2013-05-28

From Greenhouses to Pinkhouses Using LED Lighting

This “pinkhouse” at Caliber Biotherapeutics in Texas, grows 2.2 million plants under the glow of blue and red LEDs. The practice of vertical farming could potentially undergo a transformation that will make urban food centres more productive. Although many people believe vertical farming is unpractical, it is becoming increasingly popular as agricultural space becomes scarcer and people desire food produced closer to home. One major problem that arises with vertical farming practice is that of lighting. By stacking plants on top of each other, it creates sha...
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Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), and Blizzard Lighting LLC (‘Blizzard’) today announced that they have reached a mutually beneficial settlement resolving a patent infringement dispute involving Cree LED’s p... READ MORE

ALLOS Semiconductors of Germany and Ennostar Corporation of Taiwan today announced a strategic partnership to bring 200 mm GaN-on-Si (gallium nitride on silicon) LED epiwafers for microLED applications into volume production. This collaboration r... READ MORE