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The U.S. government has finally passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which will provide significant levels of funding for the development of white LED lighting technology.
http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/2/8/7?alert=1
We should see alot more of things like this 1,000 lumen LED lamp (20W), soon:
http://www.netl.doe.gov/ssl/highlights_cree.html
Funded by the DOE's SSL program, Cree's Santa Barbara Technology Center demonstrated white LEDs with efficacies as high as 74 lumens per watt, and also developed a compact 1000-lumen LED lamp.
http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/2/8/7/1/CreeLamp
Cree Lighting Announces LED Brightness Levels Two Years Ahead of Industry's Performance Predictions
Durham, NC, September 2, 2005 – Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE), a leader in high brightness LED solid-state lighting components, today announced breakthrough performance results achieved in development of Cree Lighting's standard white XLamp™ 7090 Power LED. XLamp 7090 LEDs in development have demonstrated maximum luminous flux of 86 lumens and 70 lumens per watt at 350 mA. This represents a 43 percent increase in brightness compared with the maximum luminous flux of white XLamp 7090 power LEDs currently in production.
"These performance results indicate that the LED industry is at least two years closer to achieving the holy grail of 150 lumens per watt," notes Steve Johnson, head of the Lighting Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "Cree's announcement today means the LED industry is advancing brightness at a far greater pace than anticipated, which is great news for the lighting world."
These results incorporate technology that was in part developed with support provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, and by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Advanced Technology Program.
http://www.cree.com/News/news240.asp
You can read about some of the programs here:
http://www.netl.doe.gov/ssl/PDFs/SSL Portfolio 2005_2-03.pdf
It is awesome to see innovative companies rapidly advancing LED technologies at even a greater rate than various roadmaps would have predicted. With President Bush signing the bill, additional advances will occur, spuring an infant technology into the mainstream, for the benefit of everyone.
The future is bright!
http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/2/8/7?alert=1
We should see alot more of things like this 1,000 lumen LED lamp (20W), soon:
http://www.netl.doe.gov/ssl/highlights_cree.html
Funded by the DOE's SSL program, Cree's Santa Barbara Technology Center demonstrated white LEDs with efficacies as high as 74 lumens per watt, and also developed a compact 1000-lumen LED lamp.
http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/2/8/7/1/CreeLamp
Cree Lighting Announces LED Brightness Levels Two Years Ahead of Industry's Performance Predictions
Durham, NC, September 2, 2005 – Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE), a leader in high brightness LED solid-state lighting components, today announced breakthrough performance results achieved in development of Cree Lighting's standard white XLamp™ 7090 Power LED. XLamp 7090 LEDs in development have demonstrated maximum luminous flux of 86 lumens and 70 lumens per watt at 350 mA. This represents a 43 percent increase in brightness compared with the maximum luminous flux of white XLamp 7090 power LEDs currently in production.
"These performance results indicate that the LED industry is at least two years closer to achieving the holy grail of 150 lumens per watt," notes Steve Johnson, head of the Lighting Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "Cree's announcement today means the LED industry is advancing brightness at a far greater pace than anticipated, which is great news for the lighting world."
These results incorporate technology that was in part developed with support provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, and by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Advanced Technology Program.
http://www.cree.com/News/news240.asp
You can read about some of the programs here:
http://www.netl.doe.gov/ssl/PDFs/SSL Portfolio 2005_2-03.pdf
It is awesome to see innovative companies rapidly advancing LED technologies at even a greater rate than various roadmaps would have predicted. With President Bush signing the bill, additional advances will occur, spuring an infant technology into the mainstream, for the benefit of everyone.
The future is bright!
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