United States Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its municipal solid state lamps alliance (msslc) intends to hold annual meeting on September 11 in phoenix. The meeting will be available for alliance members, including government and utility workers, staff working for street project, lighting designers and consultants, as well as financial and budgetary professionals, such as energy services companies. Attendees will learn LED streetlight project committed by the American city from this meeting. Speeches will include information on funding options, especially in t...

Soraa has recently released the first GaN on GaN LED in a 50W halogen equivalent MR16 lamp with several new features.This LED has a gallium nitride substrate, triangular shaped chip, simplified epitaxial structure and an original silicon-based wafer level packaging. Soraa GaN on GaN LED packaged in a silicon-based wafer level packaging Source: Yole Développement Soraa used the GaN characteristics like the optical transparency and the high electrical and thermal conductivity to create a unique vertical structure for these LEDs. The layers depos...

On June 26, the Tenth World Brand Summit was held in Beijing, the World Brand Laboratory published the list of "2013 China Top 500 Valuable Brands". Among the Chinese brands awarded on the basis of financial analysis, consumer behavior and brand strength analysis, NVC ranks toward the top with brand value of 8.216 billion Yuan, and ranks the first in the lighting industry once more. Jean-ClaudeLarreche, Professor of INSEAD, RaviDhar, Professor of Yale University School of Management and Stephen Woolgar, Professor of University of Oxford ...

Orion Energy Systems, Inc., a leading power technology enterprise, announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of Harris Manufacturing, Inc. and Harris LED, LLC. Harris Manufacturing and Harris LED had specialized in designing, sourcing and manufacturing energy-efficient lighting systems including fluorescent and LED lighting solutions, and day-lighting products. The purchase price of the transaction was $10 million, subject to post-closing adjustments for net working capital. The purchase price was paid through a combination of $5 million in cash, $...

Harvatek, LED packaging business from Taiwan, has announced to quit joint venture project with China-based TV brand TCL. Harvatek stated that both parties have had taken different attitudes towards some terms, and after careful consideration, Harvatek decided to transfer its 50% stake in the joint venture to TCL. Harvatek stated that it has invested around CNY15 million (US$2.44 million) in this project for two years. On June 24, 2011, Harvatek signed a joint venture agreement with TCL through its subsidiary, Honor Light Limited, to establish an LED packa...

Most of the smart phones sold in the market now already come with a built-in flash which performs well in certain conditions. When it comes to night you’ll hope to have an external flash to take clear photos. Well, there is the iBlazr, an external LED flash, which is compatible with iOS and Android devices. The iBlazr connects to your cell phone via the 3.5 mm audio jack which is where you normally connect your headphones. It’s only 10 mm thin and comes with its own batteries so it does not need your cell phone to provide power. You will be able to rotate this ...

Kingbright, a leading LED manufacturer for over 30 years, pioneer in SMD LED display technology and offers the most complete lines of LED and related products. With continuous innovation in research and development, Kingbright developed the industry first 0.56 inch character height SMD LED display with thickness of only 0.094 inch (2.4mm). This ultra-thin 7-Segment SMD display package overcomes the physical constraints and offers both crisp display features and high maneuverability. Available in single & dual digits in various colors, this package is ideal f...

On July 1, Royal Philips and Dutch trade unions announced the outcomes of their negotiations for the collective labor agreement for Philips' workforce in the Netherlands. The negotiation results, which are subject to approvals, cover changes in the company's Dutch pension plan and associated one-off EUR 600 million contributions in 2014.   "We are making all efforts to create a sustainable pension framework for Philips' employees and for our company; following the curtailment of open ended obligations in the US pension fund earlier this quarter, we are...

Plessey Semiconductors Ltd says that samples of 350mW GaN-on-Si LEDs are now available. The entry-level lighting products are manufactured on Plessey’s 6-inch MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN I/C) line at its Plymouth, England facility. The new LEDs are targeted at a variety of solid-state lighting and entertainment-type lighting products including accent lighting, wall washing, wall grazing, strip-lighting and pulse lighting applications. “The MAGIC LED product range is expanding in both light output and efficacy. The PLB010350 is our fi...

Not long ago, Tridonic announced that it is preparing to introduce a new line of LED drivers, and it will end the magnetics business supporting legacy light sources at the end of 2013. As the pace of the transition to LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) is hastening, many companies with a long lighting history are affected, Tridonic is no exception. To some extent, the decision that Tridonic refocuses on LED and intends to end its legacy business is in preparation of changes caused by the legislation to regulate low-efficiency magnetic products beginning in 2017 formula...

