Cree Applications Engineers Investigate LEDs

Posted by Ginny Skalski

Working for Cree can sometimes be about the nerdy-gritty intricacies of manufacturing an LED, but it’s not always that way – just take it from our Applications Engineers. If a component doesn’t perform like it should, their main responsibility involves finding out why. (Did you know their work helped initiate the need for our new TEMPO testing services?)

With all nerdiness aside, our apps engineers’ jobs are more like working as an investigator – or shall we say CSI: Cree Solid-state Investigators. They use crime-solving technical abilities to help our customers better understand LED components. By conducting physical, electrical and optical tests, they set out to find the real culprit. Recall that lab scene from last week’s CSI episode when the technician dusts for fingerprints, swabs various objects in hopes of finding foreign substances, or examining clothes with a magnifying glass to look for fibers? That’s along the lines of what our apps engineers do, well, maybe minus the intense music in the background. Sounds pretty cool, huh?

In addition to their role with us, our CSIs are passionate LED Revolutionaries, advocating LEDs as the energy-efficient lighting option. Aww, thanks gang! We’ll be sure to get you all bullet-proof lab coats for Christmas.