2012-02-01

SemiLEDs Achieves 40% External Quantum Efficiency for Ultraviolet (UV) LED Chips

SemiLEDs Corporation (NASDAQ: LEDS), a leading developer and manufacturer of LED chips and LED components, today announced that its UV LED chips are capable of emitting radiation at a wavelength of 390-420 nm with 40% external quantum efficiencies (EQE – a LED’s ability to convert electrons into photons) at 350 mA (up to 500 mW output power*, typical 3.3V forward voltage). “Our patented structure and metal alloy substrate allow us to produce and supply to the industrial curing market UV LEDs that are capable of operating at high c...
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2012-02-01

North Carolina Water Reclamation Facility Chooses Cree LED Lighting to Improve Security, Cut Energy Usage and Reduce Maintenance

As part of a city-wide goal to reduce energy usage and improve nighttime visibility and overall facility safety, the South Durham Water Reclamation Facility installed energy-efficient LED lighting from Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE). The new Cree lighting simultaneously addresses the facility’s competing exterior lighting requirements – the need to improve safety and light levels and the need to reduce energy usage and maintenance costs. “This lighting project delivers multiple benefits,” said Joel Reitzer, director of the City’s General Se...
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2012-01-31

Cree Japan Shows White LED Lamp with New Chip

Cree Japan, backed by Cree Inc, has recently launched a white LED lamp "XLamp XB-D”, at the 4th LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo in Tokyo. The company employed a newly-developed LED chip "DA Chip Family" which was developed by improving the light extraction efficiency of a blue LED chip, to realize the small size and higher brightness. It improved the light extraction efficiency by forming several V-shaped ditches on the substrate of the blue LED chip. The DA Chip is made by growing gallium nitride (GaN)-based semicondu...
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2012-01-31

Philips Lumileds’s LUXEON K for Retrofit and Downlight LED Lighting Applications

Philips Lumileds has released LUXEON K to set new direction for retrofit and downlight LED lighting applications. According to Rahul Bammi, VP Marketing from Philips Lumileds, “LUXEON K extends our portfolio of illumination grade LEDs engineered to optimize end-user satisfaction of specific applications. For downlights and retrofit bulbs, LUXEON K provides a unique approach that delivers the highest, most consistent quality of light in an easy-to-implement array. Our hot testing and specification at 85°C, and freedom from color, flux, and ...
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2012-01-31

LED Engin's New Connector Boards Enable Faster, Easier Assembly of Solid State Lighting Fixtures

LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, announces a family of metal-core printed circuit boards (MCPCBs) with integral connectors that eliminate soldering during the assembly of LED fixtures. The poke-home connectors, which accept 18-24 AWG wires, offer quick, solderless assembly of fixtures and can eliminate the need for OEMs to use sub-contractors because the work can be taken in-house. The boards utilize a common 50mm footprint for both the LuxiGen LZC 12 die and LZP 24 die series of high flux density emitters, helping OEMs to st...
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2012-01-30

Merck participates in the SPIE Photonics West Exhibition in San Francisco, California, USA

•    Extensive Patinal® product range comprises more than 40 highly reliable vapor deposition materials •    WR Patinal® product portfolio: Anti-fingerprint and easy-to-clean surface functionality for the touch panel industry Merck KGaA has presented its developments for the optics and photonics industry at the SPIE Photonics West Exhibition from January 24 to 26, 2012 in San Francisco, California, USA. Merck’s exhibition stand will be focusing on the Patinal®, Solarpur®and Optipur® product rang...
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2012-01-30

Philips Develops Solar Powered LED Street Lighting Breakthrough

Philips has developed what is said to be the world’s most efficient and cost effective solar powered LED street lighting solution per km of road. Philips’ latest Solar Gen2 innovation is developed together with NXP Semiconductors N.V. and presents a total solution for highly sustainable and efficient street lighting that is a serious alternative to grid connected systems, cutting back energy costs and CO2 emissions. Solar Gen2 offers a highly energy-efficient LED solution which is superior to any conventional lighting and allows for a lamp post spacing o...
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2012-01-30

