by Commercial LED Lighting | Mar 11, 2014 | Backlighting Signs & Displays, Features, LEDs Applications, Manufacturing Equipment, Outdoor Lighting, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Thermal
Djordje Zivanovic and Richard Ozaki describe a thermal-design methodology that enabled the development of a new self-cleaning heat sink for an outdoor LED luminaire using simulation tools. The original version of this article can be found...
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...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Feb 13, 2014 | Backlighting Signs & Displays, Features, LEDs Applications, Outdoor Lighting, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, White-Point Tuning
LEDs are proving their benefits in most outdoor area lighting applications, but the point sources integrated in solid-state lighting fixtures are an especially good match for tunnel applications. Dale Kane explores specific challenges posed by tunnels and how to...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Oct 29, 2013 | Driver ICs, Manufacturing Equipment, Microcontrollers, Networks & Controls, Optics, Packaged LEDS, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Substrates & Wafers, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Enabling LEDs to follow the black-body radiation curve isn’t black magic, and Uwe Thomas explains a successful approach to the challenge of dimming SSL products to warm CCTs. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 11, 2013 | Design Automation, Driver ICs, Editors Picks Left, Manufacturing Equipment, Modular light engines, Optics, Retail & Hospitality, Smart Cities, Test Equipment, Test Labs, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
SSL product development goes far beyond the LEDs and driver electronics, and Richie Richards explains how to evaluate the detailed design elements such as materials choices, thermal management, and compatibility issues that can in turn lead to optimal lighting...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Aug 23, 2013 | Smart Cities, Standards, Test Equipment, Test Labs
The US Department of Energy has published a new report that examines lifetime and reliability of SSL products and makes it clear that current standards fall short of providing an accepted way of defining system life. The original version of this article can be found...
