Ruud Lighting, Eaton Corp. and Philips Lumileds are three of the LED manufacturers receiving grants from a program funded by the Department of Energy to encourage the development of new solid-state lighting technologies. Total DOE funding for the five projects is $10.1 million and leverages a matching $10.1 million private-sector investment from the five companies.
Some details of the companies’ projects sound quite interesting. For instance, DOE says Racine, Wis.-based Ruud Lighting (owned by Cree) will be working on a “light module driven by a novel, compact LED package.” And Eaton engineers will be working on a project to “reduce costs by using manufacturing process innovation to develop a way to place the LED package, chip, or chip array directly on a fixture or heatsink.”
The other LED manufacturers receiving funding are OLEDWorks, Rochester, N.Y., and PPG Industries Inc., Pittsburgh.