Aixtron SE has announced that Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, has received its new Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) system. Commissioned by the local Aixtron support team, the CCS 3x2-inch wafer configuration system is being used for research into ultra-high brightness LEDs and related material systems. Director of Luminous! Centre of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays and Singapore NRF Fellow, Nanyang Associate Professor Hilmi Volkan Demir comments, “We have established a solid-state lighting (SSL) lab...

According to “The Global and China LED Industry Report, 2010-2011”, since Veeco launched the K465I in the Chinese market, its revenue soared 230%, putting a great deal of pressure on Aixtron. The report, available from reportlinker.com, says the LED market size climbed 58% to US$15.8 billion in 2010 from US$10 billion. The market size of LED for LCD TV backlight actually boomed to approximately US$3.9 billion from US$960 million driven by the explosion of LED-TV. The market share of LED-backlit LCD TV arrived at 26.9% in 2...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces that more than 930 LR6(TM) six-inch LED downlights and LR24(TM) LED lay-in luminaries have been installed at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base as part of an overall renovation currently underway. Located outside of San Diego, Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps, serving as its prime amphibious training base for nearly 100,000 Marines. Prior to installation, Accelerated Electric, Inc., the electrical contractor for this project, and RA...

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology maker GlacialTech Inc., is excited to announce that their display at INTERLIGHT MOSCOW will feature an exceptional line-up of high-quality and superbly designed LED lighting products for buyers and journalists to see first-hand. Interested parties are invited to visit the GlacialLight Booth #NO.T1.3, Hall 7.2, from November 8-11, 2011, at the Expocentre Fairgrounds in Moscow, to test products, ask questions, and procure GlacialLight's most advanced LED lighting solutions offerings. Dat...

LEDtronics announces another of its energy-saving LED light bulbs: the LED15T4 -SIW-120A T4 tube bulb with an E12 candelabra base and 120A input voltage. The 0.9-Watt consuming LED tube bulb replaces incandescent bulb numbers 15T4, 15T6/CB/130, 15T7/CB/130 and GE 15T7C 13494 up to 15 Watts. The LED15T4 series boasts more than 23 lumens and a spherical candela of 1.84 while drawing just 0.18mA current. This translates into an efficacy of 23.1 lumens per a watt of energy. It provides a warm-white light in the range 2800K to 3200K and is ideally us...

Larson Electronics' Magnalight.com has announced the addition of a portable LED task light to its line of LED lighting products. The SCLED-H5 rechargeable LED task light provides both a spot beam and floodlight capability for applications where distance as well as wide area illumination is needed. A magnetic mounting base and integrated grappling hook allow users to easily secure this light in a variety of locations and a rechargeable and removable battery provides an economical power source. The SCLED-H5 rechargeable LED task light provides operators wit...

Pune based IT company, BMC Software has launched an initiative to " gain by saving" by replacing lighting fixtures in its Pune office facilities with higher efficiency LED lights resulting in over 65% savings in power. These savings have been utilized to donate solar power LED lighting system to a remote village near Sakur in Sangamner taluka of Ahmednagar district. Tarun Sharma, site leader and vice president of research and development for BMC Software said, "A significant part of the savings made from reduced power bills will be applied to the co...

Solid Apollo’s value based LED Wizard 10 Zone Controller incorporates the same features found in high end led controllers yet at a budget conscious price. Each RGB LED Controller provides users the option of controlling up to 10 zones individually or collectively from the convenience of a single wireless controller. The LED Wizard RGB LED Controller includes Solid Apollo’s exclusive Touch Wheel Color Selector which gives users the ability to dial-in any color of the rainbow at the flick of a finger. In addition, users can control brightness, col...

A smart office is one which uses less energy, where wireless sensors placed on workstations and personal computers "talk" to each and relay information about the room back to a computer or base station, which then "tell" individual LED lights installed on the ceiling how much to light up, dim or switch off. Such a smart grid lighting system can result in energy savings of some 45 per cent compared to conventional fluorescent lighting. Yesterday, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) announced a tie-up with JTC Corporation and Royal Philips El...

InLight Expo 2012 Date：5-7 June 2012 Venue:EUREXPO<span style="Times New Roman" "="">，Exhibition site of Lyon-France The international indoor lighting trade fair Light is an element of our environment, wheter it is a question of promotion, comfort or even decoration, its role in interior decoration is decisive. InLight Expo is the ultimate meeting place for actors and major interior lighting professionnals. Declared Town of business tourism in 2009, with many existing and coming infrastructures (creation of an additional hal...

LightFair International 2012 //www.lightfair.com/lightfair/V40/ Venue: Las Vegas Convention Center Country: Las Vegas, United States Of America Start Date:      09-MAY-12      End Date: 11-MAY-12 Exhibitors:       336+    Visitors:     20,000+ Industry:  Electronics & Electricals   EVENT PROFILE Lightfair International will be one of the most famous events related to lighting industry. The main aim of the event will ...

Illuminex India 2012 Date：Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India Event Profile: illuminex India earlier known as Lighting South Asia, is now in its 3 edition and will be an international showcase of comprehensive range of lighting and allied industry products, technologies & services from across the world.   illuminex India has a consistent track record of attracting high quality buyers making it the preferred choice for companies for India and abroad. The overwhelming success of the past shows and high quality trade buyers from all across the globe has encourage...

2012 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair （Spring Edition） Fair Dates :6-9 April 2012 (Friday-Monday) Edition :4th Venue :Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong ( Harbour Road Entrance) Admission :For trade visitors aged 18 or above only.(Admission fee is HK$100 per person) Organiser :Hong Kong Trade Development Council Sponsors :Federation of Hong Kong Industries、Hong Kong Electrical Appliances Manufacturers Association、The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce、The Chinese Manu...

