by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 22, 2014 | Design Automation, Features, Interconnect, LED Design & Manufacturing, Manufacturing Equipment, Materials, Optics, SSL Design, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Nat Cannon details common causes of LED failure in solid-state lighting systems, and offers guidance on avoiding the potential pitfalls and delivering reliable products. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 22, 2014 | Agriculture & Aquaculture, Automotive & Vehicles, Backlight, Signs, & Displays, Drivers Electronics, Entertainment, Features, Indoor Networks & Controls, Industrial & Life Sciences, Interconnect, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Materials, Networks & Controls, Optics, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Standards, Substrates & Wafers, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Quality of light was the predominant theme at Strategies in Light, reports Maury Wright, but the 2014 conference reflected a maturation of LED technology with speakers addressing a broad scope of topics, including new ways to approach the lighting market and...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Mar 11, 2014 | Backlighting Signs & Displays, Features, LEDs Applications, Manufacturing Equipment, Outdoor Lighting, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Thermal
Djordje Zivanovic and Richard Ozaki describe a thermal-design methodology that enabled the development of a new self-cleaning heat sink for an outdoor LED luminaire using simulation tools. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Mar 11, 2014 | Agriculture & Aquaculture, Backlighting Signs & Displays, Features, Indoor Lighting, Industrial & Life Sciences, LEDs Applications, Manufacturing Equipment, OLEDs, Optics, Outdoor Lighting, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, Substrates & Wafers
The year 2013 witnessed an expansion of LED usage in UV curing applications with higher-power emitters enabling faster cure times across a variety of life science and industrial applications, writes Bill Cortelyou, and component lifetimes have increased as well. The...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Feb 13, 2014 | Features, LED Design & Manufacturing, Materials, Substrates & Wafers
Over the last decade, progress in light-emitting diode performance has been nothing less than phenomenal. LEDs today are performing at 50% wall plug efficiency, meaning that 50% of the applied power is emitted as light. The original version of this article can be...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Feb 13, 2014 | Backlighting Signs & Displays, Features, LEDs Applications, Outdoor Lighting, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, White-Point Tuning
LEDs are proving their benefits in most outdoor area lighting applications, but the point sources integrated in solid-state lighting fixtures are an especially good match for tunnel applications. Dale Kane explores specific challenges posed by tunnels and how to...
