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 | Mar 5, 2014 | Driver ICs, Indoor Lighting, Industry News, LEDs Applications, Manufacturing Equipment
3M and MSi are extending their retrofit lamp partnership while Epistar and Philips have a new licensing agreement, the FTC has won a court order against Lights of America, and GE Lighting and Krislite have a new partnership. The original version of this article can be...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Feb 18, 2014 | Industry News, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Manufacturing Equipment, OLEDs, R&D, Research & Development, SSL Design
Switzerland based R&D lab will lead collaborative research charged with developing SSL modules that combine the reliability and performance of LEDs with tunable organic elements in planar modules for use in luminaires such as architectural recessed troffers. The...
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...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Feb 11, 2014 | Automotive & Vehicles, Editor’s Picks, Industry News, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, Substrates & Wafers
Osram has expanded its Oslon Black Flat LED line to include colored LEDs designed for auto exterior applications including tail lights, turn indicators, and brake lights, while the company also said that it is first in the industry to move red, orange, and yellow LED...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jan 15, 2014 | Features, Indoor Lighting, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, Manufacturing Equipment, Materials, Outdoor Lighting, R&D, Research & Development, SSL Design
Brad Koerner, director of experience design at Philips Lighting, asks if R&D into sustainable materials and fabrication techniques could lead to radical cost reductions in the LED-based lighting industry. The original version of this article can be found...
