Lighting Science Definity™ LED lamps were chosen for installation in the Sioux City Public Museum to help bring the museum galleries into the modern era during a recent retrofit operation. The new technologies installed versus traditional halogen technology, the museum will be saving 110,760kWh annually. The museum needed to upgrade their facilities, including their lighting, in their newly refurbished home, a re-purposed J.C. Penney Department Store. Hilferty Museum Planning was contracted to design the exhibit spaces including the lighting design for a 12,000 s...

LSI Industries Inc. (Nasdaq:LYTS) announced the introduction of an innovative and technologically advanced LED canopy lighting solution unlike anything available in the market today. The Legacy™, a revolutionary advancement in petroleum canopy lighting that is poised to revitalize the market, provides a combination of high performance, low cost and attractive design, and flexibility in light distribution options. The Legacy is purpose-built to achieve high performance and low cost, while allowing for fast, easy installation. It is performance-driven to provide the h...

LED industry has undergone big changes. Based on the potential market demands, many companies have mushroomed all over the world in recent years. However, an oversupply comes after the large capacity expansion. What’s worse, due to credit crisis, LED development in European market has slowed down. And it also has influenced Asian LED manufacturers which rely on the external market. As a result, partial manufacturers have seen a slowing increase in their revenues. Despite the troubles, governments still sustainably promote LED lighting. The latest market report p...

Latest Innovation Delivers Unique Combination of Increased Performance at a Lower Initial Cost Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces a breakthrough innovation in canopy LED lighting with the introduction of the CPY250 canopy and soffit lighting series. Consuming 75 percent less energy than the MH (metal halide) systems it’s designed to replace and 5–15 percent less energy with more than 35 percent increased performance compared to competing higher-cost LED luminaires, the new CPY Series delivers exceptional visual environments across a range of ...

Thousands of Olympia traditional yellowish, high-pressure sodium lights could be converted to whiter, energy-saving LED lamps, in a project estimated to cost nearly $4 million. The Olympia City Council will consider funding the project Tuesday at a price tag of $3,859,382. The streetlights themselves will cost about $2.5 million, but the overall project includes new heating/cooling systems at two city-owned buildings, The Olympia Center and the Olympia Timberland Regional Library building. Those were included to allow the city to obtain a $500,000 state grant for the pro...

The historic Castle Museum in Michigan brings its French Revival style architecture to life with Lithonia Lighting D-Series LED floodlights for less than one dollar per night. The Castle Museum in Saginaw, Michigan is now illuminated with 19 Lithonia Lighting® D-Series LED Flood Luminaires from Acuity Brands Inc.. The museum partnered with Saginaw Sees the Light, a local organization devoted to illuminating Saginaw’s architectural treasures, to showcase the facility’s historic architecture. The newly installed LED floodlights give th...

At the GE booth during the LightFair tradeshow held last week in Philadelphia, LEDs were showcased for professional innovations, including integrated approaches to controls and products, further demonstrating that GE now offers an even greater variety of energy-saving solutions. We invite you to walk through our virtual booth and visit our GE Lighting YouTube channel, where you'll get a peek at the new GE Lighting innovations, including: Los Angeles Roadway Controls Pilot The City of Los Angeles and GE Lighting are moving forward with an expanded p...

•Resort developer adds more energy-efficient lighting to conference areas at The Venetian|The Palazzo Las Vegas New GE LED lighting is helping Las Vegas Sands Corp. take another key step toward curbing environmental impact at its leading resort and meeting properties. As part of its Sands ECO 360o Green Meetings program, Las Vegas Sands has completed an expansive energy-efficient LED lighting upgrade to its meeting spaces at The Venetian|The Palazzo Las Vegas. GE's new LED lighting in meeting rooms will save more than $400,000 a yea...

The student Ming Ma from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a new method to manufacture LEDs that are brighter, more energy efficient, and have superior technical properties than those on the market today. His patent-pending invention holds the promise of hastening the global adoption of LEDs and reducing the overall cost and environmental impact of illuminating our homes and businesses. Seeking Brighter, Smarter LEDs Conventional incandescent and fluorescent light sources are increasingly being replaced by more energy-efficient, longer-lived, and envir...

Hitachi Cable has launched a new mass-production technology for GaN-templates as shown in  Figures 1 and 2 below. The process allows high-quality GaN single-crystal thin film to be grown on a sapphire substrate and the company plans to start selling these templates. Using this product as a base substrate for an epitaxial wafer for white LEDs the company claims it makes it possible to drastically improve productivity of white LED epiwafers and the LED properties. Therefore, this product is expected to become an effective solution to improve the position of...

