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Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
News Release from: Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 February 2006
Seminars focus on new LED applications
Rutronik has launched its "Power and lighting" offensive, with a Europe-wide series of seminars in 17 major cities.
Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente has launched its "Power and lighting" offensive, with a Europe-wide series of seminars in 17 major cities in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary Participants in the series of seminars will include Osram Opto Semiconductors, ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Infineon, Diodes and Vogt Elektronik
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a design-in distributor, Rutronik offers not only a full range of optoelectronic components and corresponding power semiconductors to drive LEDs, but also provides comprehensive support in the form of technical expertise in systems and solutions development.
LEDs are advancing strongly in the lighting market, and generating entirely new demands as a result of the drivers necessary for them.
Consequently the OEMs who have not previously dealt with electronics are also faced with a tremendous challenge.
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They must ensure that there is optimum interaction between power and lighting in their applications.
According to forecasts, the industry is anticipating world market growth for LEDs from the current US $144 million to $875 million by 2010.
That corresponds to an annual growth rate of 52%.
One of the most important vertical target markets is the automotive sector.
But there are numerous other segments that are moving to LEDs - from traffic management technology, building illumination and safety technology, to medical equipment, domestic appliances and illuminated advertising.
The need for guidance is tremendous, as some of the new LED customers have not previously had anything to do with electronics or driver technology.
In the power sector there are now many new efficient products to enable the development of a corresponding circuit for all areas of lighting application.
Technical innovations by leading manufacturers ensure that through pulsewidth modulation only the energy that is actually required is passed to the LED, as a result of which losses in the drive circuit are reduced to a minimum.
Of course there are also existing modules that can be used.
What is most appropriate, how and for what purpose, depends on the individual application and its specific parameters.
It is precisely at this point that there is still a great need for clarification and support.
Rutronik has already been very successfully involved in this segment for many years.
Its sales in this segment are approximately one fifth above the market average.
"With our power and lighting offensive we intend to make another mark in terms of product and advisory skills in a young and extremely promising market", explains Peter Klopfer, Product Manager for Power Semiconductors at Rutronik.
"In the field of power and lighting too, the uppermost premise is to provide integrated advice to the customer: That means support throughout the entire product cycle, from product selection through application design to the point where the product enters production".
"Our experts in the power semiconductor department assist customers in implementing the energy supply for their application in a technically innovative and at the same time economical way, with the absolute minimum power loss".
The series of seminars has been set up in a practically relevant way and is intended to familiarise those attending with driver technology and with the thermal management of LEDs.
In addition to a product update by the individual manufacturers, there will be presentations of the manufacturers' new driver modules for applications in all areas of lighting.
In parallel to that the distributor will be running workshops to demonstrate all the opportunities for LED drivers, with their individual advantages, using in-house evaluation tools.
In this way customers will be able to test independently which tool from which manufacturer is the most efficient for their application.
The power and lighting specialists will demonstrate proposed circuits and answer questions on product and design.
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