Dan Friis from RGB Lamps, a small company in Gedser, has patented a new method of using diode lamps in ordinary light sockets. But Dan Friis had a problem. The coloured diodes had to be mixed in order to produce white light. He contacted Risø, and with a million grant from ELFOR, Risø, RGB Lamps, NESA and Nordlux has developed a prototype. |
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Dan Friis from RGB Lamps, a small company in Gedser, has patented a new method of using diode lamps in ordinary light sockets. Diode light, also called LED- Light Emmitting Diode, is regarded by many people in the lighting industry as the lighting of the future for virtually all applications. But Dan Friis had a problem. The coloured diodes had to be mixed in order to produce white light. White diode light is produced by mixing light from red, green and blue diodes. He met head of programme Paul Michael Petersen from Risø’s former Optics and Plasma Research Department , who discovered the solution; an optical element is placed in front of the diodes. With a million grant from ELFOR, Risø, RGB Lamps, NESA and Nordlux has developed a prototype in the laboratories. RGB Lamps has put a diode bulb into production.
LED lights are characterized by low energy consumption, consuming approx. 2-6 times less energy than filament lamps, long service life, considerable robustness, no UV light and no use of mercure or other environmentally harmful substances. Furthermore, the technology makes it possible to regulate both the colour and the strength of the light.
Educating designers
The companies Asger BC Lys and Louis Poulsen Lighting have become involved in a new project aimed at creating a beautiful and functional design for the diode room lighting of the future. The designers have been trained in the possibilities of the diode technologies. This has led to the production of the first designer lamps with diode light. The lamps were displayed at Illums Homehouse during the culture night in November 2006.
The one diode lamp is a luminous sack chair glowing faintly when not used, but it lights up when you sit in it. Another diode lamp has been named Waterlily as it consists of some flat discs like leaves of waterlily. ”The leaves” can also produce lights of different colours at the edge.
Read more on www.rgb-lamps.dk (in Danish) |