Best Wishes at the End of a Topsy-Turvy Year
Firstly: DVN community members and readers, I wish you and your loved ones a grand and prosperous new year. I wish you great creativity to propel new kinds of lighting…
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Hector Fratty
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Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.
DVN’s 2020 Achievements
As we reach the new year, it’s a fine time to analyse the achievemnts of DVN under the stress and strain of a fraught and difficult 2020. We facilitated the flow and exchange of information by publishing 52 DVNewsletters and 10 DVN Reports as well as a landmark DVN Study. We organised a live DVN…
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Nichia to Found Research Institute
Nichia, in collaboration with Tokushima University, will establish a collaborative research centre called the Tokushima International Science Institute on the university’s premises next month. The institute’s aims are conducting research in advanced scientific fields, developing human resources, and contributing to the international and regional communities. The Institute will conduct activities in a three-party collaboration of…
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Antolin reinforces its lighting division in Besançon
Grupo Antolin is establishing a lasting presence in Besançon, the city of microtechnology, which provides it with essential know-how. Grupo Antolin, founded in Burgos, Spain, is a global player in interior components for the automotive industry with a turnover of €5.2 in 2019. The group, which has 30,000 employees, is present in the city specializing…
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UV-B Kills COVID-19 Virus Fast: New Research
Ultraviolet radiation is a common method of killing bacteria and viruses. Now, researchers from Tel Aviv University have proven that the coronavirus presently causing such disruption and dismay can be killed efficiently, quickly, and cheaply using ultraviolet-B (UV-B), not just the more exotic, less affordable UV-C. Professor Hadas Mamane, head of the Environmental Engineering Program…
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Nichia Licence Phosphor Tech for Better LED Light
Nichia will soon be the first to licence GE Current’s TriGain® technology and deploy it into their LED chip portfolio for lighting applications globally. TriGain is a breakthrough potassium fluorosilicate (PFS) phosphor that improves LEDs’ colour rendering by dint of remarkably high red emission without the usual efficacy penalties. The magic comes from a narrow-band…
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Hella Lauded for Light Design Approach in China
Hella have received an innovation prize in China for their innovative “Light Design” approach consisting of matrix LED headlamps, electronics for light control, sensor technology, and software to make glare-free high beam or light animations for greeting and farewell scenarios. The prize was awarded jointly by the leading trade journal Automobil Industrie in China and…
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LED Process Refinement Discovery From Wuhan University
Researchers at Wuhan University have found a way to reduce the misfit in the coalescence boundary of GaN grown on the sidewall and c-plane regions of the substrate by adopting a PSSA (patterned sapphire with silica array) substrate. Wuhan University professor Shengjun Zhou directed the research, and says PSSA substrates can significantly improve the efficiency…
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On Again: Apple Target Car Production by ’24
After a few fits and starts and stops, Apple now say they aim by 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology. Apple’s “Project Titan” started in 2014, but Apple subsequently paused the effort to focus elsewhere. But now Apple have made enough progress to set sights on building…
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Europe, 11 months: VW Golf still Number 1
Ferrari, MG Motor, Lotus, Lamborghini, Bentley, Maserati, Suzuki, Jeep, Audi and Toyota were among the 12 brands that increased European sales in November in a market that was down 13 percent.Ferrari’s November sales rose 54%, Suzuki made a 10% gain as did Jeep, while both Audi and Toyota rose 1%.A growing number of models increased…
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