2012-01-30

Merck participates in the SPIE Photonics West Exhibition in San Francisco, California, USA

•    Extensive Patinal® product range comprises more than 40 highly reliable vapor deposition materials •    WR Patinal® product portfolio: Anti-fingerprint and easy-to-clean surface functionality for the touch panel industry Merck KGaA has presented its developments for the optics and photonics industry at the SPIE Photonics West Exhibition from January 24 to 26, 2012 in San Francisco, California, USA. Merck’s exhibition stand will be focusing on the Patinal®, Solarpur®and Optipur® product rang...
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2012-01-30

Philips Develops Solar Powered LED Street Lighting Breakthrough

Philips has developed what is said to be the world’s most efficient and cost effective solar powered LED street lighting solution per km of road. Philips’ latest Solar Gen2 innovation is developed together with NXP Semiconductors N.V. and presents a total solution for highly sustainable and efficient street lighting that is a serious alternative to grid connected systems, cutting back energy costs and CO2 emissions. Solar Gen2 offers a highly energy-efficient LED solution which is superior to any conventional lighting and allows for a lamp post spacing o...
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2012-01-30

Philips, Osram, Nichia, UL, Zumtobel, CORDIS and GE Lighting among those to speak at euroLED 2012

euroLED organisers IntertechPira and Birmingham Science Park Aston are pleased to announce the full agenda for the 9th annual euroLED 2012 conference, bringing together major lighting companies, end users and industry specialists to provide key industry insight, topical case studies and technical market data. Taking place on 13-14 June 2012 at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK, euroLED comprises of an exhibition, showcasing all levels of the LED supply chain, a high profile technical conference and a highly popular gala dinner. The complete euroLE...
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2012-01-30

The 4th LED Next Stage 2012

LED Lighting Fixture (for residential, for merchandise, for office and facilities, for exterior, for outdoor, for factory, for stage, for vehicle and others) LED Light, Dimmer, Lighting Control System and others
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2012-01-30

Dialight's 433 LED Rail Crossing Signal Module

Dialight's 433 LED Rail Crossing Signal Module Features & Benefits • 5 year full performance warranty • AC / DC operation from 8 to 16 volts full output (operation down to 5 volts) • Side light indicators reflect main beam signal for extra safety • Designed for retrofit into existing lamp housings with no beam alignment necessary • Ring terminations easily attach to AREMA posts • Red tinted, UV-stabilized, and hard-coated lens for extended life • Better visibility and faster response time than incandescent &bu...
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2012-01-30

Instrument Systems presents own current source for LEDs

New system solution for production tests with LEDs and LED wafers The LSM 350 4-quadrant source and measure unit from Instrument Systems was specifically developed to meet the requirements for production testing of LEDs and LED wafers. High test speeds and the multichannel capability make the LSM 350 an attractive solution for supplying current or voltage to LEDs with low to medium power output. Combination with high-precision array spectrometers from Instrument Systems creates a complete solution for optical and electrical testing carried out on LEDs. A...
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2012-01-30

Instrument Systems launches new CCD Array Spectrometer Powerful spectroradiometer for QC and production

Instrument Systems launches the CAS 120 as a new series of the proven CCD Array Spectrometers. This measuring instrument was specifically developed for price-sensitive applications in spectral light measurement, such as LED production testing or quality assurance. Although costs have been reduced, technical innovations deliver even higher levels of reliability and robustness. Proven optical design combines with innovative technology As in the industry leading CAS 140CT from Instrument Systems, a Crossed Czerny Turner Spectrograph with back-illuminated CCD d...
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2012-01-30

LED Lamp Locator To Expand with Introduction of New LED Fixture Locator Portal

Lighting Internet Technology Enterprises (LITE) proudly announces that the revolutionary "LED Lamp Locator" will be expanded to include a new LED fixture portal component. Located at www.LEDFixtureLocator.com and officially set to launch in February 2012, the powerful new "LED Fixture Locator" will complement the existing LED Lamp Locator by providing lighting professionals with unprecedented access to information on thousands of LED fixture products currently on the market.   Covering such major LED fixture types as "D...
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2012-01-30

