Professor Martin Dawson of the University of Strathclyde leads LED research Tiny LEDs are being developed by academics to deliver Wi-Fi-like internet communications As well as lighting buildings and outdoor spaces, LEDs are being used ...
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Norway - For the last four years, the award-winning W-DMX by Wireless Solution Sweden has been used in a very special festival in Norway, the Verket Musikkfestival. The two-day festival, held in the beautiful town of Mo i Rana, located just ...
Tags: Wireless Solution, City Colours, cables
With the target of drawing academic and industrial expertise together to address the solid-state lighting/electronics interface and its implications for custom-controlled lighting systems, Scotland’s University of Strathclyde is ...
Tags: ILC, Li-Fi technology, LED array, LEDs
Raytheon of Waltham, MA, USA has officially opened a new manufacturing facility for silicon carbide (SiC) foundry at Raytheon Glenrothes in Scotland (part of subsidiary Raytheon UK, a contractor to the UK Ministry of Defence). Developed ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has announced two changes to its supervisory board. Dr Holger Jürgensen (deputy chairman of the supervisory board) and Karl-Hermann Kuklies (ordinary member of the ...
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Philips announced Tuesday that it has sold business assets covering multimedia devices and accessories to Japanese firm Funai Electric in a cash and brand licensing deal worth $201.8 million. "Our consumer lifestyle business was margin ...
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Scientists from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland (United Kingdom) have begun to develop a new Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) technology that will use special micron-sized LED lights, such as those that could be used as part of home ...
Tags: LED lights, Light Fidelity technology, wireless communications network
LED technology developed by Cree and Aeon creates warm glow of success at top international tourist destination The warm mellow glow of a sunset is not what most consumers currently associate with LED lighting, but that is the effect now ...
Tags: LED technology, Cree, Aeon, LED lighting, MR16 lamp
At the first international sustainable energy conference hosted by the “Regions of Climate Action”(R20), Philips and R20 emphasized the benefits of rapid adoption of intelligent and energy-efficient LED lighting infrastructure ...
Some China-based solar firms hope to terminate long-term polysilicon supply contracts with international firms. The latter noted that it is quite difficult to do so because when the firms signed the contracts, there were material shortages ...
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The solar industry believes market conditions will improve in 2013 because firms now have a consensus to stop price competition. In addition, firms that dumped products and disrupted prices now have lower inventory levels, hence the market ...
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Plymouth’s street light plan proposes LED adoption Plymouth City Council’s street-lighting bill could be cut by 70 per cent, if proposals to use LEDs in all street lights, go ahead. The city’s 28,000 high-pressure ...
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Durham Castle and Cathedral has been given a makeover and is now illuminated by LED lighting, following a £600,000 project. The county council paid for the lights, which illuminate the iconic buildings that together form Durham's ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2013 (to end-December 2012), LED lighting giant Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $346.3m, up 14% on the same quarter of 2012 ($304.1m) and up 10% on Q1/2013’s $315.8m. On a non-GAAP ...
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