A top assignment a PCB designer is responsible for is to manage the heat generated by today’s large and small complex electronics components placed on a PCB. In effect, the PCB designer becomes a ...

While the LED market continues to grow at a rapid pace it seems there is still relatively limited understanding amongst engineers and designers of the principles behind thermal management of these ...

LED advances are revolutionizing the lighting landscape, enabling higher levels of energy efficiency, longer lifetimes, and new applications. LEDs can provide illumination for hours from solar-cell ...

Thanks to the relatively recent rise of affordable board production services, many of the people reading Hackaday are just now learning the ropes of PCB design. For those still producing the FR4 ...

A successful LED design needs a balance of form and function to be a desirable luminaire with the right lumen output. Sounds simple enough, but these two requirements are often in conflict. When form ...

Early adopters of LED lighting will remember 50,000 hour or even 100,000 hour lifetime ratings printed on the box. But during a recent trip to the hardware store the longest advertised lifetime I ...

Thermal analysis is the process of measuring how a material/device behaves at different temperatures. For many applications, especially single materials, a thermal analysis is a physical analytical ...

NEW DELHI: LED lighting technology is the most useful lighting solution because electric current is directly converted to optical radiation in semiconductors. There's no doubt that LEDs are highly ...

Direct Thermal Exchange (DTE) design in printed circuit boards intended for LED arrays provides a direct thermal path to the base metal of the assembly, allowing the high-power LEDs to dissipate heat ...

The old saying about an argument generating ‘more heat than light’ also sums up the thermal challenge in the growing market for UVC LEDs being used to disinfect medical instruments, water and other ...

Depending on the application’s needs there are numerous potting compounds available, with formulations offering properties including being low density/lightweight, flame retardant, flexible, optically ...