Technologies

"The LED is to the Incandescent Light Bulb
what the Transistor is to the VacuumTube.

Just as the Integrated Circuit has replaced Transistors,
Integrated Lighting Systems will replace
current solid-state lighting solutions."
- Roland Haitz
Creator of Haitz's Law
Godfather of Solid-State Lighting
Control at Every Scale
To fully maximize the efficiency and capabilities of a lighting system, one needs to control the photon from the moment it emerges from the source until its final destination in an illuminated space. To that end, QuarkStar has created a complete and complementary suite of technologies at every scale – from the package to the module to the fixture and systems levels – that were designed to provide this control. 

​The result is the Integrated System of Lighting (ISL), a set of unprecedented new capabilities in ever smaller and more modular formats that solve the fundamental technical, functional, and economic problems of solid-state lighting.

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

- Roland Haitz
QuarkStar team member

What is the Integrated System of Lighting?

The Integrated System of Lighting, analogous to the Integrated Circuit for Transistor Semiconductors,
integrates optical semiconductor (LED) technologies in whole new ways. This enables:
  • Radically New Capabilities & Form Factors
  • Dramatically Lower Manufacturing Costs
  • Higher Profit Margins
  • Better Performance

QuarkStar's Technology Families
Providing this Control at Every Scale

Edge-X
QuarkStar's award-winning Edge-X technology family brings luminaire-level capabilities down to the module level, reducing manufacturing cost and complexity while also enabling superior distribution control and brand new capabilities.
Edge-X Optical Engines
QuarkStar has developed many different optical engines for LED fixtures using different edge extractor optics for flex fixture integration, providing unprecedented performance.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Project
QuarkStar was chosen to be the primary gallery lighting supplier ​for the centerpiece building of the largest museum project in North America.
Advanced Light Sources
QuarkStar’s Advanced Light Sources brings module and luminaire capabilities down in size to that approaching the package scale. This is a fundamentally new approach, pioneered by QuarkStar team members such as Roland Haitz and Peter Stormberg, that offers significantly more efficiencies than current industry standards while enabling light-shaping and luminaire-level distributions at close to the package level.
Light Sheets and Filaments
QuarkStar’s Light Sheets and Light Filaments covers the expanded architectures of solid-state light soures – from linear arrays to areal structures – advantageously coupled to sophisticated optics.
Controls
Color Control and Prediction is one example of one of QuarkStar's control technologies: The ability to predict color shift and to guarantee color stabilization in packages, modules, and luminaires without complex feedback systems. Elements of this technological approach are already contributing to a new set of official industry standards.

For our unique ability to control and shape light in space,  Lux Magazine calls QuarkStar  
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"One of the 20 Hottest Lighting Companies in the World"