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Korean Researchers Improved Color Stability of White OLED

Researchers in Korea claim to have improved the color stability of white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) over a wide luminance range. The team says that stable color was observed between 100 cd/m2 and 10,000 cd/m2 without any change of color index or spectrum shape.

25 Oct 2007

New High-Brightness LED Driver From National Semiconductor

National Semiconductor Corporation today introduced the industry's first common-anode, current-mode, high-brightness light-emitting diode (LED) driver with pulse-width modulation (PWM) dimming. The LM3433, a member of National's PowerWise(R) energy-efficient product family, drives high-power, high-brightness LEDs in backlighting, projector and solid-state lighting applications.

24 Oct 2007

Enova Medical Developed New Cordless LED Surgical Headlights That Exceeds 200,000 lux

Enova Medical Technologies announced today that it has developed new LED technology for cordless surgical headlights that, for the first time ever, reaches light output levels exceeding 200,000 lux at 14 inches.

19 Oct 2007

Polymer Incorporated into Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Increases Light Emission

Organic based solution processable devices are promising to revolutionise the lighting and photovoltaic industries of the future. The move away from traditional inorganic materials is driven not only by cost considerations, but also sustainability issues and life-cycle costs. However, current organic device efficiencies and lifetimes are not high enough for many applications.

18 Oct 2007

Philips Awarded Contract to Develop New Light Test System

Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions, the entity formed by Philips' recent acquisition of Boston's Color Kinetics Inc., has been awarded a $250,000 contract by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

18 Oct 2007

Cree Hoping to Spread Word About LED Technology with New Partner

A new partnership with Duke Energy has Cree hoping to spread the word about its light-emitting diode technology.

18 Oct 2007

Bronx Residents Now Have Verizon's FiOS Internet Service at Their Fingertips

Residents of the 1,416-unit Eastchester Heights apartment complex in the Eastchester section of the Bronx now have Verizon's FiOS Internet service at their fingertips, delivered on the nation's most advanced digital all-fiber-optic network right into their homes. With FiOS Internet, they get download speeds of up to 50 Mbps.

17 Oct 2007

Dow Corning Introduces New Encapsulants to Increase Brightness for the Fast Growing LED market

Dow Corning Corp. today introduced three new two-part high refractive index (HRI) silicone encapsulants to serve the fast-growing light-emitting diode (LED) market.

17 Oct 2007

OLED Specialist teamed with ArcelorMittal to Develop Top-Emitting OLEDs on Flexible Substrates

Organic light emitting diode (OLED) specialist Novaled AG (Dresden, Germany) has teamed with ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel maker, on a project to develop top-emitting OLEDs on flexible substrates for signage and lighting at the steel group's research centre in Liege, Belgium.

17 Oct 2007

37" LCD Television Screen Illuminate by Seven PhlatLight LED Modules

Luminus Devices, Inc. and Global Lighting Technologies (GLT) Inc. have announced that they will demonstrate their PhlatLight BLU (Backlight Unit) for LCD TVs during the Flat Panel Display International 2007 Conference. T...

16 Oct 2007