Trends & Technology Collection

Tech-Talks Bregenz | Interview | Nov 23, 2015

Tech-Talks BREGENZ - Andreas Weisl, SSC Europe, Vice-President

Seoul Semiconductor has more than 20 years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing and invests more than 10% of its annual revenue in LED research and development. On average, Seoul Semiconductor applies for more than 600 patents every year. Currently, the company holds more than 10,000 LED patents, including patents in core LED technologies such as Acrich, Acrich MJT, nPola, TV Direct Backlight Technology, UV, and many more. Seoul Semiconductor’s extensive patent portfolio in LED technology includes epitaxial growth, fabrication, packaging, and system application of LED technology. LED professional talked with Andreas Weisl, Vice-President of Seoul Semiconductor Europe GmbH about their business, technologies and solutions. Read more »

Nov 05, 2015

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LpR 52 | Nov/Dec 2015 LpR 52 > Tech-Talks BREGENZ: Jy Bhardwaj > Research: Simulation of PC LEDs > Innovations: Modules, Electronics & Plastics > Events: LpS Review & Product Trends Full version and archive access: Click Here Commentary Lighting Beyond Illumination by Heinz Seyringer, Zumtobel Group (p 08) Tech-Talks Bregenz Dr. Jy Bhardwaj, Lumileds, CTO compiled by S. Luger, LED professional (p 28) Events LpS 2015 – Focus on Design and Applications for Sustainable Solutions by Arno Grabher-Meyer, LED professional (p 32) LpS 2015 Product Showcase – Dominated by Product Launches by Arno Grabher-Meyer, LED professional (p 42) Research Iterative Optical and Thermal Simulation Method for Proper Simulation of PC LEDs by Wolfgang Nemitz et al., Joanneum Research (p 48) Trends 230 VAC Driven LED Modules with Strongly Reduced Flicker by Wolfgang Endrich, euroLighting (p 54) Software Design in LED Lighting Applications by Attila Tomasovics, Infineon Technologies (p 60) Engineering Predictive Simulation to Virtually Test Product Design and Reduce Time to Market by Kersten Terry & Berend Hoek, Trinseo (p 66) Mastering Thermal Issues in LED PCB Design & Laminate Selection by Martin Cotton, Ventec Europe (p 84) Special: Automotive Boost-Buck LED Driver Topology for Low Input and Output Ripple for Low EMI by Keith Szolusha, Linear Technology (p 74) Read more »

Nov 05, 2015

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Leading Article | Event Post Show Report | Event News | Oct 15, 2015

LpS 2015 Post Show Report: Trends, Technologies and Solutions

Since the biggest cutting edge developments in LED technology have already taken place, one would think that a technology-focused event would be obsolete. However, that is not the case! The LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS 2015) showed that developments in the lighting industry aren’t slowing down. New user requirements demand a shift from a component-based view to a system perspective. At sixty lectures and seven workshops, international experts presented their findings and analyzed future trends and technologies. A total of about 1,400 attendees from all over the world came to the event, which took place from September 22nd to 24th in Bregenz, Austria. Read more »

News-Spot | Event News | Sep 03, 2015

LpS 2015 Opens the Door to Future Lighting Innovations

Top authorities from the global lighting industry will present international lighting trends and technologies in 60 lectures and seven workshops at the 5th LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS 2015). Amongst the many well-known companies exhibiting at the LpS are also the top seven LED manufacturers in the world. The LpS 2015 has also been chosen by ten companies to launch their new products. The three-day lighting event will take place from September 22nd to 24th in Bregenz, Austria. The top-rate program can’t afford to be missed by anyone involved in the lighting industry or research. Read more »

Sep 03, 2015

LpR51_Full_718644.pdf

> Special: Zhaga’s Latest Books > Tech-Talks Bregenz: Andreas Weisl > Graphene-Based, Spectrally Tunable, Flexible LEDs > Measurement Uncertainty and Conformity Commentary Can We Have that, Please? - What We as a Manufacturer of Lamps are Looking For by Axel Schmid, Ingo Maurer (p 08) Tech-Talks Bregenz Andreas Weisl, SSC Europe, Vice-President compiled by Siegfried Luger, LED professional (p 42) Research Al2O3 Coated Europium-Activated Aluminum Silicon Nitride for COB LED Technology by Nika Mahne et al., Graz University of Technology (p 48) A Graphene-Based, Spectrally Tunable, Flexible Field-Effect Light-Emitting Device by Xiaomu Wang & He Tiany et al., Tsinghua University (p 58) Quality Measurement Uncertainty and Conformity Assessment in Photometry by Peter Blattner, METAS & European Association of Metrology Institutes (p 70) Technologies Chip Arrays in SMD Packages - A New Class of LEDs by Ralph Bertram, Osram Opto Semiconductors (p 78) Mastering Thermal Issues in LED PCB Design & Laminate Selection by Martin Cotton, Ventec Europe (p 84) SpecialL: Zhaga’s Latest Books Zhaga Evolves: Focus on Component Standardization Drives New Book Development by Musa Unmehopa & Tim Whitaker, Zhaga Consortium (p 91) Chip-on-Board LED Modules Standardized in Zhaga Book 12 by Martin Creusen & Charles Knibbeler, Philips Lighting; Manfred Scheubeck, Osram Opto Semiconductors; Ingo Arnrich, BJB; Nico van Stiphout, Molex (p 96) Light-Emitting Surface (LES) Concept Enables Comparison of Photometric Properties by Stefan Lorenz, Osram GmbH (p 100) Zhaga Determines Thermal Fit of LED Light Engines and Luminaires by Uli Mathis, Tridonic; Toine Staring, Philips Lighting (p 104) DMI Specification Defines Electrical Interface between LED Drivers and Modules by Arnulf Rupp, Osram (p 106) Read more »

