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Valeo have recently developed original LED lighting concepts for low beam and high beam in order to standardise and reduce the size of these functions. This new concept, which gives performance rivalling the best HIDs,
Maurizio Martinelli has been appointed President of Valeo’s Visibility Systems business group. He remains Italy Group President, Fiat-Iveco Group Customer Director, and Lighting Systems product group Vice-President.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics to the team of researchers that created the first blue LEDs in the early 1990s and ultimately enabled functional white light output from LED sources.
– Isamu Akasaki from Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan,
– Hiroshi Amano from Nagoya University, Japan,
– Shuji Nakamura from University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
have been honored “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.”
Illustration of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Academy noted that the blue LED was crucial in creating white light by combining with existing red and green LEDs. More recently, the white light is most often generated by a blue LED along with a mix of yellow, red, and/or green phosphors in a phosphor-converted white LED.
At the system level, shipping solid-state lighting (SSL) products regularly achieve efficacy in the 150 lm/W level, 5 times less for halogen bulbs.
“With 20% of the world’s electricity used for lighting, it’s been calculated that optimal use of LED lighting could reduce this to 4%,” said Frances Saunders, president of the Institute of Physics, in response to the Nobel announcement. “Akasaki, Amano, and Nakamura’s research has made this possible and this prize recognizes this contribution.”
Audi wins the heart of the Board at The Automotive Brand Contest, an international design competition for automotive brands. ” The Automotive Brand Contest is a special place in the design world ,” says Marc Lichte , head of Audi design .
The headlamp of the latest Audi TT is available in three versions:
– Xenon 25W,
– e-light version
– Matrix Beam with e-light as top version.
On 1 October ZKW were presented with the BMW Group’s supplier award in the category “New Technology Experience” in Amsterdam. The Austria-based supplier received this award for outstanding development achievements in the front lighting system of the BMW i8 hybrid sports car.
Hella have published their annual financial statements for the 2013–14 fiscal year (which closed on 31 May 2014) and at the same time confirmed the company’s international growth strategy.
Japan’s Stanley Electric say they have developed an ADB headlamp that improves nighttime driving safety and security. “ADB enables the driver to detect the pedestrians
Lighting designers working with LEDs have been limited by the characteristics of plastic and glass materials generally used in traditional lighting technology. Dow Corning
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