Photo: Courtesy The Vintage Technology Association Nick Holonyak was sure the LED would replace the incandescent light bulb when he presented it to GE executives 50 years ago. While the incandescent is still king in homes across the ...
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It's lights out for the standard 100-watt incandescent light bulb after new national energy-efficiency laws took effect Monday. Consumers in Beaufort County, however, may have already noticed a shortage of the particular pear-shaped bulbs ...
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Two years after it began phasing out incandescent bulbs, Swedish retailer Ikea is taking another step and planning to only sell energy-efficient LED lighting by 2016. In 2010, Ikea announced plans to have all incandescent bulbs out of ...
CONSHOHOCKEN, PA. -- Swedish retail giant Ikea plans a move to all-LED lighting in its 38 U.S. stores by 2016. Ikea reports that replacing existing lighting with LED, or light-emitting diode lights, will cut energy costs in half or more, ...
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In the US, much of the legislation that was written in 2007 which would make the incandescent obsolete because they do not meet the energy efficiency standards was recently overturned in December 2011. What's left is efficiency standards ...
Lighting supplies do not have to be extremely expensive. You can still buy the perfect solution for your business at a very reasonable price. Cutting down cost is possible if you find a lighting wholesaler that can supply all your ...
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An environment group has cautioned the public against the improper disposal of compact fluorescent lamps as these energy efficient lighting facilities can be highly toxic due to its mercury content and therefore hazardous to health and ...
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Paints and coatings company,AkzoNobel,has announced plans to boost the production capacity of light emitting diodes(LEDs).This expansion,an initiative to meet the rising demand in the semi-conductor industry,will take place at the company's ...
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AkzoNobel is to boost capacity of its worldscale Trimethyl Gallium(TMGa)plant in La Porte,Texas,US-consolidating the plant's status as the largest of its kind in the world.The investment involves extending the Trimethyl Aluminum(TMAl)unit ...
AkzoNobel of Amsterdam,The Netherlands is to boost capacity at one of its US sites in order to meet increasing demand from the semiconductor industry,particularly for the production of light-emitting diodes. The investment-at its ...
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In well under a decade, LEDs have expanded their role from little red spots which tell you the HiFi is on, to include brilliant white light sources capable of illuminating a room or lighting the road ahead. Production quality LEDs are now ...
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Japanese-owned companies, Kirutorisu Tech Sdn Bhd and ATOTIS Co., Ltd. to supply light emitting diode (LED) lighting to vending machines in Japan. These contracts will enable MyLED Opto, Malaysia's LED and solid state lighting (SSL) ...
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There is plenty of fear, uncertainty and doubt out there over the upcoming federal ban on incandescent light bulbs. The very thought of losing that pear-shaped giver of warm, yellow light drove Europeans to hoard Edison's invention as the ...
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Introduction There has been a gradual slowdown in the OLED lighting market and there are a number of reasons for that. One reason is the state of the global economy. The ultimate aim is to sell OLED lighting based on its energy ...
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LEDs - or Light-Emitting Diodes – are semiconductors that generate narrow-spectrum light when electrically biased in the forward direction of the p-n junction. This effect is a form of electroluminescence. A single LED is often a ...
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