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For further improvements to the reliability and the white light quality of phosphor‐converted light‐emitting diodes (LEDs), it is imperative to understand how the compositional, optical, and thermal properties of the materials constituting the color‐conversion elements (CCEs) affect their respective thermal loads. By means of a combined optical and thermal simulation procedure, a comprehensive discussion is given on the underlying coherences of the absorption profile of the blue LED light, the phosphor concentration, the quantum efficiency of the phosphor, and the thermal conductivities of the CCEs. Some general strategies of material composition and design are deduced in order to minimize the thermal load of the CCEs, which is a prerequisite for correlated color temperature maintenance and long‐term material reliability of phosphor‐converted white LEDs.

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In this paper, a wireless interrogable sensor device based on an ultra low-power microcontroller for data collection and a radio frequency identification (RFID) interface for data transmission is presented. Wireless sensor systems utilizing RFID transponders offer a new and exciting means of measurement and identification suitable for many biomedical applications. For the majority of these applications, small, inexpensive radio request sensor systems are desirable. In this paper, an ultra-low-power and low-cost wireless temperature data logger system is presented with its application in observing dental retainer use. For this purpose, the retainer's ambient temperature is measured by an integrated sensor and recorded using a microcontroller which acts like a temperature data logger storing the thermal history of several months. For a self powered wireless data transmission from the sensor to the interrogation unit a RFID transponder, operating in the 13.56 MHz ISM band, is used. The presented sensor system includes hard-and software power saving modes reducing the sensor idle current consumption to 1 A. This allows a battery powered operation of the device for up to two years. For dental and biomedical applications, the device is hermetically sealed using a biocompatible polymeric encapsulation. Results of the first clinical trials observing the patient's dental retainer usage by a set of retainers equipped with the RFID temperature sensor/data logger device are presented. The stored temperature values are analyzed and a clear temperature characteristic indicating the retainer usage was found.Index Terms-Dental sensor, radio frequency identification (RFID), temperature data logger, wireless communication, wireless transponder.