What is QuarkStar's LITE?

QuarkStar's team of Lighting Innovation, Technology, & Engineering
The LED is the first major lighting technology revolution in the better part of a century that has required major global infrastructural change. It will probably be the very last revolution as well, since the technology's efficiencies are so high and its potential applications so vast, it will be difficult to justify any additional global infrastructural change for alternative technologies. Because it is the last major shift in lighting and infrastructure, the next 10-15 years offers unprecedented opportunity.

With this transformation and its opportunities in mind, QuarkStar was founded with some of the best-known pioneers of solid-state lighting. This includes such luminaries as Roland Haitz, creator of Haitz's Law and "godfather" of solid-state lighting; Bob Steele, founder of Strategies in Light; and Peter Stormberg, former CTO of Philips Lighting; and many more.

Prior to QuarkStar – as technologists, engineers, market analysts, and industry prophets – they personally led the technology's earliest developments into the marketplace and helped usher in the era of solid-state lighting and its many new applications. 

Catalyzing each other as team members of QuarkStar, their experience and foresight allowed them to predict not just the LED’s applications and trends, but to envision the technologies that would provide both technical and economic solutions that take optimal advantage of LEDs. These pioneering visions into the future along with the pioneers themselves have become QuarkStar’s LITE (Lighting Innovations, Technologies, and Engineering)™. 

Instead of merely adapting existing lighting technologies to the LED, these deep insights have led to entire new technology frameworks designed to fully realize the LED's economic and technological potential: through enhanced performance, reduced costs in manufacturing and operation, and brand new markets and applications. These technologies have been ten years in the making, protected by a global patent portfolio of over 500 applications with nearly half already granted, and were built with the goal of providing to our partners protected technologies capable of dominating this last global lighting infrastructural shift.

Reach out if you'd like to hear more about what these technologies are and how they'll lead the future at nearly all levels of the SSL supply chain, from the package scale on up to luminaires and systems.
Awards and Accolades
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​include
One of Top 10 Products of LightFair International
Winner in
​DOE NGL Competition
Emerging Technology
One of the
20 Hottest Lighting Companies
​in the World
Winner in
​DOE NGL Competition
Asymmetric Lighting
One of the Best Innovations of Light+Building

Recent News

QuarkStar patents go beyond 500 applications globally with over 200 core technology patents granted to date in the US, EU, China, and Japan

Recently granted patents include those involving LED filament bulbs to ways to dramatically cut manufacturing costs of fixtures that also outperform conventional LED luminaires. 
from LUX, La Revue de L'eclairage (LUX, The Review of Lighting), Paris:

Technological breakthroughs: QuarkStar is 'completely changing the conceptual approach to lighting'

​The French publication Lux highlights QuarkStar's Edge-X technology as a completely new approach. 

"Holder of numerous patents, winner of many awards, the American start-up QuarkStar has completely rethought LED lighting in order to surpass current performances at all levels."

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from ​LEDs Magazine:

"Taking Optics-Based Beam Distribution to a Whole New Level"

"At the end of the day, optics in SSL applications serve the primary task of controlling beam distribution. [QuarkStar] takes that task to a new level ...

"The company [QuarkStar] has developed some compelling demonstration optics, especially Edge-X for general illumination applications ... "

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from ​LUX Review, UK:

Feilo Sylvania has licensed QuarkStar's ground-breaking technology for its next generation luminaires

"Feilo Sylvania has signed a deal to get access to the radical Edge-X technology from innovative US start-up QuarkStar. It's understood the company will initially use the 'light shaping' lens development in its downlight and linear lighting ranges under the Concord brand.

"'Seeing the capability of Edge-X optics was a significant moment for us,' Sylvania's technology chief Richard Turner told Lux. 'We knew immediately that incorporating the optical technology into our product lines would be a major win. This was confirmed by our jointly winning Lux's Top 20 Innovations Award at the 2018 Light+Building for the first major revolutionary advance in downlights in 75 years.'"

Read the announcements in UK's Lux and the joint Feilo Sylvania-QuarkStar press release here >>

QuarkStar reinvents the downlight,
further finessing the limitations of glare

Turning downlights on their heads:
A semi-revolutionary concept for recessed can lighting

Introducing what is being called the first fundamental innovation in downlights in their 75 year history, this is the brand new downlight concept that won the Light+Building 2018 Lux Innovation Award… and further developed to significantly decrease  problems of glare in the indoor environment. 
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Presented by Wilson Dau at Strategies in Light

Watch recorded presentation >>
Download PowerPoint show >>

QuarkStar's solution of the previously unsolved major problem of color shift prediction contributes to new industry standards

 from LEDS Magazine (Carrie Meadows):

Predicting Chromaticity Shift in LEDs and SSL Products
" ... [QuarkStar's model] has the potential to change how the solid-state lighting (SSL) industry utilizes test and measurement guidance, and effectively end the notion that the lumen is the only light characteristic that matters with regard to LED lifetime performance."

Watch webcast
(To skip registration, use this email: QS_color_shift_control@quarkstar.com)

Presented by: Dr. Eric Bretschneider, CTO QuarkStar 
Chair of the IES Solid-State Lighting Subcommittee

QuarkStar creates the Integrated System of Lighting, a technology-driven path to boosting profitability and market competitiveness

The Integrated System of Lighting:
Paving a New Path to Profitability

Presented by QuarkStar at Strategies in Light February 2020
The inherent tendency to use familiar design means that the full potential of solid-state lighting technology has yet to be realized. LEDs offer a unique opportunity to develop a new class of fixtures of extraordinary design whereby the source and fixture are one-and-the-same. 

Manufacturers benefit from lower production costs and higher margins while simultaneously offering customers new form factors at lower price points that have superior performance and lifetime. Systems of this integrated nature reduce both cost and complexity, improve reliability and performance, and offer radically new opportunities for integration into the built environment.

​The endpoint is a true systems integration, where separate sources, optics, and fixtures are no longer needed while also offering brand new capabilities. The source and the fixture can become a single unit offering greater beam-shaping, enhanced color stability, and lower costs to manufacture.​

QuarkStar presents two keynote talks 
at the
20th Anniversary  Strategies in Light


As a team composed of industry experts with decades of collective experience in the SSL industry as well as Silicon Valley entrepreneurial know-how, QuarkStar is uniquely positioned to provide perspectives on the development of the LED lighting industry and where its future is leading.

20 Years of Strategies in Light: Reflections on the Evolution of the LED Industry
presented by Dr. Robert Steele, QuarkStar's chief market analyst and founder and co-chair of Strategies in Light


​"From Black Death to White Light": The LED Revolution That Almost Didn't Happen
presented by Dr. Eric Bretschneider, QuarkStar CTO
​Chair of the IES Solid-State Lighting Subcommittee
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