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Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out For navigation instructions please click here Search Issue | Next Page OCTOBER 2011 LEDsmagazine.com Optical Safety Standards for LED- based products P.31 Manufacturing LED automation and wafer standards P.37 TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS OF LIGHT EMITTING DIODES Outdoor Street and Area Lighting event P.59 Entertainment LEDs illuminate TV studio P.45 Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out For navigation instructions please click here Search Issue | Next Page qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search| Issue | qSubscribeMqM Next Page Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® Par 38 Spotlight Prices of LED lighting products no longer have to be sky high and out of reach. 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Tunable lenses offer compact solution to combine fl oodlights and spotlights in one product LEDsmagazine.com OCTOBER 2011 3 qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Subscribe| Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search| Issue | qSubscribeMqM Next Page Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® commentary SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Christine Shaw & PUBLISHING DIRECTOR [email protected] EDITOR Tim Whitaker Lighting market reflects [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOR Nicole Pelletier [email protected] economic uncertainty SENIOR TECHNICAL Maury Wright EDITOR [email protected] SENIOR TECHNICAL Laura Peters EDITOR [email protected] MARKETING MANAGER Luba Hrynyk PRESENTATION MANAGER Kelli Mylchreest PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Mari Rodriguez n our last magazine issue, we commented tar, a subsidiary of LCD-panel maker AU SENIOR ILLUSTRATOR Christopher Hipp I AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT Jayne Sears-Renfer on the busy summer that had just passed, Optronics, went public on the Taiwan but September turned out to be equally stock exchange (www.ledsmagazine.com/ lively. 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