Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have created touch-sensitive “electronic skin(e-skin)” through integrating three distinct electronic components including semiconducting carbon-nanotube transistors, pressure-sensitive polymer sensors and OLEDs. The three components are integrated over large areas on a single plastic substrate, to form a mechanically flexible sensor network that immediately light up when being touched. And the harder it is touched, the brighter the light.            Each pixel...

Two LED lamps from Osram were victorious at this year’s awarding of the consumer prize Home & Trend Award 2013. The LED Superstar Classic A 40 advanced and the reflector lamp LED Superstar PAR 16 50 36° advanced were able to convince the jury with regard to functionality, innovation, product benefits, design and ecology, and were declared Trend Products of the Year 2013. The reflector lamp LED Superstar PAR 16 50 36° advanced was also awarded the Best of the Best additional prize in the category Home Textiles and Interior Design. B...

Ypsilanti will purchase 505 new LED streetlight as it continues an effort to replace all high-pressure sodium and mercury-vapor streetlights in the city. The Ypsilanti City Council voted unanimously to approve the purchase on July 23. The move also was the next step in the city’s effort to establish a special assessment streetlight district that would impose a flat fee on residents and businesses to pay the city’s DTE bill and conversion to LED lighting. The city is anxious to convert the lighting in the coming months because it is one of the first cities in t...

Toshiba Lighting technology will offer LED lighting solution with indicator to the Higashi-Kanagawa Station of JR in Yokohama, Kanagawa. Yokohama line and Keihin Tohoku line use the Higashi-Kanagawa Station in different time. The LED lighting devices JR decided to import this time are equipped with indicator, which suggests passengers with the same color with the train line that which train will arrive or depart in the following time. As the ground illuminating device for the station lighting, it comes with white light (color temperature of 5000K, the average c...

Dialight,the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, recently unveiled its next generation LED Linear fixture, the most efficient solution of its kind for Class I Div 2 certified hazardous applications such as on- and offshore drilling rigs, platforms and other oil, gas, chemical, petrochemical and hazardous location facilities. The fixture is intended to replace traditional fluorescent and HID lighting fixtures, and is also available for non-classified general purpose industrial applications. Delivering an ultra-efficient 106 lumens per Watt, the new SafeS...

It is reported that National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) cooperates with Philips to develop horticultural LED lighting, and the two sides will sign cooperation letter of intent on the 29th. NPUST says today that the general illumination lamps used for the plants not only consumer much energy, but the heat is high, currently, the LED light has gradually been used in plant factory. NPUST points out that the cooperation with Philips will initially target plants with high economic value and higher planting threshold, and develop suitab...

The global 40W equiv. LED lamps Average Selling Price (ASP) dropped 2.7% to USD 15.6 in June 2013, according to a recent LED lamp retail survey by LEDinside, a research subsidiary of TrendForce. Overall regional market prices continued to fall steadily, in which China’s decline was the most evident. Global ASP dipped 1.6% to USD 23.4. 

It is reported that Taiwan-based Excellence Opto, Inc. (EOI) announced the expansion of its new facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan to serve the LED automotive lighting market. The company stated that it has actively focused on LED automotive lighting in the past 12 years and that LED automotive lighting now takes up about 60% of its revenue. LED lighting products including industrial lights, roadway lights and signal lights make up the rest. The new facility will now serve as EOI's hub for the sales and distribution center of automotive LED lighting prod...

CAO Group, Inc., a world-leading high-technology company, announces the transition of its lighting division into an independent company: CAO Lighting, Inc. Since its inception in 2004, CAO Group’s lighting division has followed a strong upward trajectory. Using revolutionary practices and techniques, this division of CAO has continuously delivered advanced products and solutions for commercial signage and lighting and established fundamental intellectual properties (IPs) in solid state lighting. It’s this forward momentum that has allowed CAO to expand...

Qisda, one of the few Taiwanese contemporary designer lighting manufacturers, is known internationally for its industrial design. The company emerged as the top global luminaire designer at the 2010 iF Design Award China, winning four awards with its QisDesign brand LED lamps. QisDesign was also a big winner at the 2010 Red Dot Awards, nabbing the grand prize and clinching the most number of awards in Asia. In the following year, the company’s Coral Reef LED lamp was bestowed with the Best of the Best Award at the 2010 Red Dot Award. Qisda’s senior manager Jiung-Cheng Pan talks to LEDinside on the company’s marketing strategy in the European market.

