According to a local industrial group, Taiwanese companies are encouraged by the World Bank to pursue commercial opportunities in the African LED lighting market in support of the group's program to light up the continent.  Rodd Eddy, an International Finance Corp. (IFC) consultant, disclosed that,because the island was among the world's largest LED and photovoltaic goods makers, the World Bank hoped Taiwanese companies would participate in the "Lighting Africa" program. The IFC also expected Taiwan would provide cutting edge LED li...

According to a survey conducted by LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, because of the subsidy policies enacted by local governments in 2010, Chinese LED chip makers planned to expand their capacity and increase the amount of MOCVD equipment to target at the prospects of the LED lighting market in 2011. However, affected by the uncertain end-market demand of the LED industry in 2011, the inventory levels of LED products continue to rise. Therefore, LED manufacturers have put their purchases of MOCVD equipment on hold.

Toshiba's Tamonari Shioda has presented the company’s new discovery about the green gap in LEDs at the ninth International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS). Currently, the green gap in LEDs is that the rapidly declining efficiency of green light emitters at longer and longer wavelengths. According to Toshiba's Tamonari Shioda, by inserting thin AlGaN layers in the active region of a conventional device, this approach could increase the output power of green LEDs by a factor of almost ten.  ...

Reportedly, Samsung Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (SAIT)  has set up a new record of manufacturing nitride LEDs on 200 mm silicon. Instead of sapphire,with this platform, the widely used substrate for making LEDs promises to cut the cost of LED deposition and processing. Growth of high-quality GaN layers on silicon is not easy,because of  differences in both the lattice constant and the thermal coefficient of expansion of the two materials. SAIT has addressed both these issues by creating a crack-free template featuring AlN/Al...

NexPhase Lighting, Inc.,the subsidiary from Onteco Corporation, is announced to clarify the significance of the UL compliance approval it received for it's 2x2 NexSense LED Troffer Series No. TRO75RWD from Intertek.   Jon Cooper, CEO of NexPhase, thought highly of the significance of the UL compliance approval. He believed that UL compliance approval was an essential safety requirement for LED Luminaries and without it they were unable to reputably sell LED lighting fixtures to customers. It was also an essential requirement to use the nu...

Translucent, Inc., has designed a proprietary GaN-on-Si wafer template with embedded DBR mirrors for low-cost LED growth application. With its new embedded silicon solution (Mirrored Si™), LEDs can now be grown directly on top of the GaN-on-Si template that includes an embedded DBR mirror, directly lattice matched to the silicon substrate. On top of this DBR mirror is a layer of proprietary patented Rare Earth Oxide (REO), which allows GaN to cap the template and does not require subsequent removal of the substrate. At present, the company i...

Novaled recently makes a breakthrought on white OLED with light output of 60 lm/W at a brightness of 1,000 cd/m2. According to the company,  these LED have 100,000 hours lifetime at an initial brightness of 1,000 cd/m2 while using commercially available fluorescent blue emitting material. The color rendering index  is also tested high of 87 for these LEDs. A very broad light emission spectrum and good CIE color coordinates (0.470/0.429) were achieved, which is close to illuminant A and inside the US Department of Energy  quadrangles meeting the DO...

According to Philips, there may be a promising future for ambient lighting in glowing walls, therefore the company has scheduled to wallpapers containing integrated LEDs. The luminous sound-absorbing textiles would glow in variety of colors to cater to he user's requirements. Philips is collaborating with customizable acoustic panels Denmark-based anufacturer Kvadrat Soft Cells to evelop the luminous wallpaper panels. Soft Cells acoustic panels are flexible and can be tailored to fit a wide variety of interiors. The Philips' LED illuminated texture wallpape...

Event The 10th China (Shanghai) International LED Exhibition 2011 Venue Shanghai Everbright Convention& Exhibition Center Dates December 20th ~December 22nd, 2011 Organizers Approved by: Shanghai Commercial Chamber Organized by: Shanghai Illuminating Society Shanghai International Advertising & Exhibition Co., Ltd. Held by: Shanghai...

Longmont-based LED lighting company TerraLUX, Inc.has appointed lighting industry veteran Mark Verheyen as President and CEO, effective July 11, 2011. It’s said that started from his lighting career in sales and management roles at Osram, Verheyen has more than 20 years of sales and senior management experience in the lighting industry. Before joined TerraLUX, he most recently served as Senior Vice President of International Sales & Business Development at Universal Lighting Technologies, a division of Panasonic. Prior to that, Verheyen he...

