Category Archives: Science!

LED Lights and the Swarmageddon

Posted on April 5, 2013 by LED Waves

Cicada season is soon to hit the east coast, and Radiolab has posted these neat instructions for a DIY Cicada tracker. These buzzers have spent the past seventeen years sleeping and snacking in soil throughout the southern United States. Once … Continue reading →

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State of the Art LED Lights Protect the State of Fine Art

Posted on January 29, 2013 by LED Waves

Last year a widely circulated study erroneously pointed to LED lighting as the cause of degrading artwork in museums. A group of researchers at Belgium’s University of Antwerp measured changes in color in yellow lead/chrome-based paint used by Vincent van … Continue reading →

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Breakthroughs in White LED Light Consistency

Posted on January 23, 2013 by LED Waves

Researchers at the University of Georgia are improving consistency in general-purpose LED lights using single-phosphor LEDs. In the current issue of Light: Science & Applications, they’ve published a promising new recipe to produce white light. The list of ingredients: A … Continue reading →

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Less Hate While You Wait

Posted on January 21, 2013 by LED Waves

Few things in life are more stressful than waiting for an appointment, but the future’s looking brighter in hospital waiting rooms where LED lights are installed. Since the photometric properties of diodes can be precisely controlled, specifiers can set the … Continue reading →

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Biomimicry Enters the LED Lighting Game

Posted on January 9, 2013 by LED Waves

While other lighting technologies remain stagnant, LED lights keep getting better, thanks to ongoing research in the field. This week, Optics Express released two papers by a team of scientists from Belgium, Canada and France, indicating that fireflies may open … Continue reading →

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Prevent Ice Dams with LED Recessed Lights

Posted on December 7, 2012 by LED Waves

Recessed lights are really popular in the residential market, and the directionality and efficacy of LED lighting makes it the technology of choice for green homes. But as cold weather descends upon us, LED recessed lights become an even bigger … Continue reading →

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Mac ‘n Cheese, LEDs ‘n Warranties

Posted on December 5, 2012 by LED Waves

Why do we use an extrusion process to make the heat sink for our LED high bay? The same reason that macaroni & cheese is delicious. Our in-house LED OEM team designs the heat sink for each of our products … Continue reading →

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A Citrusy LED Power Supply

Posted on November 28, 2012 by LED Waves

Caleb Charland has elevated the grade school “lemon battery” experiment with a citrusy cousin, an LED bulb, and some long-exposure camerawork. The photographer, who frequently uses light as a subject matter, tinkered with some copper wire, galvanized nails, wooden skewers … Continue reading →

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Have Your Light Bulbs Been Doping?

Posted on October 19, 2012 by LED Waves

The Lance Armstrong scandal is still making headlines, but we’ve been following another doping story – in the LED lighting world! In LED manufacturing, doping is the practice of adding “impurities” to a semiconductor substrate to create a p-n junction … Continue reading →

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Efficient Buildings Make Efficient Workers!

Posted on October 5, 2012 by LED Waves

A study led by UCLA and France’s University Paris-Dauphine points to a correlation between green companies – those which have reduced waste and made energy upgrades such as LED lighting – and higher labor productivity. In a survey of 10,000 … Continue reading →