This application note provides a practical guideline of TRIAC dimmable LED bulb board design. Passive and active bleeder design guides detail how to maintain latching and holding current without ...

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 ...

Different topologies used in developing LED drivers. Proper connections for buck, boost, and buck-boost configurations. Test results for the three topologies using the same LED string. 3. This LTM8042 ...

Multi-die packages are flavour of the month among the high-power LED manufacturers. Certainly for both manufacturers and designers chasing the title of “highest lumen output” device, this approach ...

We've already seen that LED lighting can be incorporated into carpets and wallpaper. Now, Ikea will be using LEDs in a whole host of other products around the home. The company has invested in Design ...

The LED industry is ever moving towards more lumens/watt, lumens/$, lumens/area, better brightness, and improved color rendering index (CRI), sometimes called color rendition index. CRI is a ...

When light is emitted from a particle that contains a few hundred atoms, the wavelength of the light is affected by the size of the region – this is a very interesting quantum effect that provides a ...

Even with robotics, traditional development and production are time-consuming and error-prone. You can optimize downstream workflows with computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering ...

Ping-pong balls have many uses: apart from playing table tennis, they have been used for countless art projects, science experiments, and even to raise ships from the bottom of the ocean. As it turns ...

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