Littman Brands’ 2012 Collections Debut at Dallas International Lighting Market

New Collections Electrify World’s Largest Wholesale Merchandise Mart The Littman Brands, renowned for high-quality lighting solutions, debuted the highly awaited 2012 collections of five brands during Dallas International Lighting Market from Jan. 19-23, 2012. The never-before-seen collections from Hudson Valley Lighting®, Troy Lighting, Corbett Lighting, Troy Landscape and CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting) wowed thousands of buyers who visited the manufacturer’s expansive 17,000 square-foot showroom (#3902) at Dallas Market Center dur...
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2012-01-30

Shadow Health Minister backs infection control lighting technology

SHADOW health minister Andy Burnham today showed his support for new lighting technology developed in Atherton that helps NHS Trusts prevent deadly superbugs. The Labour MP for Leigh met with employees at LED lighting manufacturers MHA Lighting to learn more about how their award-winning lighting is helping in the fight against hospital acquired infections. MHA Lighting’s patented LED technology has been designed as a fully sealed unit to stop dust, bacteria and dead insects from gathering around warm light fittings and spreading superbugs. The L...
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2012-01-30

Asheville Boasts First Large-Scale LED Street Light Deployment in North Carolina

Cree LEDway® Luminaires to Replace More than 3,600 Antiquated Street Lights Taking steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce its overall carbon footprint, the City of Asheville has initiated North Carolina’s first large-scale deployment of LED street lights. There are 3,643 LEDway® street lights from Durham-based manufacturer Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) being installed, with projected savings of $260,000 annually. In the initial phase of the project, completed in June 2011, 730 street lights in Asheville’s River District and Ken...
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2012-01-30

Major LED acquisition and technology deal for leading office commodity group

Office Canopy Group acquires Kudos Business Technologies and secures exclusive distribution of breakthrough LED technology Leading UK LED supplier, Kudos Business Technologies, has been acquired by the Office Canopy Group (OCG), one of the UK’s leading providers of business commodity items. “OCG is focused on driving business savings driven by technology. We believe LED lighting represents a revolution in lighting solutions that is set to fast become the most efficient, cost effective and practical source of lighting,” commented OCG&rs...
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2012-01-30

GE Lighting Rises to Tall Occasion to Illuminate New World Trade Center Complex

One World Trade Center, soon to be the tallest building in the United States and one of the tallest in the world at a height of 1,776 feet, is the main building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan. The facility was in need of a lighting control system capable of flexibly and efficiently illuminating 2.6 million square feet of office space, as well as an observation deck, restaurant, parking, and broadcast and antenna facilities.   After a rigorous selection process, Brazill Brothers was chosen to provide a LonWorks®-enabled ProSys LM Ligh...
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2012-01-20

Verbatim LED Retrofit Lamps Receives ENERGY STAR(R) Qualification

Verbatim Americas, LLC, backed by Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) group, has announces the official ENERGY STAR(R) qualification of its new line of PAR-type retrofit LED lamps. Verbatim's ENERGY STAR qualified LED retrofit lamp product line includes: -- PAR20 -- 3000K, 500 lumen output and 9 watts -- PAR30 -- 2700K, 740 lumen output and 14 watts -- PAR30 -- 3000K, 800 lumen output and 14 watts -- PAR38 -- 2700K, 920 lumen output and 17 watts -- PAR38 -- 3000K , 1000 lumen output and 17 watts ENE...
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2012-01-20

Philips to Sell Prize-winning LED 'Bulb' in February

Philips has announced to sell its LEDs which are recognized as the sole winner (so far) of the US Department of Energy’s “L Prize” competition for 60 W incandescent bulbs commercially from February. According to the DOE, 60 W incandescents are important because they are the most common household bulb in the US, with nearly a billion of them thought to be in use. And while it has qualified more than 400 LED lamps under its Energy Star program so far, the vast majority of these are relatively low-brightness and directional. At the DOE webina...
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2012-01-20

Avago Technologies Introduces Compact LEDs for Cameras

Recently, Avago Technologies has released two series of compact LEDs including ASMT-FJ70 and ASMT-FG70 devices that reduce space requirements for designing auto-focus auxiliary flash functionality into digital cameras. The ASMT-Fx70 LEDs are available in a tiny, environmentally-friendly 3.6 (L) by 3.2 (W) by 3.4 (H) mm surface-mount package that helps meet market demand for thinner digital cameras. The ASMT-FJ70 devices use AlInGaP material technology and feature a 12 degree viewing angle, while the ASMT-FG70 devices use InGaN material ...
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2012-01-20

