Developing an accelerated life test method for LED drivers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7422, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Han, Lei ^a   Narendran, Nadarajah ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrolytic capacitor; LED driver; Life test; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTS; ELECTRONIC DRIVERS; LED DRIVER; LED DRIVERS; LIFE TEST; LONG LIFE; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; OUTPUT CURRENT; OUTPUT STAGES; SWITCH-MODE POWER SUPPLIES;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHTING; RELIABILITY; TESTING;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 70349906240     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.829901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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