LED + SSL

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced up to $15 million to conduct early-stage, innovative research to drive further breakthroughs in solid-state lighting technology. This funding will accelerate the development of high-quality LED and OLED products.

D+R International has announced they will continue the Lighting Facts program, recently discontinued by the U.S. Department of Energy.

A new Department of Energy report examines the energy-saving potential of LED lighting in these applications. Click to get the report.

The Department of Energy recently posted the workshop presentations and materials from its 2017 Solid-State Lighting Technology R&D Workshop, held November 8 in Portland, OR.

DOE has released a new report on a tunable lighting system installed at the Swedish Medical Behavior Unit in Seattle that sought to leverage biophilic design principles.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s GATEWAY program has released a new report on a trial installation of tunable-white LED lighting systems in three classrooms in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District in Carrollton, TX, which provides valuable insights into the use of this technology in a real-world setting.

LEDucation 2018 planning is in full swing and you are invited to share your knowledge and expertise on subjects related to and about LED Lighting. Speaking proposals are due November 19, 2017.

Flicker is an old lighting issue diminished by the mass adoption of fluorescent electronic ballasts and returned with the advent of LED sources. Photometric flicker is the modulation of light source intensity or output over time. Here’s an update on industry efforts to tackle the challenge, with a focus on the recently published NEMA standard.

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) has published a report, Assessment of Solid-State Lighting, Phase Two, which is a follow-up to its 2013 report. The new report focuses on three key areas: commercialization (noting the rapid uptake of SSL since the 2013 report), technology development (updating the findings of the 2013 report), [...]