2012-10-15

Malaysia Becomes Dialight’s First Asian LED Facility

Dialight Europe Ltd has announced to expand the operational activities of LED assembly plant in Penang soon to include moulding and surface mounting technology (SMT) operations. Moulding operations would start before the end of 2012 for Dialight Penang Sdn Bhd, while SMT activities would begin next year, according to the company’s chief executive Roy Burton . “Production activities of the plant will also be expanded to include Dialight’s industry-leading LED fixtures for industrial hazardous applications,” he said after the launch of Di...
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2012-10-15

LED Tech Development Filed a Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Apple

LED Tech Development LLC has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The patent infringement lawsuit concerns four granted patents that they claim Apple's iPad 3 and MacBook Pro infringe upon. Charles Lemaire, one of the original inventors noted on all four patents in this lawsuit has also been credited with patents for Lockheed Martin, Nuance Communications and other major companies.      LED Tech, whose place of business is Tyler Texas, has filed a formal complaint with the court in Delaware against Apple for patent infri...
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2012-10-15

Osram: Concerted research for future-fit lighting

Partners of the European "Solutions for Energy Efficient Lighting (SEEL)" project achieve decisive research successes with HID and LED lamps Partner companies of the "Solutions for Energy Efficient Lighting (SEEL)" project supported on the German side by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research have achieved three important research goals with high pressure discharge (HID) lamps and LED: they have developed Xenon lamps for car headlights with a lower ignition voltage than previously, have verified higher temperature stabilitie...
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2012-10-12

Foshan Lighting Wins the Bid for LED Lamps on 2012 Solid-State Lighting Product Subsidy

Chinese government has completed the bidding process for the 2012 Solid-State Lighting Product Subsidy. And Foshan Electrical and Lighting Co., Ltd. (Foshan Lighting) has announced to win the bid for 400,000 units LED lamps. According to the company, the winning products including LED downlight (4 inches / 12 w) and LED light (PAR30/8 w, PAR 38/12 w). These LED lighting products are only sold in mainland China, but the areas for popularization are not limited. And in the promotion of sales within the quota of the products, the company has the right to e...
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2012-10-12

New Project Showcase - St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (Paterson, NJ, USA)

Summary/Key points of this project: •         Illuminated art installation invites patients, care givers, and visitors to experience the healing environment of St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center •         Main lobby: A media wall was created allowing LED-lit acrylic boxes to interact with natural light from skylight overhead •         Traxon’s 1PXL Board RGB and 1PXL Strip Warm White with optimum control allow...
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2012-10-12

Intematix New Red Nitride Phosphors for LED Applications

Intematix Ruby Series, backed by latest Intematix patent, is ideal for high-quality LED lighting Intematix has released the Ruby series of red nitride phosphors that enable exceptional efficacy, color rendering and reliability for high-power LEDs.These unique phosphors, backed by Intematix U.S. patent No. 8,274,215, are ideal for applications like general lighting and backlighting for LCD TVs. According to Yi-Qun Li, Chief Technology Officer for Intematix, “Building on a decade of innovative work in phosphor, our substantial investments in material...
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2012-10-12

LED Engin demonstrates emitters and modules that revolutionize size, performance, control and reliability in entertainment lighting

Tunable white, violet and multi-color LED solutions on show at LDI 2012 LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, will be demonstrating on Booth 2211 at LDI 2012 how its tunable white, violet and multi-color LED emitters deliver twice the lighting “punch” of rival products, at the same time reducing system size by 50%. This is achieved through compact emitters in which individual die are driven at up to 1.5A in multi-channel power packages. Individually addressable die provide maximum flexibility and control of effects, offering lig...
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2012-10-12

Cooper Lighting Introduces the Halo LED Retrofit Baffle Trim for Recessed Downlights

