While LEDs themselves are extremely reliable and have a long lifetime, are electronic LED drivers capable of providing the required current/voltage input to the LEDs over their whole lifetime? This paper aims to address the above question in general and for the Xitanium family of LED drivers developed by Philips Lighting specifically. It will describe some of the strategies which Philips applie...

Coupled activities are the main reasons to cause collaboration in product development (PD) process. Previous modeling approaches such as Petri net, IDEF and DSM fail to represent the collaboration characteristic of PD process well. Considering the characteristics of optoelectronic PD process especially for demand of collaborative development, this paper proposes the process planning framework, ...

— In order to have drinking water, some countries have to use chlorine. It is use cause is effective and it's cheap. An alternative to this process is the UV disinfection of drinking water. Most of the devices in the market use UV bulbs or mercury lamps. The UV LED, which is cheaper and smaller, allows creating new smaller devices. The main contribution of this paper is the use of Genetic Algor...