WASHINGTON -- Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program, and concerns about what that means to U.S. security are growing darker and more dire. China's retaking of the global supercomputing ...
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New RPI research proves the concept of integrating LED emitters on the same chip with other electronic components such as transistors, while other new research focuses on maximizing the light extraction efficiency of LEDs and lowering cost ...
The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has demonstrated the first monolithic integration of LED and high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) on the same gallium nitride (GaN) chip. It is ...
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The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA has demonstrated what is reckoned to be the first monolithically integrated light-emitting diode (LED) and high-electron-mobility ...
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The Colour Rendering Index or CRI is one of the key metrics lighting specifiers review during the specification process. It is the relative scale on which we compare how well light sources reflect colours back to the human eye. CRI has been ...
Ute Besenecker, a graduate student pursuing her doctoral degree in architectural sciences with a concentration in lighting at Rensselaer’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) is the recipient of the Sylvan R. Shemitz Memorial Scholarship. ...
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The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has launched the first interactive website to help homeowners, contractors and builders choose the right light bulbs, fixtures and controls to maximize energy savings, ...
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Russ Leslie, associate director and professor at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer, along with Leora Radetsky, research scientist, and Aaron Smith, former research specialist, have been awarded the prestigious Leon Gaster Award ...
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The student Ming Ma from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a new method to manufacture LEDs that are brighter, more energy efficient, and have superior technical properties than those on the market today. His patent-pending ...
Acute or chronic sleep deprivation resulting in increased feelings of fatigue is one of the leading causes of workplace incidents and related injuries. More incidents and performance failures, such as automobile accidents, occur in the ...
Posted by Jack Mans, Plant Operations Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/16/2013 3:38:26 PM Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to kill deadly pathogenic bacteria, including listeria, in food ...
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The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer recently unveiled its new photometry laboratory with a ribbon cutting at its 25th anniversary celebration, March 20. The new laboratory is supported with funding from the New York State ...
Simulations reveal that the formation of some glassy materials is like the setting of a bowl of gelatin. Gelatin sets by forming a solid matrix full of random, liquid-filled pores — much like a saturated sponge. It turns out that a ...
Ming Ma, doctoral student at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A US student has won a $30,000 grant to develop a new way of manufacturing LEDs. Ming Ma, who is studying at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insititute in New York State in ...
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student Ming Ma has developed a new method to manufacture light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that are brighter, more energy efficient, and have superior technical properties than those on the market today. His ...