Everlight Electronics Co.,Ltd. [TSE:2393], a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry, announces its latest innovation APM-16D25-11-DF8 which combines an ambient light and proximity sensor with an integrated IR transmitter in a compact DFN package. To optimize the sensitivity, the package includes a lens which was designed based on a highly precise optical simulation with 1 million light rays to produce an accurate model. Optical proximity sensors with integrated IR transmitters often have cross-talk issues caused by IR stray light. In orde...

Dublin-based technology company Ikon, which is engaged in developing more efficient and cost effective LED lighting solutions, has received a further €1m in funding from the Kernel Capital managed Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Fund II. And previously it has received €650,000 from the Kernel-led fund. The firm will now use the new tranche of funds to drive product development and is planning for significant recruitment over the next six months to support these growth plans. "Ikon's silicon, LED Driver solutions will offer significant benefits...

Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. [TSE:2393], a leading player in the global LED industry, showcases various new series of LED components at electronica  2012 in Munich, Germany. This year, Everlight presents the most updated series of high efficient LED packages for infrared and sensor, general lighting, TFT LCD backlight, signage and intelligent digital display applications. Everlight maintains its concept of “The Right LED for the Right Application” in order to provide the best performance and quality for different usage. Furthermore, by u...

Cree, parent company of Ruud Lighting, 9201 Washington Ave., has introduced a new LED light. On Nov. 2, Cree and Best Buy jointly announced the new Insignia bulb, powered by a Cree element, and manufactured and exclusively sold by Best Buy. Also, Cree has LED light bulbs for home use under the EcoSmart brand at other retailers. Cree said the Insignia bulb offers “distinct advantages” over existing LED bulbs on the market today. Unlike some others, the Insignia looks much like a traditional incandescent bulb. Like a standard bulb, it also prov...

Diwali has put denizens of Sangam city on a shopping spree for a variety of 'jhaalar' (colourful light series) and earthen lamps to fill their homes with a faint but beautiful golden light. From LED to rice bulb, rope light and artificial lamps, there is everything to suit the pocket of the Allahabadi reveler. But rising prices have hit even the wholesale market this year.  “The common man can light a bulb only if PM provides relief," said Shailesh Thakur, a businessmen of Shahganj market of the city. Everything, from the rates of these decorative...

The Taiwanese leading LED manufacturer - Edison Opto launches an energy efficient lamp for large area lighting – 150W LED high bay which provides high brightness and superior light quality. The 150W high bay was showcased in Hong Kong International Lighting Fair and was highly inquired. It attracted the attention of industry and demonstrated Edison Opto’s remarkable R&D achievements. The light source of 150W LED high bay is Edison Opto’s high brightness Federal 3535 Series component. The 150W high bay is composed of many LED emitt...

The focus of Frank Elektronik lies in the conceptual planning, design and manufacturing of LED printed circuit boards. Experts advise you regarding illumination, colour concepts, energy efficiancy, lifetime, weather influences and temperature managemant of lighting solutions for indoor and outdoor new designed luminaires or retrofit-kits. Frank Elektronik is a flexible EMS partner with quick reaction times and highest quality standards. Due to the wide range of services from development to serial production customers of medical, control and measurement technology, of auto...

Established in 1948, GAGGIONE’s corporate and primary manufacturing facilities are in Montréal La Cluse within the Northern Rhone-Alps region of France, located between LYON (Fr) and GENEVA (Ch), at the heart of one of the main European industrial cross-roads.   We continue our dedication to successfully producing the highest quality optical solutions for LED and other light applications since introducing the world’s first collimator for the Barracuda LED in 1996. GAGGIONE applies its extensive experience and resource...

LEDs are a disruptive technology to the general lighting market. Lynk Labs has built a broad patent portfolio of technology surrounding various forms of AC LED technology from chip level to drive method that simplifies the challenges of integrating LED technology into the existing AC powered lighting infrastructure. Lynk designs, develops and manufactures AC LED Packages, Lamps, Assemblies,Drivers and Systems for OEMs and End Users. As the leading pioneers of the AC LED market, Lynk Labs today has the broadest and most diversified technology offering...

QLT Qualitron srl Qualitron Archimede Elettronica, situated in Milan, is one of the leading European manufacturers of LED components. We take the resonsibility for the German, Austrian and Swiss Market as a sales office and are at your disposal for all questions concerning OLT products like: LED Retrofit Kits LEDs on metal core boards up to 20W/m LED transformers in constand current and constant voltage mode dimmable LED converters (1-10V, DALI, DMX, TRIAC, PWM) movement detectors and remote control devices RGB...

NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) has launched new 24” Radiance® G2, 55” Radiance G2 and 24” EndoVue® monitors. The new products extend NDSsi’s leadership in visualization technology as the company advances its complete lineup of surgical displays to LED backlight. Focusing solely on the medical industry, NDSsi is the pioneer of LED technology for the healthcare environment, the first company to introduce LED in a surgical display, and the first to stabilize the LED backlight at 500 cd/m² for the life of the product with th...

Nora Lighting adds to its line-up of LED tape lights with the addition of the new 24V Hy-Brite, featuring 200 lumens per foot. This low profile, flexible linear lighting source is designed for illuminating coves, architectural details, under and in cabinets, toe kicks and back lighting mirrors and artwork. It features 2.7W (12 LEDs) per foot.     Hy-Brite rounds out Nora’s line of tape lights and is the mid-range lighting option. It has greater lumen output that Nora’s standard LED Tape Light (70 lumens/foot), yet less lumen output that N...

At this year’s China SSL Conference , AIXTRON again has hosted an MOCVD seminar along with the China Solid State Lighting Alliance (CSA). More than 200 decision-makers from industry and research took part in AIXTRON’s International Short Course on MOCVD held in Guangzhou. Dr. Bernd Schulte, Tim Wang, AIXTRON SE “Prices for LED bulbs as replacements for 40W incandescent bulbs in some countries are below the USD 10.00 mark”, remarks Dr. Bernd Schulte, COO & Member of the AIXTRON E...

Transparent and heat conductive: an innovation for both LED heat dissipation and omni-directional beams. A technology breakthrough to overcome the bottleneck for achieving both heat dissipation and wide lighting angle of LED lights, featuring omni-directional beams and extra wattage phase transition superconductor heat dissipation. I.    Operating principle: The omni-directional LED Evaporative Cooling Bulb-Glass Shell (Fig.1) consists of a double-layer glass jacket with a small amount of transparent thermal conductive oil filled within the inner she...

Sumitomo Chemical Co Ltd showcased a light guide plate made with an ink-jet technology at FPD International 2012 from Oct 31 to Nov 2, 2012, in Yokohama, Japan. It is targeted at LCD panels using an LED backlight such as of TVs and monitors. The light guide plate was made by using an ink-jet technology to form a concave-convex pattern with an ultraviolet curable resin on the "Sumipex," Sumitomo Chemical's acrylic resin. The diameter of the pattern can be controlled between 30-70μm. Compared with light guide plates made by using an injection m...

Now available from distribution, ViviLux kit delivers consistent, high intensity, directional white light at 2700K or 3000K with CRI of at least 90 LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, announces that a Starter Kit for its award-winning ViviLux emitter-plus-lens LED lighting platform is now available from distributors Mouser Electronics (North America) and Farnell (Europe). Users will quickly find how fast and easy it is to assemble a working light source equivalent to a 100W halogen or 35W metal halide bulb using a single high powe...

Brolis Semiconductors Ltd. and Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Brolis has received shipment of a Veeco GEN200® Edge™ Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) production system for installation at their new epitaxial wafer production facility in Vilnius, Lithuania. Dominykas Vizbaras, CEO of Brolis, commented, “The mission of our company is to become a world-leading provider of complex epitaxial structures for long-wave optoelectronics, such as thermal imaging, concentrator photovoltaic and other custom devices. Veeco is the w...

Lighting Science Group Corporation has developed a business partnership with Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar®. Lighting Science® collaborated with the world's largest casual dining chain to monitor, evaluate and markedly reduce energy usage for lighting in their 23 company-owned restaurants. Through the installation of ultra-efficient and design-enhancing LED lamps, Applebee's should net an energy reduction for lighting of 88% per year. Applebee's replaced over 3,000 incandescent and halogen lamps with Lighting Science's 8W A19 L...

Cooper Lighting, has announced that three of its LED architectural products have been recognized for ingenuity in Architectural Products Product Innovation Awards (PIA) competition. For the second consecutive year, Cooper Lighting has the most product awards in the lighting/electrical category. This year's LED products include the IRiS P3LED Directional Series, io Lili Gen II Recessed Indirect Luminaires, and the Lumiere Eon Bollards. Cooper Lighting has received a total of nine company awards since the competition's inception last year. ...

Luxonic Lighting, one of the UK leaders in LED luminaire systems, has introduced Slimlux LED, a range of recessed and suspended luminaires to provide continuous lines of light. Slimlux LED incorporates high-output white versions to accompany the established RGB colour change modules. Luxonic Lighting’s Slimlux LED is designed to give a homogenous-lit appearance over virtually any length based on a 300mm module, at outputs equivalent to and exceeding T5 high efficiency lamps. Where different requirements exist, such as different length modules or lumen...

