Industrial & Life Sciences

It’s showtime now for UV-C at Madrid’s Teatro Real, pictured above a from few years ago. (Photo credit: Image by Alejandro via Flickr; used under CC BY 2.0. Licensing information available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.)
It’s showtime now for UV-C at Madrid’s Teatro Real, pictured above a from few years ago. (Photo credit: Image by Alejandro via Flickr; used under CC BY 2.0. Licensing information available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.)
It’s showtime now for UV-C at Madrid’s Teatro Real, pictured above a from few years ago. (Photo credit: Image by Alejandro via Flickr; used under CC BY 2.0. Licensing information available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.)
It’s showtime now for UV-C at Madrid’s Teatro Real, pictured above a from few years ago. (Photo credit: Image by Alejandro via Flickr; used under CC BY 2.0. Licensing information available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.)
It’s showtime now for UV-C at Madrid’s Teatro Real, pictured above a from few years ago. (Photo credit: Image by Alejandro via Flickr; used under CC BY 2.0. Licensing information available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.)
Lighting for Health & Wellbeing

Venerable Spanish theaters deploy UV-C to disinfect coronavirus

Oct. 16, 2020
Lamps from China’s Goldensea will serve as repeated surface wipes at Madrid’s Teatro Real opera house and Toledo’s Teatro Rojas. But not when people are present.
When space is tight in vertical farms, such as with cucumber crops, a thin LED instead of a conventional one might be the way to go. (Photo credit: Image by Julia Schwab via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Photo is not representative of specific companies or applications mentioned in this story.)
When space is tight in vertical farms, such as with cucumber crops, a thin LED instead of a conventional one might be the way to go. (Photo credit: Image by Julia Schwab via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Photo is not representative of specific companies or applications mentioned in this story.)
When space is tight in vertical farms, such as with cucumber crops, a thin LED instead of a conventional one might be the way to go. (Photo credit: Image by Julia Schwab via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Photo is not representative of specific companies or applications mentioned in this story.)
When space is tight in vertical farms, such as with cucumber crops, a thin LED instead of a conventional one might be the way to go. (Photo credit: Image by Julia Schwab via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Photo is not representative of specific companies or applications mentioned in this story.)
When space is tight in vertical farms, such as with cucumber crops, a thin LED instead of a conventional one might be the way to go. (Photo credit: Image by Julia Schwab via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Photo is not representative of specific companies or applications mentioned in this story.)
Horticultural Lighting

Scandinavian companies embedding LEDs into vertical farm shelving

Oct. 15, 2020
There’s something thin in the state of Denmark, and it’s working its way into some tight spaces.
Lisianthus, or Texas bluebell, can be cultivated in many colors. Here Lugt Lisianthus co-owner Marcel Lugt cradles a pink variety under a mix of high-pressure sodium (HPS) and LED luminaires. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Signify.)
Lisianthus, or Texas bluebell, can be cultivated in many colors. Here Lugt Lisianthus co-owner Marcel Lugt cradles a pink variety under a mix of high-pressure sodium (HPS) and LED luminaires. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Signify.)
Lisianthus, or Texas bluebell, can be cultivated in many colors. Here Lugt Lisianthus co-owner Marcel Lugt cradles a pink variety under a mix of high-pressure sodium (HPS) and LED luminaires. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Signify.)
Lisianthus, or Texas bluebell, can be cultivated in many colors. Here Lugt Lisianthus co-owner Marcel Lugt cradles a pink variety under a mix of high-pressure sodium (HPS) and LED luminaires. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Signify.)
Lisianthus, or Texas bluebell, can be cultivated in many colors. Here Lugt Lisianthus co-owner Marcel Lugt cradles a pink variety under a mix of high-pressure sodium (HPS) and LED luminaires. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Signify.)
Horticultural Lighting

Once again, LED moderates the greenhouse temperature

Oct. 13, 2020
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the HPS kitchen? Or maybe try mixing with LED. That’s what Lugt Lisianthus did in Holland, benefitting from climate, light levels, and light...
Image credit: Graphic by Allison Thayer, Lighting Research Center (LRC).
Image credit: Graphic by Allison Thayer, Lighting Research Center (LRC).
Image credit: Graphic by Allison Thayer, Lighting Research Center (LRC).
Image credit: Graphic by Allison Thayer, Lighting Research Center (LRC).
Image credit: Graphic by Allison Thayer, Lighting Research Center (LRC).
Lighting for Health & Wellbeing

Industry must move beyond CCT to articulate circadian metrics (MAGAZINE) (UPDATED)

Oct. 8, 2020
ALLISON THAYER and colleagues analyze available LED spectral power distributions, exploring how target circadian stimulus values might be determined and reached, and explaining...
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LEDs & SSL Design

Myriad germicidal UV developments change the SSL name game (MAGAZINE)

Oct. 8, 2020
MAURY WRIGHT examines common terminology used when discussing germicidal ultraviolet technology, and notes that a change in descriptors may be required for clarity.