LED professional symposium + expo (LpS 2011) from 27th through 29th September 2011 LED: The light source of the future Experts all agree: the LEDs are the light source of the future – and the future is beginning today: It will be here in Bregenz world-wide for the first time that developer, purchaser, users, but also researchers, suppliers of LED and system solutions, distributors, engineer service providers and other people interested in this topic are gathering to participate at the convention and trade fair LpS in order to discuss the lighting solutions of t...

LayTec AG, leading manufacturer of in-situ metrology for MOCVD processes, announces that it has acquired the majority of tangible and intangible assets of Optical Reference Systems Ltd (ORS). ORS Ltd, former competitor of LayTec, entered liquidation in August 2011 after a extended period of difficult trading conditions. Thomas Zettler, CEO & president of LayTec, stated: “The R&D team of ORS did a great job du¬ring the last 3 years in developing complementary metrology technologies. These technologies now will be integrated into LayT...

Cooper Lighting’s popular Halo brand is awarded for its new 4-inch LED product expansion.   Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, announced its new Halo H4 LED 4-inch Adjustable Gimbal Series has been recognized as a winner in the prestigious ninth annual Lighting for Tomorrow competition. The awards, which recognize the best-designed, energy-efficient solid-state lighting (SSL) products in the residential market, were announced at the American Ligh...

Ammono has made a breakthrough on high transparency n-type gallium nitride substrates for the production of LEDs and photovoltaic applications. The company has developed a technology allowing the manufacture of GaN wafers with carrier concentrations between 2x1017 and 2x1020 cm-3. Currently, the standard n-type product has a carrier concentration of 1019cm-3. To meet the market demand, Ammono is introducing new products based on an innovative n-type material which has a higher transparency and a lower carrier concentration of 3x1017cm-3. The dislocation density in this ma...

LG Electronics Woomyeon R&D Campus (LG Electronics Advanced Research Institute),recently has ordered one AIX G5 HT MOCVD system in an 8x6-inch wafer configuration to develop GaN-on-Silicon power electronics. In addition, the contract also includes a cooperation agreement in order to optimise LGE´s GaN/Si processes and to accelerate its proprietary device-oriented production. The reactor was ordered in the first quarter of 2011 and following delivery in the third quarter of 2011 will be installed and commissioned by a local Aixtron service s...

Reportedly, German Zweibrüder Optoelectronics has created a gaint flashlight as big as a Volkswagen Golf with an array of 19 high-powered LED lights. The Germans have built a flashlight that is four meters long. That is thirteen feet long in the old money, which marks a world record for the biggest flashlight (electric torch) ever made. It has placed its makers firmly into the Guinness Book of Records. Zweibrüder Optoelectronics designed this giant-sized device as part of the celebrations for the Lichternacht (the Festival of Lights), held in Solingen, i...

Shortly after stopping producing standard incandescent lamps to focus on LEDs and other solid-state lighting products, Toshiba International Corp., has set up its LED Lighting Systems Division which consists of team of U.S. lighting veterans. Ken Honeycutt, is now senior V.P. of Toshiba International Corp. and chief venture executive for Toshiba. Previously,he spent most of his lighting career with Acuity Brands Lighting, where he rose to the position of CEO. Mark Altomare, V.P. of business development, who was regional V.P. of sales at Hubbell Lig...

Sources inform that recently, Walsin Lihwa Corp. has kick off volume production at an LED-epitaxy venture in Shanxi Province, mainland China. According to the company,the venture is designed to have annual output of 150,000 4-inch epitaxy wafers with 20 MOCVD chambers, estimated to bring in Walsin Lihwa around NT$1.3-1.5 billion (US$43-50 million at US$1:NT$30) in revenue a year.   Walsin Lihwa has spent around US$127 million on the investment of the venture. And the company will see return from its investment in LED industry over the next one to two...

LED venture of US$120 million which has been co-opened by Taiwanese LED makers Epistar, and Lite-On Technology as well as TV maker Konka Group comes on stream in Changzou ,China on Sept. 23, 2011  Epistar has in the dominating position of the venture with a 60% stake. The venture is its first overseas and the biggest in mainland China capable of making epitaxy wafers and chips.Plus, this venture is its first that involves LED packager (Lite-On) and end-product maker (Konka) as co investors. At the same time, Lite-On owns a 30% stake and Konka hold...

