Light-emitting diodes, better known as LEDs, offer substantial energy savings over incandescent and fluorescent lights and are easily produced in single colors such as red or green commonly used in traffic lights or children's toys. ...
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Transparent and translucent ceramics are on the verge of being put to industrial use as new optical materials that offer great potential. As part of the publicly funded research project OptokeraMat, SCHOTT Research and Development has laid ...
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Company Asks EPA Not to Repeat Mistakes of Compact Fluorescent Lamps(CFLs) To ensure the long-term success and widespread market adoption of LED lamps, Soraa late last week urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ...
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Kim Kisslinger, seen here with a focused-ion beam instrument, reduced the InGaN samples to a thickness of just 20 nanometers to prepare them for electron microscopy. From the high-resolution glow of flat screen televisions to light bulbs ...
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The new Osram Light Finder app helps you find the right lamp or luminaire in a few short steps Osram's Light Finder, an app that greatly simplifies the purchase of lamps and luminaires, is now available for immediate download. App users ...
Peerless Mino LED luminaires are now offered in 1’ x 4’ and 1’ x 1’ models; energy efficiency increased by up to 15%. Peerless — a leading designer and manufacturer of architectural luminaires and one of the ...
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American Lighting, a manufacturer and distributor of lighting technologies for residential, commercial and specialty markets, announced LED Linkworks, a versatile, interconnecting linear lighting fixture. The linkable lighting fixture is ...
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Global LED tube lighting shipments in 2013 will increase to 220 million units to account for 5.5% of the entire lighting market, as LED tube lights' luminous efficiency reaches 110lm/W, which is comparable to that of fluorescent ones, ...
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Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, When the ballasts in the existing fluorescent light fixtures in the gymnasium at Trinidad’s community center began failing in recent months, causing the lights to go out one-by-one, Marty ...
The D + I Floor Lamp was made is France by Presse Citron. Mimicing the shape of a real live tree trunk, the designer used polyethylene to create the D + I Floor Lamp’s exterior and fluorescent lighting for the internal light source. ...
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May 16, 2013 - UL is notifying consumers and retailers that the compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) identified below bears a counterfeit UL Mark for Canada and the United States. It has not been evaluated by UL to the appropriate standards for ...
Electricity bills are one of those expenditures which we cannot avoid. Therefore, it is imperative during these financially challenging times that people are doing as much as possible to keep the cost of bills down so they have more money ...
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Installing a light fixture under an upper cabinet can provide more directed task lighting on counter surfaces below it—which can be important if the work usually done there involves using a knife or other sharp kitchen utensils. Work ...
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Editor’s Note: The following column By Mike Feinstein, vice president, sales and marketing, Digital Lumens, is part of Modern’s Other Voices column. The series features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, analysts, ...
Building upon the success of the CR Series downlights, Cree, Inc. introduces Cree Full Definition CR4™ and CR6™ downlights – the ideal luminaire to replace outdated incandescent four- and six-inch recessed downlights. ...
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