Just imagine it: A new high score on Angry Birds projected on a 5o inch screen for all the world to see! Or, perhaps more practically, using your tablet to give an important presentation when the company’s projector goes on the fritz. All this and more is possible thanks to Brookstone’s Compact 80-Lumen Pocket Projector. At approximately 4 in. x 4 in., the Pocket Projector is small enough to tuck into your briefcase or carry on. When connected via HDMI to most smartphones, tablets, computers, cameras, etc., however, its bright LED lamp is capable of proje...

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.

Intematix Corporation, an innovator of patented phosphors and phosphor components for high-quality LED lighting, provided an update on its patent infringement litigation in South Korea with Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.

Cooper Lighting announced that its Halo brand of recessed, track and surface lighting products has once again been named the Brand Leader in lighting by Builder magazine. Awarded for the fifteenth consecutive year, Halo was given top honors, sweeping all four lighting categories including Brand Familiarity, Brands Specified/Used in Past Two Years, Brands Specified/Brand Used Most, and Quality. The company will be featured in Builder’s April issue.

Pluritas, LLC, an intellectual property transaction advisory firm, is conducting the sale of a strategic LED patent portfolio from Illumitex, Inc., an LED innovator and maker of optically advanced lighting products. The Illumitex portfolio includes five patent families and 17 applications, each related to novel approaches for improving LED extraction efficiency and for chip shaping. The IP rights capture years of innovation and R&D relevant to the multi-billion-dollar market for LED chips.

Luxonic Lighting has supplied the complete controls and lighting solution for the Sir Robert Woodard Academy in West Sussex, which is a new architectural landmark in Lancing. The £28 million new build, which replaced the old college, is a state-of-the-art learning facility that has allowed the expansion of the academy from 1,100 to 1,400 students.  Luxonic has supplied products for both the interior and exterior of the buildings, from communal areas to the academy’s specialist performing arts facilities.

Company launches simpler, smaller and less costly IC solution for dimmable LED retrofits. Next week at Strategies in Light, the premier conference and exhibition for solid-state lighting (SSL), emerging fabless company, Ikon Semiconductor, will debut its digital controller Integrated Circuit (IC) technology for the dimmable LED retrofit market. The new technology is designed to meet cost and performance standards for today’s LED lighting products, while also enabling greater design simplicity for bulb manufacturers and OEMs. Central to the IC’s value is an innovative digital architecture that eliminates costly components – a benefit that reduces the form factor and improves reliability.

    One in five Chinese LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future.   About 4,000 companies in China are producing LEDs, or light emitting diodes, tempted by tax breaks, subsidies and offers of cheap land for factories. Now they are locked in intense competition that has halved prices over the past three years.   Just as over-investment and sagging exports dragged down Beijing's solar panel and wind turbine champions, China&#...

LEDucation 7 announces VERSATILE line up of speakers for the 7th annual premier event on LED Technology to be held in NYC oN March 20th. The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY) is proud to announce its versatile speaker line up and also notify attendees that event registration for “LEDucation 7” is officially open.  As the premier lighting event dedicated to advancing the education of the lighting community, LEDucation 7 will take place in New York City on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. 

  AN £8.5M investment programme will see state of the art LED street lights springing up across Bromley over the next two years. Around half of the borough’s 27,000 street lamps will be replaced by lighting contractor May Gurney (Cartledge). The works will also include installing 8,000 new street lamp columns, replacing the oldest 50-year-old lamp columns in the borough. The LED lamps will be 50 per cent more efficient than existing bulbs which will mean savings in the £1.3m spent on electricity for the 27,000 street lights last financial year. ...

Cree, Inc.(NASDAQ:CREE) LED lighting has got an endorsement from none other than Richard Petty, “The King” of Nascar.

  Emerging Irish fabless semiconductor technology company Ikon Semiconductor this week revealed a new integrated circuit (IC) design that could prove vital to the growing global LED lighting industry. Ikon’s new IC was unveiled at the Strategies in Light conference in Silicon Valley this week. The new IKS2053 IC is designed to meet cost and performance standards for today’s LED lighting OEMs and bulb manufacturers. An innovative digital architecture created by Ikon eliminates the use of costly components by 25pc, reduces the form factor ...

Penske Truck Leasing is retrofitting 5,000 of its 2012 and 2013 model semi tractors in its commercial truck rental fleet with new LED headlights from Truck-Lite.

