Figures -- Preface -- 1 Practical Introduction to LEDs -- What Is an LED? -- Small LEDs versus Power Devices -- Phosphors versus RGB -- Inside an LED -- Is an LED Right for My Application? -- Haitz's Law(s) -- The Wild West -- LEDs and OLEDs and . . . ? -- 2 Light Bulbs and Lighting Systems -- Light Sources -- Characteristics of Light Sources -- Types of Bulbs -- History of Lighting -- Lighting Systems -- 3 Practical Introduction to Light -- The Power of Light -- Radiometric versus Photometric -- Luminous Intensity, Illuminance, and Luminance (or Candela, Lux, and Nits) -- What Color White? -- Color Rendition: How the Light Looks versus How Objects Look -- 4 Practical Characteristics of LEDs -- Current, Not Voltage -- Forward Voltage -- Reverse Breakdown -- Not Efficiency-Effi cacy! -- LED Optical Spectra -- Overdriving LEDs -- Key Datasheet Parameters -- Binning -- The Tolerance Game -- 5 Practical Thermal Performance of LEDs -- Mechanisms Behind Thermal Shifts -- Electrical Behavior of LEDs With Temperature -- Optical Behavior of LEDs With Temperature -- Other Performance Shifts With Temperature -- LED Lifetime: Lumen Degradation -- LED Lifetime: Catastrophic Failure -- Paralleling LEDs -- 6 Practical Thermal Management of LEDs -- Introduction to Thermal Analysis -- Calculation of Thermal Resistance -- The Ambient -- Practical Estimation of Temperature -- Heat Sinks -- Fans -- Radiation Enhancement -- Removing Heat from the Drive Circuitry -- 7 Practical DC Drive Circuitry for LEDs -- Basic Ideas -- Battery Basics -- Overview of SMPS -- Buck -- Boost -- Buck-Boost -- Input Voltage Limit -- Dimming -- Ballast Lifetime -- Arrays -- 8 Practical AC Drive Circuitry for LEDs -- Safety -- Which AC? -- Rectification -- Topology Selection -- Nonisolated Circuitry -- Isolation -- Component Selection -- EMI -- Power Factor Correction -- Lightning -- Dimmers -- Ripple Current Effects on LEDs -- Lifetime -- UL, Energy Star, and All That -- 9 Practical System Design With LEDs.

PCB Design -- Getting the Light Out -- LEDs in Harsh Environments -- Designing With the Next Generation LED in Mind -- Lighting Control -- 10 Practical Examples -- Example: Designing an LED Flashlight -- Example: Designing a USB Light -- Example: Designing an Automobile Taillight -- Example: Designing an LED Light Bulb -- 11 Practical Measurement of LEDs and Lighting -- Measuring Light Output -- LED Measurement Standards -- Measuring LED Temperature -- Measuring Thermal Resistance -- Measuring Power, Power Factor, and Efficiency -- Accelerated Life Tests -- 12 Practical Modeling of LEDs -- Preliminaries -- Practical Overview of Spice Modeling -- What Not to Do -- What to Do -- Modeling Forward Voltage -- Reverse Breakdown -- Modeling Optical Output -- Modeling Temperature Effects -- Modeling the Thermal Environment -- A Thermal Transient -- Some Comments on Modeling -- References -- Index -- IEEE Press Series on Power Engineering.