There is an increasing demand for LED TVs in Vietnam. According to analyst firm GfK, there are over 730,000 units be sold in 2012, representing a 176% surge in volume sales compared with the previous year. GfK retail audit showed the LED TV segment in Vietnam started 2012 with less than 20% volume share of the overall TV market in January, and had consistently trended upwards in subsequent months to reach 66% by the year end. This reflects an annual average of 37% in 2012— a substantial increment from the previous year’s 11%. One of the key reasons fo...

GT Advanced Technologies announced the appointment of Linda Reinhard as vice president, new business development and product management for the company’s sapphire, DSS™ and HiCz™ products reporting to Dan Squiller, GT’s chief operating officer. Reinhard will be responsible for leading GT’s growth into new market segments and driving the product roadmap to capitalize on these new opportunities including sapphire for cover and touch screen applications. Dan Squiller, GT’s chief operating officer, said  “Linda’s i...

“Delta Electronics’ Ring of Celestial Bliss” was the most eye-catching lantern display at today’s official opening of the 2013 Taiwan Lantern Festival. Considered the world’s biggest lantern, the “Delta Electronics’ Ring of Celestial Bliss” is a 10m tall, 70m wide and 270° circular, high-resolution structure where visitors can enjoy two films: “Sun and Moon”” and “Four Seasons”. Based on the overall design concept of “Everlasting” the giant lantern encourages the public to protec...

US 101 west of Olympia is making LED makeover. Beginning Monday, Feb. 25, Washington State Department of Transportation crews will replace the high-pressure-sodium highway lighting with the LED lighting system on a state highway. The light installations along US 101 should be complete by Friday, March 1 followed by full operation of the adaptive system by mid-April. John Nisbet, WSDOT state traffic engineer, said the LED system uses new, state-of-the-art technology known as an “adaptive system.” This will allow WSDOT crews to remotely adju...

  New LED troffer and wraparounds from Lithonia Lighting provide exceptional value and performance for any budget. Lithonia Lighting introduces the affordable Contractor Select LED troffer and wraparound luminaires from Acuity Brands Inc. (NYSE: AYI). Ideal for replacing T8 fluorescent fixtures, both the GTL LED troffer and LBL LED surface-mount wraparound luminaires deliver general ambient light for recessed ceiling applications such as schools, offices and hospitals. LED technology coupled with MVOLT (120 – 277V) drivers ensure c...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that it started production of a new AC direct type LED tube (L-Tube) that features the industry’s highest efficacy of 140 lumens per watt (lm/W) at 5000K. The new Samsung S-140 L-Tube will be introduced in Japan first. “High efficacy is one of the key indicators of technological excellence in the LED lighting industry and Samsung is leading the way by offering one of the industry’s most advanced products in our new S-140 L-Tube,” said Jaap Schlejen, senior vice president, LED lighting sales and marketing of Samsung Electronics. “Samsung will continue to invest in R&D and LED package innovation in order to maintain its technology leadership in the global L-Tube market,”

LED Lighting’s usage keeps growing. Recently, LED Street Light has become the major part of outdoor lighting. Taiwan Tung Hua Co., Ltd. focuses on high-power research and develops. There are multiple sections of outstanding street light installation examples all over Taiwan. We will keep assist government organizations and enterprises with replacements of LED Street light and related LED lamps in 2013. Exert our strength to save the world from global warming.

AOP, a professional designer and supplier of LED luminaires and services, announced the debut of high efficient, flexible assembly and lightweight, the latest OPTOBLK LED module. With the innovation feature of economic designs, OPTOBLK can be assembled in many novel and creative ways. To raise the luminaire efficacy and make lower cost possible for customers, AOP developed the new OPTOBLK LED module to reach the goal of economic benefits. OPTOBLK offers ideal compositions for different lighting applications by adopting wide selections of light source, optical lens and modular assembly.

AOP, a professional designer and supplier of LED luminaires and services, announces its participation in the Tokyo Lighting Fair 2013 that will take place at Tokyo Big Sight West Hall 2, Japan, on March 5-8. AOP invites you to visit Booth LF906-2, where our team will gladly introduce you to our latest developments in the field of luminaire design and benefits, including: The latest module lightings with the innovation features of economic designs. ARTEMIS and AGLAIA series with high quality and performance. Indoor lighting series to fulfill various commercial and industrial applications

Lithonia Lighting introduces the affordable Contractor Select LED troffer and wraparound luminaires from Acuity Brands Inc. (NYSE: AYI). Ideal for replacing T8 fluorescent fixtures, both the GTL LED troffer and LBL LED surface-mount wraparound luminaires deliver general ambient light for recessed ceiling applications such as schools, offices and hospitals. LED technology coupled with MVOLT (120 – 277V) drivers ensure color consistency and an expected service life of at least 50,000 hours.

