The city of Tulsa is installing new energy saving LED traffic signals to be a greener community. Reportedly, earlier this year, city workers have replaced more than a thousand traffic lights in the downtown area. The city's been gradually converting all signals to LED's since 2004. Throughout the years they've seen 70 to 90 percent in energy savings. In addition, the city of Broken Arrow is also in the process of converting to LED technology. Officials say it's saving the city $3,700 dollars a month. There are plans to put energy efficient lighting in...

Cree recently has introduces a new seven 1200V Z-Rec™ silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky diodes to advance the adoption of silicon carbide power devices into mainstream power applications. Cree Z-Rec diodes feature zero reverse recovery, resulting in up to a 50% reduction in switching losses versus comparable silicon diodes. They also exhibit consistent switching performance across their entire temperature range. When used in conjunction with Cree’s recently-introduced 1200V SiC power MOSFETs, these SiC Schottky diodes enable the implementation of all-Si...

Recently, Amersfoort-Netherlands based AkzoNobel , plans to enlarge its production capacity for its key products: trimethyl gallium (TMG) and trimethyl indium (TMI) to meet continued strong global demand for its High Purity MetalOrganics (HPMO) product range, which manufactures semiconductor-grade indium-, gallium-, aluminum-, zinc- and magnesium-based metalorganics used as key precursor materials in the production of LEDs, solar cells and other semiconductor devices.   In June 2010 AkzoNobel doubled its TMG production capacity at its facilities in LaPor...

Panasonic has supported its 1,652 solar panels and a new full-color, dual-sided LED video board at the famed Northern California Infineon Raceway for energy conservation. Manufactured by Panasonic’s Sanyo division, the high-efficiency solar panels will cover 41-percent of the raceway’s energy usage. And Panasonic has also provided the raceway with a low-energy LED video board. Easily visible from Highway 37, the new board measures 5.77’ high by 17.32’ wide, and uses 57,600 LEDs to create messages brighter than the older technology. It consumes...

VIZIO has announced to step into LED Lighting market with a collection of new, high performance, energy saving, LED bulb in Q4. The company partners with Epistar and Seoul Semiconductor for the new line of products. Donald Leo, Vice President, of SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR noted that they are looking forward to VIZIO's entrance into the market with their soon-to-launch High Efficiency LED light bulbs.   And Dr. B.J. Lee, Chairman of Epistar said that "VIZIO'S expansion into the LED Lighting market stands to cha...

Rambus has developed an intellectual property (IP) portfolio called Pentelic to tap into LED lighting industry. Pentelic enables edge-lit light guides to provide both area and directional room lighting offices, schools and retail. According to the company, its IP space is to do with edge lighting a light guide with LEDs and the use of micro-optics embedded into the light guide providing ray angle control so light can be directed out of the light guide. Measured as the total flux from the light engine to the total flux from the guide, efficiency is 92-95%. The guides...

Intematix recently has received the San Francisco Business Times Cleantech & Sustainability Award in the Lighting category which recognizing Intematix for its contribution to the LED industry through advanced phosphor materials that improve the efficiency and quality of light. Earlier this year, Intematix launched the ChromaLit Collection — a family of patented remote phosphor shapes and sizes that separate the phosphor from the chip to improve efficacy, color quality and opens doors for LED lighting design.   The product collection, available in 2-D...

Nuventix, creator of SynJet® thermal management technology, has been named an Innovation Award Winner for phase II of GE's $200 million open innovation challenge, recognizing products and ideas that improve energy efficiency in the home. As a challenge winner, Nuventix has been offered the opportunity to develop a commercial relationship with GE including exploring investment opportunities, distribution partnership opportunities and development assistance with GE Global Research Centers. Nuventix was one of 15 companies selected from more than 5000 ideas submit...

CEA-Leti , a French research and technology organization, has set up a partnership with NEOLUX, a French LED lighting company on developing and manufacturing innovative LED modules and products for lighting. It’s a three-year project which is known as MODULED. According to the project, they will industrialize smart LED systems in France by simplifying functioning and assembly, reducing the mechanics and electronics of current LED systems, and incorporating the latest LED features. In addition, they also will establish processes to allow the f...

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., and Fremont, Calif. USA, Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, has signed a global distribution agreement with Intematix Corporation, a leading innovator of patented remote phosphor components for high-quality LED lighting.   Mark Zack, Digi-Key's vice president, semiconductors said, “Digi-Key is proud to welcome Intematix to our Solid State Lighting prod...