TurboDisc MaxBright® MHP™ GaN MOCVD Multi-Reactor System Veeco  MOCVDs are crucial to LED chip production. The quality, efficiency, and yield of epitaxial wafers may affect the cost and output of the LED epitaxial wafer plant. Veeco’s MaxBright MHP, the new GaN MOCVD Multi-Reactor System, is considered a highly efficient device.  Compared with the original MaxBright, the MaxBright MHP showed a 20% improvement of the LED chip wavelength uniformity. Thermal management and process compatibility are also improved so that each reaction process will improve the uniformity. The company has greatly enhanced the yield of 2-inch and 4-inch wafers by using the FlowFlange technology, thus they received the MOCVD with the Best Yield award.

Rates of suicide in the Asian country have doubled over the past decade, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Analysts believe that crumbling traditional values, living in a hyper-competitive market and future uncertainty have all contributed. The Mapo Bridge in Seoul is where dozens of South Koreans jump to their death every year. To tackle the issue, Cheil Worldwide has created the “Bridge of Life”: a sensor and LED-based system which sends out messages of hope. Over the course of one year and six months, 2,200 sensors and LEDs ...

Recently, Audi has released details about its new Matrix LED headlamps, and announced that its next A8 will be put on sale at the end of 2013, what's more attractive, LED Matrix headlamps will be applied in Audi A8. Audi stated that its new A8 Matrix lights consist of 25 high-beam LEDs, clustered in groups of five paired with reflectors. Unlike traditional automatic high-beam setups, the Matrix array is so precise that it "blanks out light that would shine directly onto oncoming and preceding vehicles" while continuing to use full high-beam power on othe...

Earlier, the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute wisdom Lighting Engineering Research Center announced that it has succeeded in integrating the LED and power transistors on the same gallium nitride (GaN) chip. The researchers said that this innovation opens the door to a new generation of LED technology, because it is cheaper to manufacture, more efficient, and the new features and applications are far beyond the lighting category. Currently, the core of LED lighting system is LED chips making from gallium nitride, bu...

Everlight with advanced LED lighting components technology, as well as the advantages of mass production, it has achieved great success in its own brand and the OEM business, it has developed Chinese mainland market with its own brand, but it still is OEM of the large lighting manufacturers around the world, and the revenue of Everlight's LED lighting is expected to be doubled in this year. The old stereotyped image that the orders of its own brand will exceed OEM orders, but the confusion Everlight facing in practice is not as serious as imaged, because Everlight...

USHIO America’s Solid State Lighting Group, a leader in the specialty and general lighting marketplaces, a few days ago launched its Uphoria™ LED Reflector Lamp series. This series includes 8W R20 lamps, 11W R30 lamps and R40 lamps available in 13 and 18 watts.   Uphoria LED reflector lamps are dimmable, UL Listed, ENERGY STAR approved and offer dramatic energy savings compared to incandescent R and BR lamps. These lamps incorporate high quality LEDs into a sleek, lightweight white reflector that provides energy efficiency...

Recently, Sanan optoelectronics announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Suncore core Photovoltaic Technology Co., intends to invest own funds of 200 million Yuan to establish a wholly owned subsidiary in the name of "Qinghai Suncore Energy Limited Company." It is announced that its Board of Directors decided that Suncore Photovoltaic will spend its own monetary fund of 200 million Yuan to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Qinghai, China, and tentatively named "Qinghai Suncore Energy Co., Ltd." (the final name subject to the approval of au...

Recently, the Shinsegae China and Philips jointly organized the "Briefing of Shinsegae LED Lighting Upgrade Project" and announced that the LED Lighting Upgrade in 15 stores of Shinsegae undertaken by Philips in 2012 passed the acceptance, fully meeting the expected results, and introducing the whole implementation process and harvest of this project to the industry. The full adoption of LED lighting to replace traditional lighting jointly conducted by Shinsegae and Philips has provided valuable success experience for the sustainable development of the d...

Beginning with its first store in 1936, Stater Bros. has a very long history. To deepen its commitment to reducing energy usage, Stater Bros. retrofit the frozen-food cases in nearly all of its 166 stores with GE’s LED refrigerated display lighting. The switch from fluorescent lights to GE’s Immersion™ RV40 LED system translates to total annual energy and maintenance savings of approximately $570,000. Stater Bros. first met with strategic sourcing partner TopSource, LLC to pursue energy-efficient opportunities in its lighting portfolio. After ...

FoxFury Lighting Solutions has exhibited its quick deployment LED scene lights at the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) Annual Conference for the first time, on June 28th to 29th in Louisville, Kentucky. Campus public safety includes campus law enforcement staff, criminal justice faculty members, and municipal chiefs of police. They are responsible for maintaining the campus security and dealing with some issues like campus preparedness, campus crime prevention and incident response. Unfortunately, in recent years, some ...

