Researchers at Purdue University are hard at work improving LED manufacturing. Hopefully, this technology will eventually help decrease the cost of LED Christmas lights!
Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality from PhysOrg.com
Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of “solid state lighting,” a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted.
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