by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 4, 2014 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Automotive & Vehicles, Backlighting Signs & Displays, Features, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Sources, Manufacturing Equipment, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Retail & Hospitality, Substrates & Wafers, Thermal
Flip-chip LED architecture promises to pervade the packaged component space, and Julian Carey explains how the sapphire-up design can combine with new phosphor technologies to increase light quality and lower costs. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 4, 2014 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Automotive & Vehicles, Color Tuning, Driver ICs, Drivers Electronics, Features, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, Interconnect, Manufacturing Equipment, Microcontrollers, Modular light engines, Networks & Controls, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Arguably the driver circuit is as important as the LEDs in terms of how well a solid-state lighting (SSL) system performs. Our collection here shows the diversity of the available ICs, even including a couple of AC-LED driver ICs along with the more traditional...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 4, 2014 | Drivers Electronics, Features, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Networks & Controls, Outdoor Lighting, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards, Thermal
Ella Shum and Manami Konishi report on plans for the October Yokohama conference that will focus on the SSL industry looking beyond lumens per watt as LED technology matures. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 4, 2014 | Automotive & Vehicles, Features, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Engines, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, Services & Testing, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Standards, White-Point Tuning
Jianzhong Jiao summarizes the broad landscape of standards for LED lighting specific to automotive applications, which includes unique characteristics in terms of lumen maintenance, reliability, lifetime, and color spectrum. The original version of this article can be...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jul 22, 2014 | Drivers Electronics, Features, Indoor Networks & Controls, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Networks & Controls, Research & Development, Services & Testing, SSL Design
The convergence of smart building and connected lighting technologies will bring developers, designers, and customers together to achieve a brighter future, says Jes Munk Hansen, president and CEO, Osram Sylvania. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jul 22, 2014 | Automotive & Vehicles, Features, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Sources, Manufacturing Equipment, Packaged LEDS, Substrates & Wafers
Donggeun Ko, Jacob Yoon, and Jangho Seo describe how patterned wafers can help increase LED light extraction by reducing defect density and total internal reflection losses. The original version of this article can be found...