Improvements to the iPad's LED backlighting will allow Apple to create a thinner iPad 5, according to NPD DisplaySearch's Paul Semenza. "It's likely that part of the thinner/lighter design will be reducing the size of the LED backlight, partly by making the display more efficient and partly by using more efficient LEDs," said Paul Semenza, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, in an e-mail to CNET. The Retina displays of the third and fourth generation iPads required a dual-LED backlight along with a bigger battery, which caused th...

Romsey Dental Care, a modern dental practice and cosmetic studio in Hampshire, UK, recently took steps to reduce energy costs by replacing their existing lighting with LED luminaires. The practice won a Green Business Award last year for commitment to reducing energy use. LED and CFL light sources vary considerably in terms of light quality in terms of color rendering, which is required for making accurate patient assessments. Patients at Dental practices in particular suffer visual discomfort from very bright low energy sources. As a way of solving these issues, S...

With the inauguration of Rs 2.3-crore LED street-lighting project of Rajkot Urban Development Authority (RUDA) by state Energy Minister Saurabh Patel, it became operational from April 14  evening. The project has been implemented by Philips Electronics India Limited. RUDA has installed more than 400 LEDs to light up around Six kilometers long stretch of a four-lane road connecting Rajkot with Metoda GIDC (Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation) on the western outskirts of the city. "We have made only the capital expenditure of Rs 2...

Date： July 10-13, 2013 Venue： Shanghai New International Expo Centre Organizers： Shanghai Modern International Exhibition Co., Ltd.、Shanghai Industrial Base of National Solid-State Lighting Project、Shanghai Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Solid-State Lighting、Shanghai LED Engineering and Technology Association、Shanghai Gray Exhibition Co., Ltd. Overseas Co-organizers： Shenzhen Electronic Chamber of Commerce、China Sign Association of Equipment Suppliers (Shanghai) If you focus on the development of L...

First LED lamp prototype delivering 200 lumen per watt high quality light, halving the energy use compared to current LED lamps Royal Philips Electronics announces a new innovation in LED lighting, creating the world’s most energy-efficient LED lamp suitable for general lighting applications. Philips researchers developed a tube lighting (TL) replacement TLED prototype that produces a record 200 lumens per watt of high-quality white light (compared with 100lm/W for fluorescent lighting and just 15lm/W for traditional light bulbs). This prototype TLED...

The lighting is the last piece of the Congress Parkway reconstruction project that began in late 2010, according to the Chicago Department of Transportation. About 600 decorative luminaires and towerlike panels that change colors were flipped on along Congress Parkway Thursday night, marking the completion of $24 million in road and streetscape improvements, officials said. The work included redesigning parts of Congress between Wells Street and Michigan Avenue to improve traffic flow and signal timing for the 63,000 drivers who use the corridor each weekday, officials s...

The Supervisory Board for AIXTRON SE, proposes Dr. Andreas Biagosch and Dr. Martin Komischke as candidates for election to the AIXTRON Supervisory Board at the 2013 Annual General Meeting.   Dr. Biagosch worked for 28 years as an engineer for the international consulting firm McKinsey & Co. on various international projects for high-tech and other industries and was part of McKinsey’s global Shareholder Council. Dr. Biagosch currently works as an independent entrepreneur. Dr. Komischke, who is also an engineer, is currently Chai...

Intematix Corporation has been awarded a new U.S. patent. Patent 8,376,580 for LED based lightingsSystems is related to the firm's remote phosphor technology. This patent marks the 21st remote phosphor patent the company has received. This new patent contains broad and fundamental claims covering a wide variety of remote phosphor systems and applications. Allowed claims cover various two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes used in remote phosphor systems. Application coverage includes remote phosphor systems where the phosphor is provided as a surface layer on a c...

GT Advanced Technologies has appointed Linda Reinhard as vice president, new business development and product management for the company's sapphire, DSS and HiCz products. Reinhard will report to Dan Squiller, GT's chief operating officer. She will be responsible for leading GT's growth into new market segments and driving the product roadmap to capitalise on these new opportunities including sapphire for cover and touch screen applications. "Linda brings deep experience and a proven track record in both product management and new business develo...

Seoul Semiconductor announced it will launch the global campaign named ‘Acrich for Trees’ to actively encourage the use of eco-friendly AC LED bulbs with Acrich LEDs from April 11 to April 30, 2013 via their official website, //www.seoulsemicon.com. Among participants who access the website and subscribe to the Seoul Semiconductor Newsletter, 1,000 subscribers will be chosen to receive a LED bulb or a LED desk lamp. This global campaign hopes people to use eco-friendly LED bulbs with Acrich LEDs to save more trees than conventional DC LED...

