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27-04-2018 Revealed: Undisclosed centre testing the future of lighting

A team of six engineers conduct round-the-clock tests on some 450 LED panels at Gooee's test centre in Florida, measuring 3,400 individual data points. This year alone, they’ve taken 150,000,000...

27-04-2018 LEDs astonishing for winter tomatoes, says top supplier

A MAJOR SUPPLIER of tomatoes to UK supermarkets has reported ‘astonishing’ results from LED lighting. Flavourfresh, which produces nearly three million kilograms of tomatoes a year for the likes...

25-04-2018 Flexible OLEDs for wearable light therap

Research centre Fraunhofer FEP has announced it will demo a wearable OLED bracelet at Wearables Europe 2018, taking place April 11th-12th in Berlin, Germany. OLEDs are already on...

16-04-2018 Syndicat de l'éclairage - Lampes halogènes, les prochaines étapes.

Suppression progressive des lampes halogènes : ou en sommes-nous et quelles sont les prochaines étapes ?De nombreux types de lampes halogènes sont progressivement éliminés du marché européen....

16-04-2018 Street light flicker is new hazard, says watchdog

FLICKER FROM LED street lights could be becoming a health hazard, the UK government’s official health watchdog for England has warned. Public Health England says in its annual medical report,...

16-04-2018 LRC Study Tests the Impact of Circadian Light on Alertness in Office Workers

In 2017, the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute published a study showing that office workers who receive a robust dose of circadian-effective light experience...

13-04-2018 Price fear as Trump hits Chinese LEDs

THE PROSPECT OF a slowing in the decline in prices for LED lighting, or even a reversal, was raised this week as it was revealed that lighting components will be included in a list of Chinese...

10-04-2018 Looking into the Future of Invisible Displays

Scientists from UC Berkeley have created a new kind of bright-light emitting device. Made from a monolayer semiconductor that is a mere three atoms thick, the whole device is a few millimeters...

10-04-2018 Mariana Figueiro Talks Healthy Lighting for Healthcare Buildings

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mariana Figueiro, PhD, Professor and Director of the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. The topic: healthy...

10-04-2018 LRC Releases Video Series on Light and Health

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently released a series of short videos on the science of lighting for human health. • Circadian Rhythms. A brief...

04-04-2018 EU Commission Releases 10th Anniversary Report on REACH Directive

Marking the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the European Union’s (EU’s) REACH Regulation, the EU Commission has published a report highlighting the EU’s progress in reducing chemical...

20-03-2018 NFC Programming of LED Driver Parameters Is Standardized by MD-SIG

Members of MD-SIG, a lighting-industry consortium, have successfully standardized a digital, wireless programming approach using near-field communication (NFC). NFC allows the manufacturer to...

15-03-2018 Major study finds outdoor lighting cut crime by 39%

In contrast to previous studies, a New York trial in a public housing area shows an expected and dramatically significant correlation between crime at night and outdoor lighting. It’s long been...

08-03-2018 DOE research compares the IES TM-30 color metric to widely-used CRI Ra

The DOE has published color metric research that compares the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) TM-30 Rf color fidelity metric with the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) CRI Ra...

06-03-2018 A Revolution in Optics from IQ Structures

ANOPTIQS lenses are suitable for all types of luminaires and can be designed for linear lighting, down lights, spotlights, wall wash and other applications. They can also be used in automobiles.