Creating LEDs from food waste

There’s no doubt, given total cost of ownership, that long-lasting LEDs are cheaper than predecessor technology. What if we can take the ou...

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Perovskite Nanoplatelets Yield Bright LEDs

Perovskites have become the hottest material for solar cells because they are cheap and very easy to process. They’ve also been tapped for ...

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Strobe LEDs for Ballistics Research Net Metaphase $250K Army Contract

The U.S. Army has awarded Metaphase Technologies Inc. a $250,000 contract to develop and manufacture advanced high-speed LED strobed illumi...

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How best to stabilise the output of quantum dot LEDs

Noise is an issue in optical telecommunications. And findings means of controlling noise is key to physicists investigating light-emitting d...

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Could Implantable LEDs Relieve Your Pain?

Chronic pain is often tough to understand, much less treat. But a new flexible, implantable electronic device could illuminate why certain p...

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Driver Creates Short, Powerful Pulses with LEDs

Providing high-brightness, rapidly pulsed, multicolor light, a novel LED driver could displace more expensive lasers and other light sources...

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Researchers developed highly accurate method for measuring luminous efficacy of LEDs

Researchers at Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have succeeded in developing a method which helps to improve t...

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Nitride LEDs: Multicolor InGaN nanowire LED arrays span the visible spectrum

Indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-based LEDs have revolutionized the lighting and other industries, leading to high-power white-light LEDs, amo...

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Shedding light on why blue LEDs are so tricky to make

Scientists at University College London, in collaboration with groups at the University of Bath and the Daresbury Laboratory, have uncovered...

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LED inventor Holonyak picked for '15 Draper Prize

The University of Illinois engineer who invented the first visible-light LED was honored by one of the profession's most prestigious pr...

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Lattice Power's High Output GaN-on-Silicon LED PAR38 Lamp Is Selected As A Top Architectural Record Product

Lattice Power, the first company to commercialize high performance, low cost GaN-on-Silicon LEDs, announced today that its new NUP-PAR38 LED...

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Novel LED technology enables detailed investigation of algae productivity

Because food crops are also used for energy production, millions of people are threatened by starvation. Algae could provide an alternative...

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Designing blue organic LEDs from scratch

A new, highly efficient fluorescent material for blue organic LEDs that is completely free of metals has been developed by researchers in Ja...

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Surface state engineering to achieve white LEDs with carbon nanomaterials

White-light-emitting diodes (W-LEDs) have many advantages over forms of lighting – incandescent, fluorescent and halogen – and this solid-st...

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Silicon Allotrope With Quasi-Direct Band Gap

In a fundamental discovery, scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, District of Columbia (US), have synthesised a...

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Ornamental plant seedlings grown with LED lights at Purdue

Purdue University researchers’ success in using red and blue LEDs as the only source of light to grow ornamental plant seedlings indoors ha...

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LEDs attract 50% more insects and could damage ecosystems

Blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been receiving positive attention after its inventors were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics last we...

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Korean team makes flexible LEDs with GaAn micro-rods on graphene

A team of resarchers from Seoul National University in Korea have reported growing GaN micro-rods and coaxial quantum-well heterostructures...

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Bright, Bendy Gallium Nitride LEDs

When it comes to light-emitting diodes, both inorganic and organic devices have found their niches. Inorganic LEDs, which beat organic ones ...

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High-temp-high-power LEDs may enable lower solution costs for lamps & light engines

Cree's XLamp MH-B LED series reflects an interesting strategy for helping manufacturers control their total component costs without havi...

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