by Commercial LED Lighting | Jan 24, 2017 | Industry News, LEDs & SSL Design, Manufacturing Equipment, Manufacturing Services & Testing, OLEDs, Packaged LEDS, Research & Development, Standards, Substrates & Wafers
The US Department of Energy has again awarded SSL-industry grants to small businesses focused on improving performance or streamlining manufacturing in the LED and OLED sectors. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Nov 3, 2016 | Automotive & Vehicles, Industry News, LEDs & SSL Design, OLEDs, Specialty SSL
More niche business for organic light emitting diodes, following Osram’s similar announcement with BMW. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Oct 31, 2016 | Architectural Lighting, Indoor Lighting, Industry News, LEDs & SSL Design, Manufacturing Services & Testing, OLEDs, Standards, Test Labs
OLED panels produce soft diffuse light with essentially a Lambertian distribution that is inherently pleasing, but efficacy remains a challenge and elevated ambient temperature can drastically reduce lifetime. The original version of this article can be found...
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 | Jul 13, 2016 | Indoor Lighting, Industry News, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, OLEDs, Research & Development, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards, Test Equipment, Test Labs
OLED lighting still holds potential, according to a US Department of Energy report on available products and promised improvements, while a Snapshot Caliper report on LED downlights reports lower levels of performance improvement relative to other SSL luminaire types....
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...