2013-09-13

Mitsubishi Improves LED Color Rendering For More Natural Looking Light

The maturing of the LED lighting application market has not only seen LED manufacturers aggressively increasing LED luminosity, but also gradually placing more and more attention on the importance in color rendering performance for LED products. Mitsubishi has stated that in the past most sapphire wafers included yellow phosphor in order to create white light, but that the color rendering performance was lack luster. With the evolution of phosphor technology, sapphire wafers to create white light can now also contain green and red phosphor and the same effect happens when UV wafers are paired with red, blue, and green phosphor. This has a clear improvement on color rendering.
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2009-04-22

Plants under Pink LED Light Grows Better, Shows an Experiment Exhibited in Tokyo

Nabesei Co Ltd, an electronic parts maker in Japan, exhibited plants grown under irradiation of LED lights in three different colors at an exhibition that took place from April 15 to 17, 2009, in Tokyo.
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Signify, the world leader in lighting, launches Puzzle – the first luminaire of its kind to combine striking, continuous light with office compliance, task-ready performance and a breakthrough in sustainable design using 75% recycled PET... READ MORE

A compact temperature sensor from ams OSRAM monitors conditions inside a dairy cow’s body, revealing what’s not yet detectable from the outside. Embedded within the smaXtec bolus sensor, it detects physiological changes at an early... READ MORE