Seminar Archive - 2012
April 18, 2012 6-7 p.m.
Speaker: Francis Nguyen, Senior Product Marketing Manager, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors
Title: Optimizing LEDs for Driving Pico-Projectors
Abstract: Pico projectors are emerging as a tool for sharing information as well as enabling completely new applications made possible by their small size. LEDs are emerging as the light source of choice for these tiny projection systems. We will examine the requirements of small projectors using color-sequential imagers. The optimization of RGB LEDs to meet these requirements in brightness, efficacy (lm/W), size and cost for a variety of pico-projector engine designs is examined in conjunction with other key components used in the projector such as the imager type and size, optics used and the drive electronics.
Speaker Biography: Francis Nguyen is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Inc., where he is responsible for product marketing of LED products used in LED displays, LCD backlighting and projection displays. Francis has held various engineering and product management positions in LED and display products at OSRAM. He holds a B.Sc. in E.E. from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining OSRAM/Siemens in 1991, Francis had worked in the semiconductor industry for 20 years and his experience included designing automatic assembly equipment and also manufacturing engineering in a semiconductor-assembly facility. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, headquartered in Regensburg, Germany, is one of the leading LED suppliers and is vertically integrated, having its own design and manufacturing facilities in chip fabrication and back-end assembly.
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