Dialight's 433 LED Rail Crossing Signal Module

Dialight's 433 LED Rail Crossing Signal Module Features & Benefits • 5 year full performance warranty • AC / DC operation from 8 to 16 volts full output (operation down to 5 volts) • Side light indicators reflect main beam signal for extra safety • Designed for retrofit into existing lamp housings with no beam alignment necessary • Ring terminations easily attach to AREMA posts • Red tinted, UV-stabilized, and hard-coated lens for extended life • Better visibility and faster response time than incandescent &bu...
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2012-01-30

LED Lamp Locator To Expand with Introduction of New LED Fixture Locator Portal

Lighting Internet Technology Enterprises (LITE) proudly announces that the revolutionary "LED Lamp Locator" will be expanded to include a new LED fixture portal component. Located at www.LEDFixtureLocator.com and officially set to launch in February 2012, the powerful new "LED Fixture Locator" will complement the existing LED Lamp Locator by providing lighting professionals with unprecedented access to information on thousands of LED fixture products currently on the market.   Covering such major LED fixture types as "D...
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2012-01-30

Littman Brands’ 2012 Collections Debut at Dallas International Lighting Market

New Collections Electrify World’s Largest Wholesale Merchandise Mart The Littman Brands, renowned for high-quality lighting solutions, debuted the highly awaited 2012 collections of five brands during Dallas International Lighting Market from Jan. 19-23, 2012. The never-before-seen collections from Hudson Valley Lighting®, Troy Lighting, Corbett Lighting, Troy Landscape and CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting) wowed thousands of buyers who visited the manufacturer’s expansive 17,000 square-foot showroom (#3902) at Dallas Market Center dur...
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2012-01-30

Shadow Health Minister backs infection control lighting technology

SHADOW health minister Andy Burnham today showed his support for new lighting technology developed in Atherton that helps NHS Trusts prevent deadly superbugs. The Labour MP for Leigh met with employees at LED lighting manufacturers MHA Lighting to learn more about how their award-winning lighting is helping in the fight against hospital acquired infections. MHA Lighting’s patented LED technology has been designed as a fully sealed unit to stop dust, bacteria and dead insects from gathering around warm light fittings and spreading superbugs. The L...
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2012-01-30

Asheville Boasts First Large-Scale LED Street Light Deployment in North Carolina

Cree LEDway® Luminaires to Replace More than 3,600 Antiquated Street Lights Taking steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce its overall carbon footprint, the City of Asheville has initiated North Carolina’s first large-scale deployment of LED street lights. There are 3,643 LEDway® street lights from Durham-based manufacturer Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) being installed, with projected savings of $260,000 annually. In the initial phase of the project, completed in June 2011, 730 street lights in Asheville’s River District and Ken...
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2012-01-30

GE Lighting Rises to Tall Occasion to Illuminate New World Trade Center Complex

One World Trade Center, soon to be the tallest building in the United States and one of the tallest in the world at a height of 1,776 feet, is the main building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan. The facility was in need of a lighting control system capable of flexibly and efficiently illuminating 2.6 million square feet of office space, as well as an observation deck, restaurant, parking, and broadcast and antenna facilities.   After a rigorous selection process, Brazill Brothers was chosen to provide a LonWorks®-enabled ProSys LM Ligh...
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2012-01-20

Verbatim LED Retrofit Lamps Receives ENERGY STAR(R) Qualification

Verbatim Americas, LLC, backed by Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) group, has announces the official ENERGY STAR(R) qualification of its new line of PAR-type retrofit LED lamps. Verbatim's ENERGY STAR qualified LED retrofit lamp product line includes: -- PAR20 -- 3000K, 500 lumen output and 9 watts -- PAR30 -- 2700K, 740 lumen output and 14 watts -- PAR30 -- 3000K, 800 lumen output and 14 watts -- PAR38 -- 2700K, 920 lumen output and 17 watts -- PAR38 -- 3000K , 1000 lumen output and 17 watts ENE...
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2012-01-20

Philips to Sell Prize-winning LED 'Bulb' in February

Philips has announced to sell its LEDs which are recognized as the sole winner (so far) of the US Department of Energy’s “L Prize” competition for 60 W incandescent bulbs commercially from February. According to the DOE, 60 W incandescents are important because they are the most common household bulb in the US, with nearly a billion of them thought to be in use. And while it has qualified more than 400 LED lamps under its Energy Star program so far, the vast majority of these are relatively low-brightness and directional. At the DOE webina...
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2012-01-20

