QuarkStar Licensee Sylvania (EMEA​) Creates

Equinox

Doing what downlights have never done before!

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As solid-state lighting’s deep tech innovation team, QuarkStar technologies offer radically new forms, functions, and fixtures of light and lighting. See what’s in the news:
QUARKSTAR
​REINVENTS THE DOWNLIGHT
Step into the future of lighting with one of our cutting-edge 21st Century Downlights™ featuring our revolutionary Edge-X™ refractive optical technology
Our Technology is a ​Winner of the Lux Innovation Award at Light+Building
Reviews of the QuarkStar downlight technology displayed at Light+Building:
“The first fundamental innovation in downlights”
- Lux (UK)
“Opening the way to designs that were up to now unimaginable”
- Lux, La revue de l'eclairage (France)
ADDITIONAL TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW
Quadrant-Controlled Circular Downlight Unveiled at LightFair
In addition to showcasing the innovative QuarkStar optical downlight technologies shown at Light+Building, the LightFair exhibition featured a variety of other QuarkStar innovative designs for the 21st Century Downlight™.

One concept demonstrated, unique to QuarkStar technology, is Selective Quadrant Control –  offering the ability to customize lighting in specific areas to highlight and accentuate spaces according to individual preferences, specific needs, and temporal changes such as daylighting.
All Four Quadrants
North Quadrant
East Quadrant
South Quadrant
West Quadrant
ADDITIONAL TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW
Advancements in Downlight Technology: A Look at Our Latest Innovations​
Indirect-direct
Direct
Sector
​Wall Wash
Downlight License Granted to Sylvania EMEA​
Sylvania licenses QuarkStar's Edge-X Technology in developing their high-end Concord Equinox product. ​
Read their press release here ›​​
Newly Published LEDs Magazine Article: 
QuarkStar and Sylvania present new solution to European downlight segment ›
​​Dec. 7, 2022
“The ability to minimize dark ceilings, entirely changing the ambience of a room whilst beautifully illuminating the space, is unique to the QuarkStar technology and is a game-changer for the industry” 
– Agnieszka Paprocka, Sylvania’s senior product line manager

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“Congratulations on QuarkStar earning recognition as one the top companies with a culture of innovation that empowers employees at every level to blaze trails and break new ground.” 
Fast Company/Accenture
Best Workplace for Innovators 2022
More from Fast Company on the Best Workplaces for Innovations:
  • “We’re looking to honor companies that are accomplishing real innovation, not merely laying the groundwork for future breakthroughs. In other words, real projects with tangible results.”
  • “We’re looking for current hotbeds of innovation, organizations that are working to sustain a creative culture and aren’t resting on the laurels of a handful of breakthroughs a decade ago.”
​​QuarkStar Profiled in LEDs Magazine
​“​LEDs Magazine's new department provides an inside look at a leading individual or firm involved in the LED and SSL manufacturing, design, and supply chain. Our first subject is SSL technology developer QuarkStar, which recently won an L-Prize.”
​Wanda Lau
​June 2, 2022
QuarkStar Wins 2022 DOE L-Prize®
​(Phase 1)
In partnership with Nichia
DOE L-Prize Phase 1 Winner is QuarkStar – The Announcement
by Jennifer M. Granholm,
​U.S. Secretary of Energy
QuarkStar is thrilled to be a WINNER of DOE’s L-Prize (Phase 1), part of a multi-million-dollar competition to energize U.S. commercial lighting innovation.
“A decade ago DOE awarded our very first L-Prize to a technology you might have heard about a little bit – an LED replacement for the everyday lightbulb... the purpose was to raise the bar for lighting efficiency, quality, connectivity, and environmental footprint. And this time we are really targeting transformational innovations to light commercial buildings.” ​​
―Jennifer M. Granholm, U.S. Secretary of Energy
“Currently available technologies and systems may excel in one performance area, but often at the expense of others … a key innovation of this L-Prize is that a winning system must demonstrate exceptional achievement in all areas.” 

QuarkStar's L-Prize Winning Submission with Nichia partnership
To make these ambitions real, the Project Tango team of QuarkStar and Nichia made use of:
For more information see our press release.
And feel free to reach out directly to us. Thank you.

The Ultimate Debut for a New Lighting Technology

Lighting the galleries of the largest museum project in North America

QuarkStar Lights Up a Galaxy of Art: QuarkStar is the primary lighting supplier ​for the centerpiece building of the largest museum project in North America, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Rich and Nancy Kinder Building.
“Subtle LED lighting that achieves remarkably consistent illumination”
Wall Street Journal
Photo credits - Richard Barnes
“QuarkStar’s revolutionary technology bridges the natural and artificial”
“QuarkStar’s Edge-X technology delivers something previously never before seen in the lighting world: evenly distributed sheets of light easily spanning 16-ft gallery walls and daylight matching color-tuning from a single row of LEDs”
LD+A Issue May 2021

QuarkStar Technologies ›
Partnering Light with Space​

Edge-X​ ›


​Technology family with module luminaire-level capabilities, superior distribution control, and brand new capabilities.
Light Sheets and Filaments ​​›​
Linear arrays and Planar sources coupled to sophisticated optics.
Advanced Light Sources​ ›
Advanced Light Sources are Fixtures in a Package – offering large scale spatial control from package-sized sources. ​
Controls ›
​in Space, Time, and Color
● New ways to control light in Space, Time, & Color. 
​● Unparalleled Color & Lumen Maintenance over product lifetimes. 
● New approaches to IoT Networking & Self-commissioning.
Awards for QuarkStar Innovations
​WINNER
US DOE 2022 L-Prize® Competition
​(Phase 1)​
WINNER
​US DOE Next Generation Luminaire
Competition for Emerging Technology
​WINNER
UK 2021 Innovation Award
​WINNER
US DOE Next Generation Luminaire
Competition for Asymmetric Lighting
​Top Ten Products
​LightFair
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​One of the 20 Hottest
Lighting Companies in the World
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​Best Innovation of
​Light+Building
(shared award)

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Intellectual Property Portfolio​ ›
QuarkStar:
​A Universe of Innovation
500+ patents filed (US, EU, CN, JP)
250+ patents granted
(with new patents every month)
Current applications
       ●  Industrial
       ●  Commercial
       ●  Horticulture
       ●  Automotive
       ●  LiFi & IoT
       ●  LED filament bulbs
Our IP portfolio of over 500 patent applications, with >50% already granted, provides our partners with protected technologies that overcome current limitations of solid-state lighting.​