Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011. Veeco reports its results on a U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) basis, and also provides results excluding certain items. Please refer to the attached table for details of the reconciliation between GAAP operating results and Non-GAAP operating results. All results presented herein are for Veeco’s “Continuing Operations” which excludes the Metrology business sold to Bruker Corporation on October...

Recently, Bridgelux is announced to receive $60 million in venture capital -- funding ,aiming to bolster the East Bay cleantech company's quest to develop cheaper LED. According to the company, silicon-based production could slash the cost of LEDs by 75 percent. Therefore, instead of producing LEDs on more expensive sapphire surfaces, it hopes to use the cash to develop LEDs on silicon surfaces. The company's products include LED chips that deliver electrical impulses to activate a light bulb or other lighting device. Currently, it has raised $180 million...

Future Lighting Solutions and Philips Lumileds are pleased to announce free seminars throughout Asia, with overviews and demonstrations of illumination grade LEDs. These seminars will provide attendees with hands on demonstrations, and a chance to observe first hand the benefits and cost savings of these revolutionary innovations in lighting technology. Featured will be the new LUXEON A and LUXEON S, which have been hot tested and provide customers with “Freedom From Binning”. “The 2011 LUXEON RoadShow presentations are a great way...

Lumiotec announced it will start selling two OLED lamps in September 1st - in Japan, Europe and other countries. The first one is the Hanger - a portable lamp that comes in several colors (red, white, yellow, blue, yellow-green, pink, purple and silver) and has a really cool design:   The Hanger uses Lumiotec's 14.5x14.5 Square white OLED panels. The OLED features a color temperature of 4,900K, maximum luminance of 2,700cd/m2 and it consumes 9.5W. The price of the Hanger (including the controller, dimmer switch and AC/DC adapter) is ¥35,000 (or a...

Sources inform that on this Tuesday, LG Electronics gets together with its component-making unit, LG Innotek Co., to file a lawsuit in the No. 2 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing,  China against Osram and auto parts maker Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., seeking a ban on sales of Osram's LED products and Hella's headlamps in the Asian country. It is the latest development in a legal spat between South Korean and German firms over LED lighting technology. Osram wasn't immediately available for comment. According to LG , it also...

HongKong based LED screen manufacturer Lighthouse Technologies has introduced VideoBlades™ 12, a revolutionary large-scale LED display. Combining  with the technology from Lighthouse and Pix2o,VideoBlades™ 12 features a 12.5mm pixel pitch, modular LED screen that delivers superb image quality both indoors and outdoors. The new product comes in two formats, SkyRoll™ and GroundRoll™ which can deployed by rolling up or down from its patented rotating structure, just like a window shade. The modular format allows for the seamless forma...

Recently,the city of Cape Town has undertaken a LED lighting retrofit project at Cape Town Stadium to respond complaints about the wastefulness involved in fully illuminating the stadium. At a demonstration, the stadium’s lights were switched off with only the new LED lighting, plane warning lights and the fire escape routes being lit. Mayoral committee member for tourism Grant Pascoe said “This has given us a chance to look at other strategic assets such as the City Hall and the Good Hope Centre to retrofit with these lights as well and save money whi...

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is pleased to announce that it has supported a major lighting renovation project at Virginia Commonwealth University (“VCU" and the “University”) in its Office of Special Services for Students/Testing Center and Division for Health Science Diversity. The Company’s award winning Lithonia Lighting® RTLED™ luminaire was the primary fixture used in the project. The RTLED is a hig...

Reportedly, Dialight has received a Federal Supply Schedule contract from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA),enabling federal government agencies to buy Dialight’s US-manufactured LED fixtures for industrial lighting and streetlight applications . Initially, Dialight’s industry leading indoor and outdoor LED lighting fixtures will be listed on Schedule 56: Buildings and Building Materials/Industrial Services and Supplies, which includes energy-saving supplies and related services. Dialight’s contract number is GS-07F-0664X,...

Specialist manufacturer of solutions for light measurement Instrument Systems GmbH has closed another business year very successfully. The company has continued to extend its market leadership in LED metrology. Sales for the business year completed in June 2011 rose by 112% to 21.9 million euros – after 10.3 million euros in the business year 2009/10. A number of major contracts were responsible for this success, including a contract from a leading brand manufacturer of PCs and consumer electronics. The products from Instrument Systems are a benchmark for precision,...

