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High Yields and Nutritional Quality of Leafy Greens Achievable Using Lumileds's LUXEON SunPlus LEDs
Dec 7, 2017The results of a controlled horticulture lighting study conducted by the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA have ...
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Lighting Research Center Expands SSL Research Capabilities to Connected Lighting, 3D Printing
Oct 8, 2016In a 25,000-square-foot commercial office on the Rensselaer Technology Park campus in Troy, N.Y., scientists from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are making plans to install LED lighting with ...
Tags: LRC, SSL, 3D printing
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LRC Doctoral Students, Research Scientists Present Innovative Technology Research at SPIE Conference
Sep 29, 2016Two doctoral students and several research scientists from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute attended last month’s SPIE Optics + Photonics conference to present research on new innovative ...
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LESA ERC Develops High-Speed VLC Link with Integrated Microchip Receiver
Sep 20, 2016The Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA), an Engineering Research Center (ERC) funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) headquartered at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, recently achieved ...
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Plant Pathologist Jaimin Patel Joins The Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer
Aug 30, 2016The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced that world-renowned plant pathologist Jaimin Patel, Ph.D., has joined the center, further strengthening the LRC’s horticultural lighting and plant ...
Tags: pathologist Jaimin Patel, LRC
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LRC Summer Interns Investigate Solid
Aug 30, 2016For the fourth summer in a row, five undergraduate students spent eight weeks at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute learning about solid-state lighting and investigating technology and application issues. The ...
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Bi-Directional Silicon Carbide Planar Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor
Jul 5, 2016Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Global Research Center in the USA "experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, bi-directional 4H-silicon carbide planar gate, insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) fabricated on ...
Tags: Bipolar Transistor
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Tailored Lighting Improves Quality of Life
Apr 20, 2016Lighting tailored to the needs of an individual can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in persons with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a recent study led by Dr. Mariana Figueiro, Light & Health Program Director at the ...
Tags: Tailored Lighting, LRC
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LED Light Pollution: Can We Save Energy and Save The Night?
Feb 17, 2016Nighttime light pollution, or sky glow, is the combined light from streetlights, parking lots, malls, office buildings, stadiums and other structures that brightens night skies and drastically limits the visibility of stars. Sky glow ...
Tags: LED Light, LED lighting
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NLPIP Releases Report on Wired and Wireless Lighting Controls
Nov 19, 2015The National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) recently released its latest publication, Lighting Answers: Comparison of Wired and Wireless Lighting ...
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LRC Launches Lighting Design Website to Support Health and Wellbeing of Older Adults
Nov 12, 2015Older adults in long-term care facilities often spend their days and nights in dimly-lit rooms with minimal time spent outdoors. The constant, unvarying dim light found in many long-term care facilities means that older adults are not ...
Tags: LRC, Older adults, Lighting
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Rensselaer's Michael Shur Wins Iet Achievement Award for DUV LED Research
Nov 9, 2015Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA says that Michael Shur (its Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts Professor of Solid State Electronics) is to receive an Achievement award from the UK's Institution of Engineering and ...
Tags: DUV LED Research, transistor
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Auger Recombination Primary Cause of Efficiency Droop, Say Simulations
Aug 10, 2015Joachim Piprek, founder & president of NUSOD Institute LLC in the USA, has run simulations that he believes eliminate electron leakage as the primary cause of efficiency droop at high current in blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Appl. ...
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Uniform Lighting in Parking Lots Provides Better Sense of Security
Jun 15, 2015A newly published study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that improving the uniformity of lighting in parking lots can increase the sense of safety and security, as well as provide up to an ...
Tags: Uniform Lighting, HID lighting, LED
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Deep Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes
Apr 28, 2015Researchers in Korea and USA have developed sidewall emission-enhanced (SEE) deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to improve light extraction efficiency DUV LEDs with wavelengths less than 300nm become very inefficient due ...
Tags: Light-Emitting Diodes, LEDs