LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the XLamp XP-L2 LED, delivering up to 7% more lumens and 15% higher lumens-per-watt (LPW) than the XP-L LED. Leveraging elements of Cree's SC5 Technology Platform, ...
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Out of hundreds of entries in the competition this year, CEE presented nineteen 2016 Lighting for Tomorrow Awards to manufacturers today in Nashville, including an impressive three accolades to New York based WAC Lighting. CEE is a ...
Designed as the perfect lighting solution to fit shallow plenums above ceilings in residential and light commercial settings, the new Aether IC Rated downlight from WAC Lighting is engineered with a low profile 3.5-inch LED shallow housing. ...
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iOS 10 problems: Our guide explains how to quickly fix some of the most common iOS 10 problems, annoyances, glitches and bugs, including how to maximise storage and overcome the notorious bricking issue. Here's what you need to know. iOS ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology fabricated on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has added GU24 base PAR20, PAR30 (short and long neck) and PAR38 LED lamps to its LED ...
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. End of Heat, the 14th solar term of the year, begins this year on Aug 23 and ends on Sep 6. End of Heat implies that most parts in China are getting rid of the ...
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Researchers in Russia have developed an indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum well laser diode on (001) germanium-on-silicon 'virtual substrate' without offcut angle [V. Ya. Aleshkin et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p061111, 2016]. ...
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As part of the Local Control of Materials Synthesis (LoCo) program of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU) have developed the new electron-enhanced atomic layer deposition ...
Worries over Brexit are keeping many awake at night, according to new research from Sealy UK. The study, which questioned 1000 people from across the country, was commissioned following Brexit, and reveals that 21% have since experienced ...
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Once upon a time, the T5HO fluorescent tube was considered one of the most energy-efficient lamps in all the land. (Not any more….. not even by a long shot!) The Aleddra EasiFit T5 LED tube, with it’s glossy finish, looks and ...
South Korea's Seoul National University has integrated two Advanced Vacuum plasma processing systems from equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA into its nanotechnology fabrication lab, which supports multiple users ...
GREEN CREATIVE, the commercial grade LED lighting manufacturer proudly announces the launch of its next generation of PL DIRect and BYPass lamps for horizontal and vertical installations. The PL EDGE SERIES horizontal (PL H) and vertical ...
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University of Montpellier in France claims the first continuous-wave (cw) operation at room temperature of a 15μm indium arsenide (InAs) quantum cascade laser (QCL) [Alexei N. Baranov et al, Optics Express, vol. 24, p18799, 2016]. "To ...
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Yale University and University of Illinois Urbana in the USA have improved the efficiency of gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) solar cells on silicon (Si) by reducing threading dislocation densities (TDDs) [Kevin Nay Yaung et al, Appl. ...
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Researchers from the US Department of Agriculture are developing a packaging film made of milk proteins. The researchers presented their work at the 252nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Researchers ...
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