ARCH Electronics launches high efficient LED power supplies,ALF100/150/240W series. Those are constant voltage mode (CV mode) and constant current mode (CC mode) with two-stage PFC and PWM design to provide users more choices with high regulation outdoor lighting applications. Those series are acceptable to the full range input voltage 90 ~ 305VAC, and adopt the design of high-frequency switching technology, efficiency up to 93%, can work at -25 to +70℃ ambient temperature in free air convection. With industrial grade potting processing to enhance the cooli...

LEDinside conducted an interview with Mr. Louis Lam, President & CEO of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Asia Ltd, who shed light on the role OSRAM plays in the global LED, solid-state lighting and LED lighting industries and OSRAM’s strategy regarding the Asian and Chinese markets. Quality and R&D is the Key to Making Inroads into Global SSL Market In regard to OSRAM-OS’s new Wuxi plant, a lot of people in the industry are curious about the Wuxi plant’s role (packaging, assembly, and applications) and the c...

Philips chief executive officer, Frans van Houten, said the company was keen to expand its lighting and healthcare businesses in Malaysia and provide the best of its knowledge and capability to collaborate with the government and private institutions. Van Houten said this to reporters after the opening of Philips Lumileds' second high power LED production facility at Bayan Lepas, by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop. He said Malaysia offered vast opportunities for expansion and the company would like to tap its intell...

iPad is used to control streetlights in London borough. After a successful pilot scheme, the London borough has created a ‘Smart Lights system’ deploying Philips CosmoPolis Outdoor Lighting products in conjunction with a Harvard LeafNut CMS system. The council will also install GE Ceramic Metal Halide StreetWise lamps. The project will take four years to complete and it is hoped the £3.25 million investment will save council taxpayers £420,000 per year from 2015/16 onwards. All of the borough’s 14,000 streetlights will be adapted to...

Sharp have cooperated with Al Muftah Trading to release Qatar’s first commercially available 80 inch AQUOS LED TV, and Sharp’s latest Double French refrigerators. The two new products are part of the “From Bigger to Biggest” products line-up which reiterates Sharp’s position as the leader in LCD/LED TV category thanks to its 10th generation panel technology from a company in its 100th year. The full HD Japanese made panel, Sharp’s flagship 80 inch model LC-80LE940X provides more than twice the screen area of a...

Wherever there is light, you will also find semiconductor light sources from Osram Opto Semiconductors: in the automotive sector, the entertainment industry and even the security environment. At this year’s electronica fair (booth 107 in Hall A3) the company will therefore be highlighting its role as a complete supplier of semiconductor lighting solutions. This leading international exhibition of components, systems and applications will provide an opportunity to see the new Displix LED for the first time. This LED has been designed specifically for outdoor displays. O...

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2012. The Company reported that third quarter revenue increased to $19.9 million from $17.0 million in the prior quarter driven by strong six-inch sapphire wafer sales. Revenue from six-inch wafer sales increased 62 percent sequentially as demand increased from both the Silicon-on-Sapphire and LED markets. Due to low industry pricing for two ...

Epistar has announced that Toshiba has granted a patent license regarding certain AlGaInP LED technologies and sold certain AlGaInP LED patents to Epistar. As part of the agreements, Epistar also licensed certain AlGaInP LED patents to Toshiba. The agreements recognize the value of Toshiba’s AlGaInP LED patent portfolio, and are expected to bring benefits for Epistar’s product development and enhance its patent portfolio furtherwithin the field of AlGaInP LED technologies. The exact terms of the license will not be disclosed unde...

Future Lighting Solutions and Shanghai Grand Light are pleased to announce the successful completion of a landscape lighting project illuminating several kilometers in the commercial and cultural heart of Shaoxing City. In total, 7300 linear wall washers and 3300 sets of spot lights using LUXEON® LEDs grouped in various configurations were used. Beginning at HuaQi Road and running from XinKai He, the new lighting covers a distance of 2.6 kilometers. The General Manager of Shanghai Grand Light said, “With helpful direction and support from Futu...

Reduced total cost of ownership, high fidelity, image stability and low-maintenance are key criteria for visual systems investment Today’s commercial aviation operators are looking for cost effective, high-fidelity and stable solutions for visual displays.  The brand new Boeing 777 full-flight simulator (FFS) is being manufactured by L-3 Link Simulation &Training UK (L-3 Link UK) at its Crawley, UK facility. The Boeing 777 FFS uses the very latest projectiondesign® FL35 projectors integrated with RSI Visual Systems’ XT4 Image ...