Smart Lighting: New LED drops the 'droop'

Science Daily reports that researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed and demonstrated a new type of light emitting diode (LED) with significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency.

The report says the new device achieves a notable reduction in "efficiency droop," a well-known phenomenon that provokes LEDs to be most efficient when receiving low-density currents of electricity, but then to lose efficiency as higher density currents of electricity are fed into the device.

Read the full Science Daily report - Smart Lighting: New LED Drops The 'Droop' at
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/
090113123718.htm

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http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2008/
leds_and_smartlights.htm

Thanks to George Boorer ZL3PN for spotting this item