PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dow Electronic Materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) today announced its bolt-on acquisition of Lightscape Materials, Inc., a spin-off of SRI ...

White LED bulbs are commonplace in households by now, mostly due to their low power usage and high reliability. Crank up the light output enough and you do however get high temperatures and ...

The market for phosphors used in high-brightness LEDs is set to grow rapidly as solid-state lighting becomes a mainstream technology, and reach $1 billion by 2015. That is the prediction from analysts ...

While providing outstanding performance and cost savings, early remote phosphors used for LED lamps had a drawback — when the lamp was off, the phosphor gave the light source a deep yellow-golden ...

In the realm of lighting and temperature measurement, advancements in material science are paving the way for significant improvements in technology and safety. Traditional methods, which combine ...

A new synthetic molecule switches between emitting green and blue light after application of a solvent or mild heat. The color-changing phosphor can be leveraged for a two-layered information encoding ...

[Tim] recently found himself tinkering with a cheap string of LEDs. Far from an advanced, IC-controlled addressable set, these were merely a string with LEDs of four colors that could be switched on ...

The human eye is particularly sensitive to green, but less sensitive to blue and red. Chemists have now developed a new red phosphor whose light is well perceived by the eye. This increases the light ...

Light emitting diodes or LEDs are only able to produce light of a certain colour. However, white light can be created using different colour mixing processes. "In a white LED, red and yellow-green ...