IDEC Corp has utilized blue LED elements and yellow fluorescent materials to develop pseudo white LED modules. Under IDEC’s new method, an LED device can be packaged just by covering it with a gel-like silicon resin sheet containing a fluorescent material and heating it. Compared with a conventional method that packages an LED device by inpouring liquid resin, the new method can reduce the time used for packaging process to 1/9. With the conventional method, a "dam" is formed around an LED device on the substrate to keep the resin. Then, t...

- Latest energy-efficient LED technology entertainment lighting for bars, clubs and concerts - ACME, a manufacturer of professional entertainment and stage LED lighting equipment, has announced the new energy-efficient LED MS700PE moving head light, which combines the latest LED technology with excellent optics and great features. This 180W LED light, designed for use in bars, clubs, concerts or the theater, is the latest addition to the wide selection of ACME's specialized entertainment and stage lighting products. By connecting LED MS700PE t...

Soraa has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for its outstanding work in the development of high-efficiency m-plane LEDs grown on low-defect density bulk GaN substrates. The company demonstrated a very high peak internal quantum efficiency (IQE of 88%), low efficiency droop (10% from 10Acm-2 to 100A.cm-2) and perfect wavelength stability (up to 200A.com-2) at a wavelength of 450nm LEDs. Soraa’s GaN on GaN LEDs handle more current and emit substantially more light (about ten times) per area of LED wafer material than the conventiona...

Laytec has upgraded in-situ GaN LED monitoring system. LED manufacturers would know the emission wavelength of the final device during MOCVD growth. Today, according to the Solid State Lighting road map, the wavelength variation across a wafer should be less than 1 nm. This means a less than 1 K (10C) variation of the GaN surface temperature during InGaN MQW growth. LayTec’s Pyro 400 is widely used for enabling fab-wide GaN surface temperature uniformity in many LED manufacturers production lines. Meanwhile, more complex LED structur...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) delivers another industry first with a barrier-breaking 276 lumen-per-watt white R&D power LED. This significant milestone exceeds Cree’s previous R&D industry record of 254 lumens per watt and demonstrates Cree’s continued commitment to innovate and accelerate the adoption of LED lighting. Cree’s innovative SC³ Technology™ Platform, available today in Cree XLamp® LEDs, enables this record-breaking R&D result. The SC³ Technology Platform features advancements in LED chip ar...

Back in May 2011 Philips announced that they are investing €40 million in a new OLED lighting production line in Aachen. Philips inaugurated the new line - which has been producing OLEDs since Q3 2012 in fact (but it's only official now). Philips say that this new line is the largest and "most modern" OLED lighting line in the world. The clean-room is approximately 2,000-square meter in size. The new line is adjacent to Philips' pilot line that's been producing OLEDs since 2007. Philips plans to produce all their panels in the old ...

GE Lighting's (NYSE: GE) Evolve™ LED Scalable Cobrahead fixture has earned a Best-in-Class designation in the "Roadway Lighting" category in the 2012 Next Generation Luminaires™ (NGL) Solid-State Lighting Design Competition. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and the International Association of Lighting Designers, the NGL awards were created to recognize excellence in energy-efficient LED commercial lighting unit design. The Evolve™ ...

Soraa has developed the next generation of its high external quantum efficiency GaN on GaN LEDs, which outperform the best-documented LED laboratory result by Nichia Chemical Co. at current densities of 100 A/cm2 and beyond as described in the paper, "White light emitting diodes with super-high luminous efficacy," J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 43, 354002). Soraa has published a paper on its ground breaking LEDs, entitled, "Bulk GaN based violet light-emitting diodes with high efficiency at very high current density" in Applied Physics Letters, ...

At the beginning of the new year Tridonic landed a big breakthrough with OLED modules for professional lighting. Available in series, the new lighting module from the OLEDmodule LUREON REP product range for the first time achieves a luminous flux of more than 100 lumens, at dimensions of 99 x 99 mm². In addition, LUREON REP achieves a system efficiency of over 50 lm/W in neutral white, which is much higher than that achieved by comparable products on the market.

Fairchild Semiconductor, will demonstrate LED driver applications, including the highly integrated PFC and PWM controllers, during Strategies in Light 2013, February 12-14, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., In booth #200, Fairchild experts will showcase a range of LED lighting solutions, including: The FL7730 single-stage primary side regulation (PSR) controller with power factor correction (PFC), TRIAC and analog dimming compatibility, as well as the FL7732 for non-dimming applications. The FL7730/32 are active...

