The U.S. Department of Energy has published the evaluation report from a GATEWAY demonstration of LED street lighting in Kansas City, MO, that was conducted in support of DOE's Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC). Nine ...
Tags: LED Street Lighting, LED, Lights, Lighting
A new scale bypass system that allows drivers and carriers with good CSA scores to pass through weigh stations without stopping, is generating some buzz in the US. The system, developed by Drivewyze, is being used at a number of scales in ...
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that the global sales of The Last of Us exceeded 3.4 million units as of July 3rd. This remarkable sales figure was achieved in less than 3 weeks since the global launch on June 14. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Sony
Many listed Chinese solar companies experienced a turnaround in the first half, even as the industry remained mired in near-depression amid a supply glut and trade disputes. Of 22 listed companies, 10 have released interim statements ...
Tags: solar companies, EU duties
The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC has developed a method to grow epitaxial nitride semiconductors on graphene [Neeraj Nepal et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p061003, 2013]. The researchers hope that this could lead to ...
Tags: Graphene, Electrical, Electronics, hot-electron transistors
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has introduced the EPC9107, a fully functional buck power conversion demonstration circuit. The board is a 9-28 V input to 3.3V, 15A maximum output current, 1MHz buck converter.It ...
Tags: EPC, E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical&Electronics
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) has announced two funding opportunities relating to solid-state lighting. Both opportunities seek proposals for “transformational advances in ...
Tags: Solid-state lighting, LEDs, ARPA-E
OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which develops III-V semiconductor devices and processes through US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA – says it has achieved Milestone 6 ...
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The Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies (ASSIST), a program of the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recently released a new publication to aid owners and facility managers of ...
"Absolutely, categorically untrue. An urban myth." That's how National Lighting Bureau Chair Howard P. Lewis (Visioneering Corporation) describes claims that compact-fluorescent lamps (CFLs) pose a fire hazard when they reach the end of ...
In a Hollywood conference room, researchers from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and product engineers from OSRAM SYLVANIA capped off eight years of research and concept development with a field ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LED lighting, LED
Solar Systems Pty Ltd of Melbourne, Australia, has achieved 'practical completion' of Australia's largest concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar power plant. Forty CPV 'Dense Array' dish systems are now fully commissioned and feeding clean ...
Tags: Silex CPV, solar, Electrical, Electronics
Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
Bulgaria-A Martin Audio sound reinforcement system has been fitted in La Playa Bar in the seaside resort of Varna,on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Part of a completely renewed interior,the dynamic new Martin Audio architectural AQ system ...
The Guardian Chair features a bulletproof vest that can be draped over the chair, worn or kneeled behind in event of a shooting. On display at NeoCon, the famous office furniture expo held in Chicago last month, were all the usual ...