As LED lighting continues to grow in popularity, especially in residential lighting applications, designers are looking for efficient dimming solutions – when compared to TRIAC methods – that also fit within existing sockets. Additionally, these solutions need to work reliably in a small space while providing high efficiency. To help designers meet this challenge, Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, developed the FL7701 Smart Non-isolated Buck LED Driver with power factor cor...

Come and meet the representing elites from Aixtron, Delta, Epistar, Everlight, GT Advanced Technologies, Henkel, KLA-Tencor, Merck,OSRAM, Philips Lumileds, Taiyo Nippon Sanso, ULVAC, Veeco and Yunfeng. Don't miss your opportunity to network and learn from this international gathering event. The second of LEDforum covers other important areas such as driver IC, package and lighting applications. Focused on the future direction of LED industry, LEDforum is an advanced conference to grasp new market trend and future opportunities.

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology maker, GlacialTech Inc., his excited to announce that their display at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair Autumn Edition will feature an exceptional line-up of high-quality and superbly designed LED lighting products for buyers and journalists to see first-hand. Interested parties are invited to visit GlacialLight Booth #5B-F34, Hall 5, from October 27-30, 2011, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to test products, ask questions, and procure GlacialLight's most advanced LED li...

Recently, Nexxus Lighting has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with American Electric Power Service Corporation (AEP Ohio) to offer in-store rebates of $10 to $15 on select ENERGY STAR® qualified Array® LED bulbs. Under the collaboration, AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power, will apply the in-store discounts to purchases made by residential consumers at participating retailers throughout its Ohio service area. The promotion will be in effect from October 26th, 2011 through December 31st, 2011, or until funding is depleted.&nbs...

Truck-Lite has developed an LED Perimeter lamp application that provides enhanced exterior visibility to either side or rear door lift gate areas of the trailer where conventional dome lamps won’t reach. This new product innovation uses crisp, white light LED technology to illuminate loading and unloading areas while increasing operator safety. Dome lamps may exude some incidental exterior light at the rear and/or side of a traditional trailer or box truck. However, when mounted at an ideal height, Truck-Lite’s LED Perimeter lamp directs about 20 square feet ...

ilumisys, Inc., developer and producer of next-generation solid-state lighting technology, announced today that it has granted a license for LED fluorescent tube replacements to LED Optics, a high-end manufacturer of replacement LED T8 tubes that is based in Boca Raton, Fla. The licensing agreement provides for royalty payments in exchange for rights to manufacture and sell products covered by the patent portfolio of ilumisys' parent company, Altair Engineering. "The LED marketplace is rapidly expanding, and it is becoming increasingly important that as a...

v2 Lighting Group, Inc., the high-end modern lighting company known for innovative designs and meticulous quality, today announced it will introduce its new LED lighting fixture, CORE, at LightShow/West in Los Angeles on October 26th and 27th. CORE is a cylindrical luminaire that can be easily modified to fit in (or stand out) in any commercial or residential design project—from Art Deco to mid-century modern to futuristic. It incorporates the industry-leading Xicato LED module to deliver the highest quality light available on the market today. The fix...

The production value of Taiwan’s LED lighting industry is estimated to hit three-year high of NT$198 billion (US$6.6 billion at US$1:NT$30) this year, according to Bureau of Energy, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). The bureau’s officials ascribed the new high of production value mostly to brisk investments by Taiwanese manufacturers over the past two years to cash in on rising business opportunities fueled by eco conscience and meet growing demand for energy-saving lamps in Europe and America. The investments have not generated results until ...

Designed for use anywhere, the WL-LED-12-M LED light stick from Larson Electronics’ Magnalight combines the convenience of rechargeable portability with the versatility of magnetic mounting. Containing 60 LEDs powered by an integral Ni/Hm battery, this LED light stick produces enough light to cover an area approximately 25 foot long by 20 foot wide, and will run for over four hours on a single charge. An impact, shock, and vibration resistant housing provides durable operation and makes this light suitable for indoor or outdoor use. The long life LEDs have...

The LED market is facing significant headwinds of late. The current downturn in the LED market is largely due to reduced prices for LED-based TV backlight and lighting systems. This is because of inventory adjustments, and increased competition from more backlight makers entering the LED market. The Bedford Report examines the outlook for companies in the semiconductor industry and provides stock research on Cree and Veeco Instruments. According to IMS' research, backlighting, which ranges across consumer electronics such as flat panel TVs and cell phones,...