FZLED, maker of high-performance LED lighting products, releases their environmentally-friendly MR16-03 series of LED spotlights. High luminous efficacy and lifetimes of more than 35,000 hours make these high-quality LED bulbs an excellent choice for commercial, industrial, and residential settings. FZLED has paid particular attention to universal compatibility with this product release, making the MR16-03 LED spotlight bulbs able to fit GU5.3, GU10, E11, E14, E17, E26, E27, and B22 sockets and able to take AC input voltages of 100-240V as well as a 12...

Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, recently launched the third generation of its advanced LED Arrays, including its industry-leading LS, ES, and award-winning RS product families.  This new product generation features the latest technical advancements in epitaxial GaN layer growth, LED chip design and packaging technologies, delivering an increase in efficacy of up to 20% and a reduction of up to 30% in the cost per lumen compared to previous product generations. These new Arrays offer greater system de...

Facility Supports Increasing Demand for High Quality, Large Diameter Wafers to Support Increasing Volume Demands of LED Industry Worldwide Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today announced two critical milestones that enable its new state-of-the-art facility in Penang, Malaysia to move into volume production of six- and eight-inch polished sapphire wafers.   Rubicon’s new Malaysia facility recently completed qualific...

Reportedly, Researchers from IMRE, a research institute of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and the University of Michigan, US have turned out that the efficiency of fluorescent blue OLED devices can reach 9.4%, trumping the current theoretical limit for OLED external quantum efficiency (EQE) by nearly two-fold. This breakthrough has overcome the weakness of the blue emitters on short lifetime and poor colour quality, and it is likely to make OLED displays the next wave in consumer displays. By changing the thick...

Recently, LEDON OLED lighting has combined 9 LG Chem OLED panels and LEDON's own outcoupling and electrical contact system to design a new OLED module that is the brightest ever at 1001 lumens, which is considered to be the world's brightest OLED module. The color temperature is 4077K and the efficacy is over 30 lm/W. The total lamp size is 300x300² with a thickness of 5 mm. and it designed for professional lighting applications....

Despite LED lighting business is in deficit currently, Yeh, Chairman of Everlight, believes the company will make profits in 2 years. At present, the company is concentrating on ensuring distribution network, and it is expected to take 3-5 years to establish a basic distribution network .and it will be capable of setting up a foundation to compete on equally with Philips and Osram in 5 years....

The provider of UV LED solutions Phoseon Technology and Hapond Digital is about to display their products at the 22nd Malaysia International Sign, LED, NEON Technology & Equipment Exhibition, which is considered as one of the largest and well-known exhibition in Malaysia.. The Phoseon will show a wide variety of leading edge UV LED curing products used for curing inks, coatings, adhesives and other applications. It will also be presenting a paper on UV LED Technology at the show. Hapond's exhibit will display Phoseon's StarFire MA...

Due to slower-than-expected demand for LED backlights for LCD TVs and inferior cost efficiency relative to Taiwan’s manufacturers, South Korea’s top LED chipmakers are reported to decide to halt their expansion plans. Early last year, South Korean manufacturers intended to add a total of 600 MOCVD chambers. But they have stopped at only 150 to 200 MOCVDs. Samsung has set aside part of its backlight chips for lighting purposes to ease pressure on oversupply. As a result, Taiwan’s LED chipmakers including Epistar, Formosa Epitaxy an...

Lighting Science Group has appointed its Chief Executive Officer, James "Jim" Haworth, to its board of directors and to serve as chairman of the board.    Prior to joining Lighting Science Group, Haworth served as a senior executive with Philips Professional Luminaires North America, as vice president of marketing and strategy. For the past three years, Haworth was responsible for all upstream marketing functions of Philips' lighting business .Prior to joining Philips, Haworth served as president and CEO of JJI Lighting Group, which ...

According to Taiwan's Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), due to a high-growth market demand worldwide, Taiwan's LED industry revenues are likely to reach $6.8 billion in 2012 from this year's projected $5.2 billion revenues, surging by 32 percent. This is double than last year's first-ever $3.4 billion turnover. Both government and private sector incentives in many countries to boost the use of LED lighting has driven the high-growth market demand, analyzed by PIDA. Taiwan ranks second among the world's largest...

