Samsung poised to introduce white LED-backlit displays

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spam_from_engadget @ May 14th 2007 6:22PM

I know some people who made some cavers' headlamps using some of the first super-bright white LEDs to come onto the market. They had a reliability problem because they underestimated the amount of heat-sinking requied; the LEDs will seem to work fine when they're hot, but the temperature will deform the bond wires or the substrate until they fail. I imagine that this is the sort of thing that another poster is describing in traffic signals.

I would hope that this sort of problem would be avoided in a monitor design. The essential point is that the basic light-emitting technology is itself very reliable; about as reliable as a transistor probably.

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