DOE plans to invest $6 million 400 thousand in solid state lighting research

The United States Department of energy (DOE) announced that the Secretary General Steven day before Chu, DOE plans to invest $6 million 400 thousand for solid-state lighting research, including $4 million 600 thousand from the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act)", the four investment projects to promote research and development of a new generation of efficient lighting. The United States is to establish a highly efficient solid-state light source market led the investment to, to accelerate market development, which can save more energy and reduce the cost, compared with the traditional light source, the impact on the environment brought to a minimum.

The "LED 2009 and senior Lighting Summit (LEDs 2009 and the Advanced Lighting Summit)" will be held on October 20, 2009 to 22 in the United States San Diego Convention Center (San Diego brother Convention Center) held, then on LED in a variety of lighting applications in technological progress, hold a forum between the lighting designers and technology suppliers. Attend the forum from Cline Bettridge Bernstein lighting design, photoelectron billion (Everlight ELectronics), CREE (CREE), Rowley (City of Raleigh), Lutron electronics company (Lutron Electronics Co. Inc.) and Ruud Canada Lighting company representative.

In addition, the lighting expert group will also participate in the LED 2009 conference, participants have come from Acuity Brand Lighting, Group group (Lighting Science), Cooper (Cooper) and BetaLED representative.