Scientists have developed multicolor LEDs without heavy metals. These nanocrystals consist of a few hundred to thousand atoms and have a considerable potential as highly efficient light emitters, as was demonstrated by the team of Professor Uli Lemmer and Professor Annie K. Powell from KIT as well as Professor Geoffrey A. Ozin from the University of Toronto. In a joint project, the scientists have now succeeded in manufacturing highly efficient LEDs from the silicon nanocrystals. So far, manufacture of silicon LEDs has been limited to the red visible spectr...

Zhaga has published its second interface specification, as part of its mission to enable the interchangeability of LED light sources. Products carrying the Zhaga logo are already available from various manufacturers.   The Zhaga Consortium has published its second interface specification for LED light engines. Zhaga Interface Specification Book 2 can now be downloaded from the organization’s website (//www.zhagastandard.org/specifications/book-2.html). In addition, Zhaga has created a database of certified products, which are all commercially available. T...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has illuminated the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Mt. Pleasant, WI with energy-efficient LED lighting. Cree® interior lighting products, including more than 400 CS18™ LED linear luminaires, will fully illuminate the Neighborhood Market – from the sales floor and pharmacy to restrooms, vestibules and backroom areas. Cree LED lighting will also be installed in the parking lot and exterior areas of the store. Walmart estimates that the CS18 luminaires, designed for low maintenance and long life, will save approxima...

Power Integrations announced RDR-347, an LED-downlight reference design. The new circuit demonstrates the capabilities of the recently launched LYTSwitch™ IC family. The RDR-347 12 W reference design, based on the LYT4313E, delivers a power factor greater than 0.95 and reduces total harmonic distortion (THD) to less than 10% - easily meeting EN61000-3-2C requirements. Efficiency is greater than 86% at 120 VAC – industry-leading performance for an isolated solution capable of operating with a wide range of dimmers. This performance is possible...

Excelitas Technologies, has launched its first UV LED solution, CurX for the printing and curing industry. The CurX UV-LED module is a linear, scalable, high-end UV LED curing “flood” module available in 365 nm, 385 nm and 395 nm ranges of UV output. It is well suited for demanding applications such as digital ink printing, screen printing, flexo printing, offset printing, and the curing of coatings, adhesives, glues, and varnishes. The CurX UV-LED module, which incorporates LED technology from Nichia, delivers up to 50 percent higher ir...

•    Green Product1 sales increased to 45% of total sales (EUR 11.3 billion) in 2012 •    Total investments in Green Innovation at EUR 569 million in 2012, mainly driven by investments in sustainable LED lighting •    Carbon reduction target achieved, with 25% decrease in operational CO2 emissions over five years   Today Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHIA) reported Green Product sales of EUR 11.3 billion in 2012, marking 45% of total sales and moving the company significant...

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced that it will propose to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM), which will be held on May 3, 2013,  to amend the articles of association of the company to change the name of the company to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Royal Philips).   “Philips is a diversified technology company focused on delivering meaningful innovation in healthcare, energy-efficient lighting and consumer health and well-being,” said Philips Chief Executive Officer Frans van Houten. “Our ...

Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), announced its innovation program has developed an industry leading solid state power supply with an expected life of 20 years.  Dialight’s new power supply technology guarantees long-life performance even in the most demanding applications. “Dialight has once again set the bar with our latest power supply design, providing our customers with reliable and efficient illumination for up to two decades in the harshest environments around the world,” said Roy Burton, Dialight’s Group Chief Executive. “Unexpected lightin...

Monocrystal introduces ultra-large high quality sapphire window. Advancements in the development of its proprietary crystal growing technology allow Monocrystal to meet increasing demand from the emerging optical markets for large size sapphire windows and blanks up to 12 inches. Advancements in modified KY method make it possible for Monocrystal to grow 120 kg sapphire crystals on scale. This technological advantage enables Monocrystal to offer a wide range of optical products which were not available on the market before. “We are happy to be the company pushing the...

HVPE system expected to lower the cost of LED production and accelerate adoption in commercial and residential lighting GT Advanced Technologies (NASDAQ: GTAT) and Soitec (NYSE Euronext: SOI), today announced a development agreement and a licensing agreement allowing GT to develop, manufacture and commercialize a high-volume, multi-wafer HVPE system to produce high-quality GaN epi layers on  substrates used in the LED and other growth industries such as power electronics. The higher growth rates and improved material properties made possible ...

There is an increasing demand for LED TVs in Vietnam. According to analyst firm GfK, there are over 730,000 units be sold in 2012, representing a 176% surge in volume sales compared with the previous year. GfK retail audit showed the LED TV segment in Vietnam started 2012 with less than 20% volume share of the overall TV market in January, and had consistently trended upwards in subsequent months to reach 66% by the year end. This reflects an annual average of 37% in 2012— a substantial increment from the previous year’s 11%. One of the key reasons fo...