Avago Technologies Introduces Compact LEDs for Cameras

Recently, Avago Technologies has released two series of compact LEDs including ASMT-FJ70 and ASMT-FG70 devices that reduce space requirements for designing auto-focus auxiliary flash functionality into digital cameras. The ASMT-Fx70 LEDs are available in a tiny, environmentally-friendly 3.6 (L) by 3.2 (W) by 3.4 (H) mm surface-mount package that helps meet market demand for thinner digital cameras. The ASMT-FJ70 devices use AlInGaP material technology and feature a 12 degree viewing angle, while the ASMT-FG70 devices use InGaN material ...
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2012-01-20

General Electric Launches New LED Outdoor Lights

General Electric (GE) has launched a new range of long-life LED outdoor lights, which offer up to 50 000 hours, or up to ten years, in regular operating conditions. The new-generation LED Area Lighter lumi- naires are suited to car parks, pedestrian zones or for general illumination. The optical ring design also produces vertical illuminance, efficiently delivering the required amount of light without spilling into neighbouring areas. For street and highway illumination, the new LED Road R250 luminaires have an advanced optical system that improves the uniformity of th...
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2012-01-20

Japan's Tazmo Designs New A4 I-LED panel

Recently, Japan's Tazmo has designed a new A4 in size (210x297mm) flexible Inorganic LED panel with quite efficient at 30 lm/W. The company has utilized a coating process - which is easily adapter for I-LEDs as they have a simpler element structure when compared to OLEDs. I-LED is different from LEDs as they use the EL (electroluminescence) phenomenon. And the new panel can easily be bent....
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2012-01-20

New Lumenpulse Catalog Simplifies High Performance LED Fixture Selection to Help Lighting Specifiers Bring Ideas to Life

Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced the release of its comprehensive, new product catalog. Designed with ease of use in mind, the catalog enables lighting designers, architects and electrical engineers to select luminaires that will bring their ideas to life. Coming in at 500 pages, the high-quality, hardback volume details the entire Lumenpulse product line. Reflecting the Lumenpulse design approach, fixtures are grouped in pro...
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2012-01-19

Japan Develops World’s First Cloud-based LED Lighting System

Recently, NetLED system developed by Tokyo-based lighting tech startup Net LED Technology Corp. will go on sale in Japan on February 20,marking Japan gets the world’s first cloud-based LED lighting system. The 40W lights of 40,000-hour lifespan come with built-in Wi-Fi: users can control each tube over the web after installing the NetLed app on a smartphone, tablet, or computer. It’s possible to dim the lights and to turn them on or off. Users can control individual, multiple, or a set of lights (which can be located in separate rooms) via the app,...
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2012-01-19

Delta Electronics Showcased World's Lightest1000lm LED Bulb at Lighting Japan 2012

Taiwan Delta Electronics has rolled out a serious of LED productsat Lighting Japan 2012. The company claimed that it has developed the world's lightest 1000lm light bulb weighting only 130g .With a beam angle of 120 deg and 240 deg the new bulb aims to replace 100W and 80W incandescent bulbs. In the meanwhile, Delta is also demonstrating its remarkable solar-LED streetlight and wind-powered LED streetlight solutions. The wind-powered LED streetlight solution includes a 400W-system with a safety breaker for wind speed exceeding an upper limit of 42.5m/s and ...
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2012-01-19

Four Landmark Bridges To be Bathed in LEDs in Tampa City

Four landmark bridges including Platt Street Bridge, Brorein Street Bridge, Kennedy Boulevard Bridge and CSX Railroad Bridge will be bathed in a shimmering canvas of LED lights as part of the city's "Agua Luces" ("water lights") art project. According to Tampa Mayor Buckhorn, the project is a public-private partnership involving the city of Tampa's Public Art Program, Tampa Electric and People's Gas, and Lights on Tampa. it is estimated to cost about $300,000, will be funded by TECO Energy. City officials selected ...
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2012-01-19

Wire-Free LED Cooperates with Ellumiglow to Introduce LED Lineup

Wire-Free LED has cooperated with Ellumiglow.com to bring the most exciting Club Lighting technology in 2012. New Wire-Free LED Par Can technology uses high output LED RGB, RGBA, and RGBW, TruWhite lighting fixtures to provide exceptional lighting quality, combined with simplicity. Capable of producing nearly every color in the spectrum, these Club Lights come with over 100 beautiful preset colors, and even produce TRUE White. Wire-Free LED Par Cans can be controlled with a smart color remote, by DMX, manually, or even with an iPhone. ...
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2012-01-19

