LED + SSL

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a new GATEWAY report that summarizes the results of a survey regarding conversions to solid-state lighting in museums. The survey was sent to members of the museum community who had requested a copy of “The Guidelines for Assessing Solid-State Lighting for Museums,” the pivotal resource co-authored by [...]

The Department of Energy has posted the presentations from its 2014 Detroit SSL Workshop. A lot of great presentations, particularly, “Specifying LED in a World of Continuous Change,” all available for free download here.

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy Greetings from Rochester, NY, where the OLED community — with some facilitating by DOE — is meeting to share updates on the efforts of a new OLED Coalition, explore basic science and [...]

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy As we approach a holiday that’s all about gratitude, I’d like to take this opportunity to express my personal gratitude to Shuji Nakamura, Isamu Akasaki, and Hiroshi Amano. In awarding the three [...]

Maury Wright, editor of LEDs Magazine, had an interesting editorial that started the November 2014 issue. Focusing on color-tunable white light and new form factors, he says LEDs are beginning to realize vast transformative potential, though there’s still work to be done. Of particular interest is what we know about light’s impact on human health, [...]

In a press release, lighting artist Bentley Meeker, president of Bentley Meeker Lighting Staging, Inc., contends what we don’t understand about light is affecting our health. He says: “LEDs and fluorescent are the same light from a spectral standpoint. Daylight and halogen (or incandescent) light are similar in spectral properties. And daylight and firelight are [...]

An industry working group has published an updated version of the guide LED Luminaire Lifetime: Recommendations for Testing and Reporting, available here. Developed by the LED Systems Reliability Consortium (LSRC) under the auspices of the Next Generation Lighting Industry Alliance, it’s the latest edition in a series of publications on LED product performance and lifetime. [...]

Chris Brown, CEO of Wiedenbach-Brown, recently penned an interesting perspective on how change in the lighting industry may impact lighting distributors. The article begins: Five years ago, we were in the light bulb business. Today we’re in the semiconductor business. Five years ago, we were dealing with three lamp companies. Today we’re dealing with a [...]

The Calgary Tower, an iconic symbol in my adopted city of Calgary, recently got new LED lighting that is impressing people across the city with impressive colorful light shows occurring each day from 5AM to sunrise and nightly from dusk to midnight. There are three luminaires on the roof, 12 on the crown, and 24 [...]