Sylvania Lighting wins Red Dot Design Award 
for the Concord Equinox LED Downlight
◼︎ May 10 2023​ | Sylvania​ Press Release

09/05/2023, Budapest, Hungary – Sylvania Lighting has been awarded with the Red Dot Design Award 2023 in the Lighting Design category for its innovative Concord Equinox LED downlight...

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QuarkStar: Award-winning Waveguide Technology
◼︎ February 26 2023 | The Light Review Podcast

Developments in lighting technology have tended to focus on – no, more than tended, have always been focused absolutely on – light sources. It’s little wonder, of course. We have shifted from light created by hot tungsten filaments and excited gas discharge tubes into a world dominated by solid state electronics. what we have not spent so much time thinking about is how we manage to get efficient illumination from the source material – the optical systems.​..

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Lighting and Innovation Part 3: It Takes a Platform
◼︎ May 2023​ | Light Now

How many designers does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: Does it have to be a light bulb? While this old joke lampoons the legendary persnickety design thinking personified by Steve Jobs and others, the response is quite valid. Who in the lighting industry today is asking this question or similar ones? Who’s coming up with compelling answers?​...

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QuarkStar and Sylvania present new solution to European downlight segment
◼︎ December 2022​ | LEDs Magazine

Last month, solid-state lighting skunkworks QuarkStar and architectural lighting provider Sylvania announced their collaboration on a new LED luminaire that launched as part of Sylvania’s high-end Concord lineup...

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Sylvania launches a game-changing range of innovative lighting to rival conventional downlights​
◼︎ November 2022​ | Sylvania​ Press Release

Today Sylvania launched its next generation of premium luminaires that uses QuarkStar’s award-winning light refraction technology. The Equinox, part of Concord by Sylvania range, delivers a high-end premium lighting solution that re-invents how downlights can be used by architects and lighting designers and revolutionises how spaces are lit...​
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QuarkStar Recognized as Fast Company 2022 Best Workplaces for Innovators United States
◼︎ September 2022​ | Fast Company

Fast Company and Accenture have recognized QuarkStar as Best Workplaces for Innovators United States 2022. "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
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QuarkStar and Nichia Win US Department of Energy L-Prize (Phase 1) Competition 
◼︎ June 2022​ | QuarkStar Press Release

QuarkStar, a deep tech startup dedicated to advancements in solid-state lighting, along with its L-Prize® partner Nichia, the world's largest supplier of LEDs, are honored to have their submission "Project Tango" chosen as a winner in the U.S. Department of Energy's L-Prize Phase 1 competition. The results were announced personally by the U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm...

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Profiles in Lighting: QuarkStar
◼︎ June 2022​ | 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...

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L-Prize Concept Phase winners propose next-generation SSL design
◼︎ June 2022​ | LEDs Magazine

During the Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting R&D Workshop on Feb. 3, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced the winners of the Concept Phase of DOE’s latest L-Prize competition. The program aims to spark innovation with interoperable LED lighting systems in commercial building applications. These systems can include LED luminaires, sensors, control devices, and interfaces...

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LED innovations transform SSL market prospects over two decades
◼︎ January 2022​ | LEDs Magazine

Dr. Robert Steele, a co-founding member of Team QuarkStar, is considered the LED and SSL industry’s pioneer of market research and forecasting. In this 2022 article for LEDs Magazine, Dr Steele surveys the remarkable history of the LED, and the evolution of its applications and markets over the past two decades.​..

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Platinum Award Winner – QuarkStar
◼︎ August 2021​ | Build Back Better

A new international award celebrating and rewarding innovation. QuarkStar was independently nominated for this new international award based on QuarkStar’s premier role in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s newly completed centerpiece building. To learn more about this innovative project and see an independent review of the QuarkStar technology...

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Inside the Museum: QuarkStar's revolutionary technology bridges the natural and artificial
◼︎ May 2021 | LD+A

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, all from a footprint so small when the museum saw it placed in a ceiling mockup...
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​Houston museum uses QuarkStar optics to uniformly light art galleries
◼︎ March 2021 | LEDs Magazine

Fixtures that hide within the building architecture and spectral tuning bring natural light effects into the exhibit spaces in the new Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The relatively diminutive optical element can spread LED light uniformly over extensive areas such as walls while allowing the solid-state lighting (SSL) fixture to be essentially hidden in a room’s architectural features or recessed into the ceiling. Meanwhile, a multi-channel LED light engine enables the museum lighting to match the abundant natural light that the building design draws into the public spaces and galleries...

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Ground-breaking optics debut in £330 million art gallery
◼︎ January 2021​ | LUX Review

INNOVATIVE lighting optics developed by technologists in the US are being used for the first time in a new £330 million (US$450 million) art gallery.QuarkStar’s radical Edge-X technology has been specified by top lighting design practice L’Observatoire International for the newly opened Kinder Building, centrepiece of a massive expansion to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The expansion was the largest fine art gallery project in North America in 2020, designed by US ‘starchitect’ Steven Holl...

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"Taking Optics-Based Beam Distribution to a Whole New Level"
◼︎ November 2019 | LEDs Magazine

"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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Technological breakthroughs: QuarkStar is 'completely changing the conceptual approach to lighting'
◼︎ March 2019​ | Lux - La revue de l'eclairage (France)

​The French publication Lux highlights QuarkStar’s Edge-X technology as a completely novel 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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QuarkStar reinvents the downlight, finessing the limitations of glare
◼︎ March 2019 | QuarkStar Update

Winner of the Light+Building Lux Innovation Award, this is being called the first fundamental innovation in downlights in their 75 year history.This is a brand new downlight concept that makes use of the versatility and unprecedented performance capabilities of QuarkStar’s Edge-X technology. It has been further developed to significantly decrease the problems of glare, ubiquitous in traditional downlight designs. The first commercial products have an expected 2022 release...

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Sylvania licenses radical lens tech from US start-up
◼︎ March 2019​ | LUX Review (London)

[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. The Edge-X optics essentially guide the output from LEDs and sculpt the distribution of light in a space. One of the benefits to clients is that fewer luminaires are needed in a space to get the same effect as traditional optics...

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QuarkStar presents two keynote talks at the 20th Anniversary  Strategies in Light
◼︎ March 2019 | QuarkStar Presentation

As a team composed of industry experts with decades of collective experience in the SSL industry and 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 and From Black Death to White Light": The LED Revolution That Almost Didn’t Happen presented by Dr. Eric Bretschneider, QuarkStar CTO and ​Chair of the IES Solid-State Lighting Subcommittee...

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Focus shifts from lumens to color
QuarkStar CTO's solution of the previously unsolved major problem of color shift prediction forms basis of new industry standard TM-35
◼︎ February 2019​ | LEDs Magazine - Blog

"[The 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..."​

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