General Electric Launches New LED Outdoor Lights

General Electric (GE) has launched a new range of long-life LED outdoor lights, which offer up to 50 000 hours, or up to ten years, in regular operating conditions. The new-generation LED Area Lighter lumi- naires are suited to car parks, pedestrian zones or for general illumination. The optical ring design also produces vertical illuminance, efficiently delivering the required amount of light without spilling into neighbouring areas. For street and highway illumination, the new LED Road R250 luminaires have an advanced optical system that improves the uniformity of th...
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2012-01-20

TILS 2012: YCC TECH LIGHTING CO., LTD.

Energy Saving EFL High Frequency (Electrodeless Flourescent Lamp) is the Best Alternative Luminaire to replace High Energy Consumption Lightings, like mercury vapor lamps, metal halide lamps, sodium lamps and other lightings. Feature & Advantages of our EFL: 1.Extremely Long Product Life of 60,000~100,000 hours, and after 60,000hours still remains 70% of luminous flux 2.High Luminous Efficacy & Over 80% Energy Saving than conventional lightings 3.Power Factor>98%, almost no electricity is wasted 4.Low Watts Spent: 100W EFL can replace...
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2012-01-20

TILS 2012: YOULIGHT’s LED Bulbs

LED bulbs have many advantages to become the main lighting source, and it has become true gradually. However, the LED light bulbs with small light angle and unsuitable color temperature will make user uncomfortable when using for a long time.   The main feature of the YOULIGHT LED light bulb is ultra wide angle, so the lighting space is bright uniformly when using the product as the light source. When installed in a translucent light fixture, the light comes out through all over the lampshade from the ultra wide angle LED light bulb. Our ultra wide angle LED...
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2012-01-20

TILS 2012: Alphawave Photonics Corporation

1、3 channels audio synchronized RGB Controller(AWCL-300-6P-audio)   Support IR-remote control interface. R、G、B brightness can be adjusted individually, and auto-save the setting. Built-in six LED dynamic programs; dynamic mode can be set Fade/Jump and changed the dynamic speed. Real Audio Synchronized color LED Control. Automatically control mode switched between Audio Synchronized modes with Silent color fade mode. Adjustable Sensitivity for audio synchronized mode (including Microphone and Line-in sources). Audio source option for Lin...
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2012-01-20

Samsung Electronics to Inject $41.7 billion in OLED Investment

Samsung Electronics has intended to inject about $41.7 billion to put more distance from competitors in 2012. There are about $22 billion will boost its manufacturing capacity for logic chips, MEMS sensors and OLED displays as well as memory and LCD production. The logic chip manufacturing is likely to focus on Samsung's ambitions to make application processors and system chips for mobile phones and tablets. Investment in logic at about $6.5 billion is set to exceed investment in memory chips at about $5.7 billion for the first time. Investment in OLEDs is exp...
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2012-01-20

Seoul Semiconductor Gets 10,000 Patents for LED

Seoul Semiconductor has broken a record on applying, registering and securing more than 10,000 patents for LED. The company invests 10-20 percent of its annual revenue in Research and Development, including funding of an affiliate company. In particular, the company holds patent rights for Acrich, the semiconductor light source using a multi-cell architecture, as well as patent rights for deep UV LED technology. The company anticipates that deep UV LED technology will be commonly used in the future and it will be prepared to produce and sell this technology. &...
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2012-01-20

Japan's Tazmo Designs New A4 I-LED panel

Recently, Japan's Tazmo has designed a new A4 in size (210x297mm) flexible Inorganic LED panel with quite efficient at 30 lm/W. The company has utilized a coating process - which is easily adapter for I-LEDs as they have a simpler element structure when compared to OLEDs. I-LED is different from LEDs as they use the EL (electroluminescence) phenomenon. And the new panel can easily be bent....
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2012-01-20

New Lumenpulse Catalog Simplifies High Performance LED Fixture Selection to Help Lighting Specifiers Bring Ideas to Life

Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced the release of its comprehensive, new product catalog. Designed with ease of use in mind, the catalog enables lighting designers, architects and electrical engineers to select luminaires that will bring their ideas to life. Coming in at 500 pages, the high-quality, hardback volume details the entire Lumenpulse product line. Reflecting the Lumenpulse design approach, fixtures are grouped in pro...
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2012-01-19

LEDinside: LED Bulb Prices Underwent Another Plunge in 11’Dec

Low-Price Strategy Caused Steep Drop in December Prices, Penetration Rate to Surge According to the latest price survey of LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, the ASP of 60W equivalent LED light bulbs dipped by 16% in December, with the lowest price plummeting to US$18.9. As for 40W equivalent LED light bulbs, the lowest price dropped to US$11.1. 60W Equivalent LED Bulb Prices Plunged Source: LEDinside   LEDinside indicates that the prices of 60W equivalent LED light bulbs plunged even further in D...
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2012-01-19

TILS 2012: American GreenPower Inc.

American GreenPower Inc. (AGP) is an international importers, manufacturers, suppliers and distributors of renewable energy lighting solutions, focused on providing energy efficient indoor and outdoor lighting, LED sensor applications for commercial and industrial uses. Our commitment to focus on our customers to provide tailor-made specifications and our proprietary LED lamp solutions, electronic sensors. We offer a wide range of lighting contractors, distributors, designers and professionals who are keen on finding alternatives to energy-efficient lighting products. ePower ...
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2012-01-19

Osram to Cut Jobs in Germany to Focus on LED Industry

Osram, glabal lighting company backed by Siemens, has announced to cut jobs in Germany for further transition to LED industry. According to Osram’s statement on Tuesday, declining volumes in the traditional lighting business due to rising LED demand and regulatory changes will lead to a reduction of about 850 domestic jobs in this field by 2014. Meanwhile, as many as 200 Osram workers may be transferred to Siemens. Currently, Osram employs about 41,000 people worldwide, including about 10,000 in its home country. But the statement didn’t mention to take si...
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2012-01-19

Japan Develops World’s First Cloud-based LED Lighting System

Recently, NetLED system developed by Tokyo-based lighting tech startup Net LED Technology Corp. will go on sale in Japan on February 20,marking Japan gets the world’s first cloud-based LED lighting system. The 40W lights of 40,000-hour lifespan come with built-in Wi-Fi: users can control each tube over the web after installing the NetLed app on a smartphone, tablet, or computer. It’s possible to dim the lights and to turn them on or off. Users can control individual, multiple, or a set of lights (which can be located in separate rooms) via the app,...
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2012-01-19

Delta Electronics Showcased World's Lightest1000lm LED Bulb at Lighting Japan 2012

Taiwan Delta Electronics has rolled out a serious of LED productsat Lighting Japan 2012. The company claimed that it has developed the world's lightest 1000lm light bulb weighting only 130g .With a beam angle of 120 deg and 240 deg the new bulb aims to replace 100W and 80W incandescent bulbs. In the meanwhile, Delta is also demonstrating its remarkable solar-LED streetlight and wind-powered LED streetlight solutions. The wind-powered LED streetlight solution includes a 400W-system with a safety breaker for wind speed exceeding an upper limit of 42.5m/s and ...
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2012-01-19

Four Landmark Bridges To be Bathed in LEDs in Tampa City

Four landmark bridges including Platt Street Bridge, Brorein Street Bridge, Kennedy Boulevard Bridge and CSX Railroad Bridge will be bathed in a shimmering canvas of LED lights as part of the city's "Agua Luces" ("water lights") art project. According to Tampa Mayor Buckhorn, the project is a public-private partnership involving the city of Tampa's Public Art Program, Tampa Electric and People's Gas, and Lights on Tampa. it is estimated to cost about $300,000, will be funded by TECO Energy. City officials selected ...
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SEOUL, South Korea--Seoul Semiconductor (KOSDAQ: 046890), a global leader in optical semiconductors, introduces natural light technology (sunlight) and displays as the new paradigm in lighting. The company announced on the 27th that it will pa... READ MORE

ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS) has reached another important milestone in automotive lighting now that the new OSRAM XLS LR6 LED is ready for series production. This innovative solution enables car manufacturers to create impressive lighting designs wit... READ MORE