TerraLUX announces that its TLM-R16B LED light engine, a LED replacement for conventional halogen MR16 bulbs, has been recognized by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Committee as providing "an advancement in the art and science of lighting." The accepted products are part of the 2011 IES Progress Report, which presents significant developments and improvements in the lighting industry over the past year. The TLM-R16B LED light engine is the only LED replacement for MR16 halogen bulbs that can confidently be used in ...

Sharp Corporation has developed and will introduce a high-power LED lighting device that features the industry’s highest luminous efficacy of 93.3 lm/W (lumens/watt) in the 50W input power class as a light source for applications such as downlighting in retail stores. LED lighting is rapidly increasing in popularity based on its superior characteristics such as long service life and low energy consumption. In the future, lighting sources for applications such as downlighting and spotlights in retail stores are expected to shift to higher-power LEDs. This newly deve...

This new report provides analysis of the automotive lighting sector, including its key drivers, regulatory environment. It also provides a detailed look at the latest lighting technologies Background to this Research The last few years have seen something of a revolution occurring in automotive lighting facilitated by a range of new light technologies. The lighting industry as a whole is moving rapidly from the incandescent and gas discharge based technologies that dominated the 20th century to solid state technology in the form of Light Emitting Diodes (LED), which are a p...

The light bulb aisle isn't as simple as it used to be. From CFLs to LEDs to new halogen incandescents, there are a lot of choices. With new federal regulations about to take effect, it's a good time to consider your lighting options. New federal rules on energy efficiency take effect in January and start the official phase out of standard incandescent light bulbs. There's no need to hoard them, though. The most popular 60-watt size can be made until 2014. In the meantime, the good news is that alternatives are improving. Consumer Reports tested light emittin...

LG Electronics Inc. and component-making unit LG Innotek Co. said on Wednesday that they filed a lawsuit with a South Korean court on Tuesday seeking an injunction blocking local branches of Germany's BMW AG and Audi AG from selling vehicles equipped with lighting products made by Osram AG, which the Korean companies allege infringe their patents. The move opens a new front in the continuing legal spat between the South Korean companies and Osram over light-emitting-diode lighting technology, as they struggle for dominance in a fast-growing LED lighting...

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, and OpenVPX(TM) products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has announced the availability of its new enhanced family of Skyquest(TM) rugged displays for use on airborne platforms. The new family of Dual LED Backlit Skyquest Displays, available in configurations from 10.4" to 20", provides a unique way of delivering Night Vision Goggle (NVG) filter...

At the International Symposium on Automotive Lighting (ISAL 2011) in Darmstadt (26-28 September), Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany showcased two new LED prototypes that combine new chip and package technologies to provide high light output (even at high currents), a uniform light pattern, thermal stability and good contrast ratio. The OSLON Black Flat and OSTAR Headlamp Pro are matched to the requirements of headlight systems and are designed to provide headlight manufacturers with superior performance and optimized cost. More and ...

One of the world’s foremost developers of UV LED curing, Integration Technology Ltd (ITL), is opening an office in Japan to further support its domestic distributors and a growing customer base. ITL has operated in the region since 2001 in partnership with local distributor Neopt to support its digital graphics market business, adding Finesensing in 2009 for an ever growing number of specialist industrial applications. In a move mirroring ITL’s proven strategies in China, the USA and South Korea, the company is to open a representative office in ...

The Estée Lauder Companies and Philips are proud to launch a global partnership as part of The Estée Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Awareness (BCA) Campaign. Prominent landmarks will be illuminated using Philips’ innovative and environmentally-friendly LED technology to raise awareness about the importance of breast health and early detection to millions worldwide.  These landmarks, along with numerous others that will be lit pink worldwide, join together as part of The Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign’s Global Landmark Illu...

Acuity Brands, Inc., a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting, controls and daylighting solutions, has expanded its Sunoptics® high-performance prismatic daylighting portfolio with the introduction of the SEAMLIGHT™ Curbless Daylighting System (“SEAMLIGHT System”). The SEAMLIGHT System is designed for direct installation onto existing industrial standing seam roofing systems, creating new opportunities for the implementation of daylighting solutions. The Sunoptics high-performance prismatic skylights optimize...