NanoPoint™ enables fast, practical design qualification and highly sensitive process monitoring by leveraging critical patterns KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) announced NanoPoint™, a new family of patented technologies for its 2900 Series defect inspection system. NanoPoint represents an entirely new way to discover and monitor defects, at optical speed and on existing optical defect inspection equipment. NanoPoint's value has already been demonstrated on early metal layers, where line-edge roughness (LER) on dense pattern had previously l...

Third quarter 2012, Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT) has submitted the ALTLED® A55 LED light bulb, with a 360° omnidirectional lighting, for Energy Star certification—approved in January 2013. For many consumers and clients, this has opened up many opportunities for them as well as ALT. ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy" designed to promote energy efficient products and practices through financial incentives and high standards. One of the reasons...

American donut franchise Dunkin’ Donuts’ flagship store in Indonesia will lead the way in green lighting by being the first of its franchise outlets in Southeast Asia to employ a complete LED solution. The Palembang store is the 300th outlet, and the largest, for Dunkin’ Donuts in the country,with aseating capacity of 200 and serving a continuous stream of customers daily. In creating an inviting ambience, the GE team will fit out369 light points at the store with an energy-efficientretail solution comprising its LED Tetra Series andLED lamps. Do...

MetLife, Inc. recently took out an energy savings policy with GE Lighting (NYSE: GE)—upgrading to Evolve™ LED outdoor lighting in parking lots at 10 office locations and switching to more energy-efficient T8 fluorescent indoor lighting at its 650,000-square-foot administrative center in St. Louis. Combined, these lighting solutions will save MetLife approximately $360,000 a year while consuming about 3.5 million fewer kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity. MetLife is a leading global provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs serving ...

Expanded access to eldoLED driver portfolio allows lighting manufacturers to easily enhance their LED offerings with deep-dimming and color changing capability. Acuity Brands, Inc. announced that Acuity Brands Lighting has extended its business partnership with OEM Lighting Sales agency to represent the complete eldoLED® LED driver portfolio across the United States and Canada. Original equipment manufacturers will have access to the eldoLED comprehensive line-up of intelligent, full dimming LED drivers for white and dynamic color LED applications....

LED luminaires feature tunable white light engines for exceptional efficiency and color quality.  Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) will demonstrate luminaires with patent-pending tunable white light engines at LIGHTFAIR® International 2013, April 23-25, in Philadelphia 2013. These light engines are capable of varying in a continuous manner warm or cool white color temperatures and adjusting hue. The ability to control the lighting spectrum enables the luminaires to mimic the natural variations of sunlight. “By using tunable white light engines...

The City of Los Angeles and GE Lighting are moving forward with an expanded pilot program to measure the performance of a GE LightGrid™ Outdoor Wireless Controller that GE expects to introduce later this year. The decision follows the successful completion of a preliminary trial and aims to give the city more experience in adding LightGrid controllers to existing light poles, and more data on complete system performance from the controls to GE’s central management software. “The City of Los Angeles has led the nation in the installation of energy...

Customer from Bolivia has undertaken a local dental hospital lighting replacement project in March of 2013, replacing traditional spot lights with Spark LED down lights . It is used around 400pcs of LED down light . The hospital said that by using SPARK’s LED down light (SHENZHEN SPARK OPTOELECTRONICS S&T CO.,LTD. ), the lighting effect has been greatly improved, saving as much as 60% of the electricity. Also the 4000K color makes the hospital looks brighter and warmer. This project started from December of 2012, having ...

Building owners looking for strategies to control costs for the largest consumers of energy in commercial buildings - heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and lighting - now have a new solution. GE Lighting (NYSE: GE) and Trane, a brand of Ingersoll Rand (NYSE: IR), are announcing a new way for building owners to apply advanced control strategies for lighting, heating and cooling operations with solutions backed by the most well-known names in the industry. GE's LightSweep™ Modular Lighting Control Solution can now be seamlessly...

Marvell, Sharp and Orama collaborate to provide the first Digital LED Lighting System delivering a full range of the light from nature driving a new wave of LED lighting   Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) and Sharp Electronics announced the results of a of a collaboration to develop a  Smart Digital LED Lighting System designed to enable custom-featured solution in lighting automation and control.   The Digital LED Lighting System allows wired and wireless network control, which includes lumens, brightness, CRI and CCT creating a Full Sem...

