Auto parts manufacturer Johnson Controls has secured a contract to supply Lithium-ion batteries to power plug-in hybrid trucks from the US Department of Energy (DOE). The deal is part of DOE's electrification initiative, under which 120 ...
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As a response to the (solid-state lighting) SSL Manufacturing R&D funding opportunity announcement made in December, the US. Department of Energy (DOE) has competitively selected five projects for SSL to receive the fourth round of funding. ...
Tags: lighting, LED lighting
In the future, your smartphone might be made out of concrete, no seriously. A group of researchers working together from the US, Finland, Germany, and Japan who work in conjunction with the US Department of Energy have developed a method of ...
Tags: Metal/Glass, Construction
A contentious controversy surrounds the high intensity of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LEDs, with experts split on whether or not indium-rich clusters within the material provide their remarkable efficiency. Now, researchers from the ...
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Tesla Motors has paid off the remaining portion of the loan granted to it by the US Department of Energy in 2010. The California-based electric vehicle manufacturer transferred US$451.8 million ($464.0 million) this week to clear its debt ...
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A report by the US Department of Energy entitled ‘Adoption of light-emitting diodes in common lighting applications’ published in April has discovered that LEDs could save the US $37 billion in energy costs. Lighting reports ...
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Apart from gradually replacing traditional lighting, LED lighting is targeting the high-end market with more value-added products. In addition, commercialization of OLED lighting has also started. LED lighting prices were four times as ...
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Soraa has garnered much attention since founder Japanese LED scientist Shuji Nakamura has been helping drive the company towards success. Soraa was able to leverage funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE), and now the company has ...
A report released by the US Department of Energy has revealed that the nation could save $37 billion (£23.8 billion) in energy costs if it made the overnight switch to LED bulbs. Therefore, many homes could be similarly missing out on ...
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LED-based lighting is saving 71 trillion BTUs across ten identified applications, but those savings could increase more than 50 fold with a complete transition to SSL. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report entitled ...
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Litecontrol, Plextronics, InnoSys, and Universal Display win funding for various OLED research projects as the DOE seeks to push the SSL technology toward broader commercialization. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced four new ...
Tags: DOE Awards, OLED Projects, Lighting
Pie chart on the left shows that LEDs were responsible for 71 tBtu of energy savings in 2012. The different coloured segments show what proportion of that figure each technology was responsible for. The graph on the right shows that a ...
Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the école Polytechnique in Paris, France, say that they have identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes nitride light-emitting diodes ...
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The US Department of Energy in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences has been testing LEDs over the last few years. In a project that now consists of three parts, they have finished their final stage of testing. This third ...
The Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium has released its Model Specification for Adaptive Control and Remote Monitoring of LED Roadway Luminaires aimed at helping municipalities and utilities maximize energy savings. The US ...
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