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LEDs business news: Philips to spin out lighting; Hubbell, Totus, Axis and Pixelligent

Royal Philips has decided to divide its LEDs business into separate companies, making Philips Lighting an independent organization, while Hubbell Lighting and Totus Solutions combine LED lighting and security applications, and the DOE funds Pixelligent OLED research....

New LED architectures and phosphor technologies lower costs and boost quality (MAGAZINE)

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...

Driver circuits deliver diverse features for solid-state lighting applications (MAGAZINE)

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...

DOE publishes 2014 LED and OLED manufacturing roadmap

LED cost is dominated by the packaging steps at the back end of the manufacturing process while the entire OLED process is still expensive and inefficient with both technologies requiring significantly more R&D. The original version of this article can be found...