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Lumileds Solid State Lighting Fellow George Craford Awarded IEEE Edison Medal
May 18, 2017LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA says that, at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in San Francisco on 25 May during the IEEE Vision, Innovations, and Challenges (IEEE VIC) Summit, George Craford (the Lumileds Solid State Lighting Fellow) will ...
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Eaton Improve Lighting Efficiency and Performance
Apr 16, 2015Power management company Eaton today announced that it has helped improve the lighting performance and energy efficiency in a campus recreation facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. By replacing almost 400 lighting ...
Tags: LED Solutions, LED luminaires
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NAE Is Awarding The 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize
Jan 9, 2015The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is awarding the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, Nick Holonyak Jr and Shuji Nakamura for “the invention, development, and ...
Tags: LED Lighting, diode applications, Electrical
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OSA and IEEE Names Paul Daniel Dapkus as Recipient of The 2015 John Tyndall Award
Dec 16, 2014The Optical Society (OSA) and the IEEE Photonics Society have named Paul Daniel Dapkus, the W. M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), as recipient of the 2015 John Tyndall Award for ...
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Nick Holonyak Jr Created The First Practical, Visible Spectrum LED
Oct 16, 2014Nick Holonyak Jr created the first practical, visible spectrum LED Earlier this week, Lighting reported that the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics had been awarded for the invention of blue LEDs. While the three scientists responsible for the ...
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Xcel Energy Will Monitor The New Lights to Develop an LED Program for Every State
May 20, 2013GE's new Evolve™ LED Scalable Cobrahead lighting fixtures have been installed by Xcel Energy in the city of West St. Paul, Minn., as part of a utility-initiated implementation of LED street lights. Xcel Energy will monitor performance ...
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QEOS Launched Its First Commercially Available OEM/ODM Products
Apr 15, 2013Quantum Electro Opto Systems (QEOS) of Cupertino, CA, USA, which focuses on the design and high-volume production of multi-Gb/s optical communications products, has launched its first commercially available OEM/ODM products. Founded in 2008 ...
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GE Lighting Announces a Call for Entries for Its 30th Annual GE Edison Award Competition
Dec 11, 2012GE Lighting announces a call for entries for its 30th annual GE Edison Award competition, recognizing excellence and quality in professional lighting designs that employ the significant use of GE lighting products, including, but not ...
Tags: GE Lighting, Edison Award Competition, lighting design
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The 50th Anniversary of The Birth of The LED
Dec 11, 2012Even at the age of 84 Nick Holonyak Jr can still be found in his laboratory daily The 50th anniversary of the birth of the LED is being celebrated at the University of Illinois with participation from the LED inventor himself,Nick ...
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GE Lighting Continues to Evoke The Imagination of Architects
Dec 6, 2012GE Lighting continues to evoke the imagination of architects and lighting designers with LED luminaires that inspire new commercial ceiling landscapes. The Lumination™ LED Suspended Luminaire —a chic, ultra-thin fixture ...
Tags: GE, LED, inspired ceilings
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Nick Holonyak Invented The First Practical Visible-Spectrum Light-Emitting Diode
Oct 29, 2012EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — October 9, 2012 — (NYSE:GE) — Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE ...
Tags: LED Inventor, LED, LED systems, CFLs
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LED Products Has Been Released for Both Residential and Commercial Settings in 50 Years
Oct 25, 2012Fifty years ago this month, GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED). In the five decades since, businesses and municipalities the world over have embraced LED systems for ...
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This Week Marked The 50th Anniversary of LED
Oct 16, 2012It didn't get much attention, but this week marked the 50th anniversary of the invention of the first visible light-emitting diode, or LED, a technology that is well on its way to transforming the lighting industry. It was on Oct. 9, ...
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GE Scientists and Engineers Were Already Researching Semiconductor Applications
Oct 12, 2012Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE colleagues at the time called "the magic one" because its light, unlike ...
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SSL Industry Celebrates 50th Birthday of Visible LED Light 10 Oct 2012 LEDs Are Ubiquitous
Oct 11, 2012SSL industry celebrates 50th birthday of visible LED light 10 Oct 2012 LEDs are ubiquitous now, but fifty years and a few days ago they were completely unheard of until General Electric scientist Nick Holonyak Jr invented a visible red ...
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