The past decade has seen a revolution in automotive lighting, a sector
that not only includes visible lighting today, but also illumination
through infrared sources as lighting and driver assistance systems
combine.The
lighting industry
as a whole has moved rapidly from simple incandescent and gas discharge
based light sources to solid-state technology in the form of light
emitting diodes (LED) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED).Moving to
solid-state light sources brings a number of clear advantages, not
least a significant reduction in energy use. Illumination has accounted
for a significant proportion of energy use and a 50% reduction by 2025
over 2005, through the move to solid-state light sources, which is a
significant achievement largely led by the automotive sector. Within the
automotive sector, solid-state light sources allow an overall reduction
in CO2 emissions, and light sources have a significantly longer working
lifetime. Beyond the LED and close to production OLED light sources
that are being incorporated in vehicles today, new light sources in
development include digital micro-mirror devices (DMD) and laser
technology.
To Know More : Advanced Automotive Lighting Systems.
