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The primary goal of the research is to develop LEDs

It’s reported that new research from Boston University's College of Engineering, funded by a National Science Foundation grant, indicates that LEDs may be not only the integral lighting component of the future, but may also form the backbone of future wireless networks. The US government is funding research into using next-generation  led high bay light  as data network access points. Room or street lamps would link with devices using visible light, carrying data beyond over existing power lines. The primary goal of the research is to develop LEDs that do exactly that -- transmit information wirelessly via controlled blinking. The initiative is known as the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Centre, and will be carried forward at Boston University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of New Mexico. The US National Science Foundation is providing $18.5m in funding.Little and his colleagues envisage affordable devices which would replace existing lamps and lig...

the pressure of investment and profitability

LEDs still cost much more than incandescent or compact fluorescent bulbs, but its prices are dropping. Rising energy prices also have helped raise public awareness of the miserly LEDs, which are available in an increasing variety of lighting products.But Cree now faces a challenge to transform the exposure into new business, as contracts with companies installing lights on new buildings are rising in China. On a question over the reason of  led flood light  not working with its sister company LG Innotek, the alliance with the local maker won’t create a synergetic effect in LG Display's LED business. But the scenario was finally scrapped due to the pressure of investment and profitability. Also, the module supply by LG Innotek is not steady enough for the time being. Not only do LED backlights provide increased battery life for notebooks, LG could enable much thinner displays and innovative new thinking about product design. By riding on such merits, product planners are weig...

a Bloomberg Television interview broadcast today

plans to increase the number of research workers dedicated to light-emitting diodes as the devices replace incandescent bulbs in homes and offices. The company will allocate almost half its research employees of about 200 to LED development as soon as possible, rising from 10 percent now, Mitsuyuki Kanamori, who was appointed president of Tokyo-based Citizen on April 1, said in a Bloomberg Television interview broadcast today. Citizen, whose diodes are mostly used for mobile-phone backlights at present, plans to refocus its LED operations on lighting fixtures. LEDs, which are brighter and more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs, will replace standard lamps from 2010, according to industry researcher iSuppli Corp. The company plans to combine with Citizen Technology Center Co., its research division, from July 1 and is reconsidering its development priorities, Kanamori said, without specifying details. Citizen entered into a cross-shareholding agreement with Tokushima...

which are used as surgical tools for ablation

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