News Spotlight

LED lightbulb prices are falling and so will household power consumption

January 23, 2012

Seven years ago engineer Mike Brakey was looking over his household electric bills and was shocked at how much power it took to run his Shaker Heights home.

Philips Unveils Transparent, Solar-Powered OLED Light Concept

January 19, 2012

Philips and BASF have teamed up to develop a new car roof lighting solution using see-through OLED lights.

Steve Jobs' Failure To See Light In OLED Could Cost Apple

January 17, 2012

Steve Jobs was a hero to me and many, but he was not infallible.  He successfully saw around the corner regarding many technologies, but he made a blunder regarding OLEDs.

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Recent Blogs

LED system reliability is a strong as the weakest link: February live presentation

By Margery Conner January 23, 2012

Just before I posted my busted LED light yesterday, I received an email from Azmat Malik asking if I could help get the word out about a presentation by Rudi Hechfellner, Dir. of Applications, Philips Lumileds Lighting, "Reliability from the LED System Perspective — As Strong as the Weakest Link".

Here’s one LED light that didn’t make it to 50,000-hrs

By Margery Conner January 18, 2012

Almost two years ago I did my first LED teardown on a 7W LED bulb from Taiwanese manufacturer TESS.

Osram in pilot production with GaN-on-silicon high-power LEDs

By Margery Conner January 12, 2012

High-brightness LED prices have been dropping sharply even as their lumens/Watt has been increasing. Here’s a technology development that should serve to  drive prices even lower, albeit we won’t see the results for at least two years.

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