Reposts have released that Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) has made a program to provide access to solar photovoltaic (PV) and LED lighting systems for 1,000 households and ten schools in villages in India at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City on September 21st, 2011 . In the meanwhile , the program will expand access to household finance for home solar systems, as well as providing training for entrepreneurs from Africa and Central America to replicate the model in other regions. According to Mark Walker ...

LEDforum, an annual and the largest LED conference in Taiwan, will again bring together the leading manufacturers, materials and component suppliers, technology innovators, and the lighting community. Come and meet the representing elites from Aixtron, Delta, Epistar, Everlight, Henkel, KLA-Tencor, Merck, OSRAM, Philips Lumileds, ULVAC and Veeco. Don't miss your opportunity to network and learn from this international gathering event.

According reports from Nichia, Tokyo District Court has issued a provisional injunction order, fully in favor of Nichia in the case where Nichia filed provisional injunction action on September 6, 2010 at Tokyo District Court to enjoin Tsannkuen Japan, a sub Nichia sidiary of a Taiwanese company, from infringing Nichia's patent. The infringed patent is one of Nichia's patents concerning the technology of combining photo-luminescent material with blue LED, and is employed in many white LED products that combine photo-luminescent material with blue LED. ...

Recently, Philips has rolled out three robust, high-performance LED inspection lamps: a penlight, a LED inspection lamp on 240 V or 24 V, and a LED inspection lamp with docking station. These lamps provide high light output to illuminate confined dark spaces, for instance when servicing a motor vehicle engine. Penlight (battery-driven) The compact, cable-free penlight is particularly user-friendly. Six high-powered LEDs provide a bluish light with an intensity of 120 lux. The LED pointer on the pen tip illuminates the working area precisely with 85 lux. The pe...

New architectural LED fixture for large indoor spaces brings high design consistency and fast ROI through energy and maintenance cost savings 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 and immediate availability of the Lumenbeam LBX (Xlarge) Pendant.  Developed for large interior spaces such as lobbies, atriums, convention centers and more the Lumenbeam LBX Pendant offers a greener, cost effective and d...

Grid Lay-In Fixture Integrates Seemlessly with Adura Technologies Wireless Control Platform   Lunera® Lighting, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, announced today the commercial availability of Lunera’s first Adura Technologies-enabled luminaire, the 2240 SERIES. Based on Lunera’s award winning two-foot by two-foot architectural grid lay-in and surface mountable 2200 SERIES fixture, the 2240 SERIES comes equipped with a factory-installed Adura LC-1RD wireless...

Report releases that Lighting Science Group has supplied LED bulbs for over a quarter of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 houses.   Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Old Dominion University and Hampton University, Middlebury College, The Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology, and Florida International University have spent nearly two years creating houses that blend affordability, consumer appea...

Officials of the Guangdong Provincial Government stated that they are working towards the goal that by 2015, LED lighting will make up 30% of the interior lighting in Guangdong. Street lighting is the breaking point for the government to popularize LED lighting: in the next two years, there will be over 600 thousand LED street lamps lightening up the night sky of the Pearl River Delta. The government will implement the LED plan starting in 2012 and aims to increase the penetration rate of LED in interior lighting to 30% by 2015. At the moment, there are 200 tho...

2230 SERIES, 6430 SERIES and 6830 SERIES Designed for Low Voltage DC Control Systems Lunera® Lighting, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, announced today the commercial availability of Lunera’s luminaires to be factory configured for compatibility with Redwood Systems control solutions. By using Lunera’s new fixture series in tandem with the Redwood Systems low voltage lighting control and building intelligence platform, the combined system will provide facility manager...

New energy efficiency standards, set to become effective as of January 1st, 2012, are expected to phase out incandescent lightbulbs. Although the law does not expressly ban the use of incandescent lightbulbs, it does require lightbulbs to be 25 to 30 percent and at least 60 percent more efficient by 2014 and 2020, respectively, which will effectively eliminate the bulbs falling short of the standards. However, specialty bulbs, three-way bulbs, chandelier bulbs, refrigerator bulbs, plant grow lights and others will not be restricted by the new law. A lot of consumers are not happy ...