Enhance high value products such as fresh produce with high quality lighting Exact Effect, the new spotlight fitting for the grocery retail category from Philips, delivers excellent-quality light that helps improve the look of fresh food. It is available across a range of product specifications including track and surface-mounted options. Exact Effect is one of five key highlights in the new Philips UK Spring Collection 2013. Exact Effect features a highly efficient LED light engine and high-performance optics that bring out the detail of retailers produce by increasin...

Carved into a granite cliff in the North Okanagan in close proximity to Vernon, British Columbia, Sparkling Hill Resort is celebrated for its organic and modern flair-notably its creative use of $10 million in Swarovski Crystal elements that provide an atmosphere of calm and serenity. Setting its sights on newly engaging, more energy-efficient LED hotel lighting, the European-influenced resort and wellness center recently specified 2,500 GE LED replacement lamps for its award-winning facility. The switch means an annual 828,000 kilowatt hours (kWhs) energy reduction at...

The aim is to increase the performance and lower the costs of laser systems for material processing As part of the ‘Integrated Microphotonics’ initiative, Osram Opto Semiconductors is coordinating the IMOTHEB project (Integrated microoptical and microthermal elements for diode lasers of high brilliance). The aim is to improve the performance of laser systems and at the same time reduce production costs. The project partners are DILAS Diode Laser and the Max Born Institute. The project (FKZ 13N12312) runs from October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2...

Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. has received an additional $5 million investment from an affiliate of Aston Capital LLC. The investment will be in the form of convertible preferred stock and will be used to fund recent customer orders as well as to fund future growth.   The $5 million investment contemplated will be derived from the sale of a new convertible preferred stock to RVL Holdings, an entity managed by Aston Capital, LLC and controlled by Robert V. LaPenta. The preferred stock will be convertible into common stock at a price of $1.17 per share ...

Chinese InGaN LED epiwafer and chip maker Jiangxi Lianchuang Optoelectronics Science and Technology Co Ltd (Lianovation) has bought a PE9000C Series purifier from Power+Energy Inc (P+E) of Ivyland, PA, USA, which is engaged in palladium-membrane-based hydrogen purifiers for the compound semiconductor and energy industries. The Chinese company will use PE9000C Series purifier to support a process tool at its facility in the Nanchang High-Tech District in Jangxi, China. The 9000C Series purifier includes micro-channel palladium membrane techno...

Major step in joint partnership to develop market of GaN substrates for high-performance LED lighting applications. Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., a leading worldwide provider of compound semiconductor materials, have signed a licensing and technology-transfer agreement under which Sumitomo Electric will use Soitec’s proprietary Smart Cut™ technology to manufacture engineered gallium nitride (GaN) substra...

UK UV developer Integration Technology Ltd (ITL) has introduced an air-cooled LED curing system with class-leading size-to-power ratio making it the most compact on the market.   Measuring just 86mm long x 54mm wide x 79mm high, the MZero LED has a cure length of 30mm and generates > 4W/cm² centred around 395nm.   It utilises all of the proven features and benefits of its sister arc product, incorporating them into an LED alternative enhanced by extra functionalities including instant on/off, variable power and low temperature operation. &nb...

Over 300 Industry Bloggers Will Attend Conference Featuring Interior Design Lead Corbett Lighting, Hudson Valley Lighting® and Troy Lighting will participate as premier sponsors at the upcoming Design Bloggers 2013 Conference held from March 3-5 in the heart of Los Angeles at the Hilton/Universal City Hotel. Panelists and presenters will focus on best practices in social media as well as the role new media is playing and will continue to play in the world of interior design. Industry interior design gurus including keynote speakers Barbara Barry, desi...

According to LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, the total revenue of Taiwanese listed LED manufacturers in January 2013 is 8,220 million NTD (+21.5%MoM, +39.9%YoY). LEDinside indicated that in addition to the fourth quarter of 2012 (traditional off season), the TV manufacturers’ delay in stocking will also cause difficulties in the fourth quarter revenue of LED manufacturers.

Rubicon Technology, Inc. has reported financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012. The Company reported fourth quarter revenue of $20.0 million as compared with $19.9 million in the prior quarter. Revenue from six-inch wafer sales showed another sequential increase to $17.5 million from $16.4 million in the prior quarter, a 7 percent increase. Due to low industry pricing for two through four inch core products, the Company decided to sell a limited quantity of those products in the quarter. Raja Parvez, President and CEO of Rubicon Technology, comm...

