Rubicon Technology, Inc. has reported financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012. The Company reported fourth quarter revenue of $20.0 million as compared with $19.9 million in the prior quarter. Revenue from six-inch wafer sales showed another sequential increase to $17.5 million from $16.4 million in the prior quarter, a 7 percent increase. Due to low industry pricing for two through four inch core products, the Company decided to sell a limited quantity of those products in the quarter. Raja Parvez, President and CEO of Rubicon Technology, comm...

Sharp has announced to add a 100W COB LED, known as GW7GAL50SGC LED to its Zenigata family. The new LED will output 14,000 lm, and achieve efficacy of 143 lm/W for SSL lighting applications such as street lights and high-bay lighting. Compared to the existing family members, the new LED will be larger and also be hexagonal in shape, whereas the existing Zenigata products are rectangular. The 50W Mega Zenigata LEDs measure 20×24 mm. The new 100W device is 86.8 mm measured from one point of the hexagon to the opposite point, and 75 mm measu...

Cree extends the KR Series LED downlight portfolio, delivering greatly improved performance at pricing to match incumbent fluorescent downlights. With new lumen packages of up to 2650 delivered lumens, the KR Series replaces 18- to 42-watt fluorescents. Cree is further expanding the range of LED downlight applications by introducing the KR4™ downlight, which features an impressive, high-lumen, 4-inch aperture, with options similar to the 6-inch KR6™ downlight. With new standard 0- to 10-V dimming, sloped-ceiling and wall-wash trim options, the KR Series...

ElectroniCast Consultants, has announced the release of their 2013 market review and forecast of the worldwide use of High Brightness Light Emitting Diodes (HB-LED) Driver Integrated Circuits (ICs) in illumination.  Values include LED Driver IC (packaged chip only).   According to ElectroniCast, the worldwide total consumption value of HB-LED Driver ICs reached $1.79 billion in 2012.  During the 2012-2019 timeline, the consultancy forecasts that the consumption value will grow at an average annual rate of 27 percent to $9.59 billion in th...

LIGHTFAIR® International’s (LFI®) expansion accelerates in its 2013 Philadelphia showing with additional trade show space in Pennsylvania Convention Center’s Hall F—the new home of new categories solar power and software and the featured site for high-profile networking and special events. The 2013 additions advance LFI’s continuing growth as the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, which is now approaching sellout.  Creation and introduction of the new categories, togethe...

Japanese Chemical engineering firm Showa Denko K.K. has cooperated with Masayoshi Shigyo, a professor at Yamaguchi University’s Faculty of Agriculture, to develop new LED lighting technology to spur plant growth in factory controlled conditions, by changing the blue-red ratio through each stage of a plant's development. The technology shortens the growth period of leaf lettuce, for example, to two weeks from three weeks using conventional methods. With growing corporate interest in the vegetable factory business, Showa Denko said the new technique offers si...

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...

AIXTRON SE announced that SukYoung Kim (김 석영) has been appointed General Manager of its subsidiary AIXTRON Korea Co., Ltd. Mr. Kim has been working in the international semiconductor industry in Korea and the USA for many years and most recently held the position of Regional President and Representative Director of Novellus Systems in Korea.                         In his new position as General Manager at AIXTRON Korea, he...

- 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...

UK LED lighting manufacturer Low Energy Designs announce the arrival of new Sales Consultant Adrian Worgan, who will boost their expanding team. Based in Peterborough, he will work with a focus on companies in the Midlands and East of the UK. CEO Alan Parker states, “Adrian comes from a very strong professional sales management background and is a great addition to our growing business. His appointment will offer our customers another resource to help identify their needs and offer appropriate solutions.”   As one of the very first European compa...

Veeco recently announced that, due to the ongoing accounting review announced on November 15, 2012, the Company is unable to report revenue and earnings information for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2012. The Company will not be hosting an earnings call at this time, and is providing selected business highlights as follows: •    Fourth quarter unit shipments were in line with the Company’s expectations. •    Fourth quarter 2012 bookings were $92.3 million, up from the $83.7 million booked in the third quarter of 2012....

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...

Coming on the heel of the resignations from Holger Jürgensen (deputy chairman of the supervisory board) and Karl-Hermann Kuklies (ordinary member of the supervisory board) of Aixtron, Aixtron SE has announced that Paul Hyland, President and CEO, will leave the company by mutual agreement with effect as of February 28th, 2013, for personal reasons. The Supervisory Board has appointed Martin Goetzeler (50), an internationally experienced top manager and industry expert, as Hyland's successor. Goetzeler will join the company on March 1st, 2013. Within the E...

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...

China National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Science and Technology have jointly released the LED industry plan. Value of LED Production to reach 450 billion yuan According to the plan, the value of LED production will reach 450 billion yuan, and about 10 to 15 industry-leading enterprises will be formed with the control of core technology and branding. LED lighting products to account for 20% of the market By 2015, production of filament lamps over 60W will be eliminated, with the market share expected to drop to 10 percent. Traditional ...

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 ...

