Power LEDs to plug gap to adoption of white lighting
✍ Scribed by Mike Holt
- Book ID
- 104365429
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 372 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0961-1290
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✦ Synopsis
At the
Compound Semiconductor Outlook 2ool conference in San Diego at the end of February, LumiLeds chief executive officer Mike Holt challenged people to think differently about the Light Emitting Diode market compared to the conventional wisdom of today. From his perspective, mass adoption of LED lighting lies at least 10-15 years in the future. Alternatively, a more immediate multi-billion dollar market opportunity for power LEDs is presented by applications including emergency vehicle lights, single-LED flashlights, automotive rear brake lights, and LCD fiatpanel display back-lights.
Power LEDs to plug gap to adoption of white lighting
About 90% of today's production output of high-brightness LEDs is consumed by cell-phone backlights, I:ull-colour signs, dashboard backlighting and high-mount brake lights
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