Everything about Wall-plug efficiency

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Wall-plug efficiencyA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: High‐Power III‐Nitride Deep‐Ultraviolet Light Emitters With Record 21% Wall‐Plug EfficiencyInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Intelligence BulletinThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Room temperature quantum cascade lasers with 27% wall plug efficiencyCited 342 times
5. Go sideways: Photometry (optics)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Radiant fluxA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Room temperature quantum cascade lasers with 27% wall plug efficiency

  Y. Bai, N. Bandyopadhyay, S. Tsao · 2011 · Applied Physics Letters · 342 citations

• 1.6 W high wall plug efficiency, continuous-wave room temperature quantum cascade laser emitting at 4.6μm

  A. Lyakh, C. Pflügl, L. Diehl · 2008 · Applied Physics Letters · 157 citations

• Room temperature continuous wave operation of quantum cascade lasers with 12.5% wall plug efficiency

  Y. Bai, S. Slivken, S. R. Darvish · 2008 · Applied Physics Letters · 139 citations

• Buried heterostructure quantum cascade lasers with high continuous-wave wall plug efficiency

  A. Evans, S. R. Darvish, S. Slivken · 2007 · Applied Physics Letters · 124 citations

• λ~71 μm quantum cascade lasers with 19% wall-plug efficiency at room temperature

  Richard Maulini, Arkadiy Lyakh, Alexei Tsekoun · 2011 · Optics Express · 68 citations

• Terahertz quantum cascade lasers with large wall-plug efficiency

  Miriam S. Vitiello, Gaetano Scamarcio, Vincenzo Spagnolo · 2007 · Applied Physics Letters · 52 citations

• Room temperature quantum cascade lasers with 22% wall plug efficiency in continuous-wave operation

  F. Wang, S. Slivken, D. H. Wu · 2020 · Optics Express · 52 citations

• Prospects for 100% wall-plug efficient III-nitride LEDs

  Leah Y. Kuritzky, Claude Weisbuch, James S. Speck · 2018 · Optics Express · 52 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• High‐Power III‐Nitride Deep‐Ultraviolet Light Emitters With Record 21% Wall‐Plug Efficiency

  Yufan Wei, Zhiwei Gao, Zhengang Liang · 2026 · Advanced Functional Materials · 29 citations

• High-power, high-wall-plug-efficiency quantum cascade lasers with high-brightness in continuous wave operation at 3–300μm

  Manijeh Razeghi, Yanbo Bai, Feihu Wang · 2025 · Light: Science & Applications · 29 citations

• High wall-plug efficiency and narrow linewidth III-V-on-silicon C-band DFB laser diodes

  Javad Rahimi Vaskasi, Nishant Singh, Joris Van Kerrebrouck · 2022 · Optics Express · 28 citations

• Enhanced Wall‐Plug Efficiency over 2.4% and Wavelength Dependence of Electrical Properties at Far UV‐C Light‐Emitting Diodes on Single‐Crystal AlN Substrate

  Hirotsugu Kobayashi, Kosuke Sato, Yusuke Okuaki · 2024 · physica status solidi (RRL) – Rapid Research Letters · 27 citations

• Optimizing Al Composition in Barriers for InGaN Amber Micro-LEDs With High Wall-Plug Efficiency

  Yimeng Sang, Zhe Zhuang, Kun Xing · 2024 · IEEE Electron Device Letters · 22 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Intelligence BulletinUnited States. War Department. Military Intelligence Service · 1942
• Communications, Signal Processing, and SystemsQilian Liang · 2012
• The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
• 📕The home lighting effects bibleLucy Martin · 2010
• Inspection And Preventive Maintenance Services For Water Supply Systems At Fixed InstallationsUnited States War Department · 1945
• Information computing and applicationsChina) ICICA (Conference) (3rd 2012 Chengde · 2012
• Waldara AnswersWilliam Swygard · 1975

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