The increasing popularity of light-emitting diode lights might have a downside for human health, researchers say. It has been know that "white" artificial light reduces melatonin production in the pineal gland. However, researchers have now qualified for the first time the degree of suppression depending on a person's exposure to different light sources. The multi-country study, published in the Journal of Environmental Management, compared high pressure sodium (HPS) bulbs, where give off an orange-yellow light and have been used in street lighting, with '...

LG announced it will invest $6.83 billion in green business sectors by 2015. The conglomerate says the investments - in electric vehicle batteries, LED lighting, solar PV and water treatment technologies - will generate $8.4 billion in revenue, while creating 10,000 green jobs around the world. It will also boost business for about 660 small and midsized enterprises in its supply chain. About a third of the investment will be in lithium batteries for electric vehicles (by 2013). It's also planning to get into the solar polysilicon business by 2014. Its LG Chem div...

Exar Corporation unveiled the XRP7618 an 8-channel constant current LED driver. Supporting up to 30V on its LED channel inputs, the XRP7618 is ideally suited to drive up to eight strings of multiple LEDs at currents up to 100mA. Several devices can be cascaded to drive additional channels. Key Product Features With a capability of 100mA per channel and outputs rated at 30V, the XRP7618 can control strings of multiple LEDs with better than +/- 1.5% channel to channel current matching. Multiple channels can be combined to increase current driving capabil...

Luminator congratulates Boeing on delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner. Luminator Aerospace, a preferred supplier, was selected to supply passenger information signs (PAX) and wireless emergency lighting system (WELS) lights and signs. The new LED lighting systems will provide greatly increased efficiency and service life. "The first 787 delivery is a major accomplishment, our design teams have worked closely with Boeing to achieve this and we look forward to the continued success of the program." – Riko Yap, VP Marketing and Business Devel...

Norburn Lighting is proud to introduce the Sōl™ Organic LED Chandelier from WAC Lighting. Sōl™ is an upscale decorative chandelier utilizing Organic LED panels, the world’s most revolutionary nanotechnology light source available today. Sōl™ is inherently sustainable, designed around energy efficient and environmentally friendly technology and individually crafted in WAC Lighting’s clean manufacturing campus featuring zero landfill status and inhouse UL Labs. Sōl™ features upgraded ORBEOS OLEDs from OSRAM ...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced its sponsorship of EDN’s Designing with LEDs event during the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) this week at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. The September 27th LED seminar will bring together editors of EDN and EE Times, circuit designers, system architects, LED light designers, device packaging engineers, lighting component designers, academic leaders and the industry’s mover...

Solar power plant project is divided into two main types of technology, one photoelectric conversion, and the other is solar thermal conversion. Concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) technology creates steam and makes solar thermal generators to produce electricity; the principle of optical focus concentrating photovoltaic conversion of solar system (concentrating PV system; CPV) is to use the lens to focus the sun's rays refracted or reflected on the solar cell to generate electricity.

Reportedly, German Zweibrüder Optoelectronics has created a gaint flashlight as big as a Volkswagen Golf with an array of 19 high-powered LED lights. The Germans have built a flashlight that is four meters long. That is thirteen feet long in the old money, which marks a world record for the biggest flashlight (electric torch) ever made. It has placed its makers firmly into the Guinness Book of Records. Zweibrüder Optoelectronics designed this giant-sized device as part of the celebrations for the Lichternacht (the Festival of Lights), held in Solingen, i...

One of the most powerful UV LED curing arrays on the market is now available for integration into end user design-and-build programmes. Purpose-designed to support the concept of customer own-build, the new patented LEDZero Module from UK UV LED developers Integration Technology Ltd (ITL) is now available for customers to configure into their own UV LED designs and applications. Each module contains 25 individual chips mounted directly onto a high-efficiency custom-designed heat sink, with the high-packing density of chips in the miniature component furth...

Shortly after stopping producing standard incandescent lamps to focus on LEDs and other solid-state lighting products, Toshiba International Corp., has set up its LED Lighting Systems Division which consists of team of U.S. lighting veterans. Ken Honeycutt, is now senior V.P. of Toshiba International Corp. and chief venture executive for Toshiba. Previously,he spent most of his lighting career with Acuity Brands Lighting, where he rose to the position of CEO. Mark Altomare, V.P. of business development, who was regional V.P. of sales at Hubbell Lig...

