Description

With ordinary incandescent bulbs hardly on sale anymore, there is increasing attention to the energy-efficient LED bulb as its replacement. But it's not just electrical energy that is being saved with the advent of LEDs. Where you and I simply flip the light switch after sunset to illuminate the room, there are still more than 2 billion people who use paraffin, smoke and stench to try and get some light into their homes. For them, lighting with LEDs is literally a solution to serious health problems without the need to connect to an electricity grid. Due to the low consumption of LEDs, a combination of battery and solar cell can provide enough energy for an evening's light. We can therefore rightly speak of an LED revolution.

Three aspects of this revolution will be explained tonight by employees of Philips Research. In the first lecture, Dr Hans van Sprang will explain what LEDs are, how white LED light is made, the possibilities of LED lighting and the major changes it has brought about for both manufacturers of lighting and its users.

In the second lecture, ing. Herbert Lifka will show how to make specific use of the fact that LEDs are essentially semiconductor chips and what that means for the possibilities of application and integration in lighting systems.
In the third part, Dr Evgeni Patent will take us to a type of LED lighting that you will start to see mainly in large areas: the Organic LED or OLED. This type of light source has substantially different characteristics and uses that will also only be further developed in the coming years

18.30 Registration, coffee and tea, room 11
18.30 - 19.00 Registration, coffee and tea, room 11
19.00 - 19.40 General introduction on LEDs and commercially available LEDs, by Dr Hans van Sprang
19.40 - 20.15 Developments in the field of organic LEDs, or OLEDs, by ing. Herbert Lifka
20.15 - 20.30 Break with coffee/tea
20.30 - 21.10 Aspects of system integration, by Dr Evgeni Patent
21.10 - 21.45 Question round and Discussion
21.45 Closing programme.

Speaker(s)

dr Hans van Sprang (Department Head Photonic Materials and Devices; Philips Research)
ing. Herbert Lifka (Senior Scientist Photonic Materials and Devices; Philips Research)
dr. Evgeni Patent (Senior Scientist; Philips Research)

Location

Auditorium TU/e: Hall 11, Eindhoven

PLEASE NOTE start time and venue have changed!

Organiser

Electrical Engineering

Name and contact details for information

ing. R. van Heijningen, t: 06 2528046

r.van.heijningen@philips.com