Industries

Coolers Utilize Aerospace Fluid-Bearing Technology

January 17th, 2012

Inspired by expertise from the Aerospace Industry, Jaro’s new MR-16 LED coolers optimize longevity and temperature with a highly-efficient fluid-bearing structure.  At speeds of up to 4200RPM±15%, these very quiet DC coolers provide a chilly,…read more

Company Launches New Energy Efficiency Center

January 17th, 2012

TÜV SÜD America Inc. has opened a new 30,000 square foot Energy Efficiency Center of Excellence located just north of Atlanta, Ga. The new NVLAP* 17025-accredited laboratory allows TÜV SÜD to test and certify products…read more

New Liquid-Cooled LED as Bright as 100W Bulb

January 17th, 2012

SWITCH Lighting’s™ SWITCH bulbs have a ring of metal prongs, each with a computer chip on it to emit light, which is immersed in liquid that fills each bulb. The liquid cools the chips while…read more

Lighting-Class LEDs Deliver Twice the Lumens-Per-Dollar

January 17th, 2012

Cree, Inc.’s new XLamp® XB-D LED delivers twice the lumens-per-dollar of other LEDs, in a small lighting-class footprint of 2.45 mm x 2.45 mm. The XB-D LED is 48 percent smaller than the XLamp XP…read more

Wireless Shortcut to Avoid Data Center Traffic Jams

January 17th, 2012

To better handle data center congestion, researchers are testing a shortcut that doesn’t involve costly rewiring. They are experimenting with wireless links, mounted atop the server racks, to supply extra bandwidth for moving data along…read more

Organic LED Lighting in European Dimensions

January 17th, 2012

Led by Philips Technologie GmbH in Germany, the OLED100.eu team has been working on OLEDs for the last three years. The aims and objectives of the study were to boost the luminous efficacy, strengthen the…read more

LED Design Case Study: Down Lighter Thermal Management with Simulation

January 9th, 2012

Future Facilities released a case study showing that its new CFD software for electronics cooling design, 6SigmaET solves the problem of how to shrink electronics devices that generate heat. The Future Facilities’ case study describes…read more

Companies Form Partnership to Launch Hybrid Electric Drive

January 9th, 2012

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. and SBE, Inc. announced a technology partnership. As part of this partnership, SBE, Inc. is providing a novel integrated capacitor/bus structure design solution for Quantum power electronics for automotive…read more

GM to Stop Chevy Volt Battery Coolant Fires

January 9th, 2012

General Motors is going to modify its Chevrolet Volt plug-in car to eliminate the possibility that its batteries can catch on fire hours or days after a serious side-impact crash. It turns out that battery…read more

Self-Healing Electronics Could Work Longer, Reduce Waste

December 22nd, 2011

A team of University of Illinois engineers has developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in less time than it takes to blink. Led by aerospace engineering professor Scott White and materials science and engineering professor Nancy…read more

Thermal Modeling and Testing for LEDs and Luminaires

December 22nd, 2011

Mentor Graphics Corp. has introduced the T3Ster (“trister”) thermal transient tester for LEDs, board-level LED arrays and luminaires. Together with the company’s FloTHERM thermal simulation tool based on computational flow dynamics (CFD), lighting designers can…read more

Direct Current-Powered Data Center Module

December 12th, 2011

ABB and IO have agreed to partner in the development of a new data center module based on direct current (DC) power to meet increasing demand for DC data centers. DC-powered technology is being increasingly…read more

New Light-Cure Conformal Coating

December 12th, 2011

Ellsworth Adhesives and DYMAX Corporation are launching E-MAX 903-E, a new light-cure conformal coating. E-MAX 903-E will be distributed world-wide exclusively by Ellsworth Adhesives. It has been engineered to cure with UV and visible light…read more

Intelligent Control of Data Center Infrastructures

December 12th, 2011

IO is offering IO OS®, a data center operating system, as a stand-alone software product. Initially introduced in IO’s modular data center technology platform, IO Anywhere®, IO OS now provides IT and data center teams…read more