In New York City, you’re lucky if all the rooms in your apartment have windows. There’s most likely a corner that never gets any sun. They know about lack of sunlight in Sweden, where Parans Solar ...

Dye-sensitized solar cells are flexible and cheap to make, but they tend to be inefficient at converting light into electricity. One way to boost the performance of any solar cell is to increase the ...

Scientists from the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) and Solar Optics, a South Korean optics application material research company, have developed a new power generation system based on ...

I took a trip to Paso Robles, CA to see an amazing lighting installation called Sensorio. It was a mesmerizing experience. This vast art piece was created by Bruce Munro. He took five acres of rolling ...

A research team led by Dr. Dong Chan Lim (with co-PIs: Dr. Soyeon Kim, Dr. Jahandar) and a Korean optics application material research company, Solar Optics, succeeded in developing a new type of ...

The Cold Light, a new fiberoptic sunlight tranport device, is the main attraction on display in Vienna at the Haus der Forschung. Called “0-24 Licht,” the design is the combined work of an architect ...

A new, advanced lighting system which can transport sunlight through fiber optic cables will get a trial run in a subway across Cotton Tree Drive, while footbridges in Sheung Wan and Wan Chai will be ...

No longer a novelty lighting scheme for pools and fountains, modern fiber-based can serve a variety of applications. Once relegated to underwater environments, fiber optic (FO) lighting has made its ...

A pendant fixture over the EnviroCenter’s reception desk receives sunlight via fiber optics. Daytime light meter readings are around 41 foot candles. PHOTOS: ERIC G. HUFFMAN A pendant light fixture ...

New fiber optic panels provide high-brightness illumination for front and back lighting of imaging systems used in machine vision applications such as sorting, counting, measurement and inspection.

Buried deep inside a mammoth office building that occupies an entire city block in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, a delicate column of light extends 15 stories, from the roof to the ground level, ...