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Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, AZ) and Powercast Corporation (Pittsburgh, PA) introduce the Lifetime Power® Energy Harvesting Development Kit featuring PIC® microcontrollers with eXtreme Low Power (XLP)...
Research News: Lighting
New Facility Aims to Make LED Lighting More Natural
A new lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is dedicated to improving the quality of light that light-emitting diodes (LEDs) produce. NIST vision scientists Wendy Davis and Yoshi Ohno and a team of physicists created the NIST Spectrally Tunable Lighting Facility (STLF).
Articles: Lighting
Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting is a mainstream technology now. LED flashlights, traffic signals, and vehicle lights are commonplace, and the push is on to replace incandescent and fluorescent lamps in...
Articles: Lighting
All LEDs, OLEDs, and AMOLEDs (light-emitting diodes, organic LEDs, and active-matrix OLED, respectively) are miniaturized solid-state technologies. Some are moving into...
Articles: Lighting
Nowhere is the motivation to convert all light sources to light-emitting diodes (LEDs) more evident than at the local home improvement store. Even a cursory glance at the LED bulbs on the MR16...
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Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp., Concord, MA, has introduced SolidWorks® 2011 3D design software that includes hundreds of improvements in design, simulation, and collaboration. New drawing detailing...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Philips Lumileds, San Jose, CA National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA
Abridge lighting project was recently completed in the Chinese city of Harbin, utilizing 1,288 linear floodlights containing 12,000...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Emerson Network Power (Carlsbad, CA) has introduced the DS2900, a high-wattage 12V front-end distributed power supply. The Emerson DS2900 is rated for up to 2900W of adjustable output power at 240A. In...
Application Briefs: Software
Ocean LED, Nuneaton, UK Proto Labs, Maple Plain, MN
Richard Sant, Chief Designer at OceanLED, sought a fast and flexible way to make low-cost, high-quality components for the firm’s latest LED lights. He found...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Rochester Electronics (Newburyport, MA) provides authorized reverse engineering services to recreate, manufacture and distribute pin-for-pin replacement parts with matched cycle for cycle timing for...
Techs for License: Lighting
Current white light generation techniques rely on color mixing from red, blue, and green light. While reasonable red and blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are available for this scheme, there...
Products: Electronics & Computers
OMICRON Lab’s (Houston, TX) new universal injection transformer, B-WIT 100, was developed for the stability analysis of switched mode power supplies and control loops of any kind. Due to its special design, the...
Techs for License: Lighting
Scientists at Leiden University have invented novel phosphor materials based on rare earth elements, which have excellent absorption properties in the near-ultraviolet (UV) range and show...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Sunstone Circuits (Mulino, OR), the printed circuit board (PCB) prototype solutions provider, is launching the newest version of their design software, PCB123® v4. This free-to-use, no license required design-tool has an...
Products: Lighting
Online LED Design Tool
National Semiconductor (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced the WEBENCH® LED Architect, which enables novice and expert designers to perform real-time comparisons and optimize complex lighting systems for performance, size, and cost. To start a design, the designer enters desired light output (lumens) and adjusts the design with...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Falcon Electric, Inc. (Irwindale, CA) has introduced a long-life battery in its SSG Series™ Industrial-Grade Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS) Plus product line. The units are available in models from 1.5 to...
Products: Lighting
The CL Series LED lighting fixture from Selco Products Company (Reno, NV) is designed for 12V-24V DC systems in a variety of transportation and outdoor lighting applications. The fixtures feature a wide operating...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Lineage Power Corporation (Plano, TX), a Gores Group company, has expanded its Picot LynxTM DC-DC converter family with a new 2-amp model that is an energy-efficient, non-isolated, point-of-load (POL) converter. The 2A...
Products: Lighting
A new 70-watt LED power supply from Emerson Network Power (Columbus, OH) is in the company's LDS70 power supply series, and provides constant-current and constant-voltage modes of operation. The power supply operates from...
Products: Lighting
The Nemo is the latest in the SeaChanger line of dichroic color changers from Ocean Thin Films (Largo, FL) designed to deliver a new, energy-efficient class of high-intensity lighting. Nemo has a LIFI® plasma...
Products: Lighting
Dialight (Farmingdale, NJ) offers the DuroSite Series LED Wallpack Luminaire. With its low profile and compact design, the powder-coated aluminum wallpack luminaire is fully compliant with all standard ratings and...
Products: Lighting
Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany) has developed raw materials for highly transparent two-component polyurethane casting compounds that can be used to manufacture lighting strips and other lighting...
Products: Lighting
Ultra-thin light guides from Global Lighting Technologies (Brecksville, OH) utilize the company’s LED-based edge-lighting technology to provide backlighting for touch-enabled display graphics. GLT’s light guides...
Products: Lighting
The AS1119 LED dot matrix driver from austriamicrosystems (Unterpremstaetten, Austria) drives 144 LEDs but requires only 9 mm² PCB space, reduces external component count, reduces connector pin count, and requires fewer...
Products: Lighting
Littelfuse, Inc. (Chicago, IL) has introduced the PLED18 Series circuit protection device that increases LED lighting string reliability. The device maintains LED string brightness while improving LED reliability...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Eddy-current displacement sensorsLion PrecisionSt. Paul, MN651-484-6544 www.lionprecision.com
Stennis Space Center, NASA’s Mississippi-based headquarters for...
Application Briefs: Information Technology
Ground system telecommunications architectureGeneral Dynamics C4 SystemsFalls Church, VA480-441-3033 www.gd.com
As part of its seven-year contract with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in...
Eye on Innovation: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Somewhere during the last 100 years or so, we have lost something critical — something that funded and inspired the inventions that propelled us into modernism and delivered luxuries we now take for granted....
NASA Tech Needs
Thermal and Mechanical Stability Challenges for the LISA Mission
LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is one of the most challenging missions to be undertaken by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). This mission will provide, among other data products, direct proof of the existence of Gravitational Waves. The LISA instrument measures...
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