Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, announced the production of 12-inch polished wafers, the largest high-quality, sapphire wafer ready for production of LEDs (light emitting diodes). Rubicon now offers a complete range of high quality sapphire substrates including two-, three- and four- inch core, and six-, eight- and 12-inch wafers.  

Power Integrations has added seven new members　(LNK413-LNK419) to　its popular LinkSwitch-PH family of LED driver ICs. The new devices can achieve up to 88% efficiency, feature a PWM-dimmable single-stage controller with both power factor correction and accurate constant current power conversion functionality. In addition, LinkSwitch-PH devices incorporate the PFC/CC controller, a 725 V MOSFET and MOSFET driver into a single package. The new ICs enable the ultimate in high reliability at low cost by eliminating up to 25 additional compone...

According to Samsung Electro-Mechanics, driven by increased demand for memory-chip components and LED parts, its earnings almost doubled in 2010. Learning from the company said in a regulatory filing, its net profit surged 95 percent last year from a year earlier to reach 555 billion won (US$497 million).Sales grew 26 percent on-year to 6.97 trillion won, and operating income also rose 61 percent to 778 billion won....

Taiwan’s display panel makers Wintek Corp., Jeng Shiang Precision Ind. Co., Ltd and ArmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd. have paved the way for tapping Taiwan’s market for LED lighting. It’s said that Wintek specializes in touch screen, Jeng Shiang in light guide plate for the panel and ArmTRAN in LCD monitor. They have recently branched out into LED lighting from the LCD sector. Wintek has found an LED-lighting business division with a team of 20-30 specialists. The division began shipping the lamps in the second half of 2010, hav...

Maxim’s unique LED driver solution enables the design of LED-based MR16 lamps that are compatible with most electronic transformers and cut-angle dimmers. Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX16840, an LED driver that employs a proprietary architecture to ensure flicker-free, dimmable operation with electronic transformers and cut-angle dimmers. Maxim’s patent-pending approach enables the design of retrofit LED lamps that can replace halogen MR16s without any changes to the existing electrical infrastructure. This remove...

After Cree released LMR2 LED module, Arrow Electronics announced that it would play a distributor for this new product. According to Gary Zullo, director of Arrow’s lighting segment, “at Arrow, we share Cree’s passion for and commitment to advancing the widespread adoption of LED lighting. The new LMR2 module is a solid addition to our offering of Cree LED modules and components, and will help our customers simplify and accelerate the design and development cycle.”...

LMR2 LED Module Can Enable Lighting Manufacturers to Expand Their LED Portfolio Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, is extending its LED module family with the Cree LMR2 LED Module, a compact, high-efficiency module that provides a simple solution for lighting designers and manufacturers looking to offer best-in-class LED lighting. The previously-released Cree LMR4 LED Module is also now available in four color points, 2700 K, 3000 K, 3500 K and 4000 K, each based on Cree TrueWhite® Technology. The v...

Vermont's largest municipal electric utility is going green with 35 LED streetlights retrofits in a residential area for the first time, and saving 74% of the energy used by traditional streetlights. It’s said the Burlington Electric Department already had been using LED streetlights in downtown commercial areas, but now will do so on Shore Road along Lake Champlain and neighboring streets. This LED retrofit was estimated to save74% of the energy used by traditional streetlights and officials hoped to expand the installment in the future....

Reportedly, Taiwan LED maker Epistar has acquired Apple’s order for LED backlights for use in iPad. Benefiting from increasing LED applications in TV, notebook PCs and lightings, Epistar confirmed that its production lines have been fully booked by contract orders till this June. This secures the firm strong growth momentum in sales and shipments in the first half of 2011.  ...

Japanese designers Motoi Ishibashi and Daito Manabe have created “LED smiles.” The pair was inspired by "LED throwies," or bundles of LED lights attached to a magnet. It’s said that the light-up mouths were originally featured in a fashion advertisement in a winter sale at a Japanese clothing store, and now they're starting to take off as an accessory. The LED smiles can easily be affixed to your teeth and glow different colors while you smile. Besides, the colors can be changed wirelessly through a computer interface....