July 27, 2011, News conference of “2011 Guangdong top 500 Enterprises Election” was held at conference center of Zhujiang hotel in Guangzhou. The meeting announced the lists of “2011 Guangdong top 500 Enterprises”, “top 100 manufacturing enterprises”,“2011 top 100 service enterprises”, “top 10 self-owned brand of Guangdong province”. With the leading industry scale, business revenue, brand value, public image, etc, Unilumin was selected as “2011 Guangdong top 500 Enterprises”, the total ranking is 34...

Digi-Key recently has launched TE’s innovative solid-state lighting solution,known as  the NEVALO SSL system , designed for LED lighting fixtures. The NEVALO system features over 60 LED Light Modules options, ranging from 300-to-3400 lumens, in form factors for popular lighting applications; optics in total internal reflection and reflector styles; drivers with constant current output, dimming-control capabilities and temperature monitoring; and a new ribbon-based, four-wire configuration wiring system that is physically keyed and colour coded for po...

South Carolina city of Greenville has made its first  LED streetlight program. Curently, the city has installed four different types of pedestrian fixtures designed by Hubbell Lighting in one city block. Cobrahead styled fixtures designed by GE Lighting will soon be installed. To complement downtown area’s pedestrian friendly zone, the light fixtures from Hubbell will be equipped with features such as dimming capabilities and movable shades. In the downtown region, there are a total of 1400 mercury vapor streetlights.And mercury vapor fixtures that needed ...

Acuity Brands has introduced the Winona(R) Lighting Winline(TM) 607 LED Submersible Light, designed for decorative landscape applications. The Winline 607 LED Submersible Light is an LED linear water-cooled submersible luminaire. Available in various color temperatures and in sizes from 30" to 54" in length, the fixture delivers up to 1840 lumens per foot. According to the company, the Winline 607 LED Submersible Light incorporates a patent pending method called Cool Core Technology, used to keep the fixture from overheating. This technique ...

City of Boston is under the process of replacing more than 14,000 mercury-vapor street and roadway luminaires with Philips Hadco's New RX1 and RX2 LEDs. The LED's are expected to save the city approximately 8.9 million kilowatt hours of energy each year, yielding a savings of about $1.1 million annually in the cost of electricity.  The project also coincides with the release of the City's updated climate action plan, "A Climate of Progress," which calls for reducing citywide greenhouse gas emissions 25-percent by 2020. The RX1 is ba...

Under the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE), or the International Commission on Illumination, Taiwan is about to strengthen its involvement in global solid state lighting norms and standards following the establishment of two technical committees, the Committee on Photometry of Curved and Flexible OLED and LED Sources and the Committee on Characterization of AC-Driven LED Products for SSL Applications. The establishment of two technical committees marks a milestone in Taiwan's participation in establishing global standards for S...

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce that their well-designed, environmentally-friendly lines of LED lighting products are being used in numerous applications around the world and providing users with energy-saving light of the highest quality. In the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, Marrons Cake Factory has greatly benefited by replacing their traditional T8 tube lights with GlacialLight’s 595 x 595mm LED Panel Lights. Since the switch, Marrons has seen a 61% reduction in energy used for li...

Leotek Electronics USA Corp., a subsidiary company of LITEON, has received ISO 9001 certification for the company's American manufacturing facility, located in Milpitas, California. With this certification,Leotek will continue commitment to providing LED products of the highest quality, and clearly qualifies the company as a United States manufacturer of LED traffic signal modules. Leotek Electronics USA Corp., located in Silicon Valley, California since 1997, is globally recognized as a pioneer in LED technology....

Recently, Marl International is reported to receive a £2m contract from  Nokia Siemens Networks to supply status indicator LEDs for cellular base stations for the European and Chinese markets. Marl will provide a custom LED assemble which can tolerate the high levels of EMI characteristic of this kind of system. Other adaptations include a custom lens. The contract was won in partnership with Marl’s German Distributor, JK Defence and the customised LEDs are being assembled by Marl in the UK at Ulverston....

Dialight’s new StreetSense™ LED street lights have supported Historic Missouri City for an upgrade to its municipal lighting, replacing 104 high-pressure sodium street lights. As part of an overall plan to achieve more sustainable operations, officials secured a $190,000 grant to make energy-efficiency improvements to city-owned facilities. Part of the funding received through the EECBG was designated to replace 104 streetlights with LED street lights that would save the city money and free up precious resources to attend to other, more pressing issues be...

v2 Lighting Group Inc., presents the Tripod™ collection of luminaires suitable for inside, outside and seaside applications. Creating beauty from strength, Tripod is CNC machined from solid stainless steel, brass or aluminum and uses all stainless steel hardware. Available in a wide array of finishes, the collection includes indoor and outdoor wall sconces, pendants, landscape bollards and custom configurations. This versatility allows the lighting design to flow continuously from indoors to out and vice versa, creating cohesiveness throughout the project. v2 Lighting...