YAKIMA, Washington -- Some new street lights are helping the city of Yakima cut its electric bill. The lights have been up for about a year and have already saved  thousands of dollars. About 400 lights throughout the city have already been upgraded. The first set was paid for with about $400,000 worth of grant money. The new high-efficiency LED lights are anywhere from 40% to 60% more efficient than traditional bulbs, and have saved the city about $30,000 in just the first year. "There again, big energy savings, big maintenance savings, and the light, general...

AAMSCO Lighting is proud to announce that the Alinea - America’s first UL listed incandescent architectural lamp fixture, is now available in LED. The patented Alinea LED offers a complete linear illumination system in three standard sizes and a choice of color temperatures ranging from 2,500K to 3,500K for accent lighting in commercial and residential applications. Consuming only 4 to 11 watts per fixture, Alinea LED delivers 225 to 700 lumens per watt with a 25,000 hour estimated average life. The fixture measures a minimal 1.14” in height and comes...

 KLA-Tencor Corporation has been recognized as one of 17 companies receiving Intel Corporation's Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for their performance in 2012. KLA-Tencor Corporation is recognized for their significant contributions providing Intel with process control capital equipment and services, deemed essential to Intel's success.  "KLA-Tencor is honored to receive Intel's Preferred Quality Supplier award for a second consecutive year—a true testament to our employees' expertise and world class inspection and metrology equipment and services," ......

  At the start of summer, outgoing Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Coney Island amusement park officials will toss the switch on a makeover of the iconic Parachute Jump, which is so bright it can be seen from space. The amusement area’s main ride operator has installed and will maintain the $2 million space-age LED lighting scheme on Coney’s tallest structure. The 8,000 colored lights replaced the 450 lights in the old, Design will be programmable with funky rhythmic displays for shows and concerts. So that the tower can put on colorfu...

 High output in a compact package. The new infrared (IRED) Oslon black SFH 4716S from Osram Opto Semiconductors is one of the most powerful IREDs on the market with an optical output of 1030 milliwatts (mW). And with a beam angle of 150 degrees this IRED offers perfect illumination at a range of a few meters. It is therefore ideal for gesture detection systems linked to computer games or for optical safety systems in the automotive sector. But the infrared diode is capable of even more. With external optics and tight focusing even distant objects can be perfectly illuminated with infrared light.

 The 2013 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) was held by HKTDC at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre for four consecutive days. This grand exposition has gathered more than 1,000 exhibitors from 12 different countries, and it was also the first time for exhibitors from Finland, Greece, India, Macau and the UK to participate in this exposition.  The two new exhibitions at this year’s lighting fair--“Hall of Display World” and “World of Chandeliers” provided buyers with more options and enabled them to find more suitable products and suppliers.

 Tridonic is launching a new portfolio of LED control gear in the form of the TEC series which covers all relevant customer requirements at an attractive price/performance ratio. The control gear is initially available in 20 W, 35 W and 65 W versions.  All three wattages can be supplied as built-in or surface-mount versions, all with the same product characteristics. In addition to ENEC and CE approval, they offer excellent EMC behaviour. The high-quality cable clamps on the surface-mount versions make installation quick and simple without the need for tools. The TEC series therefore combines impressive Tridonic quality with an attractive entry price.

Larson Electronics released the RFM-LED-7 roof mounted, pan and tilt LED light.  Equipped with a handle and shaft suited for most standard vehicles, this roof mounted LED light can be positioned quickly and easily by operators from inside their vehicle. Larson Electronics released the RFM-LED-7 roof mounted, manual controlled LED light.  Equipped with a handle and shaft sized for most standard vehicles, this roof mounted LED light can be positioned quickly and easily by operators from inside their vehicle.  The six inch LED head is nearly im...

A manufacturer of printed circuit boards and other electronics, will reduce energy lighting costs by 40 percent, or $50,000 in annual costs, thanks to an installation of LED lighting at its facilities, one of the largest installations of manufacturing space in New England. Employees at Norwell, Mass-based Bluestone Energy, a division of OpTerra Energy Group, spent 3,000 hours retrofitting the Mack Technologies 108,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Wesford, Mass., which will help Mack meet its sustainability goals, improve lighting for employees and save on costs...

Tridonic is launching a new portfolio of LED control gear in the form of the TEC series which covers all relevant customer requirements at an attractive price/performance ratio. The control gear is initially available in 20 W, 35 W and 65 W versions. All three wattages can be supplied as built-in or surface-mount versions, all with the same product characteristics. In addition to ENEC and CE approval, they offer excellent EMC behaviour. The high-quality cable clamps on the surface-mount versions make installation quick and simple without the need for tools. The TE...

Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-scale grocery retailer in the northeast United States, recently selected energy-efficient LED lighting by Cree, Inc. to illuminate its 51,364-square-foot store in Geneva, NY. The store, which opened in November 2012, features Cree CS18™ luminaires and CR24™ troffers lighting the aisles, specialty departments and pharmacy for an estimated energy savings of 70 percent over the T5 fluorescent lighting that Tops Markets had previously installed. “Tops Markets has always been progressive in designing energy effici...

Dialight has introduced integrated controls for its industry leading LED lighting fixture portfolio.  The patent-pending, smart grid compatible control package is available in variety of communications protocols. These include powerline communications (PLC), wireless (industry standard Zigbee) or DALI platforms and can be manually configured or accessed utilizing a touch screen wall controller via mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, or Android, or from a remote network computer. “Dialight is reinventing the way our customers operate and maintain their lightin...

Sony Corp showed 56- (3,840 x 2,160-pixel) and 30-inch (4,096 x 2,160-pixel) OLED monitors capable of displaying 4k2k video and targeted at broadcasting companies in Sony's booth at 2013 NAB Show, a trade show of broadcasting equipment, which runs from April 6 to 11, 2013, in Las Vegas, the US. Though the company has not yet decided the prices of the monitors, it aims to release the 30-inch monitor within 2014. OLED panels are expected to be used as master monitors for broadcasting because of their high black color reproducibility and high response speed fo...

Saint Petersburg governor Georgy Poltavchenko and Anatoly Chubais, CEO & chairman of RUSNANO (Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, a sovereign investment corporation based in Moscow, Russia), visited the St Petersburg site of LED chip and luminaire maker Optogan, where the joint venture ‘Philips and Optogan’ has started production of the new ‘Avenue’ LED luminaire.   The maximum capacity of the line is more than 50,000 LED luminaries per year.  Founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2004 by Russian entrepreneurs ...

Samsung Electronics has introduced 20 new television models across its flagship Smart TV and LED TV series. “With the launch of our 2013 Smart TV range, we are looking to consolidate our leadership in the Panel TV market in India. We expect LED TVs to drive our Panel TV growth, with Smart TVs contributing at least 20 per cent of our Panel TV volumes this year,” Samsung India Senior Vice-President (Consumer Electronics) S K Kim told. Designed to deliver the ultimate lean back experience to consumers, the F8000 and F7500 are the f...

The Climate Group has released details on SSL street light projects in Haldia, Thane, Burdwan, and Cuttack, India.

  As a brilliant start to 2013, MEGAMAN is ready to go one step further by launching its new “Economy Series” LED lamps at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2013 (Spring Edition). The show will be a premier business and marketing platform for MEGAMAN to exhibit its new range of LED products and introduce its design concept to lighting buyers from around the world (the previous year’s show reached more than 15,220 buyers in 106 countries and regions worldwide).  During the fair, MEGAMAN will showcase eco-conscious and high-quality......

 As a leading and innovative eco-lighting solution provider, MEGAMAN is proud to launch its “Economy Series” LED lamps to expand its LED product portfolio which enables more consumers to benefit early payback period from switching to high-quality, energy-efficient and cost-effective LED light sources in mass market. New EU Energy Label Effective 1 September 2013 With exceptionally high efficacy (lumen per watt), MEGAMAN’s “Economy Series” LED lamps are all rated Class A+ in the new EU Energy Label scheme, which will come into effect on 1 September 2013. The highest efficacy ......

 One of the great pleasures of attending an exhibition as large as the 2013 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair is discovering exhibitors who are able to separate themselves from the crowd. The 1019 manufacturers who turned up this year come from a total of 12 different countries, specialize in a wide variety of different lighting fields, and promote products that not only fulfill distinct purposes, but also possess unique and memorable attributes.   In no particular order, below are a number of interesting exhibitors and highlights that have made relatively strong impressions throughout the Hong Kong lighting event: ......

Plessey announced that samples of its GaN on silicon LED products are available. These entry level products are the first LEDs manufactured on 6-inch GaN on silicon substrates to be commercially available anywhere in the world. Plessey is using its proprietary large diameter GaN on silicon process technology to manufacture the LEDs onits 6-inch MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN I/C) line at its Plymouth, England facility.   The use of Plessey’s MAGIC GaN line using standard semiconductor manufacturing processing provides yield entitlements of g...