Jul 10, 2015

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> Exclusive Interview: Shuji Nakamura > Event Reviews - Focus on Asia and USA > Color-Tunable, InGaN Nanowire LED Arrays > Lighting with LEDs – More than just Illuminating Objects Full version and archive access: Click Here Commentary Creating Growth for the Lighting Industry in Europe with New Opportunities by Diederik de Stoppelaar, LightingEurope (p 06) Exclusive Interview Nobel Prize and Global Energy Prize Winner Prof. Shuji Nakamura compiled by S. Luger, LED professional (p 30) Research Flexible OLEDs for Lighting Applications by Tanzim Baig, Holst Center (p 40) Technologies InGaN Nanowire LEDs to Make Light Mixing Efficient and Smart by Prof. Zetian Mi et al., McGill University (p 44) New Class of Siloxane Polymers for Advanced LED Packaging by Dr. Juha Rantala et al., Inkron (p 48) Events Lightfair 2015 – A Grand Show with Work Still Remaining by Dr. M. Nisa Khan, LED professional (p 54) GILE 2015 Trends – LED Chips, LED Packages, Drivers & Controls by A. Grabher-Meyer, LED professional (p 64) LED Lighting Taiwan 2015 – Strong Focus on UV and IR by A. Grabher-Meyer, LED professional (p 72) Quality Lighting with LEDs – More than just Illuminating Objects by M. Canazai & W. Pohl et al., Bartenbach (p 78) Read more »

May 12, 2015

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Content: > International Year of Light 2015 > Wafer Level Packaging > Thermal Management of LEDs > Tech-Talks Bregenz: Daniel Doxsee Commentary A Confusing Situation that Demands Solutions: Performance Specification by Jacob Nuesink, DEKRA Certification (p 06) Events First EBV Lighting Academy Summary Report by Arno Grabher-Meyer, LED professional (p 40) Tech-Talks Bregenz Daniel Doxsee, Deputy Managing Director – Nichia Chemical Europe compiled by Dr. A. Prasad, LED professional (p 48) Research A Self-Compensation Approach for Maintaining the Chromaticity Coordinates of Phosphor Converted LEDs Upon Temperature Variations by Wolfgang Nemitz et al., Joanneum Research (p 54) Technologies 3-Pad LED Flip Chip COB by Pao Chen, Flip Chip Opto (p 62) Practical Estimation of Materials and Measures for Thermal Management of LEDs by Giles Humpston, Cambridge Nanotherm (p 66) Analytical and Numerical Studies on the Influence of the Thermal Conductivity of TIMs on the Case Temperature of LED Systems by Vinay Pal, Nikhil Aggarwal & Rajeev Jindal, Moserbear (p 70) Read more »

Mar 11, 2015

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COMMENTARY LED Innovation Will Offer a Human-Centric Smart Lighting Platform Enabling Enterprise IoT by Frank Harder, Samsung (p 06) EVENTS Let there be Light - A Brief Overview of the Meaning of Light by Arno Grabher-Meyer, LED professional (p 32) TECH-TALKS BREGENZ Ewing Liu, Technical Marketing Manager at Everlight compiled by Dr. A. Prasad, LED professional (p 42) RESEARCH Direct Current (DC) Supply Grids for LED Lighting by Prof. Eberhard Waffenschmidt, Cologne University of Applied Science (p 48) TECHNOLOGIES Solving the Phase-Cut Dimming Challenge by Craig Sharp & Bill Trzyna, CCI Power Supplies LLC (p 54) SPECIAL LED Lighting for Horticulture by Ian Ashdown, Lighting Analysts (p 60) SPECIAL: ENLIGHT PROJECT OUTCOMES EnLight - Next Generation Intelligent and Energy Efficient Lighting Systems by Frank van Tuijl (p 68) System Architecture for Distributed Intelligence by Lex James et al. (p 72) New Form Factor Luminaires and New Light Effects by Herbert Weiß et al. (p 80) The Building Blocks for Intelligent Future Luminaires by Tim Böttcher et al. (p 86) Peripheral Devices for the Right Light by Werner Weber et al. (p 92) Granular Lighting Control Enables Significant Energy Savings with Optimized User Comfort by Eveliina Juntunen et al. (p 98) Read more »

