At the LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo in Tokyo from April 15 to 17, 2009, a number of exhibitors had introduced their LED fluorescent lamps that can be installed in existing fluorescent lamp sockets.

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc., an energy independence company based in Florida, U.S., announced Wednesday that it has completed Phase I of the Fairview Parkway roadway LED installation, and has released a video of the installation.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader in consumer electronics and telecommunications, today announced that it has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide consumer electronics and home appliances for the ‘Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR’ campaign event at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. through Earth Day, April 22.

W2 Architectural Lighting, a lighting products provider specializing in architectural applications, will introduce VAMP LED Spotlights, a new series of track fixtures developed specifically for the specification market, at 2009 Lightfair International.

Beginning on April 22, 2009 at 10 a.m., HolidayLEDs.com, an e-commerce retailer of LED decorative lighting in U.S., will give away 1 free set of solar powered LED Christmas lights to the first 60 visitors to celebrate the Earth Day.

Nabesei Co Ltd, an electronic parts maker in Japan, exhibited plants grown under irradiation of LED lights in three different colors at an exhibition that took place from April 15 to 17, 2009, in Tokyo.

For the third quarter ended March 29, LED products maker Cree reported earnings of $4.0 million, compared with $5.7 million in the year-ago period, which is above market estimates. And the company has forecasted stronger-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter.

Rubicon Technology Inc., a LED sapphire substrate provider, claimed to have successfully grown what it believes to be the world’s largest sapphire crystal (or boule) which weighs 200 kg.

Raysun Huaguang Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. of China has qualified gallium nitride (GaN) and arsenic phosphide (AsP) metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems from Veeco Instruments Inc., a tool provider in comprehensive fields, for high volume production of red and blue high-brightness light emitting diodes.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., has joined the LED City Program, a worldwide joint effort initiated by Cree, a leader in the LED industry, to promote and deploy energy-efficient LED lighting all over the world.

Illumination Power and control specialist Endicott Research Group (ERG), known for its expertise in powering CCFL and LED backlights for LCDs, is developing new LED driver solutions for the solid state lighting market.  Leveraging technology developed for its CCFL inverters and LED backlight drivers, ERG will be introducing a family of Smart Force™ LED drivers that combine full-function power supplies with energy-efficient controllers for commercial, industrial, architectural and other SSL applications.

Just press the snap onto the top of a 9 volt battery you can get a LED flashlight, you should like the idea of the Battery Snaps. Press the button on top to turn on the LED light. And when it stops working, just replace the battery. For $5, it comes with a 9 volt battery included. It would be handy to have for power outages.

Samsung Mobile Display said on Sunday that it predicts the global smartphone market to grow to 500 million units in 2012 from 170 million in 2009, accounting for 29 per cent of the entire mobile phone market in 2012. And OLED screens could appear on 50 per cent of all mobile phones within next five years, the company predicted.

The first solid-state street lighting solution in Portugal is to be implemented along the Fidalgo Aprendiz in Pombal City. LUXEON Rebel LEDs from Philips Lumileds, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, are used in the new streetlight developed by BlueSpan, a provider LED lighting solutions. The streetlight's technical design was the result of a cooperative development effort between Philips Lumileds and optics expert Fraen.

Aeon Lighting Technology has launched a brand new street light, the Lodestar Street Light S02. The benefit of this street light is that it’s developed with a light weight design. It can work almost anywhere in the world, suitable with -40°C to 40°C ambient temperature. The most important is that it’s built with our most advanced LED street lighting technology for excellent stability and high performance. It has surpassed all of our previous street lights in that it provides better performance and lighting.

At an exhibition held last week in Tokyo, the Japanese company Kaga Components Co Ltd exhibited a LED lighting power supply apparatus in which the electrolytic capacitor has been removed to get a lifetime extended to more than 100,000 hours as well as a smaller size.

The new Infrared Ostar Lighting LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors provides 3.5 W of optical output power at 1A with six powerful thin-film chips and a hemispherical. The beam angle and radiant intensity can be varied with standard secondary optics which are readily available on the market. The hexagonal honeycomb shape of this high-power component enables multiple IR LEDs to be combined to form a large space-saving matrix so that the output power can be increased many times.

This week, the city of Canton in Ohio, U.S., and American Electric Power will launch an experimental program to switch high pressure sodium lights with LED lights in four “cobra head” street lights over Market Avenue near 40th Street. Two years ago, Canton replaced the sodium lights in the decorative lampposts along a one-mile stretch of Tuscarawas Street with LED lights. Five years ago, the city began switching traffic signals from incandescent bulbs to LED lights.

In streets across Seoul and soon in Tokyo as well, you can find these Dragonfly-like LED streetlamps. It looks unique and the function is cool too, for it not only lights up the dark with LEDs in the four wings, but also can work as a crime prevention tool owing to a built-in camera. Apart from a dragon fly, the unique streetlamps developed by a Korean company come in the form of a sea gull and butterfly too.

Universal Display Corporation, inventor of the UniversalPHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, today announced that the company’s Chief Technical Officer Dr. Julie Brown presented at FINETECH JAPAN’s first ever LED/OLED Lighting Technology Exposition which is held in Tokyo, Japan from April 15 – 17.

In response to the latest industry chromaticity standard for solid-state lighting, Edison Opto has introduced the SSL bin groups in accordance to the 8 ranges defined by ANSI C78.377. In this rapid industry, the quality and efficiency of LED applications upgrade from time to time.To qualified and unified all products of LED lightings, many industry standards, including ENERGY STAR, has adopted the ANSI C78.377 bin group guideline to help consumers defined it.  

White LED backlight in LCD TVs will be the mainstream of the market rather than RGB three-color LED backlight, said Yuji Motomura of Toshiba in the company’s new "Regza" LCD TV series presentation.

Taiwan`s biggest LED packager Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. and Genesis Photonics Inc., one of the nation’s major LED makers, are venturing into China’s LED streetlight market which is estimated to have a annual demand of over 1 million units.

University of Miami has joined the LED University(tm) program to install new LED pole lights to improve walkway illuminatin on the main campus and retrofitting LED lighting at various interior locations, according to Cree, a leader in the LED lighting field and also the initiator of the program.

GlasWeld, an international glass repair solutions provider, today announced that its Technical Services Division is in final testing stages of ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes (LED) for its auto glass repair curing systems.

OptoElectronix announced Wednesday a new series of small, high-efficient, 180-degree LED modules. The round, 60mm (2.35-inch) diameter, aluminum modules are precisely engineered for optimal thermal management. They integrate the LED, lens, and electronics, and are rated for 50,000 hours. The modules are designed to flush mount through a standard 44.5mm (1.75-inch) mounting hole with three screws, and the flange and lens are only 4mm (0.16 inches) thick.

Bloom of worldwide lightweight and ultra-thin laptops market is boosting use of LED backlights in netbook PCs and CULV-based notebook PCs, from which Taiwanese LED industry is benefiting significantly, according to industry sources.

LED lighting developer ilumisys Inc. is to partner with the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) to develop environmentally sustainable solid-state lighting on a $590,000 grant from the Department of Energy (DOE).