D3 LED, LLC (D3), the world’s leader in specialized LED digital display applications, announced the debut of the largest continuous surface digital LED screen to date in New York’s Times Square. The custom display, located at 1568 Broadway above the entrance to the Doubletree Hotel at West 47th Street, was designed and engineered by D3 for its client, TSQ Digital, and measures 100 feet wide by 50 feet high. It was designed to serve multiple advertisers, and is capable of exchanging data transmitted via cell phones and broadcasting HD video feeds,...

Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), has released the 2011 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting and design community. The SOURCE, the industries’ leading lighting education facility, is located at Cooper Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia, and offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and its applications. The SOURCE has been servicing the lighting industry for over nineteen years and to date, over 100,000 lighting and interior designers, a...

It’s reported that Daktronics Inc. will supply a LED video display to Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies. The LED video display has high-definition clarity and be much larger than the former video display at Citizens Bank Park. It will measure 76 feet high and 97 feet wide, totaling 7,372 square feet of digital space. The LED display will show video with up to 1512 lines of resolution, using Daktronics HD-15 technology. In addition, the display will provide wide-angle viewing for better visibility for more fans, increased contrast and ...

KLA-Tencor introduces broad portfolio of process control solutions designed to improve productivity of LED device fabs • New KLARITY LED offers automated defect analysis for LED yield enhancement and rapid time to results • New ICOS WI-2220 provides low cost of ownership to support LED industry cost per lumen goals KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced KLARITY® LED—an a...

Tool Designed to Enable Improved Substrate and MOCVD Process Control Yield KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced its new Candela  8620 substrate and epitaxy (epi) wafer inspection system. Designed for high brightness light emitting diode (HBLED) manufacturers, the Candela 8620 provides automated defect inspection for LED materials such as gallium nitride, sapphire, and silicon carbide—enabling enhan...

Reportedly, South Korea-based OCI Co. Ltd. has injected $33 million to order sapphire crystallization furnaces from GT Solar, marking OCI's entrance into the LED industry and GT Solar's first commercial sale of its sapphire crystallization furnaces in Korea. According to Tom Guiterrez, GT Solar's president and CEO, it’s the third order for their sapphire crystallization furnaces in the last two months from leading PV manufacturers that are entering the LED market. They worked closely with OCI several years ago when they launched the...

Colorado’s Oldest Volkswagen Dealership Achieves 18 Month Return on Investment from Energy Savings and Xcel Conservation Rebates with Qnuru’s LED Lighting Retrofit   Qnuru™, the Noribach Group’s smart energy digital lighting division, and SoGoGreen, a Colorado-based distributor of LED lighting products and services, today announced that Emich Volkswagen of Denver has installed Qnuru’s LED bulbs throughout its new and used car dealership. Emich VW, the oldest Volkswagen dealership in Colorado, is owned and operated ...

Rohm developed a new (2nd-generation) OLED lighting panel that uses a red phosphorescent material. The new material results in a more efficient device - about 25-30lm/W, up from about 11lm/W in their first-generation all-fluorescent device.   Lumiotec (which is partly owned by Rohm) will start producing these new panels in "volume" within a few days (Lumiotec reported earlier that it will make around 60,000 panels a year). The new panel's size is 145x145mm (the same size of Lumiotec's older panels) and will cost ¥30,000 (about $365) - which is cheape...

It’s reported that China Intelligent Lighting and Electronics has set up an approximately 215,000 square feet facility in Huizhou, China. The company has invested approximately US$1.0 million in five new production lines for the new space, including a production line for LED street lamp components. And it expects the installation of these five lines to be completed in January 2011. It’s estimated that the five new production lines, at full capacity, will be capable of increasing the company's total capacity on an annual basis by approximately 20%. And i...

Based on its recent analysis of the automotive light-emitting diodes (LED) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Philips Lumileds with the 2010 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation of the Year for being a major factor driving the advance of improved lighting technologies for the global auto industry.

Carmanah has introduced the EG300-series solar LED outdoor streetlight which is designed to satisfy the specific roadway performance features required for customers in global sun-belt regions where core infrastructure development is underway, including regions such as Latin American and the Caribbean. The EG300 can deliver the light output equivalent to a 200-watt metal halide light and includes two product sizes which power up to two LED fixtures. These fixtures are available in standard IES distribution types, are dark-sky friendly.   The new light features a ...

