With continual improvement of lighting efficacy (lumen per watt), long life, low maintenance, low energy consumption and utility company rebates, the adaption rate of LED T8 tube lamps continues to accelerate dramatically over the last ...
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At the Strategies in Light conference, a US Department of Energy representative said that later this year manufacturers can get Lighting Facts Label recognition for all members of a product family, while only fully testing one product. In ...
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The US Federal Reserve has confirmed its computer systems were accessed by hackers but said the incident did not affect the central bank's "critical operations". The acknowledgement came days after the hacker group known as Anonymous ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy said Monday that personal information about several hundred employees and contractors was stolen in a mid-January hack, but that no classified information was compromised. The agency is working with federal ...
A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an etch stop technique to improve performance of recessed-gate nitride semiconductor metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) [Bin Lu et al, IEEE Electron ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has received an award from the US Department of Energy for its work in the ...
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A recent study highlighting the net economic benefits of US liquefied natural gas exports is not the final word on whether to approve pending export applications, according to a top official at the US Department of Energy. "One thing to ...
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SEMI and the US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enhance their cooperation on standards and roadmap activities for the solar thin-film industry. As a global industry ...
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US-based LED firm Cree has started with producing LED components and began to expand into LED lighting production in 2012. According to Digitimes Research, Cree's LED lighting revenues accounted for 28.7% of the firm's total revenues in ...
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US industry continued to choose up sides on the issue of liquefied natural gas exports Tuesday with chemical giant Huntsman announcing it was joining America's Energy Advantage, a new trade group dedicated to limiting gas exports from the ...
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Spanish companies have invested billions of dollars in American solar energy since US President Barack Obama has been in office, The Huffington Post reports. Obama was sworn in for a second term yesterday, 20 January, and will give his ...
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Scientists at the University of Georgia claim to have developed the world's first LED lights that emit warm white light using a single emitting material. The move means that LEDs could soon become even more suitable for people to use in ...
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It is expected that there will be a fall in the price of LED light bulbs in the coming year. Indeed, ASPs in the LED market dropped by around 20 to 30 per cent during 2012 and manufacturers of the illuminations expect further price drops ...
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The US Department of Energy is planning to install 100+ petaflop supercomputers within the next four years as the famous national laboratories at Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore upgrade to more powerful machines. The labs, which ...
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In collaboration with Imperial College London in the UK and MicroLink Devices Inc of Niles, IL, USA, researchers in the US Naval Research Laboratory’s Electronics Technology and Science have proposed a novel triple-junction solar ...