Researchers have used zinc oxide microwires to significantly improve the efficiency at which gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LED) convert electricity to ultraviolet light. The devices are believed to be the first LEDs whose ...
How do building owners, facility managers, and lighting specifiers choose lighting products? Purchase price and operating costs (energy and maintenance) are usually the top concerns but a host of other aspects may come into play, depending ...
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How do building owners, facility managers, and lighting specifiers choose lighting products? Purchase price and operating costs (energy and maintenance) are usually the top concerns but a host of other aspects may come into play, depending ...
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The US Department of Energy Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium has posted specification templates for LED street-lighting designed to help municipalities and utilities jumpstart their solid-state lighting programs. The US ...
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For decades, those concerned with energy savings have been touting the benefits of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) over incandescents. CFLs use only one-fifth of the electricity of incandescents to generate the same amount of light, and ...
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For decades, those concerned with energy savings have been touting the benefits of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) over incandescents. CFLs use only one-fifth of the electricity of incandescents to generate the same amount of light, and ...
A new OLED lighting market report predicts that OLED and LED lighting will compete in a number of applications. The OLAE+ funding competition is hosting an information day, WAC Lighting has introduced an OLED chandelier, and Universal ...
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Due to heavy losses resulting from weak demand as well as over expansion, about 10% of LED companies in China are expected to withdraw from the segment soon. The rapid growth of the LED industry in China has been attracting many firms to ...
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu confirmed awards for three huge solar power plants in California.The DOE made loan guarantees of: $1.46 billion to First Solar for the 550MW Desert Sunlight project, $1.237 billion to Sun Power for the 250MW ...
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu confirmed awards for three huge solar power plants in California.The DOE made loan guarantees of: $1.46 billion to First Solar for the 550MW Desert Sunlight project, $1.237 billion to Sun Power for the 250MW ...
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Industry's First Complete Testing Service Helps Lighting OEMs Speed Time-to-Market and Overcome Common Design Challenges Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of TEMPO(TM) ...
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Sources inform that the US Department of Energy (DOE) is about to fund LED manufacturing R&D with up to $10M for developers of energy-saving lighting technologies,such as LEDs and OLEDs. It’s the third round of funding that directed ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solid-state lighting (SSL) funding opportunity on September 26, 201, directed toward the existing DOE SSL R&D program area for Manufacturing Research and Development. Under this funding ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solid-state lighting (SSL) funding opportunity on September 26, 201, directed toward the existing DOE SSL R&D program area for Manufacturing Research and Development. Under this funding ...
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The LED industry has no accepted protocol for measuring and characterizing luminaire lifetime, but a new guideline from SSL Quality Advocates considers the key issues. A DOE Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Quality Advocates working group, a ...
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