GT Advanced Technologies announced the appointment of Linda Reinhard as vice president, new business development and product management for the company’s sapphire, DSS™ and HiCz™ products reporting to Dan Squiller, GT’s chief operating officer. Reinhard will be responsible for leading GT’s growth into new market segments and driving the product roadmap to capitalize on these new opportunities including sapphire for cover and touch screen applications. Dan Squiller, GT’s chief operating officer, said  “Linda’s i...

“Delta Electronics’ Ring of Celestial Bliss” was the most eye-catching lantern display at today’s official opening of the 2013 Taiwan Lantern Festival. Considered the world’s biggest lantern, the “Delta Electronics’ Ring of Celestial Bliss” is a 10m tall, 70m wide and 270° circular, high-resolution structure where visitors can enjoy two films: “Sun and Moon”” and “Four Seasons”. Based on the overall design concept of “Everlasting” the giant lantern encourages the public to protec...

US 101 west of Olympia is making LED makeover. Beginning Monday, Feb. 25, Washington State Department of Transportation crews will replace the high-pressure-sodium highway lighting with the LED lighting system on a state highway. The light installations along US 101 should be complete by Friday, March 1 followed by full operation of the adaptive system by mid-April. John Nisbet, WSDOT state traffic engineer, said the LED system uses new, state-of-the-art technology known as an “adaptive system.” This will allow WSDOT crews to remotely adju...

AOP, a professional designer and supplier of LED luminaires and services, announces its participation in the Tokyo Lighting Fair 2013 that will take place at Tokyo Big Sight West Hall 2, Japan, on March 5-8. AOP invites you to visit Booth LF906-2, where our team will gladly introduce you to our latest developments in the field of luminaire design and benefits, including: The latest module lightings with the innovation features of economic designs. ARTEMIS and AGLAIA series with high quality and performance. Indoor lighting series to fulfill various commercial and industrial applications

Enhance high value products such as fresh produce with high quality lighting Exact Effect, the new spotlight fitting for the grocery retail category from Philips, delivers excellent-quality light that helps improve the look of fresh food. It is available across a range of product specifications including track and surface-mounted options. Exact Effect is one of five key highlights in the new Philips UK Spring Collection 2013. Exact Effect features a highly efficient LED light engine and high-performance optics that bring out the detail of retailers produce by increasin...

Carved into a granite cliff in the North Okanagan in close proximity to Vernon, British Columbia, Sparkling Hill Resort is celebrated for its organic and modern flair-notably its creative use of $10 million in Swarovski Crystal elements that provide an atmosphere of calm and serenity. Setting its sights on newly engaging, more energy-efficient LED hotel lighting, the European-influenced resort and wellness center recently specified 2,500 GE LED replacement lamps for its award-winning facility. The switch means an annual 828,000 kilowatt hours (kWhs) energy reduction at...

Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. has received an additional $5 million investment from an affiliate of Aston Capital LLC. The investment will be in the form of convertible preferred stock and will be used to fund recent customer orders as well as to fund future growth.   The $5 million investment contemplated will be derived from the sale of a new convertible preferred stock to RVL Holdings, an entity managed by Aston Capital, LLC and controlled by Robert V. LaPenta. The preferred stock will be convertible into common stock at a price of $1.17 per share ...

Chinese InGaN LED epiwafer and chip maker Jiangxi Lianchuang Optoelectronics Science and Technology Co Ltd (Lianovation) has bought a PE9000C Series purifier from Power+Energy Inc (P+E) of Ivyland, PA, USA, which is engaged in palladium-membrane-based hydrogen purifiers for the compound semiconductor and energy industries. The Chinese company will use PE9000C Series purifier to support a process tool at its facility in the Nanchang High-Tech District in Jangxi, China. The 9000C Series purifier includes micro-channel palladium membrane techno...

Major step in joint partnership to develop market of GaN substrates for high-performance LED lighting applications. Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., a leading worldwide provider of compound semiconductor materials, have signed a licensing and technology-transfer agreement under which Sumitomo Electric will use Soitec’s proprietary Smart Cut™ technology to manufacture engineered gallium nitride (GaN) substra...

Over 300 Industry Bloggers Will Attend Conference Featuring Interior Design Lead Corbett Lighting, Hudson Valley Lighting® and Troy Lighting will participate as premier sponsors at the upcoming Design Bloggers 2013 Conference held from March 3-5 in the heart of Los Angeles at the Hilton/Universal City Hotel. Panelists and presenters will focus on best practices in social media as well as the role new media is playing and will continue to play in the world of interior design. Industry interior design gurus including keynote speakers Barbara Barry, desi...

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...