It is reported that Apple's next-generation iPad mini 2 will adopt Retina Display, because Taiwan has yet not put retina display into mass production, AUO is bowled out from the competition for display supplier of iPad mini 2. Apple considers the stability of supply, Samsung returns to Apple display supply chain to offer display to Apple iPad 5 and iPad mini 2, Samsung, LGD and Sharp are the three display suppliers of Apple. According to reports from South Korean media, AUO is unable to produce LCD displays that meet Apple's requirements and therefo...

Merck has won two renowned awards in one week. On July 9, it was presented with the global 2013 Intersolar Award for Photovoltaic Production Technologies in San Francisco, USA. Then on July 16, it was honored by TPK Touch Solutions Inc., the world’s leading touch panel maker, as outstanding vendor during a ceremony in Xiamen, China. At the Intersolar North America 2013, one of the most attended conferences for solar professionals, Merck was awarded the first prize for developing the Merck Selective Emitter (MSE) using isishape® SmartEtch&trade...

According to reports, Leyard officially released the world's largest 4K Ultra-High Definition (UHD) LED large-screen TV in the size of 288 inch, and also launched five LED TV products in the minimum size of 110 inch. The biggest difference from the LCD TVs with LED backlight on the mainstream market is that the LED TV screen Leyard released consists of the self-luminous LED lights, which is the first attempt for commercial large-screen to enter the civilian families. This 288-inch 4K UHD large-size LED TV is the current world's larges...

Simon Brands has released the newly developed Simon High-Power Flashlight T6 Pro mini which uses the Cree LED bulb for greater lighting. This mini torch light is ideal for law enforcement and military, as well as consumers who desire a flashlight which can be used for personal protection. The Simon High-Power flashlight T6 Pro is manufactured from highly durable, yet lightweight, 6061 aircraft grade aluminum. Weighing less than 8 ounces.It includes an adjustable wrist band which makes it easy to carry and hold onto when used in tight spaces such as automobile engine co...

Nearly 4,000 Autobahn LED Series roadway luminaires reduce outdoor street lighting energy consumption for the City of Chula Vista by 45 percent. The City of Chula Vista, Calif. installed nearly 4,000 American Electric Lighting® Autobahn LED Series roadway luminaires from Acuity Brands to help reduce energy and maintenance costs for the growing city. Autobahn LED Series roadway luminaires now illuminate major arteries, feeder roads and the City’s downtown area, helping to reduce energy consumption attributed to lighting by more than 45 percent. T...

The research team from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore developed the first indoor air purifier powered by LED lighting, which can eliminate up to 95% of harmful gases in the office or home within four hours, thereby improving the air quality inside buildings. All indoor harmful gases are called in the joint name of "volatile organic chemicals", generally come out from the wall paint, new furniture, construction materials or carpet, and the content of harmful gases in new building or newly renovated building is particularly high, long-term exposure m...

AIXTRON SE, a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced revenues of EUR 45.3m for the second quarter of 2013, representing a quarterly sequential increase of 13 percent compared to EUR 40.2m in Q1/2013. AIXTRON also recorded improvements in its gross profit and operating result (EBIT). This development reflects first positive impacts from the 5-Point-Program, which was started in Q1/2013. Efficiency improvements and cost cutting measures resulted in reductions in both cost of sales and operating expenses. Ke...

Acuity Brands, Inc. expands the Acculamp® economy grade series to include BR LED lamps—BR20, BR30 and the voluminous BR40. All three BR LED lamps deliver the warm illumination traditionally associated with incandescent BR lamps, while using 83 percent less energy and delivering an expected service life of more than 45 years. Additionally, BR LED lamps resemble the physical look of incandescent bulbs. BR 40_product “New BR LED lamps provide an energy-efficient solution that maintains the warm light output from traditional sources,&rd...

It has been reported that Apple's next iPhone will be shipped in September, and the news comes from the industry that Apple's biggest coating plant Bern optical has begun shipping to Apple and actively picking up goods from Sapphire suppliers, as the release of Apple's next iPhone is just around the corner and the shipment of LED lighting is in blessing season, sapphire is expected to increase in both price and volume in Q3, Taiwan-based Plants like ACME Electronics, Crystalwise Technology, ACTC will benefit more than others. Sapphire material has b...

Strong demands for mid-power LED products have increased shipments of Epoxy Molding Compound (EMC) lead frames. Taiwanese and Chinese LED package manufacturers have jumped into EMC lead frame technology. Taiwanese LED package manufacturers Everlight, Lite-On Technology (Lite-On), Unity Opto, and Advanced Optoelectronic Technology (AOT) are producing EMC package components. Chinese manufacturers including Lighting Optoelectonic Technology (LOT) and Refond possess EMC package component production capacity. Market research shows EMC lead frame prices are falling quickly, which is why most manufacturers are trying to improve price/performance ratio by applying EMC lead frames in 2-3W mid / high power LEDs, according to LEDinside. In the past, most EMC lead frame applications were for 1-2W LED.

