It’s said that Piccadilly Circus will replace the iconic red and white Sanyo sign, which has been in place since 1978. The Japanese electronics company has been told to replace the sign with a more modern LED display, which allows for moving images. However, according to a spokesman for Sanyo,” the owner of the ad space wanted to change the neon sign to LED for the coming London Olympics, but we didn't feel the need to change it for economic reasons.”...

Featuring Intelligent Thermal Sensing Technology and Reduced Carbon Footprint   American Illumination, Inc®, a LED engine design and manufacturing company, is introducing the patent pending Light Plugz® light engines designed for the Cree XP family of LEDs.  Produced especially for light fixture designers, the Light Plugz® series incorporates intelligent thermal sensing technology, advanced custom optics, improved heat tolerance and a selection of interchangeable heat sinks.     In order to prevent shortened lifetime due to e...

According to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, it may form units in the solar and LED businesses. Formerly, TSMC and other Taiwan technology companies have been pushing into the $35 billion global solar energy market to leverage their expertise in chip and LCD manufacturing into new growth prospects. Last September, TSMC said it would complete the first phase of a planned solar energy plant in Taiwan in the first half of 2011 after an investment of over $200 million.  ...

PowerSecure International, Inc. has received $10 million award to develop its Interactive Distributed Generation® (IDG®) smart grid power systems, and LED lighting products. Among these awards, the new IDG System  has acquired total $7 million, and include installations for a broad base of customers, including hospitals, municipal water systems, educational facilities, and retailers. The left $3 million for new LED lighting, and consist primarily of an order from a major U.S. retailer to begin retrofitting refrigerated cases with EfficientLights&r...

Lighting Science Group has helped Yankee Candle stores all across New England to replace their halogen bulbs for energy saving. Compared with the halogen bulbs, the ENERGY STAR approved DEFINITY PAR 20, PAR 30, PAR 38 and MR 16 LED bulbs installed in stores are approximately 80% more efficient and are fully dimmable. In addition, theseLED bulbs are mercury-free, completely recyclable, "instant on," and offer outstanding light quality.   Yankee Candle received rebates from National Grid and Western Mass Electric Compan...

Thermal Technology, a leading manufacturer of crystal growth equipment and high temperature furnace systems, recently received 59 orders for their Model K1  90 kg sapphire crystal grower from customers in Taiwan, Korea and China.  In total, these growers will produce 5.2 million TIE (two-in-equivalents) per year.  The Model K1 sapphire crystal grower advances beyond the traditional kyropoulos process and out-performs other sapphire crystal growth methods currently being marketed, such as HEM or Bridgman. "I recently returned from our customer&rsqu...

Lunera CTO Will Discuss Demystifying the Pieces and Assembling the Future of Solid State Lighting Lunera® Lighting, Inc., a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, is pleased to have Steve Paolini, Lunera’s CTO included in the impressive speaker line up at the upcoming Strategies in Light Conference. The solid-state lighting conference and tradeshow will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center on February 22 – 24, 2011. The event anticipates a record breaking attendance of 4,500 ...

AIXTRON SE today announced a new order for a 4-inch Black Magic Plasma Enhanced CVD (PECVD) system from The University of Texas at Austin. After delivery of the system at the end of 2010, the local AIXTRON support team has carried out the installation and commissioning in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Microelectronics Research Center, at The University of Texas at Austin. Assistant Professor Deji Akinwande and Professor Rod Ruoff from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are working on seve...

Manchester based MHA Lighting, which specialises in innovative lighting solutions, has win contract to transform the design of the car park fittings at the Manchester Airport Car Parks. It’s said that MHA Lighting replaces the two thousand 80w bulbs across the two car parks with 30 and 40 Watt LED units in a move which will halve carbon emissions and cut energy bills by an estimated 60%.  ...

Digital Lumens CEO Tom Pincince is about to present at the Solid-State Lighting Investor Forum on February 22 in Santa Clara, Calif. and the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium on February 24 also in the same place. During the Solid-State Lighting Investor Forum, which is part of Strategies in Light, the leading event for the global LED and Lighting industry, Mr. Pincince will be part of the Drivers/Thermals/Controls session, presenting "LEDs + Controls + Energy Management = Radical Efficiency." And he will give a pre...