Mar 11, 2015

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News-Spot | Business News | Sep 22, 2014

Yole Predicts: In the LED Packaging World, Flip Chip Technology Is Rising

In the LED packaging world, a wind of change is blowing. A LED TV crisis, and new Chinese players have totally modified the LED industry and its supply chain. Under this context, with a high competitive environment, new challenges have been identified by Yole Développement (Yole) analysts: efficacy improvement, cost decrease … To answer to the LED market needs, companies have today to innovate their technologies and implement new solutions like Flip Chip for LED packaging. Read more »

IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Jul 23, 2014

EPIC Initiates Technology and Market Study on Photonics Technologies in the Automotive Industry

EPIC has signed a contract with market research and consultancy firm TEMATYS for carrying out an in-depth market and technology report of photonics technologies used in cars and for its manufacturing. Manufacturing includes laser systems used in welding, cutting, marking … as well as for acquiring information such as machine vision, reflectometry, thermography, profilometry, shearography … Photonics technologies are extensively used in the car for sensing and imaging, optical communication (MOST networks, Flexray), delivering information (screens, displays, GPS), lighting, (LED, OLED, laser), and energy such as photovoltaic. Read more »

Tech-Talks Bregenz | Jun 16, 2014

Tech-Talks BREGENZ: Martina Paul, General Secretary, CIE (Article published in LpR #43)

With the rise of LEDs as the future lighting technology, the relatively stable lighting industry faces many changes and challenges. One of the main challenges is the ever increasing speed of transitions, something already seen in the semiconductor business. Standardization organizations are facing similar challenges. On the one hand they should define standards that will last as long as possible and on the other hand the standards need to be as clear and precise as possible. Martina Paul, Secretary General of the most important standardization body, the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) was invited to the Tech-Talks BREGENZ to discuss these topics. Read more »

White Paper | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | May 22, 2014

Yole Releases New Nanowire LED IP Study - Startups Compete with Asian LED Giants in the IP Landscape

Asian giants Samsung, Panasonic and LG are the top three patent assignees for Nanowire LED technology. Facing them are several startups including glo, Aledia and Ecospark, which between them have raised more than $150M - thus confirming their serious interest in this field. However, these newcomers face strong technological challenges. Read more »

White Paper | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 23, 2014

GaN-on-Silicon Substrate Patent Investigation - Knowmade & Yole See More Players on the Playground

GaN-on-Si technology appeared naturally as an alternative to GaN-on-Sapphire—the main stream technology for LED applications. Today, despite potential cost benefits, the mass adoption of GaN-on-Si technology for LED applications remains unclear. Most major LED makers have a patenting activity related to GaN-on-Si technology, but so far, few have made it the core of their strategy and technology roadmap. Contrary to the LED industry, we expect GaN-on-Si to be widely adopted by Power Electronics and RF applications because of its lower cost and CMOS compatibility. Read more »

News-Spot | Business News | Dec 17, 2013

IHS Report: Lighting and LEDs Trends for 2014

IHS Inc. has recently released its annual white paper on the lighting and LEDs trends for the year ahead. These predictions for 2014 and beyond, serve to provide insight into key trends and opportunities in the intelligent buildings industry. Read more »

News-Spot | Business News | Oct 22, 2013

Alumage Advisors Reports 30-50% Price Reduction in LED High Bay Lighting

Alumage Advisors has released its latest product, LED High Bay Price Watch(TM), and is reporting a 30-50% year-to-year price reduction in LED high bay luminaires for industrial and architectural applications, between 2012 and YTD 2013. Read more »

News-Spot | Business News | Sep 27, 2013

Yole Développement "Status of the LED Industry" Shows that Low Price LED Solutions Are Pushing Technology Adoption Toward General Lighting

Yole Développement is pleased to announce the third edition of one of its best seller: Status of the LED Industry. In this 2013 edition, Yole Développement mixes technical analysis, market trends, forecasts, geographical analysis...and much more! With a first part dedicated to general lighting, and a second one focused on other applications, discover the different format of the report and choose the part you need! Read more »

White Paper | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Sep 12, 2013

New Comprehensive Investigation on LED Phosphors and Down-Converters Patents

Yole Développement announces its new market & technology patent investigation, LED Phosphors and Down-Converters. Hundreds of companies are involved in LED phosphor IP. Most of the major LED players are present in the list of the top patent assignees. But independent phosphor manufacturers are also emerging as major forces in the IP landscape. Read more »

