What is the Integrated System of Lighting?

The Integrated System of Lighting - ISL - is analogous to the integrated circuit for transistor semiconductors. By integrating LED (optical semiconductor) technologies in whole new ways, the ISL enables:
  • dramatically lower manufacturing costs
  • higher profit margins
  • better performance

“QuarkStar has created the world’s first
​Integrated System of Lighting.”

- Roland Haitz
Creator of Haitz's Law
Godfather of Solid-State Lighting
QuarkStar team member
Want to learn about how the Integrated System of Lighting can
​boost profitability and market competitiveness?
The Integrated System of Lighting: Paving a New Path to Profitability
Presented by QuarkStar at Strategies in Light in 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.
Awards and Accolades
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​include
One of the Best Innovations of Light+Building
Winner in
​DOE NGL Competition
Asymmetric Lighting
One of the
20 Hottest Lighting Companies
​in the World
Winner in
​DOE NGL Competition
Emerging Technology
One of Top 10 Products of LightFair International

Recent News

(December 2019)
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 ... 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. 
​
Presented by Wilson Dau at Strategies in Light 2019

Watch recorded presentation >>
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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 patents go beyond 480 applications globally with 200 core technology patents granted to date in the US, EU, China, and Japan

Recently granted patents of a fundamental nature range from those involving LED filament bulbs to ways to dramatically cut manufacturing costs of fixtures that also outperform conventional LED luminaires. 

QuarkStar presents two keynote talks at Strategies in Light 2019


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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