To improve its support services to Taiwanese customers, Strasbaugh has engaged the services of E-Dot Technology. E-Dot, a CMP service and support company headquartered in the Hsinchu Industrial Park, will represent Strasbaugh by providing service and support to Strasbaugh's Taiwan-based customers.

The National Aquarium in Baltimore, America, is replacing the iconic blue neon wave on the south side of its Pier 3 building and a fixture on the city skyline with LEDs, expected to cut the energy use associated with illuminating the wave by 70 percent. It's also part of a national trend in which neon lights of all kinds, from Boston's famous Citgo sign to lights in local shopping malls, are giving way to LED systems.

The development of LED monitor and TV not only brought life to the maturing panel industry, but also became the key pillars to expand the emerging LED industry. The analysts of WitsView and LEDinside, the research divisions of TrendForce, took a positive attitude toward the long-term development of LED BLU products.

Apple revealed new 27-inch LED Cinema Display this Tuesday. It features 2560 x 1440 resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio, a built-in microphone to complement the iSight camera and speakers, a built-in 3-port powered USB 2.0 hub, and a built-in MagSafe charging connector for Apple's laptop lineup.

Fairchild Semiconductor's China-based Global Power ResourceSM Center (GPRC) has developed a total solution to increase the lifetime of street lamps. It features advanced critical conduction mode PFC, high-efficiency DC-DC and constant current contro, including two sub-solutions, either parallel or serial, within the same PCB layout delivering up to 91.26 percent and 92.6 percent efficiency respectively from AC input to the LED side, under 220V input voltage.

Philips Lumileds developed its LUXEON Rebel ES product line , which enable new outdoor lighting solutions to deliver higher efficacy and more light output. The new LUXEON Rebel ES delivers more than 300 lumens and efficacy of 100 lumens per watt at 1000 mA. When optimizing for system efficiency, current can be lowered and efficacy can exceed 125 lumens per watt.

AIXTRON AG today announced a new order for one Close Coupled Showerhead® GaN based LED MOCVD system from Meijo University, in Nagoya, an established AIXTRON customer in Japan. The order was received earlier this year and the system will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2010 in a 3x2-inch wafer configuration.The local AIXTRON support team will commission the new reactor at Meijo University.

VEECO has stated its financial results based on GAAP for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. According to John R. Peeler, VEECO 's Chief Executive Officer, the second quarter revenue has made a new record of $253 million, an increase of approximately 250% from last year and 55% sequentially. LED & Solar, Data Storage and Metrology, continue to execute extremely well, with sequential improvements in revenue and EBITA.

To arouse more attention to the overall benefits of the legislative changes and new, "greener" technologies, such as LEDs and CFLs, DOE scheduled to make a new consumer education initiative that will be timed to the upcoming changes in light bulb regulation.

Acer America displays three kinds of LED monitors, S201HL, S211HL and S231HL. This S1 series feature ultra-thin frames and eco-conscious designs.

Marl has created a new 4.5W Citizen CL-L251 LED, which delivers 290 lumens of light output at a colour temperature of 3000K with good colour rendering "Ra85", equivalent to a standard 20W MR16 halogen. The range is available with colour temperatures up to 5000K, delivering up to 425 lumens from 4.5W. Compared to 16 lumens per watt for a halogen light,The CL-L251 has a luminous efficiency of up to 106 lumens per watt. Because of the drive voltage of the CL-L251 is 9-10V, it can be packaged as a drop-in replacement for the standard halogen light.

Acuity Brands has got two kinds of financial support to develop its Solid-State Lighting solutions.

Qnuru and Visible Light Solar Technologies, leading providers of LED lighting technologies who recently entered into a merger, today announced that BMW has upgraded the exterior lighting at its Hilliard, Ohio customer service center with Visible Light Solar's energy efficient Vector LED Light Bulbs.

Applied Materials will stop selling its 'SunFab' thin-film lines to potential new customers and focuse on c-Si and LED manufacturing equipment and technology.

Genesis LED Solutions (GLS) is building strategic service provider relationships influences on the customer's bottom line. Energy-saving incentives get together with LED lighting systems give more influences for the green initiative buck! Rebates and energy incentives help make green technology improvements accessible to clients looking to upgrade lighting systems and save on lighting expense meeting both environmental stewardship and economic goals.