Reportedly, Seattle City Light (SCL) has started to the old high-pressure sodium streetlamps with new LED lights in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park on Sept. 20. The newer LED technology uses approximately 48 percent less energy than current high-pressure sodium lights, and they are expected to last at least three times as long. The project cost, which was originally estimated at between $25-24 million, has dropped in the last year to $20 million for all 41,000 residential street lamps. A small portion of this cost will be covered by federal stimulus funds and SLC w...

Seesmart, Inc., a division of Seesmart Holdings, Inc.,has completed LED retrofit in a global supplier of eyewear, Zyloware Eyewear’s, new 50,000 square foot facility based in Westchester County, New York. The retrofit began at the end of last year and now Zyloware's offices and distribution center shine with 700 clean, energy-efficient Seesmart LEDs. Seesmart's LED lighting is 50%+ more efficient than fluorescent lighting and is rated for up to 50,000 hours of operation. LEDs produce far less heat than fluorescents, decreasing the demand on air con...

Sources inform that Lighting Science Group (LSG) will cooperate with BSES Rajdhani Power in the area of LED lighting. Both LSG and power distribution company BSES Rajdhani have entered into an agreement for the collaboration, where the two entities would "explore avenues to demonstrate and promote energy efficiency using the next generation LED lighting". According to BSES Rajdhani CEO Gopal Saxena said in a statement, scope of the association would also involve conducting field trials of various LED based lighting options, such as ma...

Taiwan’s LED manufacturer EpiLEDs Technologies Inc., recently has ordered AIXTRON CRIUS II-L MOCVD system in a 69x2-inch wafer configuration,for the volume production of ultra-high brightness (UHB) Gallium Nitride (GaN) based blue LEDs. The system was ordered in the second quarter of 2011 and following delivery in the third quarter of 2011, will be installed and commissioned by a local AIXTRON service team in EpiLEDs’ state-of-the-art facility in Tainan, Taiwan. Steve Ku, President of EpiLEDs Technologies Inc., ...

Source inform that Aixtron, has slashed its sales guidance for 2011 and reduced its order backlog by €100 million, based on talks with its Asian customers revealed increasing macro-economic concerns. Previously, Aixtron’s target was  €800 million-€900 million.However, it now expects to post sales of between €600 million and €650 million. With the average cost of a piece of MOCVD kit around €2-2.5 million, the new guidance suggests that Aixtron has cut its shipment expectations for 2011 by as many as one hundreds units. It may has a...

Reportedly, Chip One Stop, Inc. has come to an agreement with Nichia on the patent infringement litigation regarding Nichia's patent No. 4530094 ("patent No. 094") that had been pending in Tokyo District Court by settlement out of court. Chip One has acknowledged that the white LED products (product number: GT 3528 series) manufactured by Everlight and sold by Chip One falls within the scope of the claim of patent No. 094, and agreed to terminate the sale of all white LED products manufactured by Everlight and to respect Nichia's intellectual ...

NexPhase Lighting, Inc., the subsidiary of Onteco Corporation, has completed LM79 testing for its Linear LED Luminaire Series No. COV20BMB41. Ty Ramsey, COO of NexPhase, stated, "We have completed an important milestone in establishing our NexPhase products as clearly 'best of class' and well ahead of the competition. Today, we received testing completion notification from CSA, our independent LM79 testing lab, that our Linear LED Luminaire Series No. COV20BMB41, has successfully completed all LM79 testing. What this means ...

IPhone/Android users are in for great news. LEDinside have released an iPhone version of LEDinside APP, helping you keep track on the changing LED industry.

Energy Costs Reduced by Nearly 67 Percent with Cree XLamp® LEDs at California Waste Connections Facility In a move to improve lighting quality and safety at its Cold Canyon Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Waste Connections, Inc. (NYSE: WCN) upgraded its lighting system with Cree-powered Xeralux LED high-bay fixtures. The Xeralux fixtures feature Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) XLamp® XP-G LEDs, helping Waste Connections reduce its energy costs by almost two-thirds and nearly eliminating its maintenance c...

  Publish your product announcement, press release or case study on LEDinside. All articles are subject to evaluation before they are to appear on our website. The process of approving articles may take up to 2 working days or longer.   Add announcement feature can be accessed at the following entrances.

The first day's sessions will cover the LED upstream material, equipment, and epitaxy sectors. World’s leading equipment makers, such as KLA-Tencor, ULVAC, and MOCVD equipment makers Veeco and Aixtron, are invited to explain how LED equipment can contribute to LED quality enhancement and cost reduction.