The Zhaga Consortium has formally added requirements that LED light engines with integrated control gear support the NEMA SSL 7A-2013 dimming specification and also noted that socketable modules must meet new UL safety standards. The ...
Tags: LED Drivers, Safety Requirements
Opsira presented its Robogonio at the LED professional Symposium + Expo 2013 in Bregenz, Austria, demonstrating how the robot-goniometer can simplify luminous intensity distribution measurements. Luminous intensity distribution describes ...
Tags: LED Systems, Lighting
An automated in-situ test method applied alongside Mentor's T3Ster platform can enable SSL product developers to design an optimal thermal management system that can ensure long life and maintained lumen output for LED-based products. To ...
Tags: LEDs, Austria Symposium
Walmart has announced house-branded LED lamps with 60W-equivalent bulbs priced below $10 and GE Lighting has new low-priced SSL retrofits it will offer through Walmart and other sources while Toshiba significantly broadens its offering. ...
Tags: LED Lamp, GE Lighting, Toshiba
The Acrich2 combination of AC-LED driver IC and mid-power LEDs that have been sold on modules are now to be offered to companies that want to build their own unique light engines. Seoul Semiconductor has announced what it calls "LED ...
Tags: IC Form, AC-LED Technology
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has announced the globally availability of an Acrich kit for customers trying to meet the special design requests of global lighting manufacturers. The kits consist of high-voltage Acrich ...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published the 2013 edition of the Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Roadmap, which complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan that guides the Core and Product Development R&D programs. One ...
Tags: R&D Roadmap, Lighting
Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA has launched its new V Series line of chip-on-board LED array products. The cost-effective light engines extend the technology and performance of the Vero line, feature high flux density in small source ...
Tags: Bridgelux LEDs, LED Arrays
Many consumers are shying away from LED lighting due to potential harm blue LED bulbs can have on the retina of the eye. The media has even confused blue lights emitted from blue-ray and blue LED light. So what exactly are blue LEDs then? ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the 2013 edition of the Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Roadmap. The Roadmap complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan that guides the Core and Product Development R&D programs. ...
As a modern culture, we crave artificial white lights -- the brighter the better, and ideally using less energy than ever before. To meet the ever-escalating demand for more lighting in more places and to improve the bulbs used in sports ...
Tags: Laser Based Lighting, Lighting
Xicato announced an exclusive LM-79 testing program that lowers testing costs by 50% per luminaire, and reduces testing turn-around time to just 5 business days, in comparison to industry norms of approximately four weeks. This unique ...
Tags: LED Luminaire, LED Lighting
Combining an LED circuit board and an optical package, the FastFlex LED module enables rapid development of luminaires for high-output SSL products targeted at industrial or outdoor usage. Philips Lighting has announced the Gen2 FastFlex ...
Xicato announced an exclusive LM-79 testing program that lowers testing costs by 50% per luminaire, and reduces testing turn-around time to just five business days, in comparison to industry norms of approximately four weeks. This unique ...
Tags: LED Luminaire, Lighting
The LED industry after entering into the lighting era still continues to face pressure to lower prices. LED manufacturers have thus begun competitively pushing their way into package free chip development. Manufacturers like Philips ...
Tags: Free Chip, LED Lighting