Norbert Engelberts

LED Experimental Thermal Characterization . by Norbert Engelberts,

In today's electronics industry, there is a constant push to have more functionality in a smaller volume. The dissipated power per function is decreasing, but more and more functions will be put within a smaller volume. Ic's, Asics, LEDs are becoming more and more powerful and the thermal load per surface area and volume is increasing. As the result, thermal management of electronics and in particular LED has taken the centre stage for their successful implementation. The presentation will discuss the combination of analytical modelling, computational modelling and experimental testing to help the designer to come up with the most optimal solution and how the final product need to be verify by thermal characterisation and measurements and the challenges involved in doing this. Participants will get an understanding of the methods available to perform accurate thermal characterization and measurement on LED products and understand the need for using experimental testing next to analytical and Computational modeling