Lighting LEDs are a route to energy efficiency that also allow creative effects that were not possible with incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes. But the output spectrum, like that of fluorescent tubes, is nothing like the sunlight ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that, with the Oslon LX, it is offering a new LED for widespread application in the automotive sector. The focus is on the essential functions of brightness and quality, making ...
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It didn't get much attention, but this week marked the 50th anniversary of the invention of the first visible light-emitting diode, or LED, a technology that is well on its way to transforming the lighting industry. It was on Oct. 9, ...
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SSL industry celebrates 50th birthday of visible LED light 10 Oct 2012 LEDs are ubiquitous now, but fifty years and a few days ago they were completely unheard of until General Electric scientist Nick Holonyak Jr invented a visible red ...
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Cree has announced new color LEDs that bring the same lumen output gains announced in white LEDs earlier this year to manufactures of entertainment lighting products and exterior architectural lighting products where colors are ...
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See also: The blog LED Luminaries Standard cars will have LED headlights in the next 18 months, according to headlight maker Hella. "Expect a breakthrough into volume within the next year or one and a half years," Steffen Pietzonkam ...
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Start to look into LED lighting and quickly it becomes obvious that one type of LED will not suit all situations. After a while, you get sophisticated enough to take colour-rendering index (CRI) and colour temperature into account, ...
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The Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association named Shuji Nakamura the winner of its Inventor of the Year award for innovations including Soraa's Gan-on-GaN technology. The Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association ...
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Dr.Shuji Nakamura,co-founder of Soraa Inc of Fremont,CA,USA,which develops solid-state lighting technology built on'GaN-on-GaN'(gallium nitride on gallium nitride)substrates,has received the Inventor of the Year Award from The Silicon ...
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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Increasing brightness capability has seen coloured LEDs move into applications that were previously the domain of filtered incandescent light. Perhaps the most obvious example is in car rear light clusters where red-emitting LEDs ...
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In 2010, the future of the Chinese LED market was looking brighter than ever. The world economy was recovering from the "Great Regression," new environmental and efficiency initiatives outlined in the country's twelfth five‐year plan ...
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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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Remote-phosphor systems can yield uniform light from a large emitting surface,and can eliminate the need for a secondary optic to achieve the desired light distribution,as MARTIN SCHIEL explains. As high-power LEDs have proved their ...
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Remote-phosphor technology can reduce LED component cost,increase system efficacy,and simplify thermal systems in SSL products,says MITCH JANSEN of Intematix. The July issue of LEDs Magazine featured a great article by Cree's Michael ...
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