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, due to a potential fire hazard, around 42,000 LED lamps which are made by Maine-based Eco-Story are being recalled voluntarily. When used with a Class II transformer, the lamp can overheat and cause a fire risk. Fortunately, no injuries have been reported, but there have been two reports of overheating. These lights were sold only to commercial clients between December 2007 and August 2010. The affected 12-volt lamps have the UL number E316865. Those who purchased the lamp should contact the manufacture...

SEMI and Yole Développement are partnering on a webinar series on HB-LED manufacturing on February 9, March 2, and March 23. See below for more information on these valuable opportunities to expand your business in the long term, transformational trend to solid state lighting and other HB-LED applications. The SEMI—Yole Développement 3-part webinar series on HB-LED manufacturing will take place on February 9, March 2, and March 23 at 10:00am Pacific (1:00pm Eastern). This seminar series will be among the most comprehensive overview...

Digicom Electronics, precision and quality contract manufacturing specialist, will highlight the collaborative process involved in producing a reconfigurable open architecture computer hardware (ROACH) system at Pacific Design & Manufacturing / MDM West 2011, in booth #3880. Digicom collaborated in the design, development, prototyping, sourcing, manufacture, and test, and produced the finished, fully compliant product. The system was developed for space science and research applications. Digicom Electronics' ROACH system collects high speed, digitized data a...

Reportedly, 15 manufacturers from Taiwan are presenting the third LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo, which is being held Jan. 19-21 at Big Light, Tokyo's International Exhibition Center. According to David Chang, chairman of Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA), Taiwan's LED technology was recently applied to the lighting industry, reviving its development after many manufacturers in the industry moved to China. And the once decreasing number of the association's members has now rebounded to more than 700. Taiwan LED m...

Reportedly, Taiwan Delta Electronics made a plan to roll out a total of 62 LED lighting products under 29 series and three intelligent control systems in 2011. Additionally, the company has been partnered with Epistar to develop 800-lumen, 8W warm-white LED light bulbs and intended to turn out these new products on a large scale as well as to sale in the first quarter of 2011.  ...

It’s reported that Acuity Brands’s Holophane Washington Postlite Series was chosen by City of Vancouver to revitalize an upscale neighborhood. In February 2009Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson launched an initiative to become the world’s greenest city by 2020. For this outdoor lighting project supporting the mayor’s initiative LED luminaires were the only types considered and objectives focused on lighting quality, sustainability and energy-efficiency. After a competitive selection process, Acuity Brands’s product was considered as ...

Lunera® Lighting has introduced 1200 Series Grid Lay-in Fixture,　which provides high quality and affordable commercial lighting. Lunera’s approach to design is from the work plane up, ensuring a fixture fits the needs of a space. The 1200 Series provides high lumens per watt output enabling over 30 foot-candles of quality light at the work plane in typical installations. The fixtures can be placed with 10ft x10ft spacing on 10ft ceilings offering the possibility of fewer fixtures per installation, while bathing the area in warm LED light and further lowering soluti...

Green Lighting 2011, jointly organized by the China Solid State Lighting Alliance (CSA) and Reed Exhibitions, will be held from May 11 to May 13 at the INTEX Shanghai. The event will provide a comprehensive overview of the LED lighting industry chain in China and offer significant added value. Currently, preparations for the show are underway. The leading enterprises in LED lighting: Nichia, Philips Lumileds, Seoul Semiconductor and Nata are all confirmed exhibitors.   Green Lighting 2011 promotes cooperation and technological innovation.  I...

Reed Exhibitions, the organizers of Green Lighting 2011, reports that the China Solid State Lighting Alliance (CSA) will hold a specialized forum on the application of light fertilizer in green planting at the show, to be held this May in Shanghai. The forum will focus on the application of LED in greenhouse cultivation. This theme will be highlighted by various communications, product displays and discussions to be carried out among leading enterprises, experts and customers. What is light fertilizer? Scientists have discovered that the use of lighting improves ...