By Taking Advantage of Novel Design Patterns, Researchers in Taiwan have Developed a Highly Flexible White Light LED that uses Cheap, Readily-accessible Components Researchers from National... Read more
What if the light in the room could sense you waving your hand as you enter? And what if it responded by introducing minute light changes that instructed your smart coffee machine to switch... Read more
Long-standing concerns about portable electronics include the devices’ short battery life and their contribution to e-waste. One group of scientists is now working on a way to address... Read more
Professor Kyung-Cheol Choi and his research team from the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST have developed fiber-like light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which can be applied in wearable d... Read more
More luminous and energy efficient than LEDs, white lasers look to be the future in lighting and Li-Fi, or light-based wireless communication While lasers were invented in 1960 and are commo... Read more
Scientists studying thin layers of phosphorus have found surprising properties that could open the door to ultrathin and ultralight solar cells and LEDs Scientists studying thin layers of ph... Read more
Hyper-efficient LED technologies could enable applications from the visible-light LED bulbs in every home, to new displays, to gesture recognition using near-infrared wavelengt... Read more
This breakthrough highlights new possibilities for integrating high-definition full color displays in wearable electronics. The scientific team, from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) an... Read more
Less blue light may mean fewer mosquitoes—and fewer infections. Insects are attracted to light, but not to all types of light equally. It happens that when you put out different parts of the... Read more
VA study with 160 Gulf War Veterans will test red, near-infrared light Following up on promising results from pilot work, researchers at the VA Boston Healthcare System are testing the effec... Read more
“Sometimes the great discoveries are looking right at us and waiting.” Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a nano-sized optical antenna that can greatly enhance the spontane... Read more
Semi-transparent, flexible electronics are no longer just science-fiction thanks to graphene’s unique properties Published in the scientific journal Nature Materials, University of Mancheste... Read more
Researchers at the INM have now developed a new method that enables electroluminescence on large, curved surfaces in a cost-effective way: in this case, the light-emitting layer and all othe... Read more
The spaghetti-like internal structure of most plastics makes it hard for them to cast away heat, but a University of Michigan research team has made a plastic blend that does so 10 times bet... Read more
A team of Carnegie scientists led by Timothy Strobel has synthesized an entirely new form of silicon, one that promises even greater future applications. Silicon is the second most-abundant... Read more