High initial price: LEDs are currently more expensive, price per lumen, on an initial capital cost basis, than most conventional lighting technologies. As of 2010, the cost per thousand lumens (kilolumen) was about $18. The price is ...
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With a variety of features geared for speed and efficiency, ColorFast is a one-stop shop where video editors can quickly fix exposure problems and create the look they want across an entire production. Video technology company NewBlue, ...
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White light There are two primary ways of producing white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs), LEDs that generate high-intensity white light. One is to use individual LEDs that emit three primary colors— red, green, and blue — and ...
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In a sweeping change of ownership, Chevron is taking control of Canada's Kitimat LNG project, with two of the three partners bowing out after failing in their attempts over the past year to secure offtake customers in Asia. The ...
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Seoul National University and Ritsumeikan University in Korea have developed a new technique for growing higher-quality gallium nitride (GaN) layers at temperatures as low as 500°C [In-Su Shin et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol5, p125503, ...
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Yale University has developed techniques to release nitride semiconductor layers and transfer them to other substrates, allowing vertical current-flow light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Yu Zhang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol100, p181908, 2012]. ...
The Mars Science Laboratory space-probe successfully delivered the Curiosity rover onto the surface of Mars as scheduled on August 6th 2012, and all being well the exploration vehicle will soon be about its business. Curiosity's agenda ...
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Despite advances in storage technology such as disk-based back-up, data de-duplication software and cloud-based storage, yesteryear's storage device – tape – is not dead, according to analysts and suppliers at SNW Europe 2012. ...
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Two Yale University researchers have developed epitaxial distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) in nitride semiconductors with reflectivities of more than 98% [Danti Chen and Jung Han, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p221104, 2012]. Further, the ...
SoleraTec LLC, a provider of innovative video lifecycle management and storage software, has released version 5.7 of the Phoenix RSM surveillance video management software solution. Designed to manage the long-term retention storage needs ...
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Hiden Analytical Ltd of Warrington, UK has introduced its Overlap Evaluator ipad app reference tool for users of mass spectrometers operating in the fields of vacuum science and vacuum processing, and for researchers using real-time gas ...
US-based Spectra has designed, tooled and decorated new plastic containers for naturally produced personal care brand Bamford Body. Bamford, which produces a range of luxurious eco-conscious products, tasked Spectra to provide 50ml and ...
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UK-based packaging manufacturer Spectra Packaging has produced new plastic bottles for country spa retreat Calcot Manor. Molded in HDPE and PET, the new containers created for Calcot Manor's three luxury spa bath and body collections - ...
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How do you collect data from stars thousands of light years away while positioning a 300-ton telescope to within a fraction of a human hair? You use a high-tech spectrometer called MOSFIRE, rotating on a Kaydon bearing. With MOSFIRE, ...
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Parquet flooring -- just pieces of wood? Think again. The production of parquet wood flooring places high demands on the quality of raw material. A German flooring manufacturer is using a machine vision system with 5 IDS cameras to check ...
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