Acuity Brands has released four white papers including LED Binning, Photometric Measurement, Lumen Depreciation and Color Quality, to help educate the marketplace about LED lighting and technology and associated issues in lighting design. According to Dave Ranieri, Vice President and General Manager, Lithonia Lighting® Commercial Indoor Products,  their goal is to provide the industry with tools to make the best possible decisions when selecting intelligent LED lighting and control systems....

The Russian city of Kazan requires two-thirds less energy thanks to LEDEL’s efficient street lighting with OSRAM Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs Reducing Russia’s primary energy consumption by 40 per cent by 2020 is one of the country’s core concerns. To help reach this goal the Republic of Tatarstan is tackling street lighting and has initiated a pilot project in its capital Kazan – a ward with around 25,000 households already benefits from the superior light quality of LED street lighting made by the LEDEL company. They have already...

Consumers get proven technology that will save energy and money with commercially available Philips AmbientLED 12.5 watt   The world’s first LED replacement for a 60-watt incandescent bulb is now also the first to earn ENERGY STAR qualification.  Philips Lighting announced today that the Philips AmbientLED 12.5 watt (also sold professionally under the Philips EnduraLED brand) has met or exceeded the light quality and energy efficiency requirements for a 60-watt LED equivalent set forth by ENERGY STAR, proving that it is a high...

GlacialLight, a division of GlacialTech Inc. and a global provider of PC Cooling, Power supplies, power drivers and LED lighting, extends an invitation to all business and media partners around the world to attend their display at the LIGHT INDIA INTERNATIONAL 2011 to be held at Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, India from March 4-7, 2011. Event: Lii2011/Light India International 2011 Venue: Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, India Exhibition Date: March 4th to 7th, 2011 GlacialLight Booth #: 100, Hall # 3 “The Chennai Cen...

Samsung Electronics has installed 80 large-format displays (460UT), 236 latest LCD monitors, and 34 LED and LCD TVs in the control center, offices and conference rooms at Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall, to dress up the city as a smart city. It’s said that the video installed at the control center is not only the largest in Brazil but also in the whole of Central and South America. The Brazil government will operate the control center in preparation for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.  ...

In August of 2010, Neo-Neon LED Lighting International Ltd (Neo-Neon) won the bid, amidst a field of world-class competitors, for a prominent tunnel illumination project in São Paulo, Brazil.  Winning the bid on this significant tunnel project,  Neo-Neon gained a significant order for 1800 pieces of LED Tunnel Light fixtures and at the same time this project serves to improve the brand image of Neo-Neon as energy-savings, excellent quality of both product and service. Good tunnel lighting allows the user to enter, pass through and exit the ...

Recently, The Republic Group Handelsvertretung GmbH (“TRG”) has acknowledged Nichia’s claims in the early first hearing at the District Court Düsseldorf. Previously, Nichia has filed patent infringement lawsuits in the above court. It claims that two different Harvatek white LED products (serial numbers HT-V116TW and HT-U158TW) sold by those distributors infringe Nichia YAG patent (EP936682[DE69702929]) and seeks an injunction, damages, recall and destruction. On January 18, 2011, TRG acknowledged Nichia’s Claim...

Sharp has introduced the highest LED device which has a luminous efficiency of 91lm/W with an input power of about 25W for lighting purposes.   The general color rendering index (Ra) of the new LED device is 83. It emits an incandescent color light. The mounting area of the LED device is as small as 24 x 20mm, and its thickness is only 1.8mm. The light emitting part has a round shape. It will start mass-producing on March 4, 2011, with a production rate of 100,000 units per month.  ...

It’s reported that Taiwanese LED chip maker Epistar will team up with Delta Electronics to build an LED wafer and chip plant in Guangzhou. And The new facility is expected to engage in the development, manufacture and sale of upstream LED wafers and chips after it starts operating in 2012. It’s said that the two partners will invest a total of NT$3.63 billion (US$125 million) in the first phase. Epistar will hold a 70 percent stake and Delta Electronics will own 30 percent. In the second phase of the development, they will seek new partners from th...

It’s reported that Singapore is making a LED street lights pilot program in parts of roads. Over in One-North, a stretch of road has become a test-bed for LED street lights. JTC Corporation and a Taiwan-based firm Foxsemicon Integrated Technology (Fiti) installed new lights there to compare their performance with conventional lamps in April. Additionally, to further explore the viability of having LED street lights in Singapore, JTC will be testing them out at another stretch of road at its upcoming CleanTech Park. JTC has received seven prop...

