As their production costs fall, LEDs are being used more often in applications ranging from handheld devices to automotive and architectural lighting. Their high reliability (operational lifetimes of ...

LED advances are revolutionizing the lighting landscape, enabling higher levels of energy efficiency, longer lifetimes, and new applications. LEDs can provide illumination for hours from solar-cell ...

Consumer demand and government initiatives to phase out inefficient lighting technologies are pushing expansion of LED lighting. Designers of these devices must satisfy not only end users, but also ...

Lighting brand Plumen has launched an LED light bulb that offers a more sustainable alternative to its 001 bulb, which was named the Design of the Year by London’s Design Museum in 2011. Plumen has ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers continue to push the boundaries of LED design a little further with a new method that could pave the way toward more efficient and versatile LED display and lighting ...

The driving force behind the switch from incandescent lighting to LED technology is to gain power efficiency and longer life. However, the cost of LED assemblies is much higher than incandescent and ...

Manufacturers are striving to drive down costs by reducing material use, while at the same time, consumers are demanding smaller and smaller form factors packed with more and more functions. In many ...

This application note provides a practical guideline of TRIAC dimmable LED bulb board design. Passive and active bleeder design guides detail how to maintain latching and holding current without ...

MODSIM has the secrets to requirements-driven design. (Image: Dassault Systèmes.) Dassault Systèmes has sponsored this post. Over the last decade, the term simulation-led design has become well ...

Multi-die packages are flavour of the month among the high-power LED manufacturers. Certainly for both manufacturers and designers chasing the title of “highest lumen output” device, this approach ...