First Cree LED Lighting Fixture Designed for International Markets Replaces MR16 Downlights, Delivers Rapid Payback, Highest CRI and Lowest Power Consumption Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the industry’s first system-level LED downlight for the international 80 to 100mm MR16 market. A direct replacement for the 50-watt MR16-based fixture, the Cree CR100™ downlight surpasses its antiquated counterpart in brightness and efficacy. Commonly used in residential and retail lighting applications, Cr...

Seoul Semiconductor recently has won the ‘2011 National Competitiveness Contribution Award’ which is awarded to the entrepreneurs, companies and organizations that have made a contribution to the improvement of national competitiveness. The company has received the Prize of the Minister of Knowledge Economy thanks to remarkable management performance and increases in both national and corporate competitiveness with innovative LED technology and products in the green growth industry. John S. Bae, Vice president of Seoul Semiconductor, said, “Seoul ...

TDK-Lambda Corp has introduced a power-supply module for LED light bulbs at Tokyo Techno-Frontier 2011 held from July 20 to 22, 2011. The new module mainly targets to manufacturers outside Japan and it is designed for E-17 and E-26 base light bulbs and measures 10 x 35 x 11mm. Its input voltage is AC +80 to 120V, and its output power is 6W. The conversion efficiency of the power-supply module is 85% or higher, and its output ripple is 30% or lower.   Its operating temperature range are  -30 to +75°C,and storage temperature range are , -40 to +85&...

According to Premiere Opportunities Group, Inc, its LuminX Holdings, Inc. subsidiary Superior Digital Displays,  has acquired $430,000 order for LED display from a New York City client. Superior Digital Displays will handle the sale and installation of all the LED displays that occur under the LuminX Holdings Inc. umbrella starting with this order and all future orders. Chris H Giordano, Co-Chairman of Premiere, exclaimed, "This is the first in a series of potential sales that should occur between now and year end for LuminX Holdings, In...

Researchers from University of Illinois have utilized an epitaxial approach to develop a 3-D photonic crystal LED, the first such optoelectronic device. According to Paul Braun, a professor of materials science and engineering and of chemistry who led the research effort, "We've discovered a way to change the three-dimensional structure of a well-established semiconductor material to enable new optical properties while maintaining its very attractive electrical properties." Photonic crystals can control or manipulate light in unexpected ways with their unique ...

A US-based organization Grid Earth, has donated solar powered LED lighting to all the residents of Corozalito, to deliver the mission of replacing harmful kerosene lighting in the underdeveloped villages. Bomba, Corozalito is a small hardworking village off the Old Northern Highway running up the east side of Belize. Totally dependent on Kerosene for light, the families of Corozalito will now have safe solar powered LED lighting for reading and studying at night. Grid Earth, an Austin based US organization, which dedicates to save lives, improve health and edu...

Recently, the McGraw-Edison Marquis LED Sign Light  from Cooper Lighting was selected as a winner in the 2011 LIGHTFAIR International (LFI) Innovation Awards,which honor new and truly innovative lighting technologies, products and designs introduced in the past year. The LED product was named category winner in the Roadway, Sports, Outdoor Architectural and Site Lighting category. The Marquis LED Sign Light was designed to meet stringent roadway sign lighting standards as well as commercial billboard and floodlighting application standar...

POSCO LED is reported to step into Japanese LED market with its first overseas orders from Pohang on July 21. Jointly promoted by the sales and marketing teams at POSCO LED and Daewoo International,the shipment marks the first achievement to be made based on collaboration within the POSCO group. The LED plant in Pohang completed in March this year has the capacity to produce lighting products of 5 million units annually. Its houses state-of-the-art manufacturing systems to produce a broad range of products, including industrial LED lighting and i...

Royal Philips Electronics has rolled out a 17-watt LED bulb which equals to a 75-watt incandescent for $39.97 on HomeDepot.com. According to Philips, the 17-watt LED bulb uses 80 percent less electricity and lasts 24 times longer than the average incandescent. It has a lifespan of 25,000 hours, roughly the equivalent of 17 years of daily four-hour use, and a color temperature of 2,700, which is a warm yellow light similar to that of an incandescent bulb. Philips first unveiled the bulb, which is compatible to fit into any 75-watt incandescent socket, in May and announc...