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Cheap and efficient white light LEDs new design described in AIP's Journal of Applied Physics

Cheap, efficient white light LEDs new design

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (26) | comments 5

Roughly 20 percent of the electricity consumed worldwide is used to light homes, businesses, and other private and public spaces. Though this consumption represents a large drain on resources, it also presents ...


Rogue Wave

Engineers ride 'rogue' laser waves to build better light sources

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 2

A freak wave at sea is a terrifying sight. Seven stories tall, wildly unpredictable, and incredibly destructive, such waves have been known to emerge from calm waters and swallow ships whole. But rogue waves ...


Bright White Light Coaxed from Unexpected Source

Bright White Light Coaxed from Unexpected Source

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University and United States Army scientists have found that a cheap and nontoxic sunburn and diaper rash preventative can be made to produce brilliant light best suited to the human ...


Freeing light shines promise on energy-efficient lighting

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (37) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest bright idea in energy-efficient lighting for homes and offices uses big science in nano-small packages to dim the future Edison's light bulb.





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Scientists said they tweaked organic light-emitting diodes to become flexible, energy-efficient sources of white light

Diode lights offer bright future for low energy

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

German scientists said Wednesday they had tweaked organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) -- the materials used in flat-screen TVs, laptop computer screens and mobile phone displays -- to become flexible, energy-efficient ...


White glow: Dye-doped DNA nanofibers emit white light

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Efficient energy transport plays an important role in the development of optoelectonic materials. The true masters of energy transfer via a hierarchical arrangement of different molecules are the photosynthetic ...


Owls' dawn and dusk concerts promote visual communication

Owls' dawn and dusk concerts promote visual communication

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Reporting in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE April 8, Vincenzo Penteriani and Maria Delgado of the Estacion Biologica de Doņana, Spain, describe the evolution of white throat badges in association with d ...


How white is a paper?

How white is a paper?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Whiter paper and better color reproduction are examples of important competitive advantages on an international market. But how white is a paper? And why do vacation photos turn out so dark if you don't buy ...


Largest collection of anomalous white dwarfs observed in new Hubble images

Largest collection of anomalous white dwarfs observed by Hubble

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Twenty-four unusual stars, 18 of them newly discovered, have been observed in new Hubble telescope images. The stars are white dwarfs, a common type of dead star, but they are odd because they are made of ...


White patients benefit more than blacks in surviving surgical complications at teaching hospitals

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at nonteaching hospitals, but these better survival rates apparently occur in white patients, not black patients.


Tanning may be associated with moles in very light-skinned children

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Very-light-skinned children without red hair who tan appear to develop more nevi (birthmarks, moles or other colored spots on the skin) than children who do not tan, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of ...


A 'light bulb' moment for people with dementia (w/Video)

A 'light bulb' moment for people with dementia (w/Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Change the lighting; improve your health. It's a strategy researchers from Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and the School of Medicine, the Geriatric ...


2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets

Two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone ...


Light-activated antibacterial coating is new weapon in fight against hospital-acquired infections

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new hard coating with antibacterial properties that has been tested by researchers at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute has been shown to kill 99.9% of Escherichia coli bacteria when a white hospital light was shone on its ...



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