Guest columnist Naoyuki Kobayashi, senior product manager at Murata says that one problem frequently encountered when designing LED lighting circuits is that the capacitors in the circuit experience ...

This presentation was originally given by Andrew Smith, product manager, LED Lighting at Power Integrations for EDN’s May 2011 live LED event in San Jose. The next free LED event will be part of ...

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. introduces the Polyacene Capacitors (Supercap) PAS2126FR2R5504, measuring 26 mm x 20 mm with a maximum height of 0.9 mm. Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. introduces the Polyacene Capacitors ...

The function of an LED is to emit light when the device is forward biased within its operating range, and it’s known by most people that an LED can also operate as a photodiode. Perhaps some readers ...

A novel high power factor, soft-switched Light Emitting Diode (LED) driver without electrolytic capacitors is proposed in this paper. Conventional electrolytic capacitors used in LED drivers as the ...

Taiwan Chinsan Electronic Industrial has begun shipping a new type of aluminum capacitors for LED TVs, and demand from the LCD TV and monitor segments remain strong, according to industry sources.

Date Announced: 21 Apr 2011 San Jose, Calif. - Power Integrations (Nasdaq:POWI), the leader in high-voltage drivers for offline LED lighting, today announced a new reference design (DER-278) based on ...

Schematic and operation of a capacitorless active-matrix micro-LED pixel, where a single memristor (1M) substitutes both the storage capacitor and the driving TFT. The compact 1M cell can be ...

This presentation was originally given by Andrew Smith, product manager, LED Lighting at Power Integrations for EDN’s May 2011 live LED event in San Jose. Consumers often see LED lamp failures. If you ...