A new information resource centre for solid state lighting in the UK has been launched today as part of an ambitious move to accelerate the widespread adoption of LED technology. LightPlanet.co.uk will be the premier online destination ...
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Solid State Lighting (SSL) refers to a type of lighting that utilizes light-emitting diodes (LEDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), or polymer light-emitting diodes as sources of illumination rather than electrical filaments or gas. ...
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Caliper testing of five AR111 directional lamps demonstrated these LED lamps are unlikely to be effective replacements for halogen AR111 lamps due to color quality and luminous intensity distribution characteristics. The US ...
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Bruck and WILA Lighting announces the GalaxZ LED linear track fixture Date Announced:16 Aug 2012 The Zonyx GalaxZ is a line voltage LED linear track fixture for the Zonyx track system.Offered in 2 or 4 ft lengths,the fixture delivers ...
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Academics and industry experts from Taiwan announced five"Smart Lighting System Standards"on August 14.This is the first common standard for Taiwan's lighting system industry. According to Roland Chiang,director of Delta ...
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The colour of night-time skyglow may be about to undergo a radical change worldwide, according to scientists of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries. They predict that with ...
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Major lighting markets around the world have been affected by the European debt crisis to varying degrees, according to LEDinside. Certain Chinese LED firms whose business relies heavily on overseas markets have seen a decline in orders, ...
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Cooper Lighting’s Photometric Laboratory approval includes complete LM-79 and In-situ Temperature testing for solid-state lighting luminaires. Cooper Lighting, announces its Photometric Laboratory, part of its LED Innovation ...
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Soraa, dedicated in developing GaN solid-state lighting technology, has been selected by Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to lead a project on bulk GaN substrates development. It’s the only ARPA-E funded LED substrate ...
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Back-end facility in city of Wuxi represents an investment of more than €100 million by the German lighting giant. Osram, one of the world's leading lighting companies and a pioneer in the emerging market for solid-state lighting ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has been selected by the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects ...
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According to a new report, "Status of the LED Industry," a cost reduction per lumen of packaged LEDs by a factor ten is necessary for mass LED adoption to occur in lighting. Growth of the LED industry has come initially from the small ...
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Yole Développement and EPIC announce their report dedicated to the LED industry:"Status of the LED Industry".The report presents all applications of LEDs and associated market metrics,LED cost reduction opportunities,entire LED value ...
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Cree:"LEDs have changed the lighting market"08 Aug 2012 But the LED manufacturer and solid-state lighting company says that more innovation is needed before the residential market takes off. LED lighting pioneer Cree has increased its ...
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The DOE reports that the L Prize-winning Philips A-lamp is proving to be a reliable SSL performer with very little change in lumen output over 18,000 hours. After 18,000 hours of testing 200 sample Philips LED lamps, the US Department of ...