Future Lighting Solutions is pleased to announce the successful completion of a major lighting project in Korea with Humanlitech. The challenge was to design reliable, energy efficient lighting for the Busan Cinema Center, a landmark entertainment complex in Korea. The Busan Cinema Center is the exclusive venue for screenings and events for the Busan International Film Festival and also serves as a symbolic structure representing the film culture and business in Asia. A central part of the complex’s stunning beauty is its huge roof with 42,000 LED lights, s...

Taiwan LED chipmaker Epistar has recently developed agreements with Zhejiang Yonkon Group Co., Ltd. and NVC Lighting Technology Corp. in mainland China. Under the agreement, the company’s deal with Zhejiang Yonkon will primarily stress cooperation on the development of lighting LEDs, in addition to Yonkon’s pledge to buy Epistar chips. Details of its cooperation with NVC are being discussed. It estimated the two contracts would help boost the chipmaker’s market share in the mainland to 30% in 2012 from 20% in 2011. Epistar Chairman B...

Researchers from the University of Washington and Finland's Aalto University have developed and tested a contact lens that wirelessly displays a one-pixel LED image on a contact lens. According to the research, the lens was tested on anaesthetized rabbits "with no observed adverse effects." The embedded display in the lens receives data wirelessly through a radio antenna and displays it using a sapphire chip with an embedded micro-LED. The entire system is powered by a silicon power harvester that draws energy from a battery up to 2 cm away. Unlike virtual...

The Urbana-based company Hughey & Phillips LLC is expanding its busniess of replacing incandescent obstruction lighting — the warning lights on towers and buildings with LED lights. At present, the company has added a 50,000-square-foot building to its campus, giving it more than 70,000 square feet of space. The expansion creates more manufacturing, testing and office space, much of which will be dedicated to new product lines including its Horizon Series of LED lights. Hughey & Phillips has received Federal Aviation Administration approval for its l...

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has presented at the inaugural ceremony of Genesis Photonics Inc.'s new plant at the Southern Taiwan Science Park in Tainan City, and stated that Taiwan is LED traffic lights throughout the country and will install LED street lights and indoor lights in public buildings in the near future. According to Ma, green technology is one of the Cabinet's six key development industries. Efforts to develop the industry have turned Taiwan into the world's biggest LED lighting and molding suppliers.   Furthermore ,he pointe...

Advanced lighting creates a customized, interactive and community-friendly entertainment experience  Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced an exciting new client installation at BC Place Stadium, a landmark -- and now gem -- of the Vancouver skyline. After over 25 years of hosting a range of sports, musical, cultural, community and exhibition events featuring everything from a Pope John Paul II address, and Madonna...

MyLED Group, Malaysia’s solid state lighting (SSL) and LED manufacturer, will achieve more than RM2 billion in sales for its lighting components over the next five years with sealing sales Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with 15 international and local companies. MyLED signed sales MoUs with six Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) from Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia. Three of the OEMs, Amprex International Sdn Bhd (Japan), Light-Trend Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd (Taiwan) and Osram Opto Semiconductors (Germany...

Lighting Science has designed the BayLight industrial LED light to replace existing High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting, matching the performance of conventional 400W HID systems, while offering up to 35% reduction in energy usage. The BayLight provides an L70 rated life of over 60,000 hours at 40°C and more than 100,000 hours at 25˚C. It is available in higher and hard to reach applications, such as large storage areas, where re-lamping can be costly and time consuming. Features as following: •    LEDs help to improve efficienc...

Light pollution has become a big problem in Hong Kong as the new generation of dynamic LED and LCD advertising screens coming flood. Carl Gardner, Director of CSG Lighting Consultancy Ltd’, was recently invited by the city authorities in Hong Kong to advise them on ways that the city and its local businesses can reduce the problems of light nuisance and light pollution. Hong Kong has some of the densest living conditions in the world – high-rise residential blocks are packed tightly together, to maximise land use, and upwards light spill from lighting at...

Nordson ASYMTEK announces that it has won the 2011 Global Technology Award in the category of LED Production Equipment for its Spectrum S-922 LED jetting system for dispensing silicone. The award recognizes the best new innovations in the printed circuit assembly and packaging industries. The award was presented at the Productronica Trade Fair in Munich, Germany on November 15th, 2011.  This was the fourth time Nordson ASYMTEK has won a Global Technology award. Nordson ASYMTEK's jet dispenser enables sticky silicon phosphor to be di...

Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth is to get an LED makeover, and currently it is under the process of test. According to Sundance's marketing director, there are more than 7,600 feet of LED cable to outline about 18 buildings, primarily along Main Street. It has taken workers about 5,000 hours to install the lights and 100 hours to program them. If testing goes well, the lights will be switched on after the Parade of Lights on Friday. The system is computer-operated and has 16 million color options with unlimited program combinations, such as lighting seque...

Stamford-based LED lighting manufacturer Solais Lighting, has raised $1.8 million, according to a new filing by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company founded in 2008, and investors including FreshTracks Capital, Long River Ventures, and Gorann. It dedicates in making LED lamps with the lightweight, output, focused-beam and full-dimming features capable of replacing halogen reflector lamps. It designs its LEDs for track and recessed fixtures in commercial, museum, retail, hospitality and high-end residential applications. In Janu...

San Francisco Bay Area-based company Elemental LED will discount its entire inventory of products by 35% on Cyber Monday, November 28th. It’s the second year that the company will participate with online retailers in Cyber Monday, following last year when it also discounted products by 35%. The LED Lighting Cyber Monday sale will begin on November 28th at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and end on November 29th at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. The company expects call volume to be high and has allocated extra personnel to assist customers over ph...

LED lamp manufacturer MSi, has supported Furniture retailer Talsma Furniture to replacing more than 700 traditional incandescent light bulbs in the Holland Michigan store with new LED bulbs. Benefits from LEDs, total energy savings are estimated at about 5,054 megawatts per hour every year, the equivalent of planting more than 1253 trees. The LED lamps have an expected life of 10 years, reducing landfill disposal....

Fairchild Semiconductor has designed developed the FODM8801, part of the OptoHiT™ series of high temperature phototransistor optocouplers. These devices use Fairchild’s proprietary OPTOPLANAR® coplanar packaging technology to achieve high noise immunity and reliable isolation at high operating temperatures. The FODM8801 consists of an aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs) infrared light emitting diode optically coupled to a phototransistor. The device provides a guaranteed Current Transfer Ratio (CTR) for both saturated and non-saturate...

Taiwan National Tsing Hua University has established a new compound semiconductor laboratory for the development of new chip components that will support alternative green energy sources. Cheng Keh-yung, dean of NTHU's College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the inauguration ceremony,said that the lab represents the first project in Taiwan to fully integrate semiconductor component research. According to Cheng, the lab will cover passive and active component development from the epitaxy process to chip component manufacturing and testing. T...

Halifax based LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., a private company , has acquired the innovative intellectual property of Streetlight Intelligence Inc. of Victoria, B.C. According to Ken Cartmill, LED Roadway’s vice-president of business and product development, said in an interview , the acquisition of Streetlight’s wireless light management technology gives the company the ability to offer customers a full package that includes lights, lighting controls and energy monitoring systems. Cartmill wouldn’t disclose what LED Roadway paid for the Streetl...

The city of West Asheville is under the process of upgrading Phase II of a streetlight with LED bulbs, from Monday to Thursday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. with no expectations of traffic disruption. Date back to the spring of 2010, the City has successfully installed 700 lights in River District and Kenilworth neighborhoods in Phase I of the street light upgrade project. Phase II has a broader reach and will involve 2800 streetlights across West Asheville, Kenilworth and Oakley. Phase I of the four year initiative began in May 2011 and has generat...

Recently, Greensboro-based LED Retailer Fresh Market has won LED Retailer of the Year from GE Lighting  at GE’s third annual LED & Energy Efficient Lighting Trends for Retail conference in Ohio. The criteria for the LED Retailer of the Year award included having retrofitted at least 20 percent of fleet stores to LED lighting, being able to demonstrate at least 20 percent energy savings as a result, and customer recognition of improved store appearance. According to Fresh Market’s energy manager Paul Poole, the company has in...

Samsung Electronics America has rolled out seven lighting products, the first LED lighting solutions for the U.S. consumer market. Samsung's initial product lineup for U.S. households including A19, PAR20/30/38 and MR16 bulbs--all designed to easily replace traditional incandescent, halogen and CFL bulbs throughout the home are available through Lowes.com and at select Lowe's home improvement retail stores nationwide. Several features as following, A19 Bulbs is a directional bulb that is sized to easily replace a conventional incandescent bulb in any ...

