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Lighting Research Center Expands SSL Research Capabilities to Connected Lighting, 3D Printing
Oct 8, 2016In a 25,000-square-foot commercial office on the Rensselaer Technology Park campus in Troy, N.Y., scientists from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are making plans to install LED lighting with ...
Tags: LRC, SSL, 3D printing
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LRC Doctoral Students, Research Scientists Present Innovative Technology Research at SPIE Conference
Sep 29, 2016Two doctoral students and several research scientists from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute attended last month’s SPIE Optics + Photonics conference to present research on new innovative ...
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Plant Pathologist Jaimin Patel Joins The Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer
Aug 30, 2016The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced that world-renowned plant pathologist Jaimin Patel, Ph.D., has joined the center, further strengthening the LRC’s horticultural lighting and plant ...
Tags: pathologist Jaimin Patel, LRC
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LRC Summer Interns Investigate Solid
Aug 30, 2016For the fourth summer in a row, five undergraduate students spent eight weeks at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute learning about solid-state lighting and investigating technology and application issues. The ...
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Tailored Lighting Improves Quality of Life
Apr 20, 2016Lighting tailored to the needs of an individual can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in persons with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a recent study led by Dr. Mariana Figueiro, Light & Health Program Director at the ...
Tags: Tailored Lighting, LRC
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Mariana Figueiro Presents At NIH Workshop On Light At Night
Mar 21, 2016Rensselaer Professor Mariana Figueiro, Light and Health Program Director at the Lighting Research Center was an invited speaker and panelist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Workshop: Shift Work at Night, Artificial Light at ...
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LED Light Pollution: Can We Save Energy and Save The Night?
Feb 17, 2016Nighttime light pollution, or sky glow, is the combined light from streetlights, parking lots, malls, office buildings, stadiums and other structures that brightens night skies and drastically limits the visibility of stars. Sky glow ...
Tags: LED Light, LED lighting
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NLPIP Releases Report on Wired and Wireless Lighting Controls
Nov 19, 2015The National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) recently released its latest publication, Lighting Answers: Comparison of Wired and Wireless Lighting ...
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LRC Launches Lighting Design Website to Support Health and Wellbeing of Older Adults
Nov 12, 2015Older adults in long-term care facilities often spend their days and nights in dimly-lit rooms with minimal time spent outdoors. The constant, unvarying dim light found in many long-term care facilities means that older adults are not ...
Tags: LRC, Older adults, Lighting
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Uniform Lighting in Parking Lots Provides Better Sense of Security
Jun 15, 2015A newly published study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that improving the uniformity of lighting in parking lots can increase the sense of safety and security, as well as provide up to an ...
Tags: Uniform Lighting, HID lighting, LED
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Lightfair International 2015 Broke All Registration and Trade-Show Records
Jun 2, 2015LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®) 2015 broke all registration and trade-show records with double-digit growth marking the largest staging in its 26-year history, according to Jeffrey L. Portman, Sr., vice chairman, president and chief ...
Tags: LIGHTFAIR International, Lighting
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LRC to Establish OLED Education and Application Program
Apr 9, 2015The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is expanding its research, education, and industry activities to organic light-emitting diodes, also known as OLEDs, by establishing the OLED Lighting Education and ...
Tags: OLED Industry, LRC, OLED Education
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Lighting Research Center Launches OLED Lighting Education and Application Program
Apr 8, 2015The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is expanding its research, education, and industry activities to organic light-emitting diodes, also known as OLEDs, by establishing the OLED Lighting Education and ...
Tags: OLED, Application Program, Lights
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Therapeutic Lighting Can Be a Prescription for Better Health
Dec 16, 2014Therapeutic lighting can be a prescription for better health, especially for seniors with dementia in long-term care facilities. Now, more and more-effective products are needed to implement the highly positive research results achieved to ...
Tags: therapeutic lighting, Lights
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Bridgelux Has Debuted Its New Vero Decor Series Class a COB LED Array Products
Oct 30, 2014At the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2014 (27-30 October), Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA (a vertically integrated manufacturer of solid-state light sources for lighting applications) has debuted its new Vero Decor Series Class ...
Tags: Bridgelux LEDs, LED Arrays