Soraa has garnered much attention since founder Japanese LED scientist Shuji Nakamura has been helping drive the company towards success. Soraa was able to leverage funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE), and now the company has ...
A report released by the US Department of Energy has revealed that the nation could save $37 billion (£23.8 billion) in energy costs if it made the overnight switch to LED bulbs. Therefore, many homes could be similarly missing out on ...
Tags: LED technology, LED bulbs, LED
LED-based lighting is saving 71 trillion BTUs across ten identified applications, but those savings could increase more than 50 fold with a complete transition to SSL. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report entitled ...
Tags: LED Energy, LED, Lighting
Litecontrol, Plextronics, InnoSys, and Universal Display win funding for various OLED research projects as the DOE seeks to push the SSL technology toward broader commercialization. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced four new ...
Tags: DOE Awards, OLED Projects, Lighting
Pie chart on the left shows that LEDs were responsible for 71 tBtu of energy savings in 2012. The different coloured segments show what proportion of that figure each technology was responsible for. The graph on the right shows that a ...
Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the école Polytechnique in Paris, France, say that they have identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes nitride light-emitting diodes ...
Tags: LED light, LED, light, Electronics
The US Department of Energy in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences has been testing LEDs over the last few years. In a project that now consists of three parts, they have finished their final stage of testing. This third ...
The Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium has released its Model Specification for Adaptive Control and Remote Monitoring of LED Roadway Luminaires aimed at helping municipalities and utilities maximize energy savings. The US ...
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Royal Philips Electronics of Eindhoven, The Netherlands claims that it has created the world’s most energy-efficient LED lamp for general lighting applications. Philips researchers have developed a prototype ‘TLED’ lamp ...
The US Department of Energy has released a report on the third part of its LED Environmental testing research, has published a new study covering LED and fluorescent sources in commercial ambient lighting, and has revealed National Academy ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has raised its world record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) total area module efficiency from 14.4% (set in January 2012) to 16.1%, as confirmed in tests by the US Department of Energy's ...
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Boeing Company says that its subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA recently set a record of 37.8% for energy conversion efficiency in a ground-based solar cell without solar concentration (i.e. without the common practice of using ...
Tags: Spectrolab non-concentrator Solar Cell, Solar Cell, Electrical
Luxury plug-in hybrid carmaker Fisker Automotive looks set to file for bankruptcy protection in the US as soon as this week, according to latest reports. Under pressure from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to re-pay nearly US$200 ...
Sumitomo and Tokyo Gas have concluded a natural gas liquefaction tolling agreement with Dominion Resources and signed heads of agreements to supply LNG from the US company's proposed Cove Point project in Maryland, the Japanese companies ...
The global LED lighting market will be worth $25.4 billion in 2013, representing 54% growth on the 2012 figure of $16.5, while the LED lighting penetration rate will also rise to 18.6%, according to a new DIGITIMES Research Special Report ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Lighting Market, LED