{"id":10266,"date":"2013-05-25T15:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2013-05-25T15:30:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T20:30:43","slug":"scientists-growing-new-crystals-to-make-led-lights-useful-for-office-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10266","title":{"rendered":"Scientists growing new crystals to make LED lights useful for office, home"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Technically the LEDs produce light by passing electrons through a semiconductor material, in combination with materials called phosphors that glow when excited by radiation from the LED. &#8220;But it&#8217;s hard to get one phosphor that makes the broad range of colors needed to replicate the sun,&#8221; said John Budai, a scientist in ORNL&#8217;s Materials Science and Technology division in a release. &#8220;One approach to generating warm-white light is to hit a mixture of phosphors with ultraviolet radiation from an LED to stimulate many colors needed for white light.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/community\/blog\/scientists-growing-new-crystals-make-led-lights-useful-office-home\">Scientists growing new crystals to make LED lights useful for office, home<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically the LEDs produce light by passing electrons through a semiconductor material, in combination with materials called phosphors that glow when excited by radiation from the LED. &#8220;But it&#8217;s hard to get one phosphor that makes the broad range of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[631],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-material-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10271,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}