by Commercial LED Lighting | 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...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Jun 10, 2014 | Industrial & Life Sciences, Industry News, LED Design & Manufacturing, LEDs Applications, LEDs Sources, Modular light engines, Packaged LEDS, Services & Testing, Substrates & Wafers, Test Equipment
UV LEDs built on native AlN substrates emit peak wavelengths in the 250–280-nm range and target applications in life sciences such as water quality monitoring and chemical detection. 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 | 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 27, 2013 | Event News, Light Engines, Modular light engines, Standards, Test Equipment, Test Labs
The phosphor specialist has demonstrated what is essentially equivalent to LM-80 testing for packaged LEDs, with a sample set of remote-phosphor-based SSL modules being independently verified in delivering 100% of initial lumens over 6000 hours. The original version...
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...
