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LEDs Magazine announces finalists for inaugural Sapphire Awards (UPDATED)

by | Jan 21, 2015 | Awards and Events, Business and Industry, Controls and Power, Driver ICs, Drivers Electronics, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Industry News, Interconnect, LED, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Engines, Light Sources, Materials, Microcontrollers, Modular Drivers, Networks & Controls, OLEDs, Optics, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Sapphire Awards, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Strategies in Light, Substrates & Wafers, Test Equipment, Test Labs, Thermal

With competition across 13 categories, the 2015 LEDs Magazine Sapphire Awards program features the best in solid-state lighting technology ranging from the enabling technologies used by product developers to the finished products that serve the broad general lighting...

Solid-state lighting cost reduction with substrates: Lighting designers are missing the bigger picture

by | Dec 8, 2014 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Features, Indoor Lighting, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Manufacturing Equipment, Materials, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Research & Development, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Substrates & Wafers, Test Equipment, Thermal

Significant bill of materials reductions can be achieved through substrate choice, observes Ralph Weir, CEO of Cambridge Nanotherm, avoiding a continual drive to the bottom in terms of component cost. The original version of this article can be found...

Optimized methodologies lead to high-precision LED color binning for design and manufacturing

by | Dec 8, 2014 | Features, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, Manufacturing Equipment, R&D, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards, Test Equipment

Binning remains a required step in the production of LEDs, and Matthias Hoeh describes a methodology that can improve the precision of binning operations, which in turn can help SSL product developers deliver consistent color and flux output. The original version of...

Strategies in Light Japan speakers explore the solid-state lighting frontier beyond lumens per watt

by | Dec 8, 2014 | Adaptive controls, Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Automotive & Vehicles, Awards and Events, Business and Industry, Controls and Power, Driver ICs, Drivers and power, Drivers Electronics, IIF, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, Industrial & Life Sciences, Interconnect, LED, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Engines, Light Sources, Materials, Microcontrollers, Modular Drivers, Networks, Networks & Controls, Optics, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Standards, Standards and Testing, Substrates & Wafers, Test Equipment, Thermal, Tunable lighting, Vegetables & Floriculture, White-Point Tuning

At the 7th LED Japan /Strategies in Light Japan conference in October, Ella Shum and Manami Konishi presided over sessions ranging from LED substrates and manufacturing advancements to LED life science applications and human-centric lighting. The original version of...