LED Lighting

The Tyndall National Institute in Cork is developing micro LEDs that operate from tiny amounts of power.

Electronics Weekly puts its questions to an industry figure: James Gourlay is chief technology officer and founder of Design LED, the Livingston-based specialist in printed light-guides and embedded LEDs.

Last week, Zetex released three power LED driver chips. Electronics Weekly looks deeper into the technology.

Hospital bedside terminal supplier Jaotech teams up with US healthcare infotainment company 5Plus3 Digital to supply systems for 10,000 hospital beds in the US.

Abacus has teamed up with LED lighting specialist Osram to create a distribution business division to address the solid state lighting market

Steve Landau is director of marketing communications at Lumileds. He reveals his thoughts on what it will take to settle the patent issues between power LED makers, whether lumens/$ will be cut far enough to beat OLED or electroluminescent technology as a florescent tube replacement, and his favourite power LED application...

Electronics Weekly puts its questions to industry figures: Mark McClear, a director at Cree's solid state lighting business, and Ulrich Kastner-Jung, a director at Osram Opto Semiconductors

Engineers at the University of Washington add an LED array into a flexible contact lens, ultimately aiming at in-eye head-up displays

Varitronix brings small wide viewing LCDs to the UK

Optical device firm Bookham is entering the biomedical market with an optical module which uses LED multiplexing technology for bio-analytical applications and medical instrumentation