University of Notre Dame (UND) is developing gallium nitride (GaN) quantum dots in aluminium nitride (AlN) as a route to deep ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jai Verma et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v104, p021105, 2014]. ...
Tags: UV Light Emission, LEDs
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report that documents early challenges and lessons learned in the development of the SSL market. Entitled Solid-State Lighting: Early Lessons Learned on the Way to Market, it ...
Tags: led, energy, fluorescent lamps, CFLs
LED chip,lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has demonstrated what it claims is the first 200 lumen-per-watt(LPW)LED concept luminaire(more than twice the efficiency of the best linear fluorescent luminaires). The latest US ...
. Falling product costs will help to propel the market for LED-based luminaires to some $25 billion in 2023, up more than a factor of 12 from today’s figure of $2 billion and equivalent to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25 ...
Comparable sales growth combined with increased profitability in first quarter LED-based business (SSL) with revenue share of one third for the first time Osram confirms outlook for full fiscal year In a still challenging environment, ...
Tags: Osram, profit growth, projector module
The situation, mixed with the entry of several new players at the chip and device levels (mostly from Asia), created a climate of overcapacity, price pressure, and strong competition. As a consequence, packaged LED volumes were sharply ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new GATEWAY report entitled Pedestrian Friendly Outdoor Lighting. Recognizing that pedestrian lighting has different criteria for success than street and area lighting, GATEWAY followed ...
Tags: DOE, outdoor lighting, GATEWAY Report, pedestrian lighting
The global chip-on-board (COB) LED market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.71% up to 2018, forecasts a report from TechNavio (the market research platform of Infiniti Research Ltd). One of the key factors ...
Tags: COB LEDs, SSL, Led Market
Ushio America, Inc. expands its offering of LED lighting solutions with an investment in Zylight LLC, a privately-owned manufacturer of intelligent LED lighting instruments for the cinema and broadcast production industries. This ...
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Two solid-state lighting (SSL) manufacturers are among the 12 businesses that will receive clean-energy tax credits ranging from $700,000 to $30m each (totaling more than $150m collectively), the US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced. ...
Tags: SSL LEDs, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) have used low-temperature metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) of p-type gallium nitride (GaN) to achieve intentional surface roughening of a solar cell device, thereby ...
Tags: Ingan Solar Cell, MOCVD
In recent years, LED technology has been the fastest growing in solid-state lighting, with a market penetration rate estimated to exceed 60 percent in 2014, according to LEDinside. Rapid improvement and the ever-increasing interest of large ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the findings of a new study utilizing a highly accelerated life-test method (called the ammer test intended to produce failures in SSL luminaires in a reasonable test period, with the goal ...
America will conclude its three-year farewell to inefficient general-purpose incandescent light bulbs on December 31, 2013, the National Lighting Bureau advises. On the following day – January 1, 2014 – it will be a violation of ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The US Department of Energy announced $150 million in tax credits with Cree and Osram Sylvania winning awards for expansion of US-based manufacturing, while Philips Lighting and Toshiba announce new LED retrofit lamps. Cree and Osram ...
Tags: LED, LED Lighting, Retrofit lamps, lamps