Sources inform that recently, Walsin Lihwa Corp. has kick off volume production at an LED-epitaxy venture in Shanxi Province, mainland China. According to the company,the venture is designed to have annual output of 150,000 4-inch epitaxy wafers with 20 MOCVD chambers, estimated to bring in Walsin Lihwa around NT$1.3-1.5 billion (US$43-50 million at US$1:NT$30) in revenue a year.   Walsin Lihwa has spent around US$127 million on the investment of the venture. And the company will see return from its investment in LED industry over the next one to two...

LED venture of US$120 million which has been co-opened by Taiwanese LED makers Epistar, and Lite-On Technology as well as TV maker Konka Group comes on stream in Changzou ,China on Sept. 23, 2011  Epistar has in the dominating position of the venture with a 60% stake. The venture is its first overseas and the biggest in mainland China capable of making epitaxy wafers and chips.Plus, this venture is its first that involves LED packager (Lite-On) and end-product maker (Konka) as co investors. At the same time, Lite-On owns a 30% stake and Konka hold...

Reposts have released that Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) has made a program to provide access to solar photovoltaic (PV) and LED lighting systems for 1,000 households and ten schools in villages in India at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City on September 21st, 2011 . In the meanwhile , the program will expand access to household finance for home solar systems, as well as providing training for entrepreneurs from Africa and Central America to replicate the model in other regions. According to Mark Walker ...

A Richmond manufacturing company was selected to produce a new street light technology that could result in huge energy savings for cities, businesses and individuals around the globe. LAD-JD Lighting of Muncie designed a new patent-pending LED street light that uses 90 percent less energy than current street lights. The Muncie company then stumbled across Richmond's CMJ Corp. -- a Department of Defense contractor -- during Google Internet searches to try to find a nearby manufacturer that could mass-produce the technology. The unit uses just 13 watts of pow...

Silicon Valley is known for computer chips, software companies and social networks -- but not light bulbs. Switch Lighting, a San Jose startup, hopes to change that. Later this fall, the venture capital-backed company plans to release a new line of bulbs aimed at replacing the ones consumers typically use in lamps and other fixtures. Switch's bulbs are among a new generation powered by light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, a technology that many experts bet will finally displace the incandescent bulb that Thomas Edison invented more than a century ago, in part because they&#...

In October, 2010, China’s State Council officially recognized the optoelectronics industry as one of China’s emerging industries of strategic importance, with reference to its sub-industries including new-style display devices and LED. In 2011, the starting year of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, CCID Consulting launched China Optoelectronics Industry Layout White Paper to facilitate China’s central and local governments in their layout planning of the industry, based on CCID Consulting’s analysis of China's optoelectronics in...

Fusion Optix announced today that it has completed a major upgrade to its in-house capabilities at its Woburn MA headquarters. The company is also embarking upon a new hiring program for technical and commercial personnel. Fusion Optix has expanded several processes to produce new products based upon the company’s CORE™ platform of innovations. The new equipment and clean rooms are fully operational and Fusion Optix has already begun sampling production ready products to OEM customers. The upgrades are focused primarily on the company’s line of Energy...

LEDforum, an annual and the largest LED conference in Taiwan, will again bring together the leading manufacturers, materials and component suppliers, technology innovators, and the lighting community. Come and meet the representing elites from Aixtron, Delta, Epistar, Everlight, Henkel, KLA-Tencor, Merck, OSRAM, Philips Lumileds, ULVAC and Veeco. Don't miss your opportunity to network and learn from this international gathering event.

LED products makers are organising a two-day exhibition here from tomorrow to create awareness and promote usage of LED in the country. According to LED Manufacturers Association (LEDMA), the demand for packaged LED and LED products in the country stands at $ 1 billion and is expected to reach $ 35 billion by 2020. "LEDs are finding more and more application in signals, signage/displays, automobiles, Back Lighting Units (BLUs) for TV, monitors and mobiles," LEDMA President M V Ramana Rao said. He added that their main thrust is ...

The energy-saving lighting products have become increasingly popular all over the world instead of using traditional lights which are higher heat output and consume more energy. ADO Optronics chooses Cree LEDs as our major lighting source which features higher color rendering performance. Our LED lamps can present the unity of color temperature that makes a comfortable ambient lighting. Strictly quality control guarantees that our LED lighting products are higher luminous efficacy and lower heat output with good design to dissipate heat. The ADO Optronics LED product...

