Academics and industry experts from Taiwan announced five"Smart Lighting System Standards"on August 14.This is the first common standard for Taiwan's lighting system industry. According to Roland Chiang,director of Delta ...
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Solid-state lighting,the LED in particular,has advanced to become a promising light source because of its ability to save energy and money,reduce environmental pollutants,and provide custom,quality lighting.This advancement could not have ...
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There is an increasing demand for LED light bulbs in Taiwan in 2012. Industry sources has estimated that the LED light bulb demand is expected to exceed 1,500,000 units in Taiwan for 2012 and the penetration rate into the local light bulb ...
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A new testing facility is set to establish in Norway,Europe to explore the survival and growth of pathogens such as E.coli and Listeria monocytogenes. The project,which is funded by the Research Council of Norway,is an initiative of food ...
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Demand for LED light bulbs has been rising fast in 2012 but some labels have been exaggerating their quality. According to the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), 20% of LED light bulbs have power outputs that differ by 20% ...
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Toshiba has announced plans to mass produce LEDs using gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology in October 2012. The technology is a joint product of Toshiba and Bridgelux. The market believes the 8-inch GaN-on-Si substrates for ...
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LM-80 testing continues to be an important component of LED lighting development. Orb Optronix,the first fully-independent ISO 17025 certified IES LM-80 testing facility in the United States,has been chosen by the Korea Photonics ...
Tags: Orb Optronix, LM-80 in-house, high-brightness LEDs, KOPTI
Philips Electronics Korea,a subsidiary under Royal Philips Electronics,has announced to appoint Kim Il-gon as the new chief of its lighting branch.He is set to take office on Sept.1. The Korean subsidiary expressed confidence in its ...
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Lucibel and Barefoot Power have closed additional rounds of financing,Next Lighting has hired Steve Paolini as CTO,Orb Optronix is to supply KOPTI with LM-80 test equipment,and Gamma Scientific is now able to perform third-party Energy ...
Tags: LED, Orb Optronix, Gamma, Next Lighting, Lucibel, Barefoot Power
At the end of June,Riber S.A.of Bezons,France,which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells,completed the sale of a Compact 21 research MBE system to a research institute in Germany. ...
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IDG News Service-CERN scientists announced on Wednesday that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the long-sought after Higgs boson,the final missing ingredient in the standard model of particle Physics. The scientists ...
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A Taiwanese government office is warning local PC vendors of a new Apple patent for its MacBook Air that could be used in legal action to try and stop the sale of ultrabook models. Last month, Apple received a U.S. patent for the exterior ...
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Recently, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), backed by Taiwan industrial technology development organization, has developed a new A19 LED bulb with unorthodox design. The new bulb is named as "Light & Light" bulbs for ...
The Institute of Microelectronics(IME),a research institute of Singapore's Agency for Science,Technology and Research(A*STAR),has announced a collaboration with global power systems company Rolls-Royce for R&D on advanced power electronics ...
Tags: GaN-Based, Electronics, Power
Wednesday,July 11 10:30am-3:30pm Enabling the Next Generation of HB LEDs We've invited industry experts from across the globe to talk about practical solutions for enabling the economics for the solid state lighting market to take ...
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