by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 4, 2014 | Drivers Electronics, Features, Indoor Lighting, Indoor Networks & Controls, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Networks & Controls, Outdoor Lighting, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards, Thermal
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...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 4, 2014 | Automotive & Vehicles, Features, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Light Engines, Outdoor Lighting, Packaged LEDS, Services & Testing, Smart Cities, SSL Design, Standards, White-Point Tuning
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...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 5, 2014 | Driver ICs, Drivers Electronics, Features, Microcontrollers, Modular Drivers, Modular light engines, Networks & Controls, Services & Testing, Standards
Jianzhong Jiao reports on ANSI efforts that will deliver driver testing standards commensurate with the standards the SSL industry has in place to test light-centric characteristics of lamps and luminaires. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 22, 2014 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards, Test Equipment, Test Labs, Thermal
Jianzhong Jiao explains that the IES is publishing addendums to both the LM-80 standard for testing LEDs and documenting lumen maintenance, and to the TM-21 standard for projecting LED and SSL system life, improving and harmonizing the documents. The original version...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Apr 22, 2014 | Features, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Sources, Materials, Packaged LEDS, R&D, Retail & Hospitality, Services & Testing, Standards, Substrates & Wafers, Test Labs, White-Point Tuning
GaN-on-GaN LED technology can deliver better light quality in terms of color rendering and accurate bright whites while also providing a lumen-per-wafer advantage over conventional LEDs, write Aurelien David, Frank Shum, and Mike Krames. The original version of this...
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...