The RL56 series installs into 5-inch and 6-inch recessed housings and offers up to $300 in energy savings over the life of the LED fixture. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, has introduced the Halo RL56 LED Retrofit Baffle Trim. Designed to fit into both 5-inch and 6-inch compatible housings, the all-in-one recessed baffle trim with an integrated LED module consumes only 9.4 watts while delivering over 600 lumens, comparable in light output and distribution ...
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2012-10-12

Lighting & Power Technologies Announces the Most Powerful LED PAR Lamp

Lighting & Power Technologies announces the launch of the Watran 35W LED PAR30 lamp.  This marks the first available dual voltage 120v/277v, ETL listed 35W LED PAR lamp available to the North American Market.  The Watran lamp boasts an amazing 80 lumens/Watt and replaces a ceramic metal halide CMH39WPAR30 lamp or 120W Halogen PAR38. The Watran LED lamp offers 30,000K hours of life versus only 10,000K delivered by the CMH39WPAR30, which means fewer lamp changes and significantly lower maintenance cost to the end user. ...
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2012-10-12

Traxon Technologies Introduces High Resolution Media System Pro Series

SMD technology and bi-directional control displays vivid messaging like never before   Traxon Technologies, a global leader in solid state lighting and control systems, introduces its High Resolution Media System Pro Series.  The newest member to Traxon’s Media Solutions portfolio, this outdoor rated module is equipped with SMD LEDs and bi-directional control to provide a new level of scalable messaging.  It is ideal for a wide range of retail and entertainment environments, sports arenas, and signage applications.   Advanced SMD techno...
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2012-10-12

Philips chosen as the LED lighting supplier for the Zero Energy House project

As a global leader in LED lighting, Philips has been chosen as the LED lighting supplier for the Zero Energy House[1] project.   The Zero Energy House, owned by Auckland couple Jo Woods and Shay Brazier, is being built in Point Chevalier using careful design and solar power. Zero Energy means that, over the course of a year, the house will generate as much energy as Shay and Jo will use. At times they will generate more energy than they need, and will use a grid connection to sell this surplus energy back to their electricity company.   Jo and Shay ...
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2012-10-11

Philips Builds Lighting Experience Centre in Singapore

Philips has launched the first-of-its-kind Lighting Experience Centre (LEC) in Singapore. Spread over 4,640 square feet, LEC demonstrates the application of light in various urban scenarios. The concept provides planners, architects and lighting designers with a unique hands-on experience that showcases how LED lighting can help rejuvenate a city environment. Philips believes that LED lighting can create the right ambiance as well as provide sustainable, energy-efficient solutions to highlight and emphasize iconic buildings, public installations, urban landscapes an...
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2012-10-11

Bridgelux LED Arrays Help Indian Stores Save Energy

According to Bridgelux, nearly 2000 LED-based luminaires, developed for Future Group using Bridgelux ES and RS LED arrays, have been installed in two new retail stores opening in India. The new stores use a combination of downlights, wall washers and track lights all designed by Asian Retail Lighting and using Bridgelux LED arrays. The use of LED-based technology, instead of metal halide lighting, in the stores is estimated to save 318,000 KwH per year or about 2.5 million Rupees (US$38,000) in power costs. “The product design and lighting conc...
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2012-10-11

Edison Opto Will Bring Full Range New Products to Participate in the Lighting Event - Hong Kong International Lighting Fair

The attention-getting lighting industry event - HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) will be held 27-30 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exhibition will gather more than two thousand exhibitors around the world to present the latest lighting trends and industry updates. To answer this high profile lighting event, the Taiwanese leading lighting manufacturer in LED market - Edison Opto will introduce the full range new products to demonstrate their remarkable R&D achievements. The latest EdiPower II HS...
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2012-10-11

Rohm Showcased Planer LED Lighting Panel at CEATEC JAPAN 2012

Rohm Co Ltd has showcased a planer LED lighting panel featuring LED packages with a high color rendering index as high as 98 at CEATEC JAPAN 2012 held from Oct 2 to 6, 2012. High color rendering index According to the firm, the panel was made by arranging LED packages on a plane surface and covering them with a light diffusion plate. It emits light from the entire surface of the panel like an OLED lighting panel. By using its fluorescent material technologies, Rohm realized a general color rendering index (Ra) as high as 98 and prevented the sulfurati...
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2012-10-11

