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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Lambent Labs is excited to publicly announce the development and commercialization of a new lamp technology that is more energy efficient and outlasts current LED and nanodot technology ten-fold.
Lambent Labs, which primarily works in
developing and commercializing lighting intellectual property on special projects originally developed for DARPA has
made a significant breakthrough in illumination technology. By nanotizing
tungsten and graphene and printing them in a honeycomb matrix on a nano level
allows for 80% more surface area to illuminate and cool at the same time with
less energy needed that all but eliminates the fragility and limitations of
traditional tungsten/halogen lamps.
Now that preliminary patent work has been filed and approved, Chief researcher Franz Strahlend can now publicly discuss the initial results, and they are astonishing. “The lowest efficiency
even with the sloppiest matrix layouts we’ve been able to achieve is 185 lumens
to the watt using standard 120 volt mains power. These lamps work just like
traditional mains-powered illumination sources – there is no need for switching power supplies
or transformers.”
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Tungsten/graphene matrix filament |
The technology also allows developers to
change the orientation and polarity at the atomic level to adjust the color
temperature of the emitted light. The lamps will shift warm on the low end, but
at full power Lambent had successfully created and tested lamps with color
temperatures anywhere from 1900K to 7500K.
Strehland continues, “The life
expectancy in the bake tests have been astounding. LED manufacturers have
been touting if you change out lamps when your child is born not changing until
they go to college – on the conservative end we’re looking at life times more
like needing a new lamp when your child retires.”
The new lamp technology will cost approximately 10% more than current tungsten/halogen lamps and should be available in any lamp form factor from A-lamps to ANSI lamps by Q4 2015.
The true breakthrough for lighting
designers is that this new technology no longer leaves them asking mind-numbing
questions about Color Rendering Indexes, Color Quality Scales, and R9 values.