Durham-based Cyberlux Corporation (http://www.cyberlux.com), a provider of LED lighting solutions, has acquired SPE Technologies, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of UTEK Corporation for an undisclosed amount in a restricted stock transaction. Prior to the acquisition, SPE Technologies, Inc. held the worldwide exclusive license to a number of pending patents for the Scattered Photon Extraction™ (SPE) methodology, developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
These packages are designed to enable higher luminous efficacy with down-converted white light illuminators constructed with Light Emitting Diodes (LED). In contrast to traditional white LED packages, the SPE packages place the phosphor and/or down-conversion materials, such as quantum dots, at locations remote from the LEDs. The optic surrounding the LED’s die is shaped to extract a significant portion of the down-converted white light that is otherwise absorbed and lost as waste heat within the traditional LED packages.