AWARD winning LED specialist MHA Lighting has saved Newcastle International Airport 70% on its car park lighting costs. The forward-thinking firm triumphed over other national lighting firms to transform the lighting in the airport’s busy car parks with 370 Perimeter Lights (PL). Greater Manchester-based MHA Lighting created a powerful solution to replace 150 watt SON fittings (170 watt with ballast) with their PL40 fitting - which is just 45 watts inclusive of ballast. The lights were fitted to 6.5 metre high poles spaced at 18-21 metres to pro...

LEDnovation has placed a new addition to its EnhanceLite MR16-50W equivalent line featuring a 23° narrow flood beam angle at 3000K color temperature. This new lamp complements the EnhanceLite MR16-50, 11° spot already in production. All MR16-50s are designed for comparable replacement to 50 watt halogen lamps. LEDnovation also marks the release of the EnhanceLite MR16-35L for landscape lighting applications. Designed for use in IP66 rated outdoor fixtures, this is a robust lamp meant to see harsh environments. As with all EnhanceLite LED MR...

There is Philip’s new range of handheld inspection lights suggested for Christmas gifts. Philip’s latest range would make a great stocking filler, particularly for car and their mechanical functions enthusiasts. The so-called ‘baby’ of the range features six LED lights. The ‘baby’ also features a ‘seventh’ light at the top of the pen so that it can double up as a torch. This waterproof, damage resistant (Philips’ inform us that it endured a 1.5m test drop without sustaining any damage), pen-sized inspection light provides a ...

An artificial LED tree will instead of the township’s traditional real tree at the tradition of a Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony will return to Upper Moreland on Nov. 27, in large part through the efforts of the Kiwanis Club of Old York Road. Last week, the township commissioners approved of the holiday tree lighting ceremony at the commissioners regular meeting.“I’m very glad to see that it’s an LED tree, because it’s very energy efficient,” Ward 3 commissioner Donna Parsell said at the meeting. According to the Kiwanis-supp...

Solid Apollo ,North Seattle based LED Lighting Company,has introduced their new first in class ultra low profile Nano LED Strip Light with just 5 mm width (.19") Solid Apollo's Nano LED Strip is designed to provide designers and installers with an ultra low profile High Brightness LED lighting solution. Key features include an ultra low profile 1.65mm tall by 5 millimeters wide. Every strip incorporates Solid Apollo's exclusive inline circuit board technology which provides 120 lumens of brightness per foot. Each LED Lighting Strip include...

The River Walk, the City of San Antonio’s treasure and one of Texas' top attractions, will install more than 1.76 million multi-colored LED wrapping the trees and lining the street bridges along its banks. Local lighting consultant and renowned artist Bill FitzGibbons, developed the LED lighting plan for the City of San Antonio. Apart from the minibulbs, the eco-friendly lights incorporate the addition of multi-color programmable holiday accent lighting on all 22 street bridges at the River Walk. The lights will be wrapped on 170 trees lining the river...

LED solutions provide efficient lighting in sustainable building design. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently provided its Halo LED downlights to the University of Kansas for use in its new award-winning sustainable Center for Design Research located in Lawrence, Kansas. The ENERGY-STAR® -qualified Halo LED recessed downlight housing with an All-Pro RL7 LED module-trim were select as the ideal solution for a building designed to be...

A project funded by the EU,  known as IMOLA (Intelligent light Management for OLED on foil Applications), will put a focus on the development of large-area OLED-based lighting modules with built-in intelligent light management. These OLED-based lighting modules will be used in future energy-efficient wall, ceiling and car dome lighting, where the light intensity can be adjusted intelligently, e.g. according to the time of the day or weather conditions.   OLEDs are paper-thin, flexible and lightweight electronic devices that consist of organic materi...

Columbia based UV LED maker Sensor Electronic Technology Inc (SETi) has developed a strategic partnership with Psoria‐Shield Inc, the manufacturer of the world’s first deep-UV LED powered phototherapy system. Under the partnership,Psoria‐Shield’s flagship device, the Psoria‐Light, is the first phototherapy treatment product to be launched with SETi’s UVClean lamps. SETi’s UVClean LED array technology has been incorporated into the Psoria‐Light’s patent‐pending emitter, which enables a compact handset to deliv...

Researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made a breakthrough on a novel single-layer design for building quantum-dot light-emitting devices (QD-LEDs) by stacking quantum dots within an insulating structure having the shape of an egg crate. The new QD-LED has been claimed to resemble a sandwich with a single active layer of quantum dots nestled in insulation and trapped between two ceramic electrodes and the dots kept apart from each other by the egg-create design. QD-LEDs can be used in lasers, general light sources, ...