A Brighter Idea
New technologies with revolutionary capabilities.
We sculpt light like an architectural material. QuarkStar has a host of developed technologies with photon level control at every scale. |
New technologies with revolutionary capabilities.
We sculpt light like an architectural material. QuarkStar has a host of developed technologies with photon level control at every scale. |
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.
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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.
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"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"
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Discover how QuarkStar's award-winning modular lighting technology Edge-X is able to sculpt light like nothing you've seen before.
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Explore the expanding opportunities of Edge-X with its variety of sculpted distributions and lighting applications.
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Controlling the distribution of light in Space, desired changes in Time, and Color quality at any given moment; along with unparalleled Color & Lumen Maintenance over product lifetimes. And new approaches to IoT networking & commissioning.
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Advanced Light Sources encompass technologies allowing large scale spatial control with package size optical devices.
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Linear arrays and Areal structured sources. Can be coupled to sophisticated optics.
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Platinum Award Winner – QuarkStar
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 Read more › |
Houston museum uses QuarkStar optics to uniformly light art galleries
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 large 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. Read more › |
Ground-breaking optics debut in £330 million art gallery LUX Review, UK
INNOVATIVE lighting optics developed by technologists in the US are being used for the first time in new £330 million (US$450 million) art gallery.
QuarkStar’s radical Edge-X technology has been specified by top lighting design practice L’Observatoire 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. Read more › |
Technological breakthroughs: QuarkStar is 'completely changing the conceptual approach to lighting'
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"Taking Optics-Based Beam Distribution to a Whole New Level"from 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 ... " Read more › |
QuarkStar reinvents the downlight,
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"Sylvania licenses radical lens tech from US start-up"[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. Read more › |
Focus shifts from lumens to color
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QuarkStar presents two keynote talks at the 20th Anniversary Strategies in LightAs 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 Read more › |
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.
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