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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2012, Article ID 513768, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/513768 Research Article A Study on the Working Performance of Dimming Methods for Single- and Multichip Power LEDs ˙ Ismail Kıyak Department of Electrical Education, Technical Education Faculty, Marmara University, 34782 Istanbul, Turkey ˙ Correspondence should be addressed to Ismail Kıyak, imkiyak@.tr Received 3 August 2012; Revised 17 September 2012; Accepted 17 September 2012 Academic Editor: Fahrettin Yakuphanoglu ˙ Copyright © 2012 Ismail Kıyak. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Light emitting diodes (LEDs) have many positive features, such as long life, low power consumption, and high luminous efficacy. Consequently, they are very attractive for use in many applications. Also, the use of LEDs ensures energy savings. Power LEDs have increasingly been used for general lighting via multichip module technology. The output of power LEDs should be controlled to obtain life and illuminance values in catalog. In this study, the effects of different dimming methods are investigated for single-and multichip LEDs. To achieve this aim, pulse width modulation (PWM) and current variation (CV) dimming methods are applied to single and multichip power LEDs during ten stages of dimming. A current-regulated DC source is used for current variation (CV) dimming, and a driver designed by the researcher is used for pulse width modulation (PWM) dimming. Moreover, all of the applications are made for ac