Acuity Brands, Inc. introduces the 7-inch LED Versi Lite™ flush mount luminaire from Lithonia Lighting®. The LED Versi Lite luminaire offers an 84 percent reduction of power consumption compared to 60-watt incandescent flush mount options and is designed for applications such as hallways and corridors, utility closets, bathrooms and work areas. The LED Versi Lite flush mount luminaire delivers an expected service life of 50,000 hours and produces 660 lumens with a high color-rendering index (CRI) of 85. It is available in a wide range of color t...

Vishay extended its VJ X8R series of surface-mount multilayer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCCs) for high-temperature applications on June 27. To save board space, the devices are now offered in the 0402 case size. In addition, the 0603 and 0805 case sizes have been enhanced with higher voltages of 100 V. The Vishay Vitramon capacitors released today are manufactured in Noble Metal Electrode Technology (NME) with a wet build process. With their X8R dielectric and high operating temperature to +150 °C, typical applications for the devices will include sensors, p...

Luminus Devices signed a merger agreement with LED components maker Lightera Corporation, a wholly owned U.S. affiliate of Sanan Optoelectronics, having broad experience in LED epitaxial materials, chip/package design, and lighting systems. Luminus will operate as an independent business unit and subsidiary of Lightera. The business will operate with expanded capability, financial support, a global research and development (R&D) team. Luminus will continue to focus on specialty markets and applications for its current and expanding product as well as customer portf...

Europium (Eu) doped nitride semiconductors make it possible to create novel optical devices, such as a low threshold lasers and single photon emitters. However, not all europium ions are incorporated in semiconductor optical active site that can be excited through the GaN host. Therefore, it is important to develop methods to selectively incorporate europium ions in higher-efficiency optical sites. Hiroto Sekiguchi and his colleagues at Toyohashi University of Technology and Hamamatsu Photonics Ltd have improved the emission intensity from europium ions by magnesium co-dop...

Walgreens used LED lighting from Acuity Brands to enhance customer experiences and reduce energy consumption in its 15,900 square foot Buffalo Grove, Illinois store. The Buffalo Grove location was previously equipped with traditional fluorescent lamps on the sales floor and metal halide lamps in exterior soffits. On the interior, Walgreens installed RT Series LED luminaires from Lithonia Lighting® throughout the sales floor. Additionally, Z Series LED Strip lights were installed in the vestibule, and for architectural down lighting, Ecos™ Square ...

FLEDA TECH. - located in TAIWAN, focusing on the chip-on-board technology of LED package with Copper-base and supplying the high wattage, high quality and high reliability LED lighting products. The unique surface technology for the Copper-base, enhance the reflective of light and the light efficacy of white LED can reach to 120lm/W, and decrease light decay by the surface damage and have 30,000hrs long life. Now the 6W-320W Chip-on-board type of LED products are available. At present, UV LED are the new issues at LED industry. FLEDA TEC...

Cree launched a new cost-effective LED, namely XLampXP-E2 color LED. Compared with other high-power color LEDs, this new product can improve the maximum light output up to 88% to help lighting manufacturers to achieve more cost-effective solutions in architectural lighting, automotive lighting, display lighting and other applications. Cree XLampXP-E2-color LED is developed on the basis of the new-generation LED platform with Cree innovative SC technology, compared with the previous generation of XP-E color LED, it can achieve higher Value of lm / W a...

Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in LED manufacturing. The latest manufacturing, materials and production developments will be showcased at SEMICON West 2013, which is going to be held on July 9th to 11th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Generally over 620 companies will exhibit the latest innovations and solutions for advanced manufacturing. On this annual tradeshow, more than 200 exhibitors and nearly 20 hours of technical presentations will be focused on LED lighting mar...

Osram Opto Semiconductors won the title of Green Supplier of the Year at Yazaki's annual awards ceremony, held on June 5, 2013, to honor World Environment Day, the Yazaki Green Supplier of the Year program was established in 2007 as the benchmark for all Yazaki companies and affiliates throughout North and Central America. Yazaki North America, a top automotive supplier, also considered Osram Opto Semiconductors as the Best in Class Green supplier for 2012-2013 honoring them with both awards of excellence. Osram was chosen from Yazaki's top 103 suppliers...

Veeco is going to host an "Innovative Manufacturing Solutions for MEMS and Magnetic Sensors" Technical Seminar on July 4, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.    The seminar, focused on ion beam etching and physical vapor deposition of complex materials that enable smaller form factor and more reliable MEMS devices, will feature industry experts from Veeco, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Yole Développement. Topics will focus on manufacturing innovations required for unique materials, such as patterning of advanced piezoelectric devices and ...