Description
Book SynopsisThe essential how-to guide to designing and building LED systems, revised and updated
The second edition of Practical Lighting Design with LEDs has been revised and updated to provide the most current information for developing light-emitting diodes products. The authors, noted authorities in the field, offer a review of the most relevant topics including optical performance, materials, thermal design and modeling and measurement. Comprehensive in scope, the text covers all the information needed to design LEDs into end products.
The user-friendly text also contains numerous drawings and schematics that show how things such as measurements are actually made, and show how circuits actually work.Designed to be practical, the text includes myriad notes and illustrative examples that give pointers and how-to guides on many of the book''s topics. In addition, the book's equations are used only for practical calculations, and are kept at the level of high-schoo
Table of Contents
ABOUT THE AUTHORS IX
PREFACE XI
FIGURES XIII
CHAPTER 1 PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO LEDs 1
CHAPTER 2 LIGHT BULBS AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS 13
CHAPTER 3 PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO LIGHT 25
CHAPTER 4 PRACTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LEDs 43
CHAPTER 5 PRACTICAL THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF LEDs 57
CHAPTER 6 PRACTICAL THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF LEDs 65
CHAPTER 7 PRACTICAL DC DRIVE CIRCUITRY FOR LEDs 75
CHAPTER 8 PRACTICAL AC DRIVE CIRCUITRY FOR LEDs 91
CHAPTER 9 PRACTICAL SYSTEM DESIGN WITH LEDs 121
CHAPTER 10 PRACTICAL DESIGN OF AN LED FLASHLIGHT 135
CHAPTER 11 PRACTICAL DESIGN OF A USB LIGHT 161
CHAPTER 12 PRACTICAL DESIGN OF AN AUTOMOTIVE TAIL LIGHT 185
CHAPTER 13 PRACTICAL DESIGN OF AN LED LIGHT BULB 207
CHAPTER 14 PRACTICAL MEASUREMENT OF LEDs AND LIGHTING 225
CHAPTER 15 PRACTICAL MODELING OF LEDs 245
REFERENCES 267
INDEX 269
