New 12W and 25W LED driver ICs from iWatt work with triac and electronic dimmers and achieve power factor in excess of 0.95. IWatt has introduced two new dimmable solid-state lighting (SSL) driver ...
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The 2012 update of the SSL Manufacturing R&D Roadmap guides research programs in LED and OLED manufacturing with the goal of meeting aggressive cost targets for 2015 and 2020. The US Department of ...
The Department of Health has reached an agreement with supplier CSC over the Lorenzo clinical management and patient administration systems fiasco which,it says,will save it as much as£1bn. Further reading CSC and the NHS:Lorenzo ...
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iWatt has introduced a mains LED driver for loads up to 25W,claiming it to be flicker-less. "This new platform expands iWatta??s existing line of LED drivers,offering compatibility with an even wider range of installed dimmers,including ...
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Albeo wins patent for integrating bare LED die directly in fixtures(Updated)14 Aug 2012 Albeo's chip-in-fixture approach holds promise of lower manufacturing costs for SSL troffers,although products are a year or more away. ...
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IBM has announced a smaller, faster, more secure mainframe computer to compete with increasingly popular, lower cost, PC-based enterprise servers. The move is aimed at countering a long-term decline in the sales of mainframes and securing ...
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Paperlinx's net loss was $266.7 million for the year to 30 June, 2012, compared to the $108 million loss to the end of June, 2011. Investors were told on 26 June that the expected loss for the year would be $171 million. Chairman Harry ...
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Simply choosing the cheapest LED components has its risks and a better approach is to take a system-level perspective, aiming for the most cost-effective design, writes Mark Pinkney, divisional marketing manager, Anglia Lighting LED ...
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Graphic:Current density versus voltage for CZTS PV cell. In partnership with Tokyo-based Solar Frontier(the world's largest manufacturer of copper indium selenium thin-film photovoltaic solar modules),Tokyo Ohka Kogyo(TOK)and DelSolar(a ...
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Software control Raydiance,the California-based developer of packaged femtosecond laser technology targeted at manufacturing and machining applications,has announced the completion of a round of growth financing worth$20 million. The ...
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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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Groom Energy, in cooperation with Greentech Media, just published its latest Enterprise LED market research, which studies trends in commercial and industrial LED lighting and profiles the top vendors. The report includes a newly developed ...
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Network World - NSS Labs, which tests security products, today introduced what it's calling the "Security Value Map," a graphical evaluation of security gear based on the relative merit of each product's technical and cost advantage. The ...
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For full-year fiscal 2012 (ended 24 June), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $1.16bn, up 18% on $988m for fiscal 2011. This consisted of $757m for LED products (components, chips and materials), $335m for lighting products ...
The US National Science Foundation(NSF)has awarded Rochester Institute of Technology(RIT) 1.2million dollars to develop,fabricate and test a new family of infrared detectors grown on silicon substrates by Raytheon Visions Systems(RVS)of ...
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