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 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Automotive & Vehicles, Features, LEDs Sources, Manufacturing Equipment, Packaged LEDS, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Substrates & Wafers, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
The LED component cost is only one facet of the design and production cost for solid-state lighting (SSL) systems. Other factors that impact the overall cost, performance, and lifetime of general lighting products include the suitability of components for the intended...
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...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Dec 17, 2013 | Indoor Lighting, Manufacturing Equipment, Packaged LEDS, Retail & Hospitality, Substrates & Wafers, White-Point Tuning
While SSL experts regularly project the demise of the lightbulb form, the popularity of stories focused on LED-based lamps with our readers make it clear that today it remains a very hot topic, outpacing even packaged LED stories. The original version of this article...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Dec 17, 2013 | Backlighting Signs & Displays, Color Tuning, Facade & Entertainment, Manufacturing Equipment, Materials, OLEDs, Retail & Hospitality, Substrates & Wafers
Ken Marrin reports that quantum dots are poised to unleash high-color-gamut performance in LCDs, especially in TV applications, as materials manufacturers work through reliability, cost, and lifetime issues. The original version of this article can be found...
