Hatteras Technologies, Inc.

Medical illumination is an important component of any successful surgery or medical exam. Not just illumination brightness is important. The best devices in medical illumination also strictly adhere to medical illumination standards to assure safety of illumination. Harmful UV light must be blocked from medical illumination. Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) and Color Rendering Index (CRI) are important characteristics of the quality of illumination. Human eye has evolved for best color contrast - an ability to distinct color shades - in photopic (bright daylight) regime at the correlated color temperature of the sunlight - 5780K. Most of the old illumination technology based on incandescent bulbs produces light of "warmer" or "yellowish" tint at CCT=3000K. Modern LEDs evolved to achieve CCT of sunlight in 5000-6000K range. But because LEDs spectra have sharp peaks CRI of such illumination is lower than sunlight. The best source of illumination that has sunlight-like CCT and CRI is Xe arc lamp. Hatteras Technologies, Inc. is exploring and testing all modern illumination technologies to deliver best tools for medical illumination.  

Hatteras Technologies, Inc. is an American medical illumination company. We aspire to bring high quality medical illumination per latest medical illumination standards. Currently we offer solutions for high quality Xe arc lamp illumination. We are also in process of developing white LED illumination solutions. We are science based and quality system adhering medical device company.