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| EDITORIAL DIGEST: Standards for LEDs and LED Lighting |
| Our latest Editorial Digest contains a series of articles addressing standards that help establish a framework for product introductions and effective market penetration. |
| ZigBee standards are ready to support lighting-control applications (MAGAZINE) |
| The ZigBee building- and home-automation standards support lighting, and lighting manufacturers should move quickly to support the wireless network, says Maury Wright. |
| Test to find the best color metric (MAGAZINE) |
| In this Commentary from the March 2012 issue of LEDs Magazine, Tim Whitaker discusses the need for a replacement for the color-rendering index (CRI). |
| Ecosystems meeting paints future picture of intelligent SSL systems (MAGAZINE) |
| A recent gathering of SSL professionals provided a vision of future lighting systems that are off-grid, LED-based, intelligent, adaptive and stable, writes LAURA PETERS. |
| SSL must still clear hurdles to enable mass adoption of LED lighting (MAGAZINE) |
| LEDs are doing quite well in general-illumination applications, but speakers in the LEDs in Lighting track at SIL addressed obstacles and solutions that will ultimately determine when widespread SSL deployment occurs, reports MAURY WRIGHT. |
| LED lighting highlights the food at San Diego burger restaurant (MAGAZINE) |
| The Hodad’s restaurant in downtown San Diego has achieved energy efficiency and high-quality lighting using a mix of LED A-lamps, downlights, and T8-retrofit tubes, explains MAURY WRIGHT. |
| LED market adoption continues to grow (MAGAZINE) |
| The HB-LED Market track at Strategies in Light 2012 offered a view from Seoul, advice on how to cross the market-adoption chasm, insights on how to make GaN LEDs on GaN substrates, and much more, as TIM WHITAKER reports. |
| LED lighting market to grow while LED component market goes flat (MAGAZINE) |
| Strategies Unlimited’s analysts believe that the LED lighting market is growing nicely, though they expect lower LED prices to keep a lid on LED-component growth in the foreseeable future. LAURA PETERS and MAURY WRIGHT report from the Strategies in Light conference. |
| LED manufacturers reduce cost with automation, larger wafers, new materials (MAGAZINE) |
| The LED Manufacturing track at Strategies in Light presented methods for reducing cost and improving yield of LED components, as LAURA PETERS reports. |
| LEDs Magazine March 2012 issue |
| The March 2012 issue of LEDs Magazine is now available. |