by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 11, 2015 | Drivers Electronics, Features, Indoor Lighting, Industrial & Life Sciences, LEDs & SSL Design, LEDs Applications, Microcontrollers, Networks & Controls, Services & Testing, Smart Lighting IoT, Specialty SSL, SSL Design, Standards, White-Point Tuning
Stan Walerczyk, principal of Lighting Wizards, describes the challenges of implementing human-centric lighting in the US but also sees opportunity to positively impact our wellbeing. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 11, 2015 | Features, LEDs Applications, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, Services & Testing featured, Smart Lighting IoT, Specialty SSL, SSL Design, Standards, Test Equipment, Test Labs, White-Point Tuning
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has published a Technical Memorandum (TM-30-15) defining a new pair of metrics intended to characterize the color rendition of light sources. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jul 20, 2015 | Driver ICs, Drivers Electronics, Features, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, Microcontrollers, Modular Drivers, Networks & Controls, R&D, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) has published a new LED standard that addresses flicker in solid-state ighting – defining safe levels of flicker by percentage relative to the operating frequency of a light source powered by the AC...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 30, 2015 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Features, Indoor Networks & Controls, LED Design & Manufacturing, LED Design & Manufacturing featured, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Manufacturing Equipment, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Retail & Hospitality, White-Point Tuning
Ying Li, Bharath Natarajan, Glenn Horner, Linda Schadler, and Robert Karlicek describe a new nano-zirconia-based LED encapsulation material that promises improved packaged LED efficiency and potentially integrated color conversion. The original version of this article...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 24, 2015 | Features, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards, Test Equipment, Test Labs, White-Point Tuning
Jianzhong Jiao explains the expanded scope of the new LM-80 LED standard with coverage of color along with white LEDs and test methods defined specifically for DC high-voltage, AC, and other variants of the simple discrete LED. The original version of this article can...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 23, 2015 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Drivers Electronics, Entertainment, Features, Indoor Networks & Controls, Interconnect, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Manufacturing Equipment, Materials, Microcontrollers, Networks & Controls, Optics, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Strategies in Light, Street, Substrates & Wafers, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Maury Wright reports on four equally compelling keynote presentations that illuminate the breadth of the Strategies in Light conference, foreshadowing the various directions that SSL industry developments will take. The original version of this article can be found...