Excelitas Technologies Introduces Newest LED Fiber Optic Illuminator Module in XLM Series for Integration into Medical OEM Applications

XLM Plus comes complete with electronics and communication interfaces, and is ideal for Endoscopy, Surgical Microscopy, and Headlamp applications   Excelitas Technologies, a global technology leader focused on delivering innovative, customized optoelectronics to OEMs seeking high-performance technology solutions, introduced the latest LED Fiber Optic Illuminator Module in its XLM Series specifically designed for integration into OEM Medical device applications.  The new product, dubbed the XLM Plus, comes complete with electronics and communicatio...
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2012-01-18

Light Pebbles Creates New LED Lighting Concept

Recently, UK designer Toby Fox has broken the design of typical LED bulbs and created energy efficient lighting project on Coroflot.   Fox’s interactive product features something he calls Light Pebbles. The light looks a little like a pea-pod and the four Light Pebbles sit in a strip of neoprene called the base unit. The base unit can be plugged in to a standard electric wall charge unit and then the Pebbles retain their glow and can slid out of the base to be used separately or as a unit. The best part of the design is the individual Pebbles that c...
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2012-01-18

LED Lighting Technology Lights up Audi S7

Super Bowl XLVI will come out with the signature LED lighting technology on the new 2013 Audi S7. Audi LED headlights are the closest recreation of daylight available at 5500 Kelvin, helping drivers’ eyes perceive more contrast and experience less strain. Traditional lights take 0.2 seconds to engage, while LEDs are immediately activate, making driving safer. In addition, LED lights use 50-percent less power from the alternator – which in turn reduces the load on the engine. They can also last the lifetime of a vehicle. Enthusiasts can visit Au...
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2012-01-18

Joliet Junior College Installs MaxLite LED Flat Panel Lighting for Energy Saving

Joliet Junior College, has installed 634 MaxLite LED Edge Lit Flat Panels on its administration offices, newly constructed classrooms and the new campus center, expecting to save at least 30% energy consumption.   These panels do not cause shadows or glares. The optimal lighting also helps employees and professors at the college to work with better efficiency. The MaxLite LED Edge Lit Flat Panels are suitable for fitting in drop ceilings. They are compatible with various types of building controls, such as daylight harvesting systems, motions sensors, timer...
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2012-01-18

LED technology may light the way for greener motorsport

Showtrax International unveil new LED powerhood at Autosport 201 Amongst the latest cars and stars at this year’s Autosport International, a UK engineering company is shedding some light on the kind of innovations that could help the motorsport industry tackle the challenge of its environmental impact. Working in conjunction with LED specialists OCG Lighting, this weekend Showtrax International will unveil a prototype powerhood fitted with LED panels that are usually used in commercial ceiling fixtures. A world-leading supplier of pit lane equipment, Sh...
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2012-01-17

GlacialLight Releases Brand New LED Flood Light Series with Philips Lumileds Chips

-Indoor/Outdoor Energy Efficient Flood Lights in Three Varieties- GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce a new LED Flood Light Series using Philips Lumileds LED Chips - the GL-FL12, GL-FL30, and GL-FL120. The GlacialLight Flood Light Series provides a direct indoor and outdoor replacement solution for outdated mercury lamps. With Philips Lumileds LED Chips efficiently converting electricity into light, GlacialLight's Flood Light Series produces natural-lo...
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2012-01-17

The OLED100.eu Team Dedicates in LED Research

Led by Philips Technologie GmbH in Germany, the OLED100.eu team which consists of partners from Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria and UK, has been working on OLEDs for the last three years. The aims of the research were to boost the luminous efficacy, strengthen the lifetime, upscale the light-emitting area, optimise processes to slash production costs, and standardise measurement based on application research. During the period, the team has achieved great breakthrough. Firstly, it developed a large-area OLED luminaire consisting of 9 OLE...
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New XLamp® S Line LEDs enhance growth, last longer, lower energy costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Whether you are interest... READ MORE
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