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Applications: White LEDs: A penny for your lumen?

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Ashley N. Paddock, [email protected]

Environmentally conscious consumers can rest easy. Bridgelux Inc., a solid-state lighting company in Sunnyvale, Calif., has adopted a “penny per lumen” slogan to make white LEDs more affordable for consumers and their wallets. In early 2009, the company plans to release a series of white-light LED products that could allow manufacturers to make LED solid-state lighting (SSL) fixtures that cost significantly less than current ones. “Bridgelux has been increasing our LED chip performance about 15 to 20 percent every six months,” said Brian Fisher, director of corporate marketing. “We...Read full article

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    Published: January 2009
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    lumen
    A lumen is a unit of measurement used to quantify the amount of luminous flux, which is the perceived power of light. In other words, the lumen measures the total amount of visible light emitted by a light source in all directions. The lumen is a standard unit in the International System of Units (SI) for luminous flux and is denoted by the symbol "lm." The lumen is based on the sensitivity of the human eye to different wavelengths of light. It provides a measure of the total light output,...
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