RPI Student Finalist in Research Award for Study of Efficiency Droop-Combating LEDs
Source/Type:  LIGHTimes Online - News - Staff reports

Author: LIGHTimes News Staff

March 5, 2010... Jiuru Xu, a physics and astronomy student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is one of the finalists in the running for the Lemelson-Rensselaer Prize, according to an article in the Troy Record. His research focused on a new type of LED that reduces the little-understood "efficiency droop" that causes LED light bulbs to lose efficiency as they receive higher electrical currents.

The annual Lemelson-Rensselaer Prize is awarded to a Rensselaer senior or graduate student who has applied a technology in a new way, created or improved a product or process, redesigned a system or demonstrated remarkable inventiveness. The prize is funded through a partnership with the Lemelson-MIT program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has given a similar prize to outstanding student inventors at MIT since 1995.

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