by Commercial LED Lighting | Jul 22, 2016 | Backlighting Signs & Displays, Business and Industry, Controls and Power, Drivers Electronics, Features, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, LED, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Sources, Modular light engines, Networks & Controls, OLEDs, Outdoor Lighting, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, SSL Design, White-Point Tuning
Networks and smart lighting remained in the spotlight at LightFair 2016, but Maury Wright reports that lighting designers and specifiers may still care more about the quality of LED-based products than value-added, lighting-centric features. The original version of...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 20, 2016 | Industry News, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Engines, Materials, OLEDs, Optics, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, SSL Design
The latest US Department of Energy funding for SSL research and development totals $10.5 million and recipients range from university programs to LED-industry stalwarts including Cree, Lumileds, and GE. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 15, 2016 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Industry News, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, Manufacturing Equipment, R&D, SSL Design
Although Nichia is an LED manufacturer, the company has targeted lighting manufacturer Feit, major US retailer Lowes, and distributors in legal actions seeking damages based on SSL products sold with integrated LEDs that infringe a long-standing patent. The original...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 6, 2016 | Industry News, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, OLEDs, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality
The US Department of Energy has charted an SSL technology course intended to deliver in excess of 200 lm/W at the luminaire or lighting-system level by 2025. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | May 2, 2016 | Industry News, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Manufacturing Equipment, Packaged LEDS, Substrates & Wafers
General-illumination lighting products will emerge in the coming months that utilize Samsung chip-scale-package (CSP) LEDs while the company is now supplying LEDs for smartphone camera-flash applications based on silicon-substrate technology. The original version of...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 28, 2016 | Features, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Sources, Packaged LEDS, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
An ANSI-accredited standards group within NEMA is publishing a standard describing the parameters and characterizations required on LED datasheets, reports Jianzhong Jiao, and the result will allow developers to more easily contrast and compare LEDs from multiple...