Affected by LED chip’s consecutive price drop and efforts to control costs, Taiwanese chip manufacturers including Epistar, FOREPI, and others are turning to Chinese sapphire substrates. A move that directly contends Taiwanese sapphire substrate manufacturers’ price raise plans, and is expected to impact 3Q13 operations of companies including Crystalwise Technology (CWT), Tera XTAL Technology’s (Tera XTAL) and others.

Hubbell Lighting today announced an innovative program focused on accelerating the adoption of energy efficient lighting and controls technologies called “createchange”. The initiative helps end users see through and beyond what many find as an uncertain process to envision what the impact of energy efficient retrofit solutions look like at their facilities. With createchange®, Hubbell Lighting has made retrofit projects easy with a comprehensive suite of tools and services available at its site. Coupled with the company’s recently announced flexible funding prog...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is Continental's Supplier of the Year 2012. Each year Continental's Automotive Group identifies its best partners from more than 900 strategic suppliers and presents a total of 13 performance awards in five categories, namely electronics, electro-mechanics, mechanics, investment and engineering services, and division-specific solutions. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors impressed the jury in the Electronics category (IVA Interfaces, Voltage Regulators, and Analog ICs & Opto). With the award, the high-tech company was praised as a...

According to the "Climate Change Act" United Kingdom promulgated in 2008, which aims to enable the United Kingdom to become a low-carbon economy and gives ministers powers to introduce the measures necessary to achieve a range of greenhouse gas reduction targets, for example, achieving that the net UK carbon account for all six Kyoto greenhouse gases for the year 2050 is at least 80% lower than the 1990 baseline, toward avoiding dangerous climate change. Recently, the British Lighting Industry Association (LIA) has published a guide, which is revision of Part L...

Lighting Science Group Corporation®, one of the world's leading LED lighting technology companies, announced today it has received GSA Multiple Award Schedule vendor status. The GSA Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) program enables Lighting Science to establish long-term government contracts for its leading LED lighting solutions. Lighting Science will offer its innovative LED lamps as well as its industry-leading LED lighting fixtures through the GSA Advantage website. The GSA Schedules program is the premier acquisition vehicle in govern...

Bustling new public Plaza Features Plexineon-illuminated Benches In downtown Denver, a $4.7 billion redevelopment of Union Station will create a bustling urban center and multimodal transit hub that integrates light rail, commuter rail, Amtrak, and bus service, as well as new private development and public spaces. The project is already taking shape with completion of its first phase: Light Rail Plaza, which comprises the new light rail station plus 40,000 square feet of outdoor plaza space. To provide a pleasant experience for daily commuters, the plaza includes nin...

Sentry Electric is pleased to introduce the SDAS-LED Downtown luminaire, an architectural arm-mounted street and area light. With its symmetrical proportions and gently arching crown, the Downtown provides contemporary inspiration for boulevards and public spaces. SDAS-LED 165x165 2 What makes the Downtown luminaire unique is its combination of refractive borosilicate glass optics in combination with the most advanced, high lumen output LED modules. A truly groundbreaking development in the evolution of solid state technology, the downward facing LEDs have ...

Seoul Semiconductor, a global LED manufacturer, has announced two new mid-power packaged LED lighting products, the 5630C and the 3030. These packaged LEDs have been improved dramatically in terms of luminance efficacy (lm/w) and cost efficiency (lm/$).                 STW8Q14C (5630) Mid-Power LED(left) and STW8C2SA (3030)  Mid-Power LED(right) The 5630 package is the world's best performance in light output with 180 lm/W efficacy and is an extension of the mid-powe...

Recently, Philips Lighting donated 240 units of LED bulbs to the hope primary school in Zunyi, Guizhou, and the bulbs have been distributed to the students. As a part of Philips' public service activity "light the light of hope", the donation of newly listed versatile LED bulbs aims to improve the basis lighting conditions for families with children, save household electricity costs, and create a bright and healthy learning environment. Philips' donation activity of "light the light of hope" officially launched on May 18, 2013, according to stati...

In line with the Energy Department of Chile, the 1649 regulations which released on September 11th, 2012, the general lighting security and energy efficiency certification program will come into effect for LED lights on October 1st, 2013. In addition, according to Regulation No. 3623 released on December 28th 2011, domestic and similar general lighting security and energy efficiency certification program will also be came into effect on October 1st 2013. The energy efficiency certification standards for domestic as well as ordinary LED lights are IEC60357: 2002 + A...