Recently, as being concerned about Taiwan’s leading position may be replaced by South Korea and mainland China, LED specialists from Taiwan’s think tanks, academic institutions, trade organizations and private companies have urged the government to quickly pass laws to offer consumers subsidy for their procurements of LED lamps. South Korea unseated Taiwan in 2009 as the world’s No.2 LED supplier. According to Director General Y.J. Chan of Electronics and Optoelectronics Research Laboratories of the government-backed Industrial Technology R...

Ledzworld Technology, an innovative R&D and manufacturing company of high-end LED retro-fit lamps for professional users, unveils its Chameleon Driver Technology during the International Lighting Fair in Hong Kong (Oct 27-30, 2011) These intelligent drivers create the world’s first MR16 range that is truly compatible. The biggest challenge for manufacturers of retrofit LED lamps is the compatibility with thousands of existing combinations of dimmers and transformers. The Chameleon driver of Ledzworld is a technological break-through. Its arrival ...

The Italian American Chamber of Commerce Midwest Bestows Award to LED Light Pioneer PolyBrite International, Inc., developer of energy efficient Borealis® LED lamps and light systems, announced that Carl Scianna, President & CEO, was honored with the Midwest Lifetime Achievement Award by The Italian American Chamber of Commerce (IACC).  The award was presented at the 104th Gala and Awards Dinner held on October 1, 2011 in Chicago IL. The 2011 Lifetime Achievement award was presented to Mr. Scianna for his professional ac...

New York- based LED fixtures company EcoSense Lighting, received $13 million in venture capital financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. EcoSense disclosed the Series B funding in a filing today.The money will be spent on developing its LED products and hiring more engineers and salespeople.

Bridgelux has developed Micro SM4 LED component to cater for the requirements of the $1 billion 20-40W lamp replacement market. According to the company,the Micro SM4 dramatically reduces the component count, cost, complexity and size of the lighting system, enabling a cost-effective, high performance LED solution for diffuse and directional lighting, such as 20-40 watt incandescent, 20-35 watt halogen, B10-style (candelabra), and low wattage compact fluorescent lamp replacements. Using only 4.6 watts of power, the Bridgelux Micro SM4 will deliver between 330 and 5...

Cree has announced revenue of $269.0 million for its first quarter of fiscal 2012, ended September 25, 2011. This represents a 0.2% increase compared to revenue of $268.4 million reported for the first fiscal quarter last year and a 11% increase compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. GAAP net income for the first quarter of $12.8 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, decreased 78% year-over-year compared to GAAP net income of $58.0 million, or $0.53 per diluted share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2011. On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the first quarter of ...

Acuity Brands, a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is pleased to report that its ROAM® wireless outdoor street light monitoring and control system continues to provide superior benefits to the City of Glendale, Arizona.  The ROAM system combines photo-control technology with remote monitoring and control capabilities to help manage and maintain outdoor lighting networks. The City reports that the ROAM implementation has been used as part of its comprehensive city-wide street light monitoring system since 2008, resulting ...

Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today announced the AL5802 linear LED driver. Integrating a high gain NPN transistor with a 30V rated pre-biased NPN output transistor, the AL5802 provides a simple, cost-effective and low EMI solution for controlling current in up to 9 low-power series-connected LEDs. With an open-collector output capable of operating between 0.8V to 30V, the SOT26 packaged driver supports 12V a...

Austriamicrosystems, a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs, has announced the AS1123 constant-current, 16-channel LED driver with an on-chip diagnostic read-back function. The AS1123 is designed for use in industrial applications, indoor/outdoor public information displays, LED panels, and large LED video walls. Designed with a maximum LED supply voltage of 5.5 V, the new power-efficient AS1123 direct LED driver is optimized for LED panels where only a single LED is connected per output. The optimization of the LED d...

LED-based products accounted for 16% of Philips’ overall lighting sales of €1.89 billion ($2.60 billion) in the third quarter of 2011, growing sharply from a year ago and providing a rare bright note as the company detailed the wide-ranging cost-cuts that it previously trailed. Having said three months ago that Philips would implement measures to deliver annual savings of €500 million, CEO Frans van Houten now says that the company will cut 4500 positions across its business, 1400 of them in The Netherlands, as part of an €800 million cost-reduction packa...

ARTIST’S impressions of how Boston’s Christmas lights could look this festive season have been made public for the first time. Replacing tired and worn out displays that in places were as much as 40-years-old, the lights will be dynamic, bright, modern LED lights – mainly white, but with some colour, and use 75 per cent less electricity. They will cover all the areas of town that the former Christmas displays covered. Boston Borough Council is paying out its full allocated budget of £25,500 and Boston BID is contributing £10,000 to...

