The Competitive Technology Environment for LED Lighting

Dimming LED Lighting

LED lighting has the potential to offer many benefits to the user and to society as a whole. Very high efficiency together with extremely long life expectancy of the LEDs reduces the energy consumption and the use of resources, and can offer low lifecycle cost. In order to become widely accepted, LED lighting must provide dimming capability at least equivalent to that offered by traditional inc...

UV LED lighting for automated crystal centring

A direct outcome of the exponential growth of macromolecular crystallography is the continuously increasing demand for synchrotron beam time, both from academic and industrial users. As more and more projects entail screening a profusion of sample crystals, fully automated procedures at every level of the experiments are being implemented at all synchrotron facilities. One of the major obstacle...

Design for Low Power HB-LED Lighting

This paper presents an improved power quality converter (IPQC) based power supply design for high brightness Light Emitting Diode (HB-LED) low power lighting. The IPQC circuit uses a Cuk buck-boost converter to operate it in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) using voltage follower technique for the mitigation of harmonic contents present in the AC mains current. Subsequently reduction in harm...

Plasma Technology for Removal of Pharmaceutical Compounds from the Environment

LED based lighting and communications: An emerging technology for a greener more sustainable future

The paper discusses on the effect that the growth in our energy consumption as a species is having upon the planet, and how the global lighting and telecommunications industries are major contributors. We demonstrate that through the adoption of LED based lighting combined with visible light communications, substantial economical and power savings by orders of magnitude can be made over existin...