Monday, July 20, 2009

Nano makes LED lights super-duper efficient

LEDs are already a really efficient light source, turning electricity directly into light without making much waste heat.

Now LEDs could be 75% more efficient, thanks to using some nanoparticles that do very weird things with light. Plasmon resonance is a crazy weird new physics thing that has awesome applications, which I barely understand (and I suspect most physicists barely understand).

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