LEDs and Lighting

Lighting products are undergoing a revolution in technology with conventional lighting rapidly being replaced with solid-state solutions, with the promise of higher efficiency and greater reliability. Solid-state lighting brings with it a significant thermal challenge, as light output and long-term reliability both decrease with temperature - a particular problem for replacement products for existing luminaires.

LED Integrators to Simulate 3D Models

Mentor’s thermal design software and characterization hardware provides a complete solution to the thermal design and testing of solid-state lighting components and products.

Our thermal software embedded in mechanical CAD allows LED integrators to simulate 3D models of whole luminaires in the actual operating environment, providing a complete understanding of the product’s performance. Plus, it allows LED vendors to build validated detailed models of their parts that is backed up by measurement hardware that provides full thermal, radiometric and photometric characterization.

Featured White Paper

Solving the System-Level Thermal Management Challenges of LEDs

This white paper describes the use of CFD for LED lighting products. Thermal management is by far the most critical aspect of LED product design as both light output and lifetime are strongly affected by... View White Paper

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    FloTHERM® is a powerful 3D computational fluid dynamics software that predicts airflow and heat transfer in and around electronic equipment, including the coupled effects of conduction, convection and radiation.

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    Award winning FloEFD. Embedded into major MCAD systems Concurrent CFD software FloEFD is a full-featured 3D fluid flow and heat transfer analysis package without to help Design Engineers optimize product design and speed up their workflow. Better products, faster.

  • T3Ster

    MicReD’s flagship product, T3Ster®, is an advanced transient temperature measurement system which enables rapid and extremely accurate thermal characterization of semiconductor device packages or even complete electronic systems. A scalable solution, it offers the best price/performance ratio in the market.

  • TERALED®

    TERALED is a specialist solution for obtaining highly accurate measurements for power LEDs. It offers combined thermal and radiometric/photometric characterization of high-power LEDs, either in combination with T3Ster or as a stand-alone system.

Application Example

Projector Lamp

Temperature Plot

Projector lamps need to be fairly reliable and hard working – they tend to be on for long periods of time. Unfortunately, they produce a fair amount of heat as well. Therefore, ensuring adequate cooling is of utmost importance.

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Flow Streamlines

Recently a design engineer needed to improve his concept for a projector lamp. He used FloEFD to calculate the temperature distribution and optimize the airflow. Conducting what-if analysis to optimize the airflow is extremely easy with FloEFD. Users simply modify the geometry and without having to reapply loads or boundary conditions and re-run the analysis.

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Thermal Management of OSTAR® Projection Light Source

This document provides an introduction to the thermal fundamentals of the compact LED high power light source OSTAR® Projection from OSRAM-OS. In addition, the general handling of the new light source... View