Brighter LEDs Signal Longer Life And Lower Power For Lighting Applications

摘要

Improvements in chip material and packaging enable LED arrays to supplant many Incandescent lamps. What CMOS circuits did for the world of power-hungry electronics, LEDs may be doing for the world of lighting. Just as CMOS-based ICs reduced the energy necessary for a given electronic function, LEDs have slashed power requirements in many lamp applications. Thanks to advances in chip material and package design, these solid-state lamps, long viewed solely as status indicators, have shined their way into a host of applications that traditionally relied on incandescent lamps and other light sources.