Recently, AIXTRON has supplied its new AIXTRON AIX G5 HT MOCVD reactor to Infineon Technologies for the development of GaN-on-Si power HEMTs. In September 2011, Infineon Technologies confirmed process acceptance of the system in a 8x6-inch wafer configuration with the option to upgrade to 5x8-inch. Dr. Franz Auerbach, Senior Director R&D for Power Management & Supply Discretes at Infineon Technologies,said that “We look forward to further enhance our plans in the field of GaN on Silicon. Our teams are confident that...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Municipal Solid-State Street Light Consortium (MSSLC) recently released model guidelines for specifying LED streetlights for municipal installations. This document was created with the input and cooperation of a working group of Consortium members as well as LED lighting manufacturers. The MSSLC created the model to serve as a starting point for municipalities considering new, or adding to existing, LED streetlight installations. Additionally, the guidelines will serve as a useful tool for putting together effec...

The City of Stamford will receive a $357,000 rebate from Connecticut Light and Power for its use of energy efficient LED street lights made by General Electric. What’s more the City’s recent switch to the new GE Cobrahead lights will save it about $146,000 annually on its electric bill. According to a press release, Stamford plans to use the rebate funds to install an additional 467 GE LED Cobrahead streetlights next year. “The new LED streetlights are making an important contribution to Stamford’s sustainability efforts, as well ...

Walmart will open its first store in the United States that utilizes all-LED lighting on the interior. The store, a Walmart Neighborhood Market, is located at 2111 N. Amidon, Wichita, Kan. The company said it expects to see a 40% savings on the energy-efficient lights, which also last at least six years beyond conventional lighting, reducing maintenance costs. "We are delighted to have all LED interior lighting in our newest Wichita store," said market manager Michael Overton. "This is part of Walmart's commitment to be a good steward of the e...

ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, today announced the introduction of the NCP1840, a multi-LED driver with the ability to drive up to eight LEDs independently, using any illumination pattern the user creates. The NCP1840 is ideal for multi-LED status indicators that communicate status and diagnostic conditions to the user, and can help differentiate an end product via LED animation. By utilizing the NCP1840, engineers can offload some of the work normally handled by the...

Project Supports Korean Government’s LED Lighting Penetration Goals   Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced that luminaire manufacturer Ilsung Moolsan of Korea has selected energy-efficient Bridgelux LED arrays for the installation of 1000 of their high quality high performance downlights at the new Sheraton Hotel at D-Cube City in Seoul. Bridgelux’s award-winning RS and ES LED arrays are specified to light various areas of the hotel including lobby, lounge, publi...

1. Introduction of standard badminton court   Badminton court is rectangular court, with 13.4M length, 6.1M width for the doubles game, 5.18M width for the singles game, 14.723M diagonal line for doubles game,14.366M diagonal line for singles game. Badminton court was divided equally into two parts by horizontal line, divided longitudinally  into the front court, midfield, back court. The front court is a area that between short service line and the net; The back court is from end line to long service line. Midfield is area that from short service line to long servi...

Last Friday , Everlight has shown its “deeply sorry” for the anxieties it had caused society because of the unpaid leave plan. And it has scrapped the plan . After the company has released its unpaid leave plan,some critics have highlighted the fact that Everlight Chairman Ye Yin-fu’s was recently able to donate NT$100 million to his alma mater, National Taipei University of Technology.They have also questioned the necessity of the furlough plan in light of the company’s profitability. Everlight posted pre-tax profit of NT$538 million for the ...

OSRAM, one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world, announced today that Shun Li Industrial Park is the first to implement OSRAM’s High Power Modular Street Light (HPMSL) to illuminate the streets in the industrial estate in Singapore.    With the customers’ heavy reliance on ample around-the-clock outdoor lighting, the park made the decision to replace its aging high pressure sodium (HPS) street lamps with OSRAM’s new HPMSL solution for better light and power efficiency, as well as in a reduction of time and mo...

Mighty Bright, designer and manufacturer of innovative LED lighting products, introduces the portable LED Sewing Machine Light at The International Quilt Market 2011, the premier conference and tradeshow for quilters and sewers, being held at George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, October 29-31, 2011. Mighty Bright’s new Sewing Machine Light is a versatile, energy-efficient and cool-to-the-touch LED light for use in sewing, embroidery, and detail-intensive projects. Mighty Bright’s Sewing Machine Light fills a gap in the craft ...

