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The Revolution |
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There's
a revolution underway in the world of lighting, and Oriol's GIGABRIGHT™
line is quickly emerging as a new leader. While conventional LEDs
have existed for decades, it is only recently that truly high brightness
LEDs (HB-LEDs), based on advanced solid-state semiconductor materials
growth techniques have been commercially available, with blue spectrum
work regarded as the most advanced. Oriol is not alone on its quest
to break through the limitations of traditional lighting using HB-LED
technology, and is building on peer efforts that have been underway
worldwide for over a decade.
The HB-LED Revolution... It started with red spectrum HB-LEDs
for use in automotive brake lights, which help prevent accidents by
turning on faster and with higher brightness, making recognition easier
for other drivers. The revolution continued with applications in red
and yellow traffic signal lights resulting in significant savings
in energy costs. More recently, gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor
materials made the impossible possible by allowing HB-LEDs to generate
the unique blue-green colors of "go" lights worldwide. Then came tiny
white GaN lamps in flashlights, which were small enough to fit on
a key chain and guaranteed for life. Next, due wholly to the availability
of commercial HB-LEDs in all colors, huge video screens the size of
buildings, now capture the eyes and minds of sports fans, commuters,
pedestrians, and concert crowds around the globe. Now, power-frugal
white GaN HB-LEDs are creating light in places never before possible,
for example into remote third world villages equipped only with pedal-powered
generators. The possibilities are expanding as HB-LEDs are getting
less expensive and brighter every year.
Today, HB-LEDs are being designed into an array of applications where
small size, low voltage, low maintenance, long life, power savings,
color control, brightness control, directivity, and durability are
needed. It's hard to think of a place where at least one of these
benefits is not needed! Light, as we know it, is changing, and HB-LEDs
are driving not only the shift away from incandescent, florescent,
and neon "standard" bulbs, but enabling there to be light where there
was no light before.
GIGABRIGHT™ HB-LEDs, enlightened by
Oriol...think outside the bulb... |
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