News-Spot | Business News | Aug 19, 2013

Markets for Smart Lighting Driver, Controller and Sensor Chips

The objective of this report is to identify and quantify the opportunities for electronics in smart lighting systems over the next eight years. It is designed to become required reading for firms in the semiconductor industry that want to better understand the opportunities in smart lighting electronics. It is also intended to provide guidance to firms in the LED and smart lighting systems sectors who need to better understand where smart-lighting electronics trends will take their businesses. Read more »

News-Spot | Business News | Jan 15, 2013

Yole Développement Announces: Packaging Cost Reduction Is Driving New Technology and Design Adoption

Yole Développement announces today its new report “LED packaging”. Compared to the last edition, this update version provides you an update of all market metrics (packaged LED, equipment, materials…), an highlight of 2012 LED packaging trends (design, new technologies and materials per process step…) and lots of additional analysis (wafer bonding, thermal management at the LED module level…). Read more »

Business News | Nov 02, 2012

Yole's New OLED for Lighting Report Forecasts that OLED Lighting will reach a $1.7B market opportunity by 2020

So far, OLED revenue has been driven mainly by display applications (smartphones…) but the industry is now targeting the lighting market based on the technology specificities in terms of design and efficiency. Yole Développement is pleased to announce today its new report “OLED for Lighting” which presents all OLED Lighting applications and associated market metrics for the period 2012-2020, and a deep analysis of OLED technology and OLED lighting industry… Read more »

News-Spot | Business News | Oct 05, 2012

Yole Développement Concludes: “Independent Phosphor Companies Free the Market from IP Blocking by Market Leaders”

Phosphors are a keystone of LED technologies, enabling the conversion of the monochromatic blue or near-UV light emitted by LED chips into a richer spectrum of color approaching or exceeding that of other artificial light sources. Yole Développement announces today its new report “LED phosphors” which provides a detailed description of the LED phosphor industry. Read more »

Business News | Aug 10, 2012

Packaged LED Market Report from Yole Développement & EPIC Forecasts Tremendous Growth between 2012 and 2018

Yole Développement and EPIC announce their report dedicated to the LED industry: “Status of the LED Industry”. The report presents all applications of LEDs and associated market metrics, LED cost reduction opportunities, entire LED value chain, a deep analysis of the general lighting application and an analysis of geographical trends. Read more »

Products, Materials + Tools | Jul 13, 2012

Maxim's Digital, Highly Integrated Optical Sensors Includes up to Seven Sensors

Maxim Integrated Products announces four, new digital optical sensors that advance analog integration with sensor fusion to measure RGB, ambient light, proximity motion, infrared, and temperature. Read more »

Standardization + Regulation | News-Spot | Jun 28, 2012

New Consortium to Drive Standardization of a Management Software Interface for Managing Outdoor Lighting Networks

Global initiative – The formation of a new global consortium made up from lighting industry players, with the aim of creating a globally accepted standard for a management software interface for outdoor lighting networks has been announced today. Named TALQ, the founders/participants are Harvard Engineering, Kingsun, Philips, Schréder, Streetlight.Vision and Zumtobel Group. Read more »

IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Jan 24, 2012

DOE Report Characterizes 2010 US Lighting Market

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a report detailing the characteristics of the U.S. lighting market by technology and sector, which helps chart progress made toward the goal of transitioning to more efficient white-light source technologies. The 2010 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization provides comprehensive and detailed estimates of the national inventory of installed lamps as well as their performance characteristics, associated energy use, and lumen production. It focuses on four sectors: residential buildings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, and outdoor. Read more »

Business News | Nov 23, 2011

MyLED Group Seals 15 Partnerships Worth More than RM2 Billion in Sales

MyLED Group, Malaysia’s solid state lighting (SSL) and light emitting diode (LED) manufacturer, will achieve more than RM2 billion in sales for its lighting components over the next five years with sealing sales Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with 15 international and local companies. Read more »

Business News | Oct 18, 2011

IMS Research Monthly LED Lamp Retail Price Tracker – Global Average Retail Price for 60W Incandescent LED Lamps at $36 in October

IMS Research has launched a Global Monthly LED Lamp Retail Price Tracker to monitor and provide insight into the rapidly growing and changing LED lamp market. With the phasing out of incandescent lamps and the dislike that consumers have with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), LED replacement lamps have an enormous opportunity as prices fall further. Read more »

Business News | Sep 16, 2011

Analysis of the Cost of Goods Sold for Leading LED Lighting Products, Forecasted from 2010-2015

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, releases its latest report on a costs analysis of goods sold for leading LED lighting products. This special report examines the major components and modules in LED lights, packaging and material trends, LED comparison costs over time, and the manufacturing supply chain and assembly trends. Read more »