UK-ETC's new Source Four LED luminaire has won the prestigious PLASA Award for Sustainability at this year's PLASA 2012 show in London,against some strong competition. Performing at 30 to over 40 lumens per watt,the Source Four LED ...
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Intense Lighting, a leading manufacturer of high quality, specification grade lighting products and LED lighting solutions, has expanded its popular and highly successful MB line of LED track luminaires. With its focus on precision ...
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Remote-phosphor systems can yield uniform light from a large emitting surface,and can eliminate the need for a secondary optic to achieve the desired light distribution,as MARTIN SCHIEL explains. As high-power LEDs have proved their ...
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With the theme of"Growth,profitability and new opportunities for LED lighting in a challenging economy,"this year's Strategies in Light Europe 2012 conference takes place in Munich,Germany on September 18-20,reports Bob Steele. Strategies ...
LED lighting manufacturers can minimize supply chain issues by focusing on supplier fulfillment,selecting sources,and service standards explains RAY SJOLSETH. Regardless of industry,almost any business owner will seek a way to reduce lead ...
JIANZHONG JIAO explains that accurate and standardized characterization of LED junction temperature is critical to SSL product manufacturers developing optimal designs. A light emitting diode,or LED,per the ANSI/IES RP-16 definition,is ...
In this week's update:Are GaN-on-GaN LEDs closer to reality than previously thought?Update on our latest Webcast;DOE updates its SSL manufacturing roadmap;and OLEDs still trail LEDs in cost,but Plextronics hopes to change that. Back at ...
A number of initiatives and funding programs in Europe continue to promote solid-state lighting as both a key enabling technology and a way to build industrial strength and create jobs,writes TIM WHITAKER. Solid-state lighting(SSL)is ...
The September 2012 issue of LEDs Magazine is now available. +++Cover+++ Architect Moshe Safdie led a revamp of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City,MO including new façade lighting in the Muriel Kauffman ...
Remote-phosphor technology can reduce LED component cost,increase system efficacy,and simplify thermal systems in SSL products,says MITCH JANSEN of Intematix. The July issue of LEDs Magazine featured a great article by Cree's Michael ...
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Companies that are developing LED lighting products need to have an awareness of the wider patent landscape to help them develop,protect and exploit their own intellectual property to its fullest,as JACKIE MAGUIRE and DAVID SEGAL explain. ...
LED-based lighting can deliver narrow-spectrum light that RAJENDRA SWAMY says can provide real benefits in life-science applications such as plant growth,aquarium lighting,and general lighting that is wildlife friendly. Solid-state ...
Installation of Cree LEDway® Street Lights Expected to Save Nearly $200,000 Yearly in Energy and Maintenance Costs The Town of Oyster Bay, New York is installing LEDway® street lights from Durham-based manufacturer Cree, Inc. ...
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Up and down the UK,wizened old women and haggard old men are trudging to the edge of cliffs,pointing vaguely out to sea,one ancient eye closed against the wind."W-winter is c-coming,"they warn,a blanket clutched around their eerie little ...
At some indiscernible point in the recent past,there was a sea change in the way Brits think about energy efficiency measures around the home.Before this ethereal moment,those who made their houses more sustainable were often doing so ...
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