A team of three electrical and electronic engineers, led by Kubik's Mike Hudson, spent eight weeks on research and development and built the modules for the floor in less than four weeks. Besides the aesthetical, illumination and market-related brief, the development team was asked to create a product with a minimum ten-year lifespan as well as to create an energy-saving, recyclable, ‘green' product.Kubik says that the high-quality electronic components and the LEDs, which are mounted on a heat sink aluminium frame, the right selection of cables and the thermostat-controlled power consoles, guarantee a power consumption of only 35 Wm2, which is equal to a small light bulb or night-table lamp.
Hudson says that all the materials were chosen with recyclability in mind. He notes that glass is 100% recyclable, as are the aluminium frames and, thanks to the intelligent design and the use of low voltage, they can reduce the amount of electrical cables and components to an absolute minimum.LED technology, announced that the company's research advances in white LED lighting performance was honored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) during the DOE's Annual Solid-State Lighting Workshop. With the support of the DOE, Universal Display has been working on developing highly-efficient white LEDs for use in myriad lighting applications.
Dr. James Brodrick, DOE Lighting Program Manager, recognized Universal Display's achievement in setting efficiency records for white LED lighting. Dr. Michael Hack of Universal Display also spoke about recent advances and Universal Display's development of white LED lighting in a presentation titled "Pushing the Envelope for White LED efficiencies. In particular, Dr. Hack highlighted Universal Display's 2008 demonstration of a white LED light source with record luminous efficiency of 102 lm/W, a significant leap forward in LED efficiency. That milestone placed LED development well on the way to achieving the DOE's target of a 150 lm/W LED lighting device by 2015.
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