FZLED, maker of high-performance LED lighting products, is excited to announce extremely high customer-satisfaction levels and exceptional growth. FZLED has been expanding quickly with consumers embracing their numerous lines of high-quality LED bulbs that offer dust-free lighting and several innovative options, like their easy-to-operate on/off switch-dimming feature. To date, FZLED boasts customers in many countries including the UK, Canada, France, South Africa, the UAE, and the United States. Because of the popularity of FZLED’s products, the ...

More light in the long run •    Junction temperature and thermal management of High Brightness LEDs (HMLEDs) optimized •    Fraunhofer Institute completes tests on substrates In close collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) Heraeus has continued to work on the design optimization of its SCB substrates for LEDs. Quite apart from the results already gained in the field of short duration LED applications, the focus this time was put on applications of a longer duration. ...

Aside from regular LED lighting applications, the spotlight of Photonics Festival in Taiwan 2011 mostly shone on LED plant growth light. After the establishment of Philips’s plant factory, Osram has also invested in the LED plant growth light market. In addition, the establishment of plant factory is one of the focuses of China’s 12th five-year plan; the Japanese government established 100 plant factories after the strike of earthquake. Manufacturers of Taiwan, the second largest LED manufacturing country in the world, are surely taking initiatives in gain...

Recently, Uwe Strauss from Osram Opto Semiconductors has demonstrated  the company’s improved green laser performance that are fabricated on the conventional plane of GaN,at the ninth International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors. According to Strauss , these lasers will target pico-projectors, where they can combine with red and blue equivalents to provide a lighting source with a small footprint that is free from a focusing element. Strauss introduce that the green source in a pico-projector producing a 100 lumen brightness must meet the requirements as...

Philips has formed it’s first Lighting Experience Center (LEC) in Asia, to show how light can be used in various urban environments. The center is located in Singapore,and is spread over 4,640 square feet ,targeting to how light can be optimized in outdoor areas and retail environments.

Dialight has designed its fourth-generation LED-based L-864 Red Medium Intensity Beacon certified for Class I, Division 2 hazardous locations use. In contrast to traditional Xenon and incandescent units for lighting chimney stacks, cooling towers or wind turbines in hazardous locations, the Class I, Div 2 L-864 Red Beacon at just under 9 inches high and weighing only 20 pounds, offers significantly less wind load and is highly resistant to shock and vibration. Operating at just 20 watts, the L-864 is more than 90 percent more efficient than incandescent technology...

According to LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendFroce, the total monthly revenue of Taiwanese LED companies listed on TWSE reached NTD 9.23 billion in June 2011 (MoM-6.17%, YoY-10.9%). The LED chip manufacturers’ monthly revenue has decreased by 6.1% to NTD 4.34 billion, compared with that of last year (MoM-6.2%; YoY-6.1%). Furthermore, the LED package manufacturers’ monthly revenue has sharply dropped by 14.8% to NTD 4.89 billion, compared with that of last year (MoM-6.1%，YoY-14.8%).

Elemental LED has added aluminum channels aimed at satisfying demand for stylish LED strip light installation options. The aluminum channels can be available in cabinet installations, display cases and for architectural accent lighting. Alternatively, channels can be used in conjunction with LED strip light in nearly any situation requiring more durability or the style of a sturdy fixture. According to the company,pairing an aluminum channel with the appropriate strip light choice enables customers to build the perfect fixture for almost any project. The Aluminum Cha...

ESI, Inc.has released its most advanced LED wafer scribing system, the AccuScribe 2600 and shows it at the SEMICON(R) West exhibition in San Francisco. with patented, industry-leading technology, ESI's AccuScribe 2600 targets to cater to customer requirements for LED  manufacturing, including Patterned Sapphire Substrate (PSS), Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR), Metal Mirror (MM) and other advanced light extraction technologies....

Seattle City has benefited from tens of thousands more new LED lightings and saved the city $300,000 ,according to City Councilmember Bruce Harrell and City Light Superintendent Jorge Carrasco. City Light has started work on the second phase of installing LED streetlights throughout the residential neighborhoods in its service territory. The utility installed 6,000 lights last year between the Ship Canal and North 65th Street. Contractors will install 12,000 LED streetlights this year from North 65th Street to the north end of City Light’s service ...