Atlas Box, a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of protective packaging for electronics and heavy equipment, has embarked on a plan to reduce energy consumption by 55 % in two facilities by installing LED lighting systems. The two-year retrofit project for installing lighting controls and other energy efficiency measures got underway thanks to a no upfront cost financing program set up by the local utility, National Grid. For Atlas’s interior warehouse lighting, Groom Energy installed a Digital Lumens system enabling occupancy-based lighting and the ability to track ...

Nicknamed “The King” of NASCAR®, Richard Petty has endorsed Cree® LED lighting after enthusiastically transforming his 100,000 square-foot garage with state-of-the-art LED fixtures by Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE). More than 700 Cree LED luminaires now illuminate the Petty’s Garage complex, which specializes in the restoration of high-performance vehicles, stock cars, drag racers and Petty signature cars. Partnering with Greenleaf Energy Solutions, Petty’s Garage installed Cree’s industry-leading LED lighting, fe...

LED Lighting Depot has entered the LED reseller marketplace with its own product range and a unique calculator that allows you shoppers to calculate the savings they will make over a product’s lifetime. The LED Lighting Depot site stocks Verbatim, Phillips and Toshiba brands, as well as the Lumaera brand – which is exclusively available through the retailer. Supplying a full range of domestic LEDs, from spotlights to downlights, and dimmable bulbs to outdoor and garden lights, LED Lighting Depot is also the only retailer in the marketplace to offe...

Azzurro Semiconductor AG’s Sales & Marketing vice president Erwin Ysewijn told to Digitimes that, the company has turned out sample 8-inch Ga-on-Si LED epitaxial wafers and plans to begin volume production as soon as the end of Q2 of 2013. According to Ysewijn , Azzurro has spent about one year in preparation for volume production. LED makers can either procure Azzurro-made finished GaN-on-Si LED epitaxial wafers for LED chips, or procure Si-substrate wafers with GaN films for LED epitaxial wafers. LED chips made from GaN-on-Si epita...

TWH and TWP LED outdoor wall-mounted luminaires deliver more than 100,000 hours of maintenance-free operation. Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) now offers its popular Lithonia Lighting® TWH and TWP outdoor wall-mounted luminaires with LED technology. TWH and TWP LED luminaires are identical in size to their traditional counterparts and offer a familiar, classic appearance while delivering ultra-reliable, energy-efficient LED illumination. With an expected service life of more than 20 years, the TWH and TWP LED luminaires are virtua...

HexaTech demonstrated optically pumped, AlGaN-based lasers grown on single crystalline AlN substrates , to develop its UV-C LEDs. Hexatech AlN wafer production process Laser structures fabricated at HexaTech and tested in collaboration with North Carolina State University (NCSU) featured lasing thresholds as low as 85 kW/cm2 at wavelengths of 264 and 280 nm. HexaTech says this AlN substrate platform is suited for UV-C opto-electronic applications. “Our recent results show convincing evidence of the feasibility of a solid-state UV-C ...

Eleven leading German OLED companies and research institutions announced the successful completion of the OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) related project; So-Light. This € 14.7 m project was supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) over a three and a half year period and addressed the complete value chain, from primary OLED materials through to OLED-lighting applications. Several of the promising innovations created within the project will now be brought to market by the participants of the So-Light project. The proje...

A wide range of the latest LED Lighting products, showcased at The Economic Times Acetech, Ahmedabad NTL Lemnis, the LED Lighting company, showcased a wide range of products of their globally acclaimed brand, “Pharox” at The Economic Times Acetech, Ahmedabad, organized from 1th to 3rd February, 2013.     NTL Lemnis, the JV Company between the lighting electronics major from India, NTL Electronics India Ltd. and the global frontrunner in the field of LED based sustainable lighting solutions, Lemnis Lighting of the Ne...

Sharp provides its customers with the new “LED Evaluation Kit”, an optimized service tool to enable them in future to easily and quickly test the best Mega ZENIGATA LEDs themselves and simulate the use of COB LED arrays in the desired application. With its “LED Evaluation Kit”, Sharp has developed a new powerful marketing tool for the Mega ZENIGATA which allows customers to easily test the Sharp LEDs for later use in the desired application. The evaluation kits are available for all power output classes of Mega ZENI...

