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And another headline from the Dept. of Sensationally Miss-Represented Scientific Results.

Vs. reality - the ">100%" is at nano-power levels, and is powered by the LED's temperature falling.

So, while the underlying effect might have some practical application, this is ">100% efficiency" in the same sense that "turned off the LED's electric power, set it on fire, then measured the fire's light output" is ">100% efficiency".

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This feels similar to heat pumps being >100% efficient though? Perhaps a less misleading headline would be 'Very low-power LEDs also convert heat to light'

' this is ">100% efficiency" in the same sense that "turned off the LED's electric power, set it on fire, then measured the fire's light output" is ">100% efficiency".'

It's absolutely a misleading headline. But that last part is a little harsh. The power is awfully low, but someday a partly-heat-powered LED might not be 100% useless.

DDR10 spec will have mandatory LEDs for heat dissipation reasons.

Yeah, beam that energy out of there!

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