by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 5, 2014 | Agriculture & Aquaculture, Color Tuning, Facade & Entertainment, Features, Industrial & Life Sciences, Interconnect, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Engines, Materials, Optics, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
The energy-efficient, narrow-band emission of LED sources makes the lighting technology valuable in life science applications. Ken Marrin examines how solid-state lighting is being deployed in poultry-rearing applications to both reduce electrical expenses and boost...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 5, 2014 | Accent fixtures, Area and Security, Awards and Events, Business and Industry, Ceiling troffers, Commercial and office, Controls and Power, Downlights, Drivers Electronics, Features, High-bay, High-mast, Hospitality, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, Industrial, Industry News, Interconnect, Landscape, LED, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Sources, Lighting Projects, Linear lighting, Manufacturing Equipment, Materials, Modular light engines, Networks, Networks & Controls, OLEDs, Optics, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, Parking, Planar lighting, R&D, Residential, Retail & Hospitality, Retail and museum, Retrofit lamps, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Street, Substrates & Wafers, Thermal, Track lighting, Tunable lighting, Utility and municipal, White-Point Tuning
The massive Light+Building fair revealed a seemingly unlimited variation in lighting product designs, but Maury Wright reports that the common themes that ran through the exhibits centered on efficient SSL sources, more innovative lighting including tunable features,...
by Commercial LED Lighting | May 20, 2014 | Automotive & Vehicles, Industrial & Life Sciences, Industry News, Interconnect, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Engines, Materials, Networks & Controls, OLEDs, Optics, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Research & Development, SSL Design, Thermal
The US Department of Energy has made four new funding awards within the Small Business Innovation Research for SSL-centric research, while the agency also updated the Multi-Year Program Plan, and issued a fact sheet on LED lighting and health. The original version of...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 22, 2014 | Design Automation, Features, Interconnect, LED Design & Manufacturing, Manufacturing Equipment, Materials, Optics, SSL Design, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Nat Cannon details common causes of LED failure in solid-state lighting systems, and offers guidance on avoiding the potential pitfalls and delivering reliable products. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 22, 2014 | Agriculture & Aquaculture, Automotive & Vehicles, Backlight, Signs, & Displays, Drivers Electronics, Entertainment, Features, Indoor Networks & Controls, Industrial & Life Sciences, Interconnect, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Materials, Networks & Controls, Optics, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Standards, Substrates & Wafers, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Quality of light was the predominant theme at Strategies in Light, reports Maury Wright, but the 2014 conference reflected a maturation of LED technology with speakers addressing a broad scope of topics, including new ways to approach the lighting market and...
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...
