by Commercial LED Lighting | 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...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Oct 2, 2014 | Automotive & Vehicles, Industry News, Services & Testing, SSL Design, Standards, Substrates & Wafers, Test Labs
The industry organization that serves to help guide the US Department of Energy SSL efforts offers an updated set of recommendations for the LED-based lighting industry and advice for lighting specifiers/buyers. 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 | 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...