The Boerne-based company GreenStar Products Inc. is moving its headquarters and U.S. manufacturing facility to San Antonio as one of CPS Energy's “new energy economy” partners. It's in the second phase of investment, and money is coming from places like Venezuela and Mexico. The company has divided the world into four markets — the United States/Canada, Latin America, India and Europe — and plans to sell to nearly every corner of the globe. It already manufactures in India as well. The company was founded after a meeting in M...

Recently, the automotive supplier of electronics and lighting, Hella has developed a partnership with Hubbell Lighting to develop and market a non-automotive application of its LED lighting technology in North America. According to their cooperation, the two companies is defined as a traditional cross-branding relationship in which Hella designs, develops and manufactures the light module or "engine", while Hubbell Lighting markets and distributes the lighting fixture into municipal markets. The commercial LED light engine is designed for installation into ex...

AquaLite in China has placed a new order from Aixtron for 55x2-inch CRIUS II reactor which will be dedicated to the growth of materials for high brightness LEDs and high Voltage (HV) LED production. The system was ordered in the first quarter of 2011 and the local Aixtron support team will install and commission the new reactor in the second quarter of 2011 at the dedicated AquaLite power chip LED facility within its mainland China production plant. it’s said that with state of the art epitaxial crystal growth and chip process technology, AquaLite&rs...

Reportedly, the Italian Association for Electronic Suppliers has given the 2011 Assodel Award for the Best LED Vendor to Seoul Semiconductor. The South Korea Company was honored to receive the best prize in the LED sector at the awards on June 17. The Assodel Award is one of the electronics industry's highest honors and achievements in Italy based on the votes of industry experts including developers, manufacturers and buyers....

Lately, Osram has made two breakthroughs on OLED. One breakthrough is that, testing under application-oriented conditions in an integrating sphere, the company has achieved 87 lm/W with its OLED in the lab. In contrast to the previous achieved peak value, this efficacy is about 40 percent higher or nearly the efficiency of fluorescent lamps. And the OLED was measured at a brightness of 1,000 cd/m2 and a color temperature of approximately 4,000 K. The company also achieved almost 75 Im/W at a brightness of 5,000 cd/m2 in another test. It has already tested the org...

The oldest McDonald in Cheshire has dressed up by eco-friendly LED now. According to the owner, the rebuilt structure reflects the energy efficiency concerns of the 21st Century, with LED lighting inside and out, energy efficient fryers and used oil that is turned into bio-diesel fuel. The restaurant's new digital sign is also the only one in town. From LED lighting to fryer oil that's recycled into bio-diesel fuel, the newly built McDonald's will save energy while satisfying appetites....

It’s said that TfL (Transport for London) has completed UK-first installation of LED lightings in the Upper Thames Street westbound tunnel to improve visibility for cyclists and motorists to boost safety. According to Dana Skelley, director of roads at TfL and chair of the UK Lighting Board, the lights will cut CO2 emissions by more than 60%, compared with conventional systems. In addition, the installation is also good for maintenance costs. Projections show the cost of lighting the tunnel could fall from around £50,000 each year to less than &pou...

It’s reported that Jizhou Song, professor from the College of Engineering in University of Miami, has helped to utilize an array of LEDs 100 times smaller than conventional LEDs to develop a smaller, flexible LED light. The new LED light has flexibility, maintains lower temperature and has an increased life-span over existing LEDs. Under the research, the scientists focused on improving certain features of LED lights, like size, flexibility and temperature. And Song mainly participated in analyzing the thermal management and establishing an analytical ...

Reportedly, Philips has supplied its LED products to the Co-operative Group’s new flagship store in The Strand, London. Philips has installed its PowerBalance direct/indirect LED luminaire which allows passage of light across the ceiling and downwards into the facility. With Philips’s luminaire, the company can consumes 25% less energy compared to other traditional fluorescent luminaires. Philips has also provides Affinium LDM422 VISION PLUS canopy LED module for its refrigerated multi-deck display cabinets. The luminaire incorporates a...

Recently, Taiwan`s major LED munafacturers including Chairman Y.F. Yeh of Everlight, Chairman B.J. Lee of Epistar and Delta Electronics executives have show their views for the LED lighting industry at the Photonics Festival Taiwan 2011. According to Epistar`s Lee , the efficiency of LED lamps previously forecast to be achieved in 2015 will be reached in 2012, based on buyers from the world come to mostly purchase LED lamps at this show . For Everlight`s Yeh, he believes that the March 11 catastrophe reminds people of the importance of nuclear power ...