You could call it fatal attraction. Drawn by artificial lights in our brightening night-time world, animals find their lives in peril.
Ecology
Mar 27, 2018
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Scientists of the Tomsk State University (Russia), with colleagues from Sweden and Finland, have created an algorithm for calculating the photophysical and luminescent characteristics of molecules. This algorithm makes it ...
Materials Science
Mar 14, 2018
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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 for white LEDs that is inexpensive and easy to make. Researchers built prototype ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 19, 2018
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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 hours every day, the electricity savings of the new design ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 13, 2018
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KAIST researchers have discovered a technology that enhances the efficiency of Quantum Dot LEDs. Professor Yong-Hoon Cho from the Department of Physics and his team succeeded in improving the efficiency of quantum dot (QD) ...
Nanophysics
Jan 23, 2018
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If you've ever seen the film The Martian, you're familiar with "plants in space." The protagonist in the film, played by Matt Damon, successfully harvests potatoes on Mars to feed himself when he's stranded on the planet.
Space Exploration
Jan 10, 2018
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National University of Singapore scientists have developed energy efficient ultra-thin light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for next generation communication technologies.
Nanophysics
Jan 8, 2018
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High-power white LEDs face the same problem that Michigan Stadium faces on game day—too many people in too small of a space. Of course, there are no people inside of an LED. But there are many electrons that need to avoid ...
Nanophysics
Nov 28, 2017
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Light-emitting diodes—or LEDs, as they are commonly known—have been slowly replacing incandescent light bulbs in applications ranging from car taillights to indicators on electronics since their invention in the 1960s.
Nanophysics
Nov 21, 2017
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With concerns over moving to a clean energy platform worldwide with electric vehicles and renewables, wasted energy is a factor as important as the amount of green energy produced. Thus, solid-state lighting based upon light-emitting ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 17, 2017
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