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 | 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...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Dec 17, 2013 | Light Engines, Modular light engines, Standards, White-Point Tuning
Remote-phosphor technology offers potential advantages to SSL such as better color uniformity and maintenance, and, as Jianzhong Jiao explains, may soon have the benefit of an IES testing standard such as the LM-80 standard defines for LEDs. The original version of...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Dec 3, 2013 | Substrates & Wafers, White-Point Tuning
The UK-based semiconductor company says that it has doubled efficacy since shipping its first GaN-on-Si LEDs back in April, and that its roadmap includes eclipsing the efficacy advantage currently held by sapphire-based LEDs. The original version of this article can...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Nov 12, 2013 | Optics, Packaged LEDS, Research & Development, Thermal, White-Point Tuning
Philips Lumileds Luxeon T/TX LEDs combined with an Intematix remote-phosphor optic deliver light source efficacy of 203 lm/W in an SSL module developed by the duo as a technology demonstration. The original version of this article can be found...
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...
