{"id":5763,"date":"2012-12-23T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2012-12-23T22:56:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T17:26:06","slug":"fipel-flicker-free-alternative-to-fluorescent-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/fipel-flicker-free-alternative-to-fluorescent-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"FIPEL: Flicker free alternative to fluorescent lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bid adieu to fluorescent light bulbs as technology is here to take you to the next station. Fluorescent lights are everywhere today but it is liked less due to its incessant flicker. Some people \u00a0are very sensitive to this flicker and can even develop headaches and eye discomfort<\/p>\n<p>An alternative has now been developed by researchers at North Carolina university. <strong>These light bulbs are not only flicker- free but also not fragile<\/strong> as they are not \u00a0made of glass. The new light variant is based on FIPEL(Field Induced Polymer Electro Luminescent) technology. It is made from layers of light emitting polymer with nano materials that glow when \u00a0electric current is introduced. It also gives a <strong>soft white light<\/strong>,unlike the yellowish shade from fluorescent light or bluish tinge from LEDs. The creator also claims that it is more long-lasting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2shMlJigk6U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The experimental light is developed by a team led by physicist Prof. David Caroll. The team believes that this new variant is better than OLEDs. The light does not contain mercury or \u00a0any other caustic material, therefore \u00a0they won&#8217;t release any harmful gases.<\/p>\n<p>The university hopes that the FIPEL lights will hit the market in 2013 itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bid adieu to fluorescent light bulbs as technology is here to take you to the next station. Fluorescent lights are everywhere today but it is liked less due to its incessant flicker. Some people \u00a0are very sensitive to this flicker and can even develop headaches and eye discomfort An alternative has now been developed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":6343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}