LED Lighting

Poorly designed metrics hinder the development of efficient lighting technologies, writes Adrian Rawlinson, managing director of Marl International

Shipments of active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) are predicted to increase by nearly a factor of six from 2010 to 2015, according to market reseach by IHS iSuppli

Cree has announced a 1,000 lm LMR4 LED down-lighter family with a colour-rendering index (CRI) above 90. "Designed to last 35,000 hours and dimmable to 5%, the...

Makers of LED optics are vying for business as streetlight buyers discover the benefits of solid-state lighting. It is not necessarily efficiency that make streetlight aficionados sit up, as starkly yellow old-tech low-pressure sodium lights offer 300 lm/W...

Roy Taylor, an executive with MasterImage3D, says seatback video screens in airliners will soon be showing glasses-free 3D movies and games using his firm's patented LCD-based screen technology. While he's not saying which airlines will be taking the tech, such a move makes sense for two reasons.

Lumileds has added a 2mm2 device to its hot-specified bin-less lighting LED family. Called Luxeon A, the LEDs are specified at a...

Toshiba is to launch a glasses-free 3D notebook on the Japanese market in July.

All the major LED suppliers have released additional lighting-class LEDs over the past few months, particularly at the high-power end for light bulb and downlighter replacement.

So how do you encourage a fashion-conscious home owner to pay a lot for an LED alternative? Let dimming, dimming, dimming be your marketing mantra

“Now that distributors have global websites, displays can be offered in one of three language options: English, European – which means with accented letters – and Cyrillic for countries including Russia,” said Farnell’s Ward