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‘UV Power’ Research Project Works on LED Replacements for Conventional UV Lights

These LEDs will eventually be used in production, disinfection, the environment, life sciences and medicine.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Since February 2017, five research institutes and companies have been working on “UV Power,” a collaborative project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The partners have made it their goal to provide high-power UV LEDs to cover a wide variety of applications.   These LEDs will eventually replace conventional UV light sources, which often contain toxic mercury, in areas such as production, disinfection, the environment, life sciences and medicine. UV LEDs ar...

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