An LED driver NCL30001, which integrates PFC and isolated step-down AC-DC power conversion in a single stage, has been created by ON Semiconductor. It is designed to operate in CCM and can be configured as either a constant current or fixed output voltage driver for LED-based street lighting and architectural lighting applications of between 40W and 150W.

AIXTRON did the positive business performance in H1/2010 due to the continuing healthy demand, beneficial volume effects, and a stronger US Dollar. Firstly, compared to H1/2009, the gross margin in H1/2010 was 10 percentage points higher at 53%. The H1/2010 operating result increased year on year by 769% to EUR 106.9m with a 19 percentage points higher EBIT margin of 31%, leading to a net result of EUR 74.1m or 21% return on sales. The H1/2010 net income was 742% up year on year.

The ultra-flat Orbeos OLED panel wins the Electron d’Or Award for product of the year in the Opto/Display category. The jury of renowned industry and research experts selected OSRAM’s light, energy-efficient Orbeos surface-emitting diode froma total of seven products.

GlacialTech Inc. introduces the novel GL-BR20D/30D/40D Series LED Bulbs that are high quality 90-132/180-264V AC LED replacement lamps. What makes GL-BR20D/30D/40D most unique is the TRIAC-dimmable function incorporated in the bulbs for smoothly dimming down to complete darkness while the dimmer's conduction angle being decreased to nil.

Sony has developed a prototype 360-degree autostereoscopic display called RayModeler, allowing viewers to see full colour volumetric objects from 360-degree. And no special 3D glasses are needed to see the 3D images. It demonstrated this technology at the SIGGRAPH 2010 convention and the display uses special LED light sources showing 360 unique images to all directions in one-degree separations.

Germany's Siemens AG will sell its assembly systems business Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems (SEAS) to ASM Pacific Technology, a subsidiary of ASM International NV of the Netherlands.

Samsung lauched its brand new 22-inch and 26-inch screen variants of LED TVs for the first time in India. These new TVs expand Samsung's LED TV line up to include TVs having 22-inch displays to monsters that measure 55-inches across.

Carmanah Technologies Corporation installs 26 EverGEN 1710 solar LED lighting without electrical connections on the Selkirk Trestle Bridge in Victoria, BC. The units will run the length of the 300 meter long railway trestle bridge. It's easy to install the units on the bridge and it can operate free of ongoing electricity bills as stipulated in the project requirements.

Kemerovo in Siberia is converting to street lighting with LEDs by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors on a broad scale. The city of 520,000 inhabitants on the Trans-Siberian Railway has installed 200 street luminaires made by LLC TD Focus, which are equipped with Golden DRAGON oval Plus LEDs. The city can therefore achieve significant savings in energy costs and CO2 emissions.

To improve its support services to Taiwanese customers, Strasbaugh has engaged the services of E-Dot Technology. E-Dot, a CMP service and support company headquartered in the Hsinchu Industrial Park, will represent Strasbaugh by providing service and support to Strasbaugh's Taiwan-based customers.

The National Aquarium in Baltimore, America, is replacing the iconic blue neon wave on the south side of its Pier 3 building and a fixture on the city skyline with LEDs, expected to cut the energy use associated with illuminating the wave by 70 percent. It's also part of a national trend in which neon lights of all kinds, from Boston's famous Citgo sign to lights in local shopping malls, are giving way to LED systems.

The development of LED monitor and TV not only brought life to the maturing panel industry, but also became the key pillars to expand the emerging LED industry. The analysts of WitsView and LEDinside, the research divisions of TrendForce, took a positive attitude toward the long-term development of LED BLU products.

Apple revealed new 27-inch LED Cinema Display this Tuesday. It features 2560 x 1440 resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio, a built-in microphone to complement the iSight camera and speakers, a built-in 3-port powered USB 2.0 hub, and a built-in MagSafe charging connector for Apple's laptop lineup.

Fairchild Semiconductor's China-based Global Power ResourceSM Center (GPRC) has developed a total solution to increase the lifetime of street lamps. It features advanced critical conduction mode PFC, high-efficiency DC-DC and constant current contro, including two sub-solutions, either parallel or serial, within the same PCB layout delivering up to 91.26 percent and 92.6 percent efficiency respectively from AC input to the LED side, under 220V input voltage.

