LEDs UV Tech Insights - Jul 13th, 2023
 
 
News & views on ultraviolet technology and applications - disinfection, safety, LED developments, and more
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July 13, 2023

Welcome to LEDs Magazine’s bimonthly UV Tech Insights newsletter for July 13, 2023. You may have seen the tribute to lighting scientist and software engineer Ian Ashdown in other LEDs newsletters. We felt that given Ian’s interest in the discussion and mechanisms around both ultraviolet and visible-light based disinfection systems, it was appropriate to highlight his contributed work on these topics.

You’ll also find in this issue a link to our market update on UV-C LED potential, growth, and challenges. In that piece, AquiSense president and CEO Oliver Lawal offered perspective on the water disinfection segment opportunity, noting that OEMs’ and end users’ familiarity with water treatment technology and pursuit of more efficient, robust, and environmentally safe options would open up greater adoption of LED-based systems. And the company has recently released its smallest point-of-dispense water treatment system, yet maintains the disinfection capability of larger point-of-use equipment in its portfolio while reducing cost for regional market entry points. I’d be interested to hear from more UV-C LED component manufacturers on what percentage of their orders come from water disinfection systems developers, and if they have seen growth in this application over the past three years.

Please stay in touch about content we publish and to propose contributed articles.

Carrie Meadows, [email protected]

FEATURED STORY
Writer Kristin Lewotsky learns from market players and experts about misconceptions regarding UV-C LED market prospects and why individual application segment matters in terms of expected growth and timeline.
MORE UPDATES & RESOURCES
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Join LEDs Magazine for a May 18 webinar with Silanna UV technical specialists, who will explain how short-period superlattice technology improves UV LEDs emitting 235 nm for disinfection applications.
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UV-C LED water disinfection systems developer says its PearlAqua Micro A provides a smaller, more efficient, and cost-effective market entry point for Asia water-dispensing equipment suppliers.
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Carrie Meadows spoke with Polarity Medical Technology founder Tom Chi to learn how an unusual UV device form factor could reduce the transmission of pathogens in healthcare and other environments.
IN THE INDUSTRY
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LEDs Magazine remembers the late Ian Ashdown, who provided detailed analysis of horticultural, ultraviolet, and visible light disinfection studies and practices to the LEDs catalog, also linked in this newsletter.
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A computational method simulates virtual spherical irradiance meters to aid in developing reliable UV-based air-handling systems.
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In order to properly utilize visible-light disinfection technology, Ashdown wrote, the research community must fill in knowledge gaps for lighting product developers and designers to achieve practical and safe application.
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Ashdown reviews published literature on visible light disinfection and raises awareness of the need for more precise data to effectively apply it in appropriate scenarios.
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CASE STUDY: Anxious to reconvene safely after the pandemic, a California church chanced upon UV-C technology that has since helped it to reach its goal.
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In this episode, we cover deep-UV light that threatens the COVID-causing virus, digital holography to see past bad road conditions, and a single photon to initiate photosynthesis.
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UltraViolet Devices, Inc. (UVDI), a leading manufacturer of advanced UV-C air and surface disinfection technology, will introduce the new UVDI-GO UV LED Surface Sanitizer, designed for rapid, on-the-go disinfection of high-touch, shared surfaces and equipment, at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) 2023 Annual Conference &...
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