Scientists from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland (United Kingdom) have begun to develop a new Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) technology that will use special micron-sized LED lights, such as those that could be used as part of home lighting or TV displays, to form part of a sophisticated wireless communications network (much like Wi-Fi is today). The principle, which revolves around manipulating the on/off flicker of LED lights to produce a digital network (a bit like Morse Code from a torch), is not new but most of the other teams are focusing on larger Li-Fi L...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada’s technology hub, has purchased a GEN10® Molecular Beam Epitaxy system for its recently opened Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) hosting the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC). The system will be installed in the new MBE laboratory being established by Professor Zbig Wasilewski, Endowed Nanotechnology Chair at WIN. According to Professor Wasilewski, “MBE technolog...

LED technology developed by Cree and Aeon creates warm glow of success at top international tourist destination   The warm mellow glow of a sunset is not what most consumers currently associate with LED lighting, but that is the effect now being delivered by the MR16 lamp from Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT). A key commercial LED light bulb manufacturer in Taiwan and well known in the industry for its retrofit bulbs, ALT has a well established relationship with Cree, Inc., and the Taiwan based company designed the Cree XLamp® XT-E 2200K CC...

As we know, Google purchased Motorola Mobility and with that purchase came thousands of patents for mobile devices. A document posted online shown that there was one patent missing and Google has just applied for it. That patent was one for a multi-LED flash to be embedded on the back side of a smartphone, or tablet for that matter. The idea behind a multi-LED flash is so that a low light photo situation can have different levels of light and will create a better exposure for the photo. Phones on the market today typically have one LED flash, or maybe a dual-LED flash...

Professor Yue Kuo, from the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University , has fabricated a new type of LED, capable of producing a wide spectrum light while operating for long periods of time at atmospheric conditions. This device is based on a new concept of light emission from an ultra-thin amorphous dielectric layer.     According to an article published in Applied Physics Letters, the light emission mechanism, characteristics of the emission spectrum, fabrication method, and the operation parameter effects on this ty...

New tool detects electrical issues and small physical defects; helps optimize high-speed optical wafer inspection systems for preferential capture of yield-relevant defects KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) announced the eS805™, a new electron-beam inspection system for leading-edge chip manufacturers. Benefiting from more than twenty years of KLA-Tencor's e-beam inspection development and manufacturing expertise, the eS805 offers strong capability in detection of very small defects and defects that cause electrical problems in the integrated circuit, ...

Includes First-Ever LED series, Enhanced Detailing and Second Generation of Portable Fixtures—Affirming Brand’s Legacy as a Force To Be Reckoned Hudson Valley Lighting®, premier U.S. manufacturer of classic and transitional lighting fixtures with roots in historic and decorative design, presents one of its largest and most prolific collections yet. The expansive collection, which debuted officially at the 2013 Dallas Buyers Market in Dallas, includes scores of new lighting families and products, exceeding expectations with exquisite pendants, c...

Series Embodies Brand’s Signature Style for Creating Artful Lighting Corbett Lighting, celebrated for fashion-forward designs presents the Fascination Collection, which premiered at the January 2013 Buyers Market held in Dallas. Fascination features 10 new series, the bulk of which offer variations on each design in the form of pendants, chandeliers, flush- and semi-flush mounts and sconces, offering myriad attractive selections for residential, retail, office and hospitality specifications. Corbett Lighting, known for incorporating precious metals, imported cry...

Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, a division from Sharp Electronics Corporation, releases  a series of striking, large-format professional LED displays for the indoor digital signage market. Key features include choice of portrait or landscape orientation, 24/7 operation, Sharp's UV2A LCD technology, picture-in-picture mode, ability to enlarge or daisy chain images on multiple monitors, built-in speakers, and an interface expansion board with comprehensive input/output capabilities including DisplayPort®. With 700 cd/m2 brightness and LE...

Luxury Manhattan apartments in turn-of-the-century warehouse on the Hudson River feature exquisite designs from Corbett Lighting, Hudson Valley Lighting® and Troy Lighting Littman Brands is proud to announce that it is the premier sponsor of Elle Decor, House Beautiful and Veranda magazines’ Designer Visions interior design showcase, which will open its doors on Tuesday January 29, 2013 with a gala and film screening for The 48 Hour Film Project. The showcase (where interiors are done by A-list architects and designers) features numerous lighting desi...

Prizmatix has introduced new collimated LED light sources, with over 60% increase in power over previous versions. And the company plans to show the white LED along with other new LED products at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco on February 5th to 8th. The UHP-T-LED-White has over 4.5 W of collimated light and can be used as a replacement for traditional mercury and xenon lamps in a variety of applications. Adapters are available for all major brands of microscopes including Olympus, Nikon, Zeiss, and Leica as well as for fibre opti...