Thermal Technology, a leading manufacturer of crystal growth equipment and high temperature furnace systems, recently shipped 14 K1 HB LED-grade sapphire crystal growers to a customer in Europe.  The K1’s large 90kg sapphire boule is optimized for 4” and 6” cores used in LED production, with 8” cores possible.   “We continue to strengthen our position in the high brightness LED market,” says Matt Mede, Thermal Technology president and CEO.  “Spending time at customers’ facilities throughout the world, I see our competitors sapphire tools unplugged and pushed aside, while ours are in production. The K1’s quality output speaks for itself.”   As Thermal Technology completes sapphire growth protocol transfer at its customers’ facilities, K1 sapphire production has increased dramatically with customers producing large, high quality boules and reporting yields of 4200mm TIE.   Over recent decades, LED lighting technology has developed and commercialized to the point that LEDs are replacing incandescent light bulbs in common lighting applications. Refined LED technology has led to the development of high brightness LEDs (HB LED) used in electronic display backlighting and other high tech applications.  Producing HB LED requires higher quality, single sapphire substrate.   Thermal Technology’s Model K1 crystal grower is intended for HB LED substrate production. To satisfy the demand of the growing high quality sapphire market, Thermal Technology has successfully tripled their Santa Rosa, California manufacturing facility. Thermal Technology is a global manufacturer of advance thermal processing systems, including crystal growth equipment, high temperature laboratory and production furnaces, hot presses and spark plasma as well as direct current sintering systems. Thermal Technology has 60 years of experience with more than 3000 installations in 40 countries.

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, ...

With the UK languishing in the ‘relegation zone’ of Europe’s renewable energy league table behind countries such as Spain, Greece and France, you might have hoped that the UK Government would at least have been motivated to beat the French to introducing a night-time ban on lighting. New measures will come into force throughout France from July, and apply to both internal and external lighting of buildings. Interior lighting in offices must be switched off one hour after staff leave the premises; lighting in shops windows and commercial premises must be of...

  MYSORE: Public lighting helps motorists, but improper illumination spells trouble to pedestrians, said J N Bhavani Prasad, retired chief engineer of CPWD (Bangalore), here on Friday. Speaking on 'Public lighting with focus on lighting for pedestrians' organized by The Institute of Engineers, he alleged that JnNRUM projects have utterly neglected lighting and roads. "Street lighting helps motorists more than pedestrians. Motorists can see with the help of headlights, but what about pedestrians?" he questioned. Throwing light on revo...

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has launched an LED driver for LED display and illumination equipment that can illuminate 8 RGB-LEDs with a single IC. Samples are available now and mass production is scheduled for March 2013.

  It has been reported in Business Green that the system will be adopted in Sainsbury’s new store in Leek, Staffordshire and will enable the company to make energy savings of 59%. As well as making use of the new highly efficient LEDs, the move will also include daylight sensors to optimise the use of natural daylight. The new lights are just one of a number of green features installed in the store as part of the company’s 20x20 sustainability programme. The team at Simple Lighting co. offers an extensive range of LED tape lighting and are therefore full...

Lipscombe explains that the main task in hand was ensuring that the lighting of its UK flagship be as alluring as the brand itself. In order to achieve this it was necessary to reduce the intensity of light in certain areas as well as being able to deal with different contrasts and reflections. He recalls how light had to be carefully controlled using lenses and reflectors to prevent it bouncing around any high gloss surfaces.

  LED chip and lighting array maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA and the Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC) are collaborating to accelerate the market for advanced streetlighting technologies through the Bay Area Next Generation Streetlight Initiative, a region-wide project to upgrade 200,000+ municipal streetlights to LED technology. BACC is a public-private partnership initiative of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, launched by regional civic and business leaders in 2009 to accelerate the Bay Area clean energy economy through high...

  Thirty-seven commercial LED outdoor lights were recognized for their excellence by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) fifth annual "Next Generation Luminaires" (NGL) solid-state lighting design competition, as announced at PennWell's Strategies in Light conference (Feb. 12-14, 2013). Sponsored by the DOE, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and the International Association of Lighting Designers, NGL was launched in 2008 to promote excellence in the design of energy-efficient LED luminaires i...

In 2012, the total output value of China's LED industry was CNY 205.9 billion with the year-on-year growth of 34%. Of which, the output value of upstream epitaxial wafer and chip industry, midstream packaging industry and downstream application industry was CNY 7.2 billion, 39.7 billion and 159 billion respectively; the year-on-year growth was 20%, 24% and 37% respectively. At present, China's LED industry has formed four major regions (Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, Fujian & Jiangxi region and the northern region), seven large-scale bases (D...

  Further cementing the company's position as an industry leader in LED technology, Philips has earned four Next Generation Luminaire™ (NGL) awards in the Outdoor Competition at the prestigious, fourth-annual NGL Solid State Lighting (SSL) Design Competition. Solutions from Philips Color Kinetics, Lumec, Wide-Lite and Crescent/Stonco were recognized for the sleekness of their LED design, as well as their color quality and light uniformity enabled by Philips LUXEON LED technology. Held during the Strategies in Light Con...

Larson Electronics has announced today the release of an intrinsically safe rated LED headlight that provides high output and hands free operation coupled with intrinsically safe rated operation. The EXP-LED-HL-DFX Explosion Proof Dual Function Headlight runs for up to 13.5 hours on a set of alkaline batteries and also features weather resistant construction and the ability to choose between high and low operating modes. The EXP-LED-HL-DFX explosion proof dual function headlight from Larson Electronics provides operators in hazardous locations with a hi...