Comprehensive wireless technology portfolio provides superior results compared to competitive “one size fits all” wireless systems.   Acuity Brands, Inc. will be demonstrating its industry-leading portfolio of wireless lighting controls at LIGHTFAIR® International 2013, April 23-25, in Philadelphia. The booth will feature four distinct indoor and outdoor wireless technologies, allowing attendees to learn first-hand about the features and benefits of each technology and determine the best options to meet their lighting control goals. “Wireles...

Samsung Electronics provides under the name LC013/26/40B new chip-on-board (COB) LED packages before. The new LEDs provide a high light yield of 129lm / W and have a compact light-emitting surface (Light Emitting Surface: LES). The new LEDs are suitable for Powerful lighting for indoor and outdoor use as well as for applications with directed light (spot light). "We are proud to present today our COB package with family Performance of 13, 26 and 40W and a luminous efficiency of 129lm / W. The LEDs are based on our first-class chip and Phospho...

Lighting Science Group Corporation®  announced that in honor of Earth Day 2013, it has partnered with Rebuilding Together®, a national non-profit charity, to support the organization's rebuilding of homes that were affected by Hurricane Sandy. With the purchase of the newly released "Edison-inspired" Definity™ A19 LED lamp from Lighting Science, the company will donate an LED lamp to Rebuilding Together. The lamps for purchase in the program include the Definity Omni-directional A19 40-watt equivalent LED lamp, the Definity ...

•    New LED reveal® bulb uses GE technology to avoid dull yellow rays while saving energy •    GE Lighting’s Chief Innovation Manager answers five questions about consumer LED lighting New reveal® LED light bulbs available this fall from GE Lighting promise to save energy while putting colors and patterns in a whole new light. GE’s new 60-watt standard incandescent replacement reveal LED light bulb is engineered to have the familiar size and shape of an incandescent bulb and deliver big energy savings...

•    GE Foundation donates $500,000 and GE Lighting commits volunteers to two local nonprofits •    GE Lighting opens museum highlighting its impact on the progression of lighting design and application •    GE Lighting announces a sweepstakes for a chance to win a home lighting makeover To celebrate GE Lighting's 100 years at its headquarters—Nela Park in East Cleveland, Ohio—the GE Foundation has donated $500,000 to two Northeast Ohio nonprofit health centers: Neighborhood Family P...

Excellence Opto, Inc. will be exhibiting at Booth #3357 in LightFair International 2013 happening next week on April 23-25, 2013 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.  Lightfair International is the world's largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference with innovative products from high-end design to cutting-edge technology.    Don't have a ticket to LFI 2013? No worries! Excellence Opto, Inc. will be happy to provide you a VIP pass to the LightFair International 2013 for free. For more information, em...

Duris S 5 is the latest high-tech addition to the Duris LED family from Osram Opto Semiconductors. This new LED component offers an impressive lifetime of more than 35,000 hours. And in contrast to other components it can withstand much higher temperatures in the applications – up to 105 degrees Celsius (°C). Duris S 5 is ideal for indoor lighting – in retrofits, in downlights or in panel luminaires. The package for Duris S 5 is made from highly robust synthetic material that is resistant to aging caused by high temperatures and short-wave blue light. ...

Long-term collaboration for growth of 6-inch GaN-on-Si wafers planned AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new facility at the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy. The CCS 6x2-inch system will be configured to handle single 6-inch (150mm) wafers (1x6-inch).  “We will be using the systems to expand our research efforts for LED and electronic devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) epitaxy on 6-inch silico...

Philips’ newest high-power emitter, the LUXEON Z ES, offers excellent colour consistency through a 1-step MacAdam ellipse in warm white colour options. With a micro-footprint, undomed design and full spectrum availability, LUXEON Z ES from Philips Lumileds enables high lumen density solutions with precise optical control. The LUXEON Z ES is available with below blackbody binning, a key feature required for superior colour perception in specialty retail and hospitality applications. It also offers 10-15 percent superior Colour over Angle (C...

Soraa has announced its new perfect spectrum SORAA VIVID 2 and PREMIUM 2 LED MR16 lamp lines—the first ultra-efficient replacements for 65-watt and 75-watt halogen lamps, available for both 12V and line voltages.   A technological breakthrough made possible by Soraa’s recently announced world-record performance GaN on GaN™ LEDs, the new SORAA LED MR16 lamps deliver the industry’s highest light output, while rendering vivid colors, richer reds and whiter whites, transforming ordinary lighting in any space into extraordi...