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Soraa Announced The Next Generation of Its High External Quantum
Feb 17, 2013Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has announced the next generation of its high external quantum efficiency ...
Tags: Soraa GaN-on-GaN, LED, USA
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Higher-CRI Lamps Can Increase Energy Savings Through Broader Usage
Jan 25, 2013A group of lighting designers and manufacturers, researchers, and utilities have joined to ask the EPA to recognize that higher-CRI lamps can increase energy savings through broader usage even with a slightly reduced efficacy specification. ...
Tags: Lighting Coalition, EPA, High CRI Lamps
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Addressing LED Lamp Light Quality Become an Important Issue
Jan 24, 2013Recently, the lighting sector has urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program to address light quality, specifically color rendering, in its new lamp specification, in a bid to ensure the long-term ...
Tags: EPA, light quality, LED lamps
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Nitride Solutions Inc of Wichita Has Been Awarded a US National Science Foundation
Dec 27, 2012Nitride Solutions Inc of Wichita, KS, USA, which is developing substrates for LEDs, lasers and power electronics, has been awarded a US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of nearly $150,000 to commercialize its manufacturing ...
Tags: Nitride Solutions Inc, LEDs, AlN, substrates
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Current Bright Blue LEDs Are Based on The Wide Band Gap Semiconductors GaN
Dec 20, 2012Current bright blue LEDs are based on the wide band gap semiconductors GaN (gallium nitride) and InGaN (indium gallium nitride). They can be added to existing red and green LEDs to produce the impression of white light, though white LEDs ...
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LED History About 50 Years Has Been Released
Dec 12, 2012Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
Tags: General Electric, LED history, USA
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MR16 Led Lamps Offer The Highest Quality Available and Greatly Reduce Energy Waste
Dec 11, 2012What do consumers really look for in a light bulb? How about LEDs? What makes one LED better than the next? LEDs slow rise to fame has met many of the consumer's desired criteria including: the best in energy efficiency long life ...
Tags: LEDs, light bulb, LED lamps, desired criteria, LED lighting, energy density
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Whatever The Future Holds,It Looks Bright for LED
Dec 11, 2012The modern day LED was born 50 years ago this month.Jeanine Chrobak-Kando,Business Development Manager at Verbatim,describes how far the lighting technology has come in such a short time. Light-emitting diodes(LEDs)have become an ...
Tags: LED, celebrates 50th Anniversary, Jeanine Chrobak-Kando
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LEDnovation Has Developed a 100W-Equivalent A-Lamp
Dec 10, 2012LEDnovation introduces 75W-and 100W-equivalent A-lamps,warm-on-dim BR30 28 Sep LEDnovation has developed a 100W-equivalent A-lamp that produces 1600 lm and uses 19W,while its new 75-equivalent A-lamp uses 14W to produces 1150 lm.The BR30 ...
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It Is 50 Years of LED Lighting
Nov 1, 2012It is 50 years since laser scientist Dr Nick Holonyak and his team of researchers at General Electric made the breakthrough with a new type of alloy that allowed them to create the first practical, visible-spectrum LED and paved the way for ...
Tags: LED Lighting
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Nick Holonyak Was Sure The LED Would Replace The Incandescent Light Bulb
Oct 10, 2012Photo: Courtesy The Vintage Technology Association Nick Holonyak was sure the LED would replace the incandescent light bulb when he presented it to GE executives 50 years ago. While the incandescent is still king in homes across the ...
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SVIPLA Annually Bestows Its Inventor of The Year Award to an Individual
Sep 29, 2012The 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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Shuji Received The Inventor of Year Award From The Silicon Valley Intellectual Property
Sep 29, 2012Dr.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 ...
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LEDs Have Expanded Their Role From Little Red Spots
Sep 27, 2012In 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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LEDs Lend Themselves Well to The New Substrate
Aug 20, 2012Using GaN as a substrate holds promise for many industries,but has immediate applications for light-emitting diodes(LEDs),which Soraa manufactures.A major advancement in a commercially viable new substrate is a promising disruptive ...
