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LED Lights with Symbol Marking
Wilbrecht LEDCO (St. Paul, MN) has added symbol/legend marking options to its 100/600 series of panel LEDs for custom applications. Custom and universal symbols, such as battery light or oil level, can be used...
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Four-Channel Intelligent LED Controllers
Saelig Company Inc. (Fairport, NY) has announced the LED-Warrior04, a 4 channel, intelligent, programmable LED constant-current driver with DALI, DMX512, and I2C interfaces on board. Other bus...
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Product of the Month: LED Light Engines for Large FOV Fluorescence Imaging Systems
Innovations in Optics, Inc. (Woburn, MA) offers high power LED Light Engines as excitation illuminators for large field-of-view fluorescent imagers used in...
Researchers have developed new organic compounds characterized by higher modularity, stability, and efficiency that could be applicable for use in electronics or lighting. A...
Articles: Lighting Technology
State-of-the-Art Testing for LED Lamps and Luminaires
Unlike previous lighting requirements, LED testing has become more stringent and complicated, and involves a significant number of tests for various lighting characteristics. From...
Articles: Lighting Technology
Fluid Dispensing Solutions for LEDs
LED lighting is popular because many governments are banning incandescent bulbs to save energy and carbon dioxide, especially for general lighting. In the automotive industry LEDs are being used because...
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Choosing the Right Circuit Protection for LEDs
Approximately 25 percent of global energy consumption goes to lighting applications, so making lighting more energy-efficient could have a dramatic impact on overall energy usage or make more...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Solar Powered LEDs Offer Security to Mesa Residential Community
When residents of the Park Centre Casitas residential community in Mesa, Arizona, got together and hired a security company to survey the property and suggest ways to keep it...
Application Briefs: Lighting
LEDs Reduce Energy Consumption for Monte Carlo Resort’s Street of Dreams
Light Efficient Design, a division of TADD, LLC, recently completed an LED retrofit project in the busy “Street of Dreams” retail area of the Monte Carlo Casino...
Briefs: Lighting
Quantum Dots Improve Colors on TV and Computer Screens
High-tech specks called quantum dots could bring brighter, more vibrant color to mass market TVs, tablets, phones and other displays. A new technology called 3M quantum dot enhancement...
Briefs: Lighting
Scientists Create Semiconductor Junction Only Three Atoms Thick
Scientists at the University of Washington have developed what they believe is the thinnest-possible semiconductor, a new class of nanoscale materials made in sheets only three...
Research News: Lighting
Researchers Solve the Mystery of Efficiency Droop in LEDs
The ordinary light bulb is an innovation so extraordinary that a sudden brilliant idea is called “a light bulb moment.” Credit for inventing the first incandescent-style light...
Research News: Lighting
Pyramid Scheme for Brighter Organic LEDs Could Produce Better Light Bulbs
The most common kind of light bulb in the United States— the incandescent—is only about 5 percent efficient. The phosphorescent organic light-emitting diode, on...
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LED Solar Simulator
Oriel Instruments (Bozeman, MT), a Newport Company, has introduced the LSH-7320 LED Class ABA Solar Simulator. Compared to conventional solar simulators with Xenon sources, the LED-based solar simulator provides fast...
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Wireless Software Suite
CEL (Santa Clara, CA) has announced the field trial release of its new MeshWorks™ wireless software suite. This new platform unites several tools to help create and simplify a complete mesh network design as part of...
Products: Lighting
Light Controller
EVT (Karlsruhe, Germany) presents a new light controller for difficult lighting situations. The Eye-MIO Light controller can be connected to sys tems with RS232, USB and Ethernet. EyeMIO Light is suitable for almost any...
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LED Spot Lamp
DELO (Windach, Germany) now offers a new, high-intensity LED spot lamp with a wavelength of 400 nm. The DELOLUX 50 allows for fast, reliable, pinpoint curing of adhesive layers with thicknesses up to 10 mm, making it suitable...
News: Photonics/Optics
Researchers Equip Robot with Novel Tactile Sensor
Researchers at MIT and Northeastern University have equipped a robot with a novel tactile sensor that lets it grasp a USB cable draped freely over a hook and insert it into a USB port.
The sensor is an adaptation of a technology called GelSight, which was developed by the lab of Edward Adelson,...
Articles: Lighting
Heat Pipe Solutions for LED Devices
LEDs are experiencing increasing acceptance and growth across many market segments. Part of this growth is due to new, higher-power LEDs that can be packaged in increasingly small areas. However, increased...
Articles: Lighting
LED Phosphor Application
The most common, and cost-effective, method of delivering white light from an LED is to combine a blue “pump” LED source under a layer of phosphor or phosphor blends to achieve the desired spectrum. While there...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Lighting Design Firm Wins Award for Innovative Theater Illumination
Schuler Shook Inc., Chicago, IL
During this year’s Lightfair International in Las Vegas, Nevada, GE Lighting announced the winner of...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Dynamic Lighting Control Saves Energy, Reinforces Energetic Atmosphere
AWeber Communications in Chalfont, PA thrives on creative energy. From free-form office space, to tube slide transports, to a dynamic lighting control system that...
Application Briefs: Lighting
LED Drives Savings in Manufacturing & Distribution Lighting
What do you do when you move your manufacturing and main distribution center into a new facility, and your business is built on providing key components to LED lighting OEMs? If...
Briefs: Lighting
Gallium Nitride Nanowire Tips Function as LEDs
A team of researchers has demonstrated that atomic force microscope (AFM) probe tips made from its near-perfect gallium nitride nanowires are superior in many respects to standard silicon or...
Briefs: Lighting
New Technique Makes LEDs Brighter, More Resilient
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new processing technique that makes light emitting diodes (LEDs) brighter and more resilient by coating the semiconductor...
Research News: Lighting
Light-Emitting Properties of Quantum Dots Can Help Harvest Sunlight
A house window that doubles as a solar panel could be on the horizon, thanks to recent quantum-dot work by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers in collaboration with...
Research News: Lighting
NIST Studies Why Quantum Dots Suffer from ‘Fluorescence Intermittency’
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, have found that a particular...
Research News: Lighting
Novel Nanoparticle Production Method Could Lead to Better Lights, Lenses, Solar Cells
Sandia National Laboratories has come up with an inexpensive way to synthesize titanium-dioxide nanoparticles and is seeking partners who can demonstrate...
Research News: Lighting
Researchers Determine LEDs Are Safe for Skin
There was a time when no one thought about light bulbs; when one blew, you simply screwed in another one. Nowadays, it’s more complicated, as energy efficiency concerns have given rise to a slew...
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