It’s said that a U.S. subsidiary of Moser Baer India Ltd., Moser Baer Technologies Inc., has agreed with Universal Display Corporation on a Memorandum of Agreement for technology licensing, material supply and technology assistance to support Moser Baer Technologies’ initiatives in white OLED lighting. Before this agreement, last year the two companies also received $4,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to design and build the first white OLED lighting pilot manufacturing facility in the United States. Under the agreement, Moser B...

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, due to 18 reports of LED night-lights smoking, burning and melting, with one consumer suffering a minor burn, American Tack & Hardware Co. Inc. (AmerTac) recalled about 261,000 these night-lights. The recalled LED night lights including the model numbers 71193, 71194 and 327879 and the letters KML and ETL molded into the back. It’s the second recall in a little over two months for AmerTac. In December, the company recalled other night-lights for the same problem....

Carmanah Technologies has supplied its latest EG340 solar LED outdoor lighting systems to heritage park located in Delegacion Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City. Based on the lighting performance, aesthetic design, and cost savings achieved in installation, the EG300-series solar lighting system was chosen by the City for the Parque Caneguin.  ...

Verbatim (a subsidiary of Mitsubishi) announced their new color-tunabe and dimmable OLED lighting panels called VELVE (these are made together by Mitsubishi and Pioneer). Verbatim says that the panels are already available - which makes the VELVE the world's first color-tunable OLED lighting panels. Verbatim apparantly offers just one size -  14x14cm, which is similar to Lumiotec's OLED panels.   Verbatim also announced that they will display the new panels at Fuori Salone, an exhibition held in Milan, Italy on April 12-17. Verbatim'...

After considerable research, planning and development, Light-Based Technologies Inc. (LBT) is pleased to announce the unveiling of a significant update to their corporate imaging coinciding with the re-launch of their website, www.lightbased.com. A key component of LBT’s new image is their new logo that is intended to reflect LBT’s focus on new and innovative functionality for the general lighting Solid-State Lighting (SSL) industry. The new-look website clearly states the benefits of LBT’s products and technologies, while delivering easy access ...

•    Reference Design Enables Lower Cost LCD Panels to Produce Higher Quality Images •    Solution on Display at IIC China, Shenzhen February 24-26, 2011 at the Microsemi Booth 2C11 Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor technology aimed at powering a smart, secure, connected world, today announced collaboration with Sony® Corporation Semiconductor Business Group (“Sony”) for the first open market 3D-capable timing controller plus local dimming LED backlighti...

AIXTRON SE announced a new order for MOCVD reactors from an Epistar joint venture, Epicrystal Corporation (Changzhou), Ltd. in China. The company, formed as a new joint venture between Epistar and Epistar’s customers, is engaged in manufacture and distribution of LED-based products. The order is made up of five AIX 2800G4 HT MOCVD systems. Following delivery in the second quarter of 2011, the systems will be used for production of ultra-high brightness (UHB) GaN-based LEDs. The new reactors will be commissioned by the local AIXT...

Mitsubishi Electric Australia has showcased a curved prototype of 100in Diamond Vision OLED screens at ISE 2011, targeting to digital signage and indoor advertising. The 384x384mm screens can be interconnected to create even larger panel sizes — a 100in version was displayed at CEATEC 2010 — and panel brightness is twice that of even the brightest LED screens available. The panels' resolution is at 128x128 pixels per screen. As a modular system, the Diamond Vision OLED screens are flexible and can be fitted to curved or rounded surfaces. &...

Recently, Philips Lumileds has released its new SignalSure mid-power LEDs, expecting to be the most robust and reliable surface mount LED available to the automotive industry.   The modules have undergone a rigorous Multi Environment Overstress Testing (MEOST) regime that exceeds the testing required by today’s standards for automotive signalling LED sources. And it is available in red-orange and amber colours....

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced the introduction of the TurboDisc® MaxBright™ Gallium Nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Multi-Reactor System for production of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs). MaxBright has already been accepted by a leading LED manufacturer and Veeco is currently shipping MaxBright systems to additional top manufacturers in Korea, Taiwan and China.