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Accidental Invention Points to End of Light Bulbs
by k at 12:03 pm EDT, Oct 25, 2005 |
The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork. An accidental discovery announced this week has taken LED lighting to a new level, suggesting it could soon offer a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to the traditional light bulb. The miniature breakthrough adds to a growing trend that is likely to eventually make Thomas Edison's bright invention obsolete. ... Michael Bowers, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, was just trying to make really small quantum dots, which are crystals generally only a few nanometers big. That's less than 1/1000th the width of a human hair.
Sweet! Go Vandy Physics! |
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RE: Accidental Invention Points to End of Light Bulbs
by Neoteric at 5:05 pm EDT, Oct 26, 2005 |
k wrote: The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork. An accidental discovery announced this week has taken LED lighting to a new level, suggesting it could soon offer a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to the traditional light bulb. The miniature breakthrough adds to a growing trend that is likely to eventually make Thomas Edison's bright invention obsolete. ... Michael Bowers, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, was just trying to make really small quantum dots, which are crystals generally only a few nanometers big. That's less than 1/1000th the width of a human hair.
Sweet! Go Vandy Physics!
I tried finding the paper on http://www.arxiv.org/ but in typical vandy style... they don't use "new fangled" methods to distrubute papers for peer review. |
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