Expolux 2012  Expolux – International Lighting Industry Exhibition is the main market fair for professionals that, among their activities, need to get acquainted with trends and new technologies, about the Lighting Universe.Architects, engineers, shop owners, construction industry buyers, decorators, and others have the opportunity to know, first hand, the novelties reserved by the sector to this great event.A biennial event that keeps the market updated, presenting products developed with high technology, besides being a large display of functionality and design. ...

4th LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo    Dates: January 18 [Wed] - 20 [Fri], 2012   Open Hours: 10:00-18:00 (10:00-17:00 on Jan. 20)   Venue: Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, JAPAN   Organised by: Reed Exhibitions Japan Ltd.   Exhibition Title: LIGHTING JAPAN–4th LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo   Concurrent Event:LIGHTING JAPAN Technical Conference   Special Exhibit Fair / Zones:   LED/OLED Light Fair Lighting Apparatus Technologies Z...

Following the speech of Shuji Nakamura, Ph.D. (the inventor of GaN LED) on the first day of LEDforum, the second day kicked off with the speech of Philips Lumileds’ SSL Fellow and the inventor of yellow LED, Dr. George Craford. He addressed the LED innovations in the next generation lighting. Dr. Craford is an IEEE fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His research focus on several compound semiconductor materials and LEDs with visible light. In the early 1970’s, Craford garnered recognition from his achievement in...

The LED industry outlook is fast-changing, currently facing oversupply after its growth surge over the recent years. LEDforum 2011 Taipei, organized by TrendForce’s research division, LEDinside, on November 1 and 2, 2011 at the NTUH International Convention Center. This year the inventors of GaN LED and yellow LED, LEDinside analysts as well as international and Taiwanese LED key industry leaders are invited to analyze the global LED industry. Several international industry leaders shared their perspectives on the manufacturing technologies an...

Researchers working at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently announced they had improved the performance of LEDs through the use of zinc oxide microwires. Scientists from Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering affirmed they had been working to create technologies that could potentially improve the performance of LEDs, which are increasingly common in homes and businesses as a lighting source. The research was funded with grants obtained from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Department of Energ...

MINGYAO Department store, located in the central shopping area in Taipei, a Taiwan traditional department store for 23-year old which held a grand reopening on Sep. 23, 2011 after seven months of renovation. The opening of the Uniqlo flagship store coincided with the grand opening in MINGYAO. For the grand reopening of MINGYAO, ARC SSL. has equipped the exceptional lighting fixtures with LED solution in dynamic lighting display. The LED cluster fixtures are installed and provide splendor lightshows in multi-sides with the one control system. ARC...

Larson Electronics' Magnalight.com has introduced a powerful LED hand lamp to its line of explosion proof approved work lights that provides the versatility of a compact hand lamp with the high output of an LED equipped bulb assembly. The EPL-FL26-LED-100 is a compact yet powerful work light that produces three times the illumination of comparable fluorescent work lights without the problems of fragile glass lamps and bulky ballasts or transformers. Equipped with 100 feet of explosion proof cord and constructed to withstand rigorous use, this lamp is ideal for close wo...

Cooper Lighting, a leader in energy-efficient solutions offering the broadest selection of recessed downlights including the first ENERGY STAR®-qualified HALO LED downlight and IRIS high-performance architectural products, has partnered with LIPA to offer its universal All-Pro LED Retrofit Recessed Downlight to promote both energy efficiency and cost savings. Through its Residential Energy Efficient Lighting Program, one of the many programs under LIPA's Efficiency Long Island, customers can purchase Cooper Lighting's All-Pro...

LED Holiday Lighting, premier online LED Christmas lighting retailer, is pleased to announce the expansion of their LED lighting product line with launch of their newly redesigned and completely restructured website. LED Holiday Lighting website is now easier to navigate and provides customers with more quality LED lighting products to choose from just in time for Christmas shopping. The updated product line features premium and commercial grade LED lighting products along with an array of NEW! LED decorative light products you won’t find anywhere else...

High-Definition LED Video Screens Installed at Michigan Stadium Football fans of the University of Michigan kicked off the 2011 season enjoying a new look to Michigan Stadium, now complete with newly upgraded scoreboards from Lighthouse Technologies. The state-of-the-art video displays and scoring systems feature Screen Master® high-brightness LEDs by Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), delivering crystal-clear, high definition images to fans throughout “The Big House.” A college football icon, Michigan Stadium was built in 1927 and is the lar...

Tsannkuen Japan, a subsidiary of a Taiwanese company, has involved in infringing Nichia's patent (No. 4530094, or "094 patent") and Nichia claims damages for the infringement with regard to LED light bulbs manufactured by Tsann Kuen. According to Nichia, it has filed two patent infringement lawsuits at the Tokyo District Court with Tsann Kuen as the defendant and Unity Opto Technology Co. Ltd., as its supporting intervener. In addition, Nichia also confirmed that Tsann Kuen sold LED light bulbs with E17 bases (product number: TK-BE05L, ...

Lately, at the launch of GE Lighting’s European Lighting Experience Centre in Hungary,the company’s president and CEO (EMEA) Phil Marshall has anticipated a 150 per cent growth in LED sales but that the company will adopt a strategic decision that not to invest large amounts of money in takeovers when there was still so much uncertainty in the LED market. He pointed out that “I don’t think you have to be a chip manufacturer to be successful in the LED market. We’ve been investing on a smaller and more organic scale to build up ou...

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...