Viper Networks Makes LED Street Light Pilot Project in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Viper Networks, Inc. has entered into a formal understanding after discussions with the Mayor of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and other top officials to initiate a sixty (60) day pilot program for testing Apollo Metro Solutions' LED Street Lights with installations along a section of one of the busiest boulevards in Colombo, the metropolis of Sri Lanka. The primary purpose of the short-term project is to review operational functions and confirm installation procedures for the LED Street Light lamp and housing unit under varying light output scenarios. The installation ...
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2012-10-10

LED Inventor Nick Holonyak Reflects on Discovery 50 Years Later

Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE colleagues at the time called “the magic one” because its light, unlike infrared lasers, was visible to the human eye. In an interview with GE Lighting conducted in his University of Illinois lab on September 19, 2012—about three weeks ahead of the50th anniversary of his invention of the LED—a now 83-year-old Holonyak recounts the competitive forces that propelled him toward his mom...
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2012-10-10

Spark Street Light SPL-96 Is Installed in Aichi Prefecture, Japan

As one of the largest LED lighting manufacturers and exporters, Spark just made its another achievement on the installation of LED street light SPL-96 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan on 22nd Sept., 2012. This project is for a parking area of the retailer cooperative chain with around 410 chain-stores all over Japan. The end consumer is quite satisfied with performance of our street light after this demo project’s installation. The details are as the below picture in which the selective model is SPL-96, light pole is 6m height, boom angle is 15°,the tested avera...
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2012-10-10

Epistar and Azzurro Jointly Made Breakthroughs on GaN-on-silicon Technology

Epistar and Azzurro have jointly made breakthroughs on developing GaN-on-silicon based LEDs utilising Epistar’s HB LED structures and Azzurro’s technology for 150mm GaN-on-silicon in just 4 months. The firms transferred Epistar’s existing LED structures built on sapphire to the GaN-on-silicon material system, marking GaN-on-silicon one step further towards implementation in mass production. GaN-on-silicon growth is often associated with many technological challenges. But the use of templates with unique strain‐engineering technology from A...
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2012-10-10

Philips Sets up First Lighting Store in UK

Lately, Philips has set up its first ever lighting store Philips Light Gallery, situated in London’s Westbourne Grove, UK, to showcase the latest LED technology. Philips Light Gallery will offer a range of lighting solutions for living areas, children’s bedrooms, bathrooms and outdoor areas, with shoppers able to browse room by room. Additionally, trained staff is employed to help customers chose their lighting solutions but with a special focus on explaining the benefits of LED. Peter Maskell, Philips chairman and MD of Lighting said; "Ph...
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2012-10-10

Osram Becomes Disneyland’s Official Lighting Partner

Recently, Osram AG has developed a five year strategic corporate alliance with Disneyland Paris. The agreement will position Osram as Disneyland’s official lighting partner. The partnership will allow Osram to use promotional rights for the Disney and Disneyland Paris brands. Euro Disney Associés SCA, which operates Disneyland Paris, plans to optimise its energy efficiency by 10 per cent between 2006 and 2013, one of its seven long term goals for making Disneyland Paris a reference in sustainable development among European tourist destinations. Os...
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2012-10-10

Cree Introduces Next-Generation Color LEDs

New High-Performance LEDs Double Lumens-per-Dollar to Accelerate Adoption of LED Lighting Cree, Inc. announces commercial availability of XLamp® XB-D color LEDs and XLamp XM-L multi-color LEDs. The high-performance color LEDs provide lighting manufacturers with discrete and multi-color LED options to more cost-effectively address a wider spectrum of applications such as architectural, vehicle and display lighting. Cree XLamp XB-D color LEDs extend the double lumens-per-dollar performance of the XB package to color LEDs, deliver...
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2012-10-10

