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LED Farming

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The use of LED lighting in horticulture has increased dramatically in the recent years. Not only do growers benefit from lower energy use but the crop yield is increased, and through the change of the light spectrum, which is easily accomplished with LED light sources, many different changes in how the plant develops are possible.
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LEDs and Medical Healing Applications

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Phototherapy, as medical treatment with light is referred to, was dominated by lasers until the late 1990’s. Although LEDs were available, they had not yet been well developed for general lighting purposes.
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LED Outdoor Lighting

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The lighting of outdoor areas with LED lighting is becoming more and more prominent.
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News on LED Troffer Performance

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Troffers are found everywhere there is a need for economical area lighting. They are commonly used in offices, schools, commercial, retail and public spaces and more.
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LED Downlights

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Just as troffers are a staple in the lighting of offices, schools, and other large complexes, downlights play the same role in residential and hospitality settings as well as commercial applications.
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LED Lighting and Economic and Social Development

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Recent research has suggested that with the use of solar powered LED lighting in impoverished regions around the world, economic development could be boosted to the tune of 2 million new jobs produced.
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LED Standards

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There is a world-wide effort to place guidelines and standards on LED based solid state lighting (SSL) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) has issued documents outlining performance guidelines for them in certain applications.
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LEDs in Medical Instruments

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A previous blog here touched on uses of LED lighting as general area lighting and as task lighting as used in the medical field. In this blog the use of LEDs in medical instruments will be the subject.
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OLEDs

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OLEDs – organic light-emitting diodes - are relatives of LEDs but are organic, meaning their major building blocks are organic (carbon-based) materials which emit light across their surface, instead of producing a single point source of light as the LED does.
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Lighting rEvolution 8.0

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From the beginning of the first commercially successful electrically powered artificial lighting, which was the Edison incandescent bulb, to the current LED technology, all the different electrical lighting technology that has occurred between the commercialization of the two is on the list of artificial lighting that will soon be outdated by one form of lighting technology, that being, LED.
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