With the recent trend away from the use of mercury lamps for disinfection, many companies are turning to Excimer Lamps (ELs) and Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes (UV LEDs) as readily available and viable alternatives. But most are overlooking more a competitive...
Pulsed Light Science
Following the Science of Pulsed Light
A few years ago in this space, we described Pulsed Light as the “Duct Tape of technology” because it’s so extremely versatile. If anything, that may have been an understatement, because new applications keep turning up. From food packaging to solar cells, from printed...
Energized by the Possibilities of Pulsed Light
What’s exciting about Pulsed Light is the seemingly endless list of beneficial uses for the technology that have been discovered. And we keep learning of more. It was in this vein that two years ago, XENON launched the campaign “What could you do with high-energy...
Pulsed Light’s Application in Food Safety & Enhancement
A Webinar Presented by XENON and New Food Magazine On October 21, 2020, XENON presented a webinar on the use of Pulsed Light for food safety and enhancement. XENON’s leading experts, including CEO, Lou Panico, Chief Scientist and VP of Operations, Saad Ahmed, and...
Pulsed Light: The Energy of a Thousand Suns
If you’ve ever wondered how Pulsed Light can do things like sterilize equipment and kill the novel coronavirus, the answer was summed up recently by XENON’s VP of Operations and lead scientist, Dr. Saad Ahmed, when interviewed by a Boston TV station. As he put it,...
Pulsed Light: What it is and What it isn’t
The physical world is, for the most part, disorganized, messy, and ambiguous. One of the aims in science and technology is to try and bring some order to this chaos so that it can be systematically studied, or even consistently named. Sometimes out of such efforts...
Pulsed Light: Duct Tape of the Technology World
Ever since XENON asked me to write some blogs for them, I’ve been struggling with a simple question: how do I talk about a specialized technology that’s easy to explain, but it’s not obvious why you might need or want it? You see, I’ve been writing about technology my...