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 | Mar 11, 2014 | Automotive & Vehicles, Substrates & Wafers
Osram Opto Semiconductors has recently added new colored LEDs in product families that target front-and rear-facing automotive lighting applications. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Feb 13, 2014 | Features, LED Design & Manufacturing, Materials, Substrates & Wafers
Over the last decade, progress in light-emitting diode performance has been nothing less than phenomenal. LEDs today are performing at 50% wall plug efficiency, meaning that 50% of the applied power is emitted as light. The original version of this article can be...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Feb 13, 2014 | Assembly & Contract Manufacturing, Automotive & Vehicles, Features, LEDs Sources, Manufacturing Equipment, Packaged LEDS, Research & Development, Retail & Hospitality, Substrates & Wafers, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
The LED component cost is only one facet of the design and production cost for solid-state lighting (SSL) systems. Other factors that impact the overall cost, performance, and lifetime of general lighting products include the suitability of components for the intended...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Feb 11, 2014 | Automotive & Vehicles, Editor’s Picks, Industry News, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, Substrates & Wafers
Osram has expanded its Oslon Black Flat LED line to include colored LEDs designed for auto exterior applications including tail lights, turn indicators, and brake lights, while the company also said that it is first in the industry to move red, orange, and yellow LED...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Dec 17, 2013 | Indoor Lighting, Manufacturing Equipment, Packaged LEDS, Retail & Hospitality, Substrates & Wafers, White-Point Tuning
While SSL experts regularly project the demise of the lightbulb form, the popularity of stories focused on LED-based lamps with our readers make it clear that today it remains a very hot topic, outpacing even packaged LED stories. The original version of this article...