An exhibition of Taiwanese LED lighting products in the United Kingdom has received a warm welcome, the show's organizer, the Taiwan Trade Center in London, said Friday. The organizer said the LED products' quality and designs earned high praise from visiting U.K. vendors, and it expected that Taiwan's share of the British lighting market would grow in step with rising global awareness of the need for energy efficiency. The show, held at the Gusu Art Gallery in western London, featured a number of top Taiwanese LED makers, including Navitas Gr...

Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp announced the "Normal Light Bulb-type 10.6W," a new LED light bulb with a wide light distribution angle. Its light distribution angle is 260°, which is equivalent to that of a bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp. And the brightness of the new LED light bulb is equivalent to that of a 60W incandescent light bulb. It will come in two types, a daylight color type and an incandescent color type, whose luminous fluxes are 1,000 and 810lm, respectively. "As a light bulb with a wide light distribution angle, it has the h...

Faced with shrinking budgets and expanding responsibilities, municipalities are being asked to do more with less when it comes to city improvements. The City of Stamford was up for the challenge when it began exploring how to light its town more efficiently. The resulting solution, a switch to energy-efficient LED streetlights, will save the city more than $146,000 annually. To jump-start the project, the city was awarded an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, an initiative funding energy efficiency and conservation programs across the country. The grant paved t...

OSRAM unveiled a beautiful new OLED installation at the Qubique Berlin Tempelhof 2011 exhibition, which uses over 1,400 OSRAM round Orbeos panels. It was designed by Labme, OSRAM's new open source OLED lighting design platform. It is the largest OLED lighting installation ever produced, replacing Philip's Living Shapes OLED wall installation which had 1,152 Lumiblade panels. But the amount of panels is still small compared to Mitsubishi's 6-meter OLED GeoGlobe which uses 10,362 PMOLED displays. Anyway, here's a nice ...

TESS (Top Energy Saving System Corp.), a leading LED lighting developer and manufacturer in Taiwan; TESS announces 12W 1000 lumen LED bulb, it gets the certification included UL、FCC、CE, and launches in market at Oct, 2011. TESS 12W 1000 lm LED bulb is equivalent to about 70 W incandescent bulb by following the LM79 ,but in the lighting fixture, it is close to 100W incandescent bulb with minimum life-span of 10,000 hours, which is designed for residential use, provides cool white and warm white, especially fit the large and high-ceilinged space l...

Tivoli, the original innovator of linear LED solutions is pleased to announce that the University of Oregon’s (UO) John E. Jaqua Academic Center was recently awarded a prestigious Architectural Lighting Magazine's Light & Architecture Design award. The annual awards program honors outstanding and innovative projects in the field of architectural lighting design. The UO Jaqua Center was awarded a Commendable Achievement in the Whole Building Design Category recognizing and rewarding excellent lighting design. Architectural firm, ZGF Partner...

Recently ,due to the slackened demand in LED industry, including Huga Optotech, Everlight have asked their staffs to carry out unpaid leave. According to Robert Yeh , chairman of Everlight, due to the high inventory level, the LED industry has entered an off season. Everlight staffers will take two to three days of unpaid leave in November and five days in December. The unpaid leave gives Everlight the flexibility to skip a layoff program. In the contrast, Epistar reported that it won’t follow the practice of Everlight. Neither did Chimei-Innolux have the...

Future Lighting Solutions has announced plans to unveil its newest lighting innovation, the Remote Phosphor Downlight Solution at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair, October 27-30, 2011. Visitors to the Future Lighting Solutions booth, located at 1D-D32 in the Hall of Aurora, will learn about the latest LED technologies and how they can help decrease time to market. Featured will be an innovative Remote Phosphor Downlight Solution, comprised of LUXEON® Royal Blue LEDs, a Cubilux mixing chamber from CerFlex International, a ChromaLit...

More than 2,100 exhibitors from 31 countries and regions a new fair exhibitor record are taking part in the HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition), which opened today and continues through 30 October at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Exhibitors from the Cayman Islands, Finland and Sweden are participating for the first time. The fair also welcomes more than 70 buying missions from 60 countries and regions, representing over 5,530 buyers and such companies as: Colinter from France, Daewoo International Corp...

LSI Industries (LYTS) reported earnings results this morning that were significantly less than stellar as the company tries to replace the significant 7-Eleven LED business that propelled revenues last year.  The company reported an EPS of .05/share vs the analyst estimate for .10/share on revenues of $65.5 million vs the analyst estimate for $70 million.  That represents quarter over quarter decreases of 50% and 18% respectively. CEO Robert Ready commented on the quarter: "Overall our fiscal 2012 first quarter sales were weak as we worked to replace ...

Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today unveiled a new LED driver designed specifically for North American street light installations. The efficient LXMG221D-0700040-D2F™ LED driver eliminates bulky step-down transformers typically used in street light fixtures in these markets, providing a single-step conversion from 347VAC or 480VAC down to less than 57VDC as typically required by LED fixtures. This allows manufacturers to design lighte...

Lighting Science Group (OTCBB: LSCG) released news today that in the past year, it has received more than $100 million of LED lighting product orders, representing more than a 100% increase compared to the numbers from last year. One of the world’s premier LED lighting manufacturers, Lighting Science Group’s products are used in all sectors, spanning everything from the International Space Station to businesses and individual homes around the world. Major lighting retailers, companies, retail chains and various municipalities choose LSG’s produc...

OSRAM Oslon SSL LED in red, orange and yellow with new chip technology The latest Oslon SSL LEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors provide up to 20 percent more output than their predecessors and offer improved thermal stability, particularly in Hyperred (660 nm). Eenergy-efficient applications such as commercial horticulture are therefore much more efficient. Behind this boost in performance lie the latest developments in Indium-Gallium-Aluminum-Phosphide chip technology (InGaAlP). Powerful, efficient long-life light sources are enormously important ...

LEDforum 2011 Taipei is a two-day event organized by LEDinside and will be held on November 1st and 2nd at National Taiwan University Hospital International Conference Center. The agenda for the first day features the latest LED market trends in upstream component, manufacturing equipment and LED chips, while the agenda for the second day covers other important areas such as driver IC, package and lighting applications. Focused on the future direction of LED industry, LEDforum is an advanced conference to grasp new market trend and future opportunities.

COAST, the co-producer of LED Lenser lighting products, will feature several professional quality LED flashlights, specifically the HP7 High Performance and the A-Series Professional Use flashlight, which will be exhibited for the first time anywhere, at booth 476, at the AAPEX Show, held at the Sands Expo Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 1st through 3rd. The HP7 Flashlight, patent-pending, Pure Beam™ Focusing Optic system with Fingertip Speed Focus Control™ and lock the beam focus with the Beam Lock™ System, produces 19...

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has honored the designers of University of Colorado Center for Community in Boulder, Colorado with a 2011 Illumination Award for Control Innovation. The 302,000-square-foot university property is configured with Encelium Technology’s Energy Control System™ (ECS). Encelium specializes in integrated lighting control systems for commercial buildings.   Respected as a technical authority on illumination, IES has a membership of nearly 8,000 professionals including architects, lighting and interior design...

Pushing LED brightness, color quality and consistency to new levels, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces another step in eradicating today’s energy-wasting halogen light sources. New XLamp® MT-G LEDs deliver higher brightness levels, unparalleled color quality and proven lighting-class reliability. The new MT-G LED is now more than 10 percent brighter, and can deliver up to 1670 lumens at 85C in warm white (3000K) color temperatures. Additionally, MT-G LEDs are now available in high CRI versions optimize...

For third-quarter 2011, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $268m, up 1% on $264.8m last quarter but down 3% on $277.1m a year ago for continuing operations (reflecting discontinuation of the CIGS Solar Systems business at the start of Q3, and excluding the Metrology business, sold to Bruker Corp of Billerica, MA, USA in October 2010). Of total revenue, 13% came from Data Storage revenue of $34.1m, down 25% on $45.7m last quarter but roughly level with $34.5m a year ago. The oth...

Royal Philips (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) announced today that starting on October 26, one of the world’s most renowned paintings will be bathed in a new light. Philips, Founder of the renovated Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, presents Rembrandt van Rijn’s Night Watch in innovative LED light, bringing out the best of the painting’s color palette while offering increased sustainability and energy efficiency. Through the project, the two Masters of Light are reinforcing their intensive collaboration aimed at joint innovation in the area of LED lighting, sett...

austriamicrosystems has expanded its LED TV driver chip portfolio with three LED drivers and a new LED power supply IC. The AS3822 & AS3823 are 6- and 8-channel LED driver ICs, respectively, and are fully compatible with the recently launched 16- and 12-channel AS3820 and AS3821 LED drivers. This compatibility enables set makers to use the same hardware design and software for their whole range of LED edge-lit TVs. All driver ICs in this portfolio employ austriamicrosystems' enhanced digital power feedback control technique to achieve the low...