Taiwan’s Unity Opto and Lextar Made Good Marks in Revenue in September

Taiwan’s Unity Opto and Lextar have made good marks in revenue in September.Unity Opto’s revenue reach a new high of US$30 million in September while Lextar’s consolidated revenue of US$33.5 million for the month hit a hit a 26-month high. Unity Opto pointed out that its growth potential remains strong in October thanks to mainland China’s subsidization to LCD TV consumers and rollouts of touch-screen laptops by many PC makers. Both drive up demands for LED backlights, a major product at Unity and Lextar. In particular, Unity Opt...
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2012-10-10

Dimmable Philips LED Lamps Helps Arnhem to Save almost 50% Energy

The Municipality of Arnhem is to install Philips LED lighting on a large scale, in line with its ambitions in the area of sustainability. 2,300 street lights on the city's major roads are to be fitted with dimmable LED lamps. This measure will achieve energy savings of some 47%, equivalent to 500,000 kWh a year. The investment will be recouped through the reduced costs of energy consumption, maintenance and lamp replacement. The project will take four years and was recently started in Arnhem South around Groningensingel.   The municipality is committed to sustain...
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2012-10-10

Light Planet showcase the benefits of LED technology at Healthcare Estates 2012

Building on increasing demand from the healthcare sector, Light Planet is showcasing the benefits of advanced LED technology at the Healthcare Estates exhibition and conference in Manchester.   Held over the 9 and 10 of October, Healthcare Estates is the complete event for specifiers and high-level decision-makers from across the sector that focuses on the design, build, maintenance and management of healthcare estates and facilities.   With the healthcare sector facing a challenging combination of ambitious carbon reduction commitments and increasingly restricted...
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2012-10-09

LED Celebrates 50th Anniversary

The modern day LED was born 50 years ago this month. Jeanine Chrobak-Kando, Business Development Manager at Verbatim, describes how far the lighting technology has come in such a short time. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have become an everyday electronic device found in many applications. In 2011, general illumination applications accounted for the largest share (35%) of the LED market, followed by mobile devices (30%), and signaling/signage applications (18%). By 2020, the cost of an LED bulb is expected to drop to half its current cost according to MarketWatch. ...
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2012-10-09

A New Dimmable 16.5 Watt LED Panel Light with Driver from GlacialLight – GL-PL0303DA

First Entry into the GL-PL0303D Series GlacialLight, a division of the experienced technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., has announced the new GL-PL0303DA Dimmable LED Panel Light, which has now joined the company's popular range of LED lighting products. The new GL-PL0303DA Series high efficiency panel light is the first entry into the GL-PL0303D series. The GL-PL0303DA consumes only 16.5W and comes with a 3 in 1 (1-10V/PWM/Resistor) dimmable driver allowing the lighting to be adjusted to fit the preferred lighting scenari...
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2012-10-09

Philips Electronics India Plans to Export Solar LED Street Lights

Philips will export solar LED street lights made in India to neighbouring nations within next one year. The company's Indian arm, Philips Electronics India, is currently executing a project for installing 19,000 solar LED street lights in Tamil Nadu in association with Tata Power Solar and Su-kam. According to Philips Electronics India President (Lighting India) Nirupam Sahay ,the company has designed and developed the technology at its R&D centre at Noida keeping in mind the rural market, which has a big potential as electrification has not yet t...
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Macroblock showcases its innovations at CES 2025, taking place over 4 days from Tuesday, January 7, to Friday, January 10. With the theme “Driving the Next Wave of Automotive Innovation,” Macroblock teams up with partners Hirosawa ... READ MORE

Revolutionizing Entertainment Lighting with Cree LED’s XLamp® XN-P Color LEDs Experience the next level of lighting innovation with XLamp® XN-P Color LEDs, a high-power multi-color LED platform designed for ultimate versatility a... READ MORE