Philips Lumileds developed its LUXEON Rebel ES product line , which enable new outdoor lighting solutions to deliver higher efficacy and more light output. The new LUXEON Rebel ES delivers more than 300 lumens and efficacy of 100 lumens per watt at 1000 mA. When optimizing for system efficiency, current can be lowered and efficacy can exceed 125 lumens per watt.

AIXTRON AG today announced a new order for one Close Coupled Showerhead® GaN based LED MOCVD system from Meijo University, in Nagoya, an established AIXTRON customer in Japan. The order was received earlier this year and the system will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2010 in a 3x2-inch wafer configuration.The local AIXTRON support team will commission the new reactor at Meijo University.

VEECO has stated its financial results based on GAAP for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. According to John R. Peeler, VEECO 's Chief Executive Officer, the second quarter revenue has made a new record of $253 million, an increase of approximately 250% from last year and 55% sequentially. LED & Solar, Data Storage and Metrology, continue to execute extremely well, with sequential improvements in revenue and EBITA.

To arouse more attention to the overall benefits of the legislative changes and new, "greener" technologies, such as LEDs and CFLs, DOE scheduled to make a new consumer education initiative that will be timed to the upcoming changes in light bulb regulation.

Acer America displays three kinds of LED monitors, S201HL, S211HL and S231HL. This S1 series feature ultra-thin frames and eco-conscious designs.

Marl has created a new 4.5W Citizen CL-L251 LED, which delivers 290 lumens of light output at a colour temperature of 3000K with good colour rendering "Ra85", equivalent to a standard 20W MR16 halogen. The range is available with colour temperatures up to 5000K, delivering up to 425 lumens from 4.5W. Compared to 16 lumens per watt for a halogen light,The CL-L251 has a luminous efficiency of up to 106 lumens per watt. Because of the drive voltage of the CL-L251 is 9-10V, it can be packaged as a drop-in replacement for the standard halogen light.

Acuity Brands has got two kinds of financial support to develop its Solid-State Lighting solutions.

Qnuru and Visible Light Solar Technologies, leading providers of LED lighting technologies who recently entered into a merger, today announced that BMW has upgraded the exterior lighting at its Hilliard, Ohio customer service center with Visible Light Solar's energy efficient Vector LED Light Bulbs.

Applied Materials will stop selling its 'SunFab' thin-film lines to potential new customers and focuse on c-Si and LED manufacturing equipment and technology.

Genesis LED Solutions (GLS) is building strategic service provider relationships influences on the customer's bottom line. Energy-saving incentives get together with LED lighting systems give more influences for the green initiative buck! Rebates and energy incentives help make green technology improvements accessible to clients looking to upgrade lighting systems and save on lighting expense meeting both environmental stewardship and economic goals.

According to researchers at Chonbuk National University and electronic components companyLG Innotek in South Korea, they have been using SAG to improve the performance of vertical nitride LEDs grown on sapphire. Compared with conventional vertical LEDs, a 21% increase in light output can be achieved in vertical nitride LEDs.

At Tokyo Techno-frontier 2010 trade show (took place from July 21 to 23), Murata revealed a digital power supply module for LED lamps. These were developed for a Japan-based LED lighting manufacturer, Clear Sodick, but it is also considering selling the module to other companies.

Supertex Inc.offers two collections of LED lamp drivers, the AT9917 and AT9932 LED lamp driver ICs for car solid-state lighting, such as automobile head lights, tail lights, indicator lights, dome lights, and panel backlights.

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that during the recently completed second quarter, Shanghai Epilight Technology Company Ltd., one of the largest LED manufacturers in China, placed a multi-tool order for Veeco TurboDisc(R) K465i(TM) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems. The equipment is for Epilight's planned capacity expansion at their Shanghai high-brightness light emitting diode (HB-LED) fab.

Taiwan has returned to the world expo stage for the first time since 1970's Osaka World Expo. This year's theme for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, "Better City, Better Life," denotes a growing global awareness of environmental issues, and promotes inter-city communication.  

Solar, Infrared and LED experts met to discuss advances in photonic materials and devices at the 2010 International Symposium in Chicago on July 12 and 13. The Quantum-functional Semiconductor Research Center of Dongguk University, the Microphysics Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Sivananthan Laboratories Inc. jointly organized.