According to researchers at Chonbuk National University and electronic components companyLG Innotek in South Korea, they have been using SAG to improve the performance of vertical nitride LEDs grown on sapphire. Compared with conventional vertical LEDs, a 21% increase in light output can be achieved in vertical nitride LEDs.

At Tokyo Techno-frontier 2010 trade show (took place from July 21 to 23), Murata revealed a digital power supply module for LED lamps. These were developed for a Japan-based LED lighting manufacturer, Clear Sodick, but it is also considering selling the module to other companies.

Supertex Inc.offers two collections of LED lamp drivers, the AT9917 and AT9932 LED lamp driver ICs for car solid-state lighting, such as automobile head lights, tail lights, indicator lights, dome lights, and panel backlights.

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that during the recently completed second quarter, Shanghai Epilight Technology Company Ltd., one of the largest LED manufacturers in China, placed a multi-tool order for Veeco TurboDisc(R) K465i(TM) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems. The equipment is for Epilight's planned capacity expansion at their Shanghai high-brightness light emitting diode (HB-LED) fab.

Taiwan has returned to the world expo stage for the first time since 1970's Osaka World Expo. This year's theme for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, "Better City, Better Life," denotes a growing global awareness of environmental issues, and promotes inter-city communication.  

Solar, Infrared and LED experts met to discuss advances in photonic materials and devices at the 2010 International Symposium in Chicago on July 12 and 13. The Quantum-functional Semiconductor Research Center of Dongguk University, the Microphysics Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Sivananthan Laboratories Inc. jointly organized.

According to a document from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to the APEC regional audience, the Korean innovation plan for LED had made a success that the next generation InGaN blue light's efficiency was increased by 30 percent. The document gives an outline of how the results were achieved. The results, in terms of technical details were said to be because of zinc oxide nanorod optical waveguide effects.

ADI manufactured ADP1650 1500-mA white LED driver. It features like a programmable I²C-compatible interface, programmable torch and flash currents for one LED up to 1500 mA, two independent TxMASK1 inputs and a 4-bit ADC. It provides high efficiency at 85 percent at the typical battery voltage (90 percent peak). The ultra-compact ADP1650 measures only 2 mm × 1.5 mm in a 12-ball WLCSP package and reduces PCB requirements.

Two wholly-owned subsidiaries from Shenzhen-listed Elec-Tech International schedules to order 130 sets of MOCVD tools and accessories fromVeeco and Aixtron at US $337.5 million.

AIXTRON AG today announced the move of its South Taiwan Office into its new facilities in Tainan Tree Valley, next to the Tainan Science Based Industrial Park.

Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd. began developing LED fans last year and secured orders from Philips for its LED lamps in the second quarter.

Invenlux Corporation, a U.S.-based manufacturer of LEDs selected Veeco's multiple TurboDisc(R) K-Series(TM) GaN MOCVD systems to ramp capacity at its factory in Haiyan City, China. According to Chris Yan, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Invenlux, they continue to select Veeco as our supplier of choice for their LED capacity ramp because of Veeco's proven advantage in productivity, and a lower cost of ownership when compared to competitive systems.

A new lighting spanning the 1565-meter Songhuajiang Bridge over the Songhua River in Harbin, China is completed by Roled Opto Electronics Shanghai Co., Ltd. with the help of Future Lighting Solutions. This project utilizes 1,288 linear floodlights containing 12,000 LUXEON® Rebel LEDs. 

Array™ Lighting R30 LED light bulbs producted by Nexxus Lighting have been installed throughout the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. According to Michael Kidwell, Broward Center's Maintenance Technician II, they have installed Array LED lamps in locations throughout their facility - everywhere from elevators and lobbies to the theater and stage with plans to do more.

Seesmart cooperates with First U.S. Finance (FUSF) to supply commercial LED products leasing on a national scale. Under the FUSF leasing program, Seesmart customers can benefit from 100% financing for Seesmart lighting products, control systems, product installation and product training. Financing packages are available from as low as $3,000.00.