“A PIONEER IN HIGH PERFORMANCE LUMINAIRE MANUFACTURER” TYC Brother Industrial Co., Ltd. established in 1986, and started our business with automotive lighting. We also become one of the leading manufacturers and receive lots of reputation in this line of business. TYC based on the successful experience in automotive lighting, use the professional optical design technology and precise photometry test to develop the High Performance Luminaires including indoors and outdoors lighting (street lighting, office light...

According reports from Nichia, Tokyo District Court has issued a provisional injunction order, fully in favor of Nichia in the case where Nichia filed provisional injunction action on September 6, 2010 at Tokyo District Court to enjoin Tsannkuen Japan, a sub Nichia sidiary of a Taiwanese company, from infringing Nichia's patent. The infringed patent is one of Nichia's patents concerning the technology of combining photo-luminescent material with blue LED, and is employed in many white LED products that combine photo-luminescent material with blue LED. ...

Recently, Philips has rolled out three robust, high-performance LED inspection lamps: a penlight, a LED inspection lamp on 240 V or 24 V, and a LED inspection lamp with docking station. These lamps provide high light output to illuminate confined dark spaces, for instance when servicing a motor vehicle engine. Penlight (battery-driven) The compact, cable-free penlight is particularly user-friendly. Six high-powered LEDs provide a bluish light with an intensity of 120 lux. The LED pointer on the pen tip illuminates the working area precisely with 85 lux. The pe...

T5 High-PF Ceiling Lamp has the following features: 1.    High power factor electric ballast(110V/220V) 2.    Streamlined style 3.    Patented user-friendly top-down lamp replacement 4.    Taiwan CNS certification 5.    Manufacture & Design in Taiwan ...

North Seattle, LED Company SolidApollo.com announces their Constant Current LED Light Strip designed to be installed in linked runs without the noticeable lumen degradation found in traditional linked LED Light Strips. The LED strip allows for longer runs with just one power source applied every 60 feet. The Constant Current LED Light Strip also provides the most stable light output of its kind, making installation more versatile for designers and installers alike. Solid Apollo provider of LED Lighting Solutions has designed a LED lighting solutio...

Baja Designs, Inc. the leader in off road lighting since 1992 is excited to announce the latest light in their LED lineup. The Squadron utilizes four CREE XML LEDs - the brightest, most efficient LEDs on the market to give you a blinding 3600 lumens. Alan Roach, engineer and Baja racer said: “You have to see this thing, the spot really gets out there but has nice side lighting and the driving pattern is incredible.” The light and optics were designed in-house by their experienced staff of engineers and racers. This light weighs in at a svelte 12 ounces ...

ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, has expanded its portfolio of Constant Current Regulators (CCRs) to include the NSI50350A. This simple and extremely robust device is designed to provide a thermally efficient and cost-effective alternative to passive/discrete components or driver integrated circuit (IC) solutions for current regulation of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). The device is ideal for a variety of 1 watt (W) lighting applications including automotive, architectural l...

LDL-99 Feature •Easy installation, won the Taiwan Excellence award 2009. •Eco-friendly LED technology along with energy efficiency and free maintenance. •Good thermal management guarantees a long lifespan. •Lampshade make a smooth light distribution. •Anti-dazzle design with 20°cut-off angle create a visual comfort. •No UV or IR radiation in the light beam. Application General lighting for office, meeting room, library, corridor and home space....

New architectural LED fixture for large indoor spaces brings high design consistency and fast ROI through energy and maintenance cost savings 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 and immediate availability of the Lumenbeam LBX (Xlarge) Pendant.  Developed for large interior spaces such as lobbies, atriums, convention centers and more the Lumenbeam LBX Pendant offers a greener, cost effective and d...

Grid Lay-In Fixture Integrates Seemlessly with Adura Technologies Wireless Control Platform   Lunera® Lighting, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, announced today the commercial availability of Lunera’s first Adura Technologies-enabled luminaire, the 2240 SERIES. Based on Lunera’s award winning two-foot by two-foot architectural grid lay-in and surface mountable 2200 SERIES fixture, the 2240 SERIES comes equipped with a factory-installed Adura LC-1RD wireless...