2012 is an unusual year for LED industry. During the year, some companies benefited from subsidy program from government, some try to improve technology by themselves to reduce cost, some choose acquisition or set up lighting alliance to strengthen market share, and others have to break down due to financial problem. Therefore, the road lead to LED lighting is full of opportunities as well as challenges. Let’s review the happiness and sorrow which we have undergone. LED Industry News Timeline in 2013 Events: January: 1.    Panasonic Reorgani...

In the patent lawsuit in Korea at the Seoul Central District Court which Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (“MCC”) filed against a US company, Intematix Corporation (“Intematix”) and a Korean distributor, GVP, claiming that they infringe a red phosphor patent in Korea (No. 816693) which is owned by MCC and National Institute of Material Science, the court ruled on February 5, 2013 that Intematix and GVP are enjoined from importing and selling their accused phosphor products, accepting our claims. The Korean patent No. 816693 (*) ...

According to TechNavio, one of the key factors contributing to market growth in semiconductors is the high thermal conductivity of gallium nitride over other non-silicon substrates . The gallium nitride semiconductor devices market has been witnessing the increasing preference for GaN with different substrates, GaN devices market to soar at a CAGR of 18 %. However, the complexity in matching the cost and performance could pose a challenge to the growth of this market. TechNavio's report, the "Global Gallium Nitride Semiconductor Devices Market 2012-2016&qu...

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...

GE Lighting has rolled out its 2013 Lighting & Electrical Institute curriculum. Designers, facility managers, specifiers, consultants and other interested professionals are invited to learn about the latest innovations in lighting technology led by the Institute’s world-renowned staff. Each course also carries continuing education credits. The year’s educational courses will relay lighting and electrical distribution solutions that can increase energy and operating efficiencies, raise productivity and promote safety and security, all while benefiting the environm...

Illuminating the bright future of the lighting industry, the fifth edition of HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2013 (Spring Edition) will be staged on 6-9 April 2013 in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, and the event is expected to attract global exhibitors to fulfill orders for the coming prime autumn/winter season and beyond. With a leap of 47% growth in the number of exhibitors, the four-day lighting fair period attracted more than 950 exhibitors from 11 countries and regions in 2012 and produced a strong visitor turnout, with over 15,000 bu...

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...

To remove barriers to the rapid adoption of LED lighting, Soraa will sponsor a Lighting PlugFest in conjunction with Strategies Unlimited at their annual Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, California. Incompatibility between LED lamps and fixtures with existing control gear and dimmers designed for traditional light sources—incandescent, halogen, or fluorescent—is one of the biggest hurdles facing the lighting industry today. PlugFests are a mainstay for the IT and consumer electronics industries—Soraa is the first to adapt the practic...

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...

GlacialLight, a division of the Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., extends an invitation to all business and media partners around the world to attend their display (Hall 9.3, Booth #B11) at LED CHINA 2013, to be held at China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Area B in Guangzhou from March 1-4, 2013. Date: March 1-4, 2013. Venue: China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Area B, Guangzhou GlacialLight Booth: Hall 9.3, Booth #B11 LED CHINA 2013 is an excellent opportunity to learn about upcoming produc...

LightingEurope is pleased to announce the election of Mr. Dietmar Zembrot as President of the Executive Board, Mr. Jan Denneman as the Vice-President, and Mr. Diederik de Stoppelaar as Treasurer. Additional Board members include: Alfred Haas (Osram), Peter Hunt (The Lighting Industry Association), Thomas Walentowski (BLV), André ten Bloemendal (NLA), Peter Dillen (Havells-Sylvania), Jean Michel Trouis (Syndicat de l'Eclairage), Francois Séguineau (Toshiba), Johan Segers (AGORIA), Harald Sommerer (Zumtobel), Markk...

Bridgelux, Inc., announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Bradley J. Bullington, the Company’s current Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development and General Manager, Technology Solutions, as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.  William Watkins has moved up to Chairman of the Board of Directors, having served as CEO of the company from January, 2010 until taking this new role. Mr. Bullington joined Bridgelux from Seagate in 2010, where he worked with Mr. Watkins, and has been responsible for the Company’s ...

Cree announces the appointment of Mike McDevitt as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately. McDevitt brings more than two decades of finance and operations leadership and has served as Vice President and Interim CFO of the company since May 22, 2012. “Mike is an invaluable member of the Cree team and I am very pleased to announce his appointment as CFO,” said Chuck Swoboda, Cree chairman and CEO. “After conducting an exhaustive national search, we realized Mike is the best candidate for the job...

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 ...