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Nano-LEDs emit full visible spectrum of light

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from Taiwan have designed and fabricated nano-sized light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit light spanning the entire visible spectrum. Although the tiny full-color LEDs aren't intended ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

White LEDs with super-high luminous efficacy could satisfy all general lighting needs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Nichia Corporation in Tokushima, Japan, have set an ambitious goal: to develop a white LED that can replace every interior and exterior light bulb currently used in homes ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (50) | comments 34 | with audio podcast feature

Soraa LED light may dim 50-watt halogen rivals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soraa, a Fremont, California company founded in 2008, this week launched its first product, a light that uses LEDS (light emitting diodes). The "Soraa LED MR16 lamp" is the "perfect" replacement ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 24 | with audio podcast report

OLED Tunes its Colors for Sunlight-Style Illumination

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed a lighting device that can change its color temperature throughout the day, matching the natural daylight chromaticities produced by the sun. Currently, no other ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (39) | comments 15 feature

High-quality white light produced by four-color laser source

(PhysOrg.com) -- The human eye is as comfortable with white light generated by diode lasers as with that produced by increasingly popular light-emitting diodes (LEDs), according to tests conceived at Sandia ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Zinc oxide microwires improve the performance of light-emitting diodes

Researchers have used zinc oxide microwires to significantly improve the efficiency at which gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LED) convert electricity to ultraviolet light. The devices are believed to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Manufacturing method paves way for commercially viable quantum dot-based LEDs

University of Florida researchers may help resolve the public debate over America's future light source of choice: Edison's incandescent bulb or the more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamp. It could be neither.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Zeroing in on the elusive green LED

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for manufacturing green-colored LEDs with greatly enhanced light output.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Using nanophotonics to reshape on-chip computer data transmission

A team at Stanford's School of Engineering has demonstrated an ultrafast nanoscale light emitting diode (LED) that is orders of magnitude lower in power consumption than today's laser-based systems and able ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists observe 'campfire effect' in blinking nanorod semiconductors

When semiconductor nanorods are exposed to light, they blink in a seemingly random pattern. By clustering nanorods together, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have shown that their combined "on" time is increased ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum-dot LED screens may soon rival OLEDs and LCDs

(PhysOrg.com) -- A partnership has been formed between US, South Korean and Belgian companies to develop quantum-dot light emitting diode (QLED) displays to rival the organic light emitting diode (OLED) markets ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 28 | with audio podcast report

Lighter, cheaper, LED light bulbs are starting to enter the marketplace

Just when you were finally warming up to the idea of swapping out your old light bulbs with compact fluorescent ones, you may soon find a new alternative at your local hardware store.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 6

Ultrathin light-emitting diodes create new classes of lighting and display systems

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Virtual blue skies brighten the office of the future

There is light at hand for those who toil away in a poorly-lit office. Scientists at the CeBIT high-tech fair have developed a system that gives the feeling of working outside under blue skies.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Solar Cells with LEDs Provide Inexpensive Lighting

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the 1.5 billion people in developing countries who do not have electricity, many rely on kerosene lamps for light after the sun goes down. But now, researchers from Denmark have designed ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 2 weblog