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
QuarkStar Team Member
Godfather of Solid-State Lighting
[For more, please see Haitz's-Law.com]
QuarkStar: Partnering Light with Space

Control at Every Scale
Powering QuarkStar’s Deep Tech efforts was early team member Roland Haitz’s dicta that 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 along with C4I controls at the fixture and system level to take full advantage of the unique capabilities that QuarkStar optical technologies provide.

​The result is QuarkStar's 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

What is the Integrated System of Lighting?

The Integrated System of Lighting, analogous to the Integrated Circuit for Transistors,
integrates optical semiconductor (LED) technologies in whole new ways.
QuarkStar’s Integrated System of Lighting 
Control at Every Scale
From LED packages and modules, to luminaires and systems of luminaires with unique properties under intelligent control, QuarkStar’s technology families cover multiple layers of technologies that are mutually compatible – yet independent from the proprietary technologies of others.

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 Applications & Distributions
QuarkStar has developed many different optical engines for LED fixtures using different edge extractor optics for flexible 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.
Controls in Space, Time, and Color

QuarkStar Technologies are all about 'Control' – whether controllng the distribution in Space, the desired changes in Time (and removing those like flicker that are not), and of course Color.
Advanced Light Sources
QuarkStar’s Advanced Light Sources brings module and luminaire capabilities down to a size  that approaches 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 sources – from linear arrays to areal structures – advantageously coupled to sophisticated optics.
 
Individually and in combination, these enabling technologies offer

  • Radically New Capabilities, Designs, & Form Factors

  • Dramatically Improved Functionality & Performance – without compromise

  • Lower Design & Manufacturing Costs at scale


For our unique ability to control and shape light

Lux Magazine calls QuarkStar  
​
"One of the 20 Hottest Lighting Companies in the World"