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By INQUIRER staff: maandag 01 december 2003, 10:15
THERE'S AN INTERESTING feature in today's Nikkei Business Daily which suggests that success in producing white LEDs may mean the end of the fluorescent tube.
The article said that Rohm, based in Kyoto, has succeeded in creating a white LED that is the brightest in the world, and competes with Japanese company Nichia.
The Rohm technique uses zinc oxide to avoid patent problems with Nichia and scientists successfully made a super-bright white LED using this compound.
But while it takes 170 white LEDs to replace a meter long fluorescent tube, the cost of making them is currently too high, and it won't be until the end of the decade that they'll become cheap enough for Joe and Jane Public.
Citizen is already making commercial lights using Nichia technology but Rohm has yet to make such a partnership with this kind of distributor, it appears.
(source: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12946)
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THERE'S AN INTERESTING feature in today's Nikkei Business Daily which suggests that success in producing white LEDs may mean the end of the fluorescent tube.
The article said that Rohm, based in Kyoto, has succeeded in creating a white LED that is the brightest in the world, and competes with Japanese company Nichia.
The Rohm technique uses zinc oxide to avoid patent problems with Nichia and scientists successfully made a super-bright white LED using this compound.
But while it takes 170 white LEDs to replace a meter long fluorescent tube, the cost of making them is currently too high, and it won't be until the end of the decade that they'll become cheap enough for Joe and Jane Public.
Citizen is already making commercial lights using Nichia technology but Rohm has yet to make such a partnership with this kind of distributor, it appears.
(source: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12946)
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