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LED Placement

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Researchers designed a train headlight that uses two half-circular parabolic aluminized reflectors containing high-efficiency LEDs (a). The placement of each LED in the upper reflector is shown in (b). (c) shows Illumination patterns corresponding to LEDs 1 to 5 arranged as in (b), demonstrating the individual and combined illumination areas from five LEDs in the upper reflector. When used together the two reflectors form a circular illumination pattern.

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Wei-Lun Liang, National Taiwan University

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