LED light bulb
Bombilla LED doméstica
- Date
- 2008-2011 · confidence medium
- Place
- Philips Lighting, Eindhoven, Netherlands (L Prize award, 2011)
- Credited to
- Philips (winner of the US Department of Energy's L Prize); Cree, Osram
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A direct replacement for the incandescent bulb using white LEDs, 25 times more durable and 85 per cent more efficient. Within a decade it displaced both incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs.
What it led to
- The ban on incandescent bulbs in the EU and the United States
- Smart, connected lighting
- A substantial fall in the world's electricity consumption for lighting
Built on
- Blue gallium-nitride LED1993
- compact fluorescent light bulb
Made possible
- smart lighting (Philips Hue)
- LED vertical farming