LIVE WEBINAR - INFINEON: "How Smart Thermal Protection Provided by LED Drivers IC's Helps to Extend Lifetime of LED Lighting Systems" by Infineon

Learn more about different ways to protect the lifetime of LED systems from very basic to quite advanced methods.  

Live Webinar on December 3rd, 2014! 

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WHITE PAPER: "Optimization of LED Lens Components using TracePro® Illumination Design and Analysis Software"

TracePro® is award-winning opto-mechanical design software for layout, optimization, & analysis of illumination systems. This white paper illustrates how TracePro's 2D & 3D optimization utilities are designed to help CAD designers without optical engineering expertise design a variety of LED optical components - including practical examples. The capabilities of TracePro lead the designer through a process to maximize the technical merits of the device/system in the shortest amount of time. Read more »

TracePro® Illumination Design, Analysis, and Optimization Software

TracePro is award-winning illumination design, optimization, and analysis software. With its intuitive CAD interface and powerful features like 2D/3D interactive optimizers, TracePro offers powerful optical design combined with a short learning curve to accelerate time-to-market. Discover why design engineers choose TracePro.

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Low Power LED Drivers in a Matchbox

Adhesives for the Complete LED System

Ellsworth Adhesives supplies adhesives and potting systems for LED assembly from Henkel Loctite. This extensive product line works in lens bonding and sealing, potting, threadlocking and general bonding applications. Henkel Loctite lighting products are tested on CREE® test boards for optimal compatibility. Download the LED Design Guide at ellsworth.com.

Stanley Electric Will Display Its Leading-Edge LED Technology at Electronica Germany

Latest Addition to Philips Lumileds LUXEON CoBs Delivers Exceptional Punch for Spotlights and Directional Lamps

In an expansion of its highly acclaimed LUXEON CoB line, Philips Lumileds today introduces a compact array that delivers industry-leading center beam candle power (CBCP), the LUXEON CoB 1202s. The array's small size makes it the ideal choice for designers of PAR lamps and other compact directional lamps. The LUXEON CoB 1202s is also available with CrispWhite Technology, which highlights the richest whites, vibrant reds and colors that pop in retail settings. Read more »

Cree Redefines High Power LEDs for Lighting with New SC5 Technology Platform

Cree, Inc. achieves another fundamental breakthrough in lighting-class LED performance with the groundbreaking SC5 Technology™ Platform. The new platform powers the next generation of lighting with the introduction of Extreme High Power (XHP) LEDs. This new class of LEDs can reduce system costs by up to 40 percent in most lighting applications. Read more »

CCI Announces Breakthrough Power Supply Technology for Phase Cut LED Dimming

Powered by CCI's new DimMaster™ LED phase-cut power supply technology, dimmable LED fixtures can now be developed to match the dimming performance of incandescent fixtures. Notably, the technology supports the transition of high performance lighting applications to LED, by seamlessly blending highly cost-efficient LED lamp fixtures into existing incandescent lighting arrays. Users can make this transition without investing in new dimmers or consoles, and without new wiring, because dimming is ... Read more »

ITRI Introduces ICTA Reducing LED Thermal Testing Time by More Than 90%

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions, is pleased to introduce In-Line Compact Thermal Analyzer (ICTA) Technology. The world's leading automatic thermal analyzer, ICTA offers a measurement speed of 12,000 LEDs per hour, reducing each LED's component thermal resistance testing time to 0.3 seconds. This is 2,000 times faster than the traditional lab method where only six components can be ... Read more »