Many consumers are shying away from LED lighting due to potential harm blue LED bulbs can have on the retina of the eye. The media has even confused blue lights emitted from blue-ray and blue LED light. So what exactly are blue LEDs then? ...
The small-footprint LED family offers a 110° beam and will serve in portable, directional, architectural, and vehicle applications with white and red, green, and blue LEDs available. Cree has announced another small-footprint LED in ...
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Jimei University in China has used indium gallium nitride (InGaN) p-type contacts to increase light output power by 45% over a reference device [Wang Min-Shuai and Huang Xiao-Jing, Chin. Phys. B, vol. 22, p086803, 2013]. The researchers ...
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Testing time of 6000 hours is the minimum typically required to qualify for ENERGY STAR® and DesignLights Consortium® (DLC) standards for LED lighting. Remote phosphor is a lighting system architecture where a separate phosphor ...
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The phosphor specialist has demonstrated what is essentially equivalent to LM-80 testing for packaged LEDs, with a sample set of remote-phosphor-based SSL modules being independently verified in delivering 100% of initial lumens over 6000 ...
Intematix Corporation announced that a sample set of lighting modules using its remote phosphors have reached 6,000 hours of life testing with 100% of initial lumens maintained as measured by TÜV SÜD, an independent testing ...
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The US Department of Energy has published a new report that examines lifetime and reliability of SSL products and makes it clear that current standards fall short of providing an accepted way of defining system life. The solid-state ...
Researchers based in the USA have used a double-heterostructuring based on order-disorder properties of aluminium indium phosphide (AlInP) to produce 'amber-green' light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Theresa M. Christian et al, J. Appl. Phys., ...
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There is something gratifying about building and reconstructing something that was once in shambles. It's almost like giving that item a whole new chance, and that is exactly what Xsite Architecture and Philips Lighting did. Part of a ...
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In line with reports, Peter Holm and Brandon Williams, the Firefly Pick creators, are wrapping up their fundraiser for an LED flashing guitar pick that creates a rhythmic light show synchronized to music as it is being played. The duo ...
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Valoya, a LED grow lights manufacturer, yesterday announced its new research findings that growing tomatoes under artificial lighting can bring additional benefits to the crop. This research was conducted at Plant Research in the ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that, even at high temperatures and high currents, its new MicroSideled 3806 ensures stable light conditions on the display. The brightness of the light-emitting diode, which is ...
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Gallium-nitride-on-silicon architecture inches closer to sapphire-based LED performance levels but a significant gap remains. Plessey Semiconductors has announced the PLB010350 LED that it is manufactured on its gallium-nitride-on-silicon ...
In a forum hosted by Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Biing-Jye Lee, chairman of Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar, emphasized the importance of innovation and that firms should start by solving customer problems. ...
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15,000 hours of constant output for portable device displays with MicroSideled 3806 Even at high temperatures and high currents the MicroSideled 3806 from Osram Opto Semiconductors ensures stable light conditions on the display. The ...
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