Broad Portfolio Simplifies Supply Chain Complexity; Value-Added Solutions Achieve High-Efficiency System Performance With the increasing popularity of LED lighting applications, designers face challenges ranging from design complexity and the need for high system efficiency to limited PCB space and the management of multiple vendors to meet all of their design requirements. To address these challenges, Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, offers a broad portfolio of LED lighting ...

LumiGrow, Inc.,the provider of LED lighting solutions for horticulture, has received an undisclosed sum in Series A financing from Clean Pacific Ventures, to accelerate the market expansion of energy-efficient LumiGrow® lighting solutions for commercial agriculture and horticultural research. Clean Pacific Ventures' General Partner and Chief Investment Officer Sean Schickedanz will join LumiGrow's Board of Directors. Generally, greenhouse growers supplement sunlight with high-intensity discharge  lighting to boost crop growth and extend grow...

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is expanding its LED Outdoor VIEW application portfolio with the introduction of the Hydrel® M9800 Series, Hydrel® 8100 Series and Hydrel® 8200 Series to heighten architecture and landscape design. Hydrel M9800 Series are the first modular 400-watt in-grade lights.  These multi-purpose units are designed for flush mounting in soil or concrete, providing a new alternative to conventional lighting for large architectural and landscape ...

According to Hi Score Corporation , its Board of Directors has decided to restart its efforts to pursue sales in the ever growing Energy Saving LED Streetlight market. The decision to resume attention in this direction comes after months of ensuring corporate integrity as the company adjusted to the acquisition of DMD Lighting and Energy Control Systems. The company is very optimistic about the future. COO of Hi Score and CEO of DMD, Dominick Falso, believed that the Energy Saving Streetlight Market was huge and they had opportunities to sell milli...

Reportedly, Ireland’s Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock T.D., has set up InfiniLED Ltd of Cork, Ireland, a spin-off from Tyndall National Institute, UCC (University College Cork), as a development and production company for next-generation LEDs. InfiniLED is based on Micro LED (µLED) technology invented by a team of researchers led by Brian Corbett in the III-V Materials and Devices group of Tyndall National Institute, supported and funded by Enterprise Ireland (EI). With free-standing gallium nitride (G...

Creating a celebration of light, lighting designer Paul Cocksedge used 80 ETC Selador® Classic Ice™ LED fixtures in an exhibition space as part of the Salone del Mobile home furnishing exhibition in Milan, Italy. The project involved projecting light from the blue part of the color spectrum from concealed Selador fixtures onto an 82-foot-long, curved white wall extension of a lighting showroom in the heart of Milan’s design district. When visitors viewed the wall through a red light shade, a previously hidden video of a car appeared to the viewer. C...

Illumitex recently has developed Surexi LEDs to accelerate plant growth while promoting maximum plant size and vitality. According to Illumitex ,the Surexi is the only LED on the market that includes a custom light spectra in a single LED package, eliminating the colour separation issues inherent in other horticulture LED lighting. Utilising Illumitex’s patented square light pattern and precision beam control, Surexi LEDs produce unrivalled edge-to-edge light uniformity while ensuring all plants receive the same amount of light – leading to more unifo...

Reportedly, Samsung LED and the Korea Photonics Technology Institute (KOPTI) signed an agreement to enhance the development of LED lighting technology On 30 June 2011. Combines with Samsung LED’s rich experience in the LED business,and the assets that KOPTI has obtained over many years such as technical skills, highly skilled researchers and equipment, both organisations are aiming to obtain global competitiveness.  ...

It’s reported that Precision Flow Technologies (PFT) ,the provider of outsource manufacturing, gas and chemical handling equipment, has been awarded $1.5 million from New York State Energy Research and Development (NYSERDA). This NYSERDA award will be used to help the company expand its capacity to manufacture solar thin-film and LED production equipment. NYSERDA has started to provide funding to help New York State companies develop or expand facilities to manufacture innovative renewable, clean energy or energy efficient products since 2...

USHIO INC. has kicked off shipping the world's first 200-mm wafer full-field projection lithography tool "UX4-LEDs FFPL 200" for manufacturing High-Brightness LED chips. Additionally, the company has completed development of the laser lift-off system "UX4-LEDs LLO 150" for volume manufacturing of vertical-structure LED chips. These latest models of the UX4-LEDs are based on the same platform as USHIO's field-proven UX series, which has an installed base of more than 1,100 systems. They will be exhibited thro...