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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...

SIL/LED Japan will examine epitaxy to SSL applications (MAGAZINE)

Ella Shum and Manami Konishi report on plans for the October Yokohama conference that will focus on the SSL industry looking beyond lumens per watt as LED technology matures. The original version of this article can be found...

LED automotive lighting applications require unique SAE standards (MAGAZINE)

Jianzhong Jiao summarizes the broad landscape of standards for LED lighting specific to automotive applications, which includes unique characteristics in terms of lumen maintenance, reliability, lifetime, and color spectrum. The original version of this article can be...

Global lighting event highlights LEDs, tunable lighting, and controls (MAGAZINE)

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,...

SIL program spans LED technology to the breadth of emerging SSL applications (MAGAZINE)

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...