Optek Technology has developed a high-brightness, 1-watt surface-mount LED with an ultralow thermal resistance, of 2°C/W. The single-packaged LEDs are part of Optek's Lednium family of solid-state ...

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 ...

One of the questions that hobbyists ask over and over is how to select the value of a current limiting resistor for an LED. Usually the seat of the pants response is: “Subtract 2 V from the supply ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. EXPONENTIAL GROWTH of LED lighting has ushered in a vast selection of integrated circuit devices to provide controlled ...

Color Kinetics, the original name in colour-changing architectural lighting and a Signify architainment lighting brand, has ...