Philips Roadway Lighting has added a new series of flexible, high-performance roadway luminaires to its outdoor LED lighting portfolio. Designed for demanding roadway environments, the RoadView Series is based on the Philips LEDgine platform, and benefits from a modular approach that protects a customer's technology investment while significantly reducing energy expenses and improving overall light quality. Based on the LEDgine platform, it allows for different LUXEON configurations, enabling the systems to be tailored to a customer's unique needs such a...

Encelium Technologies' Gary Meshberg, LEED-AP, LC, director of sales, has been named a guest speaker at the Illuminating Engineering Society-New York Chapter’s (IESNYC) ControlThis! 2011  on Thursday, October 20. An industry veteran and chair of the IESNYC Design Guide Committee, Meshberg will address “The Commissioning Process: IESNA DG29.”   ControlThis! will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion located at 125 West 18th Street in New York City from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The second annual educational...

A project to replace expensive spotlights with cheaper LED bulbs could help a Cornish church dramatically reduce its electricity bill. Camborne Parish Church wants to invest £10,000 in a new lighting system to save money in the long term. After reinstating the outside lighting with gas lamp replicas, Rector Mike Firbank is turning his attention to the inside of the building. The energy efficient LED lights will replace the old and expensive spotlights. The church has recently installed solar panels on the roof of the Cecil Norman building in the church gr...

The Terra LED pendant lamps by Album use their Universo LED technology for lighting right where you need it. In this way you have a light that is safe to handle (won’t break or be damaged due to touch), saves you money and energy and provides great accent or direct lighting solutions. Each pendant lamp is is handblown to traditional Italian craftsmanship standards out of borosilicate glass. It has a clear finish adorned with blue glass splinters for a dazzling effect. Resembling a small globe, Terra lamps are sure to enhance your interior decor and lighting sch...

The LED Street Lighting Industry Alliance of Taiwan and the Fujian Optoelectronics Industry Association of Fujian Province, mainland China recently co-unveiled mutually recognized standard for LED streetlights and signed a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) on LED standards.   The agreement and the recognized standards suggest that LED streetlights made in Taiwan or Fujian are allowed into the other signatory.   The recognized standards are only applicable to high-power LED streetlights and streetlight-used LEDs while the agreement lays fou...

As the latest German soccer league championships get underway, OSRAM and the German recordholding football club FC Bayern München are embarking on an extensive lighting partnership which promises to be of mutual benefit to both players – on and off the pitch: OSRAM is to equip all sections of the planned FC Bayern theme world with the latest lighting technology. In the course of the current season, OSRAM will be creating unique, emotive lighting effects in all sections of the theme world, fitting cutting-edge LED technology in successive stages up to M...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has added another LED to its portfolio for projection applications. The new OSRAM OSTAR Compact 2x2 is the brightest LED of its type on the market. With twice the brightness in all colors and near record-breaking green values this new version is an excellent addition to the existing Compact versions. Its high performance makes it ideal for high-power projectors for the commercial and domestic sectors. LEDs in the OSRAM OSTAR Compact series now offer even greater flexibility for projectors thanks to the new 2x2 version. W...

Cooper Lighting’s popular Halo brand is awarded for its new 4-inch LED product expansion.   Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, announced its new Halo H4 LED 4-inch Adjustable Gimbal Series has been recognized as a winner in the prestigious ninth annual Lighting for Tomorrow competition. The awards, which recognize the best-designed, energy-efficient solid-state lighting (SSL) products in the residential market, were announced at the American Ligh...

Ammono has made a breakthrough on high transparency n-type gallium nitride substrates for the production of LEDs and photovoltaic applications. The company has developed a technology allowing the manufacture of GaN wafers with carrier concentrations between 2x1017 and 2x1020 cm-3. Currently, the standard n-type product has a carrier concentration of 1019cm-3. To meet the market demand, Ammono is introducing new products based on an innovative n-type material which has a higher transparency and a lower carrier concentration of 3x1017cm-3. The dislocation density in this ma...

LG Electronics Woomyeon R&D Campus (LG Electronics Advanced Research Institute),recently has ordered one AIX G5 HT MOCVD system in an 8x6-inch wafer configuration to develop GaN-on-Silicon power electronics. In addition, the contract also includes a cooperation agreement in order to optimise LGE´s GaN/Si processes and to accelerate its proprietary device-oriented production. The reactor was ordered in the first quarter of 2011 and following delivery in the third quarter of 2011 will be installed and commissioned by a local Aixtron service s...

