UV LEDs have impacted today’s marketplace, offering a wide range of advantages to a diverse number of applications. UV LEDs offer many benefits over traditional UV lamps, such as energy consumption, environmentally friendly are more compact and offer much more resistance to vibration and impact. However challenges still remain such as extended life hours and power output efficiency. Lumex’s new QuasarBrite™ UV LEDs overcome these challenges and has extended the use of UV LEDs in ways that might not have been considered for applications in the past, such as counterfeit detection, forensic science and medical devices.