EAST 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 ...
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Fifty 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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Nanoco Group plc a world leader in the development and manufacture of cadmium-free quantum dots and other nanomaterials, announces that it has signed a follow-on joint development agreement with one of the world's largest lighting ...
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Novaled, a leader in the organic light-emitting diode (OLEDs) field, today announced it is named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100 list, produced by Cleantech Group, a leading research firm focused on global cleantech innovation. ...
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Officials of Willmar Municipal Utilities are continuing to study replacing high-pressure sodium streetlights with costlier but energy-efficient LED streetlights. LED stands for light-emitting diode. The utility this year bought three ...
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Ikea announced earlier this month that it will switch to selling only LED bulbs and lamps by 2016, becoming the first U.S. home furnishing retailer to do so. The announcement is fitting, as LED lighting technology celebrates its 50th ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview,NY,USA says that China's HC SemiTek Corporation has purchased a Veeco TurboDisc MaxBright gallium nitride(GaN)metal-organic chemical vapour ...
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October marks the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the LED (light-emitting diode) by General Electric's Nick Holonyak, father of the GaAsP visible LED. That decade-old innovation in the lab is finally about to seriously disrupt ...
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Amidst much media buzz about efficient new lighting technologies and a general uproar about government light bulb "bans" worldwide, the most fundamental rule for saving energy on lighting seems to be fading: Make only as much of the right ...
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A company in Texas is suing Apple over alleged infringement of patents that cover pulse-width modulation control of LEDs. Elsewhere, Cooper has filed another lawsuit against Cree and Ruud, and Relume has filed suits against ...
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All you need to help keep your business and home secure is a smartphone and a few thousand dollars — and perhaps a lighting contractor to set it up for you. "We are seeing more people, especially owners of high-end homes, wanting ...
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It 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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PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced today that it has received the 2012 Ringier Technology Innovation Award for the Plastics Industry for its ...
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V. Sealing the Deal: Federal Standards In January 2012, a federal standard became effective that requires all light bulbs sold in the United States to be 28 percent more efficient than a normal incandescent light bulb, and to continue to ...
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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 colleagues at the time called "the magic one" because its light, unlike ...
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