Sharp has announced to add a 100W COB LED, known as GW7GAL50SGC LED to its Zenigata family. The new LED will output 14,000 lm, and achieve efficacy of 143 lm/W for SSL lighting applications such as street lights and high-bay lighting. Compared to the existing family members, the new LED will be larger and also be hexagonal in shape, whereas the existing Zenigata products are rectangular. The 50W Mega Zenigata LEDs measure 20×24 mm. The new 100W device is 86.8 mm measured from one point of the hexagon to the opposite point, and 75 mm measu...

Cree extends the KR Series LED downlight portfolio, delivering greatly improved performance at pricing to match incumbent fluorescent downlights. With new lumen packages of up to 2650 delivered lumens, the KR Series replaces 18- to 42-watt fluorescents. Cree is further expanding the range of LED downlight applications by introducing the KR4™ downlight, which features an impressive, high-lumen, 4-inch aperture, with options similar to the 6-inch KR6™ downlight. With new standard 0- to 10-V dimming, sloped-ceiling and wall-wash trim options, the KR Series...

ElectroniCast Consultants, has announced the release of their 2013 market review and forecast of the worldwide use of High Brightness Light Emitting Diodes (HB-LED) Driver Integrated Circuits (ICs) in illumination.  Values include LED Driver IC (packaged chip only).   According to ElectroniCast, the worldwide total consumption value of HB-LED Driver ICs reached $1.79 billion in 2012.  During the 2012-2019 timeline, the consultancy forecasts that the consumption value will grow at an average annual rate of 27 percent to $9.59 billion in th...

LIGHTFAIR® International’s (LFI®) expansion accelerates in its 2013 Philadelphia showing with additional trade show space in Pennsylvania Convention Center’s Hall F—the new home of new categories solar power and software and the featured site for high-profile networking and special events. The 2013 additions advance LFI’s continuing growth as the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, which is now approaching sellout.  Creation and introduction of the new categories, togethe...

Japanese Chemical engineering firm Showa Denko K.K. has cooperated with Masayoshi Shigyo, a professor at Yamaguchi University’s Faculty of Agriculture, to develop new LED lighting technology to spur plant growth in factory controlled conditions, by changing the blue-red ratio through each stage of a plant's development. The technology shortens the growth period of leaf lettuce, for example, to two weeks from three weeks using conventional methods. With growing corporate interest in the vegetable factory business, Showa Denko said the new technique offers si...

IDEC Corp has utilized blue LED elements and yellow fluorescent materials to develop pseudo white LED modules. Under IDEC’s new method, an LED device can be packaged just by covering it with a gel-like silicon resin sheet containing a fluorescent material and heating it. Compared with a conventional method that packages an LED device by inpouring liquid resin, the new method can reduce the time used for packaging process to 1/9. With the conventional method, a "dam" is formed around an LED device on the substrate to keep the resin. Then, t...

LEDtronics, Inc. announces the newest members in its series of high-brightness, energy-efficient LED replacements for A19-style light bulbs for home and commercial use. The DEC-A19F-13W-XIW-120AWD DécorLED™ Series comes with a softly diffused, precision domed lens that directs light in an omni-directional illumination pattern. The dimmable DEC-A19F LED bulb is available in warm white (3000 Kelvin). The A19-style LED bulbs offer long-term durability, low power consumption, environmental sustainability and money savings. It runs on ...

AIXTRON SE announced that SukYoung Kim (김 석영) has been appointed General Manager of its subsidiary AIXTRON Korea Co., Ltd. Mr. Kim has been working in the international semiconductor industry in Korea and the USA for many years and most recently held the position of Regional President and Representative Director of Novellus Systems in Korea.                         In his new position as General Manager at AIXTRON Korea, he...

Inside light of life This product is created to indicate a concept of life like cocoon is waiting to become a qualitative change as a beautiful butterfly , which product made by "stone in" that brand has an excellent reputation for lamp design. Key feature of this product is all made by stone paper that is environmental protection material and is set with thermal conductive insulation plastic led bulb, which are state-of-the-art and made in Taiwan from our research and development group. The designer of the brand "stone in" use special skill to creative, in...

- Latest energy-efficient LED technology entertainment lighting for bars, clubs and concerts - ACME, a manufacturer of professional entertainment and stage LED lighting equipment, has announced the new energy-efficient LED MS700PE moving head light, which combines the latest LED technology with excellent optics and great features. This 180W LED light, designed for use in bars, clubs, concerts or the theater, is the latest addition to the wide selection of ACME's specialized entertainment and stage lighting products. By connecting LED MS700PE t...