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Product category: Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
News Release from: Philips Lumileds Lighting
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 February 2007

White power LEDs overcome droop problem

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Philips Lumileds today announced it has solved the problem of "droop", a phenomenon common to white power LEDs in which efficacy decreases as current increases.

Philips Lumileds today announced it has fundamentally solved the problem of "droop", a phenomenon common to white power LEDs in which efficacy (lumen/W) decreases as current increases The breakthrough, by the company's engineers and scientists, enables efficacy to continue to increase even as drive current increases