These compact LED light strips are said to be the brightest in their class at 67.2 Lumens/Watt (Wide) and 66.6 Lumens/Watt (Slim) respectively.  The LF1D Series retains 70% of its initial luminance at 50,000 Hours, according to IDEC. Offered in Cool White (Temp: 5700K), slim (10 x 1 LED array) or wide type (7 x 2 LED array) with 24V DC voltage, all LF1D light strips are manufactured with a sturdy die-cast aluminum housing and stainless steel front cover. LF1D light strips are also RoHS compliant, mercury-free and UL listed.Two cable options ...

Taiwan continues to dominate the global production of ceramic thermal substrates, accounting for more than 70 percent of total shipments and supplying to Cree, Lumileds, Osram, Philips and Edison Opto. Makers in the island will remain focused on this type amid wide adoption in high-power LED lighting applications. It boasts greater heat conductivity than other thermal substrates such as metal-core PCB or MCPCB. This emphasis on ceramic kinds also takes advantage of the fast-growing LED industry in the island. The latter’s production value in 2010 hit $5.6 bi...

Samsung LED announced today that it has received ENERGY STAR(R) initial qualification on their 35W equivalent MR16 LED lamp, officially making it the industry’s brightest ENERGY STAR qualified MR16 LED lamp in the market to date. The Samsung LED MR16 had to meet strict energy efficiency guidelines and pass rigorous reliability testing set forth by ENERGY STAR to meet the qualification requirements. LED Lamps that qualify for the ENERGY STAR mark are typically eligible for utility rebates which help reduce the overall...

Recently, Aixtron has received an order for one AIX 2600G3 IC system in a 12x4-inch wafer configuration and one VP2400HW with 6x4-inch wafer capacity from Nanjing Electronic Devices Institute (NEDI),which is s devoted to providing leading edge technologies on material growth, device design and manufacture in China. NEDI will use the systems to investigate power devices and LEDs. The new systems will be installed and commissioned by a local AIXTRON service support team alongside the company’s already existing AIXTRON MOCVD systems at t...

Despite of Nichia’s successive patent lawsuits, Everlight will ship its brand products to Japan as scheduled in 2012,according to Everlight’s chairman, Y.F. Ye. Back to early September, Nichia filed a charge against Everlight, alleging that its white LED lamps sold through Japanese retailer Chip On Stop also infringe its No. 4530944 patent. Following closely, Nichia has again claimed that Everlight’s white LED bulbs entering Japan through importer Tachibana Eletech of Japan infringes its No. 4530094 patent, and brought the charge before ...

Recently, Taiwan’s No.1 lamp maker, China Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd.,has annonuced to inject US$30 million to form a new company in Xiamen of mainland China to manufacture general lighting fixtures, LED lamps and lithium iron phosphate battery packs. The new company will turn out 200,000 systems of lighting fixture a month in the initial stage mainly for Taiwanese-invested factories and offices in Xiamen. According to China Electric, the new venture will generate revenue up to RMB50 million (US$7.8 million at US$1:RMB6.4) a month in the first operating...

Skeptics of energy-efficient light bulbs and machinery should take note of a survey by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, which last week reported a 2010 savings of $135 million to electricity ratepayers in the Pacific Northwest. According to a recent analysis by the council, the efficiency of electricity in the region improved last year by 254 megawatts, the equivalent power use of 153,900 homes. It represents the largest one-year gain since energy-efficiency programs began more than 30 years ago. A large portion of the savings - about 20 percent - is attributed t...

Enormous monetary savings can be made when using LED fluorescent tubes to replace general illumination in areas such as warehouses, offices, retail outlets, schools and car parks. Apart from electricity savings, the longevity of LEDs, means the maintenance costs, including the labour involved in replacing traditional tubes, are reduced significantly and thus, the replacement or installation of LED tubes over fluorescent lighting becomes very cost effective. T8 Long Life LED Fluorescent Tubes This LED lighting offers five times the longer life than that of tradit...

KLA-Tencor has announced that Epistar, a leading Taiwanese manufacturer of LED chips, has adopted its Candela substrate and epwafer inspection system. KLA says this order marks the growing adoption by LED device manufacturers worldwide of this advanced inspection system for wafer defect detection and classification at production-grade throughputs. The introduction of the Candela tool to Epistar's manufacturing process provides automated inspection methods for sapphire substrates to ensure vendor quality, and provides greater visibility into the GaN epi process ...