Better than LEDs? A revolutionary ‘eternal’ lamp designed in Russia

It’s more reliable, durable, and luminous than any other lamps currently available on the market. Plus, it promises to be cheap, if mass-produced. LED lamps brightened up our lives not too long ago as a more efficient alternative to the old school incandescent lamps. Yet it already seems they’ve got a new competitor. Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences came up with a prototype of cathodoluminescent lamp for general lighting - a technology which has been studied since the 1980s, but without luck - until now.