The increasing popularity of light-emitting diode lights might have a downside for human health, researchers say. It has been know that "white" artificial light reduces melatonin production in the pineal gland. However, researchers have now qualified for the first time the degree of suppression depending on a person's exposure to different light sources. The multi-country study, published in the Journal of Environmental Management, compared high pressure sodium (HPS) bulbs, where give off an orange-yellow light and have been used in street lighting, with '...

LG announced it will invest $6.83 billion in green business sectors by 2015. The conglomerate says the investments - in electric vehicle batteries, LED lighting, solar PV and water treatment technologies - will generate $8.4 billion in revenue, while creating 10,000 green jobs around the world. It will also boost business for about 660 small and midsized enterprises in its supply chain. About a third of the investment will be in lithium batteries for electric vehicles (by 2013). It's also planning to get into the solar polysilicon business by 2014. Its LG Chem div...

Exar Corporation unveiled the XRP7618 an 8-channel constant current LED driver. Supporting up to 30V on its LED channel inputs, the XRP7618 is ideally suited to drive up to eight strings of multiple LEDs at currents up to 100mA. Several devices can be cascaded to drive additional channels. Key Product Features With a capability of 100mA per channel and outputs rated at 30V, the XRP7618 can control strings of multiple LEDs with better than +/- 1.5% channel to channel current matching. Multiple channels can be combined to increase current driving capabil...

Luminator congratulates Boeing on delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner. Luminator Aerospace, a preferred supplier, was selected to supply passenger information signs (PAX) and wireless emergency lighting system (WELS) lights and signs. The new LED lighting systems will provide greatly increased efficiency and service life. "The first 787 delivery is a major accomplishment, our design teams have worked closely with Boeing to achieve this and we look forward to the continued success of the program." – Riko Yap, VP Marketing and Business Devel...

Norburn Lighting is proud to introduce the Sōl™ Organic LED Chandelier from WAC Lighting. Sōl™ is an upscale decorative chandelier utilizing Organic LED panels, the world’s most revolutionary nanotechnology light source available today. Sōl™ is inherently sustainable, designed around energy efficient and environmentally friendly technology and individually crafted in WAC Lighting’s clean manufacturing campus featuring zero landfill status and inhouse UL Labs. Sōl™ features upgraded ORBEOS OLEDs from OSRAM ...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced its sponsorship of EDN’s Designing with LEDs event during the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) this week at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. The September 27th LED seminar will bring together editors of EDN and EE Times, circuit designers, system architects, LED light designers, device packaging engineers, lighting component designers, academic leaders and the industry’s mover...

Reportedly, German Zweibrüder Optoelectronics has created a gaint flashlight as big as a Volkswagen Golf with an array of 19 high-powered LED lights. The Germans have built a flashlight that is four meters long. That is thirteen feet long in the old money, which marks a world record for the biggest flashlight (electric torch) ever made. It has placed its makers firmly into the Guinness Book of Records. Zweibrüder Optoelectronics designed this giant-sized device as part of the celebrations for the Lichternacht (the Festival of Lights), held in Solingen, i...

LED venture of US$120 million which has been co-opened by Taiwanese LED makers Epistar, and Lite-On Technology as well as TV maker Konka Group comes on stream in Changzou ,China on Sept. 23, 2011  Epistar has in the dominating position of the venture with a 60% stake. The venture is its first overseas and the biggest in mainland China capable of making epitaxy wafers and chips.Plus, this venture is its first that involves LED packager (Lite-On) and end-product maker (Konka) as co investors. At the same time, Lite-On owns a 30% stake and Konka hold...

A Richmond manufacturing company was selected to produce a new street light technology that could result in huge energy savings for cities, businesses and individuals around the globe. LAD-JD Lighting of Muncie designed a new patent-pending LED street light that uses 90 percent less energy than current street lights. The Muncie company then stumbled across Richmond's CMJ Corp. -- a Department of Defense contractor -- during Google Internet searches to try to find a nearby manufacturer that could mass-produce the technology. The unit uses just 13 watts of pow...

Silicon Valley is known for computer chips, software companies and social networks -- but not light bulbs. Switch Lighting, a San Jose startup, hopes to change that. Later this fall, the venture capital-backed company plans to release a new line of bulbs aimed at replacing the ones consumers typically use in lamps and other fixtures. Switch's bulbs are among a new generation powered by light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, a technology that many experts bet will finally displace the incandescent bulb that Thomas Edison invented more than a century ago, in part because they&#...