) it would be reasonable to expect that nVt may vary with temp (or other conditions) in some different manner than kT/q.

Where I've seen weird values of N pop up, SPICE started to fall apart for anything other then approximate values. It was time to toss the standard model and go with something cooked up by the physicists.

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Paul Hovnanian P.E.

Sorry. I took your spice model from your post, ran it for 70 current points and poked every tenth one into my program. I didn't have the table function values (the PDF you posted in a.b.s.e which I assume were your original measured data points). By the way, there appears to be an outlying data point in your graph.

So I was actually curve fitting to your curve fit.

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