The LED sun: artificial light completely mimics properties of natural sunlight
A natural skyline at the flick of a switch.
Tag: LED
Novel material paves the way for atom-thin, invisible displays
The future is now!
New, cheap artificial photosynthesis scrubs the air and produces fuel
Currently only works with blue light, but they're working on fixing that.
Cheaper, brighter and easier to manufacture LEDs created from organic-inorganic hybrid class of materials
Florida Researchers have developed a new class of LEDs that may change the lighting and display industry of the future.
Blue visible light can be used as insect killer, research shows
Keeping insects at bay is more than eliminating a simple nuisance - in many some parts of the world, it's ...
Lightpaper prints LEDs and ink on incredibly thin surfaces
When I first heard about 3-D printing, I was completely stoked. The whole concept blew me away and changed forever ...
Forget incandescent light bulbs, make way for quantum dot LEDs
The quantum dot device structure shown with a transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of a cross-section ...
Natural brightness: fireflies inspire LEDs with 55% more efficiency
A firefly specimen from the genus Photuris, which is commonly found in Latin America and the ...
NASA to test sleep-aid coloured light bulbs
Space flight insomnia is quite a common issue, one for which space agencies don't have a definite answer yet - ...
Curing jet lag with timezone adjusting LED glasses
Along with technology came a series of new afflictions that plagued mankind. Most of them are psychological, like internet addiction ...
[ZME Contest] WIN solar charger and Rechargeable LED Work light
Hey, guys! We've received some great feedback from our previous contest, when we offered an awesome DNA portrait to one ...
4 Super Environmentally Friendly Houses in the UK
Malator in Druidstone, Wales 'Future Pod Design in the Earth' in the Welsh Valleys Touted as ...
MIT engineers create LED that has 230% efficiency. Thermodynamics laws still in place
[caption id="attachment_12091" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A typical light emitting diode, captioned here only for illustrative purposes. Not the actual LED used ...
MBE machine grows gadgets one atom at a time
Dubbed MBE, after the intricate molecular beam epitaxy process, ...
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