LED Smart Lighting System Based on Quantum Dots More Accurately Reproduces Daylight
Researchers have designed smart, color-controllable white light devices from quantum dots – tiny semiconductors just a few billionths of a meter in size – which…
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New Flexible Organic LED Gives Off a Comfortable Candlelight-Like Glow
Giving off a soft comfortable glow, candles set the ambiance for a special dinner or just a peaceful evening at home. However, some lighting alternatives,…
New Way To Generate Light Through Pre-Existing Defects in Semiconductor Materials
The discovery demonstrates a practical method to overcome current challenges in the manufacture of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LEDs with considerably higher indium concentration, through…
Stretchy, Flexible LEDs – Made With an Inkjet Printer
Sure, you could attach two screens with a hinge and call a cell phone “foldable,” but what if you could roll it up and put…
Pivotal Discovery of Nanomaterial for LEDs: New Low-Cost, Energy-Efficient Light Source
Breakthrough in stabilizing nanocrystals introduces a low-cost, energy-efficient light source for consumer electronic devices, detectors, and medical imaging. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are an unsung hero…
LEDs Light the Way to COVID-19 Coronavirus Disinfection
At specific wavelengths, LEDs can inactivate the virus; A group of researchers has developed a way to achieve these wavelengths more efficiently. LEDs are commonly…
“Atom Swapping” Could Lead to Low-Cost, Ultra-Bright, Flexible Next Generation LED Lighting and Displays
An international group of researchers has developed a new technique that could be used to make more efficient low-cost light-emitting materials that are flexible and…
LED Developed That Can Be Integrated Directly Into Computer Chips
The advance could cut production costs and reduce the size of microelectronics for sensing and communication. Light-emitting diodes — LEDs — can do way more…
Princeton Perovskite LED Breakthrough Enables Next-Generation Lighting and Displays
Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are nearly ubiquitous in modern life, providing the brightness in phone displays, televisions, and lights. A new form of LEDs, made…
Engineers Discover Inexpensive Material to Make High Color Quality LEDs
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has used data mining and computational tools to discover a new phosphor material…
Engineers Design New LED-Based Train Headlight Optimized for Energy Savings
Researchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy required for headlights using conventional light sources. If operated 8…
Researchers Reveal the Cause of LED Efficiency Droop
A team of researchers have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes LEDs to be less efficient at high drive currents. Santa Barbara,…
LED Styled Solar Cell Breaks Efficiency Record
Solar cell technology continues to advance and new research from the University of California, Berkeley demonstrates a new record breaking technique. Designed to be more…
The Future Of Incandescent Bulbs Not So Bright
Although Congress defunded the January 1st bill, the federal law still exists and the incandescent light bulb may soon be a thing of the past….
