New Mask Aligner Delivers Highest-in-Class Throughput and Yield EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer-bonding and lithography equipment for the advanced semiconductor and packaging, MEMS, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and emerging nanotechnology markets, announced the latest addition to its portfolio of products created to optimize the manufacture of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB-LEDs), compound semiconductors and power electronics.  The new EVG620HBL fully automated mask alignment system builds on EVG's field-proven mask aligner...

AIXTRON SE has announced a new MOCVD reactor order from existing customer Ubilux of Tainan County, Taiwan. The order is for two AIXTRON CRIUS® II deposition systems in the 55x2-inch configuration which will be used to expand the company’s production capacity for GaN-based HB LEDs. Ubilux placed the order in the fourth quarter of 2010 and the systems will be delivered in the first quarter of 2011. A local AIXTRON support team will commission the new reactors at the state of the art clean-room facilities housed in the Ubilux headqu...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ Multi CHIPLED LEDs are used in the video display screens in the conference hall of Jinan Municipal Government in Shandong Province of China. The LEDs are selected for their high brightness, high contrast and advanced structure. Housed in black package that is impervious to ambient lighting with its close pitch design, the LEDs enable homogeneous video display and high colour fidelity. Having the blackest LED package on the market and together with diffused resin, the Multi CHIPLED enables better contrast, thus th...

Internationally renowned NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre has been acknowledged of being one of its ‘Greenest Facilities’ and has recently installed a light solution system from Lutron Electronics. The Administrative and Maintenance facility catering to Propellants is using innovative light control strategies to dramatically reduce energy consumption and maximizes the use of available daylight. Lutron is thrilled to enable NASA achieve net zero energy use in their greenest facility to-date with light control strategies that can save up to 60% of lighting ...

Aiming at tapping mainland China LED lighting market further, Everlight is reported to pour US$10.8 million to acquire approximately 9% ownership in an LED venture co-held by Epistar and China Electronics Corp. (CEC). Among the partners, CEC holds a 44% stakes in the venture, outnumbering Epistar`s 40% ownership. The venture is designated to supply CEC all of the chips it makes. And according to Epistar executives, besides the venture, Epistar will be another chip supplier of CEC.The venture will contract Everlight to package its chips for CEC back...

It’s said that Japan LED Association , which was formed in June of 2004 to promote and support technology development and standardisation for LED lighting, is seeking for cooperation with the local partners Karnataka. Japan LED Association Vice President Atsushi Okuno, who held extensive discussions with State IT department officials on the sidelines of ISA Vision Summit, said that they were ready for sharing of technology transfer and manufacturing JV with local partners in Karnataka. According to Okuno, these energy saving solar lamps with twin ...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces commercial availability of the LBR-30™ LED lamp, aimed at replacing energy-wasting incandescent lamps commonly used in tracks, commercial and residential recessed downlights. Powered by Cree TrueWhite® Technology, the lamp delivers beautiful, warm-white light with unrivaled color accuracy and efficiency. “We were highly impressed with the installation of LBR-30 lamps in our Pittsburgh, Pa. LEED Gold designed location,” said Andrew Dunmire, AIA, LEED AP, vi...

Nine innovative products are honored for technical advancement. Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), announces that nine of its Cooper Lighting and Cooper Controls products have been recognized by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Committee as providing “an advancement in the art and science of lighting.”  The accepted products are part of the 2010 IES Progress Report, which presents significant developments and improvements in the lighting industry over the past year.  The accepted prod...

Two new members join the UK sales team and a regional manager is appointed for the Middle East to strengthen Dialight’s position in these markets as a forerunner in the field of industrial LED lighting. Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), an innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, announced three new appointments who between them bring many years of experience in the strategically important hazardous location market and of successfully developing business sales in the Middle East. Together they will contribute to the continuing growth of the company’s so...

It’s reported that Roled Optoelectronics (Shanghai) Limited has given the award of “Outstanding Supplier for 2010” to Future Lighting Solutions at Roled’s 2010 Supplier Summit . According to Rock Hsuing, President of Roled Optoelectronics, it’s not an easy task to be selected as their Outstanding Supplier. “The process is an extensive and complex process that includes a review of product quality, level of technical support, order and inventory management processes, post-sales service, and many others. Future Lighting Solutions h...

LayTec AG announces its conversion from LayTec GmbH (a limited liability company) into LayTec AG (Aktiengesellschaft, joint stock corporation). With today’s entry into the commercial register of Berlin/Charlottenburg, LayTec will operate in future as LayTec AG. LayTec will continue being a privately owned company. The herewith announced conversion is not imposing changes to the shareholder structure, which has been stable for many years. The first advisory board was elected by the shareholder meeting in October 2010. Dr. Markus Weyers (Berlin), the cha...

Lately, no big event can be imagined without LED production, especially without something new, creative and record breaking. Just like the 2011 Asian winter games in Kazachstan which on 30th of January took place in Astana, the capital of Kazachstan. New arena in Astana was illuminated by the ceiling LED screen which was designed, manufactured, installed and launched by Lithuanian company RGGLED. This project is unique in Europe as well as in Asia by its measures - ceiling LED screen was 8500 sq. m big. “I evaluate Astana arena project as an extreme suc...

Philips records healthy increase in green product sales in 2010 Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced that it will allocate EUR 2 billion for investments in Green Innovation by 2015 to accelerate sustainable business across the company’s three sectors. In 2010, Philips’ cumulative investments in Green Innovation amounted to EUR 1 billion, surpassing its Green Innovation investment target two years ahead of schedule. As a result of the company’s continued commitment to sustainable innovation, 38% of total 2010 sale...

Based on the analysis and statistics of LEDinside, which is a research division under TrendForce, International LED major manufacturers successively released their 4Q10 financial reports. In terms of upstream equipment suppliers, the LED & Solar revenue of Veeco set the highest quarterly record of USD 258 million. Over 20 customers, such Shanghai Epilight, placed the purchase orders for lighting application. However, the planned shipment of 12-20 new MOCVD products「MaxBright」are not included in the Q1 financial statement. Besides, the revenue-accounting delay is expected to greatly affect the result of Q1 revenue. However, since the fund-subsidy policy launched by Chinese government, LED enterprises keep on production expansions. The orders of Korean customers are expected to surge in backlight and lighting markets in Q2 and Q3. Moreover, it is forecasted that the MOCVD orders for K465i and MaxBright will also increase in the markets of Europe, USA, Japan and Taiwan. To sum up, Veeco is still optimistic about market quotations in the first half of 2011.

According to PowerSecure International, its new family of LED-based street lights is in a good demand with utilities and municipalities.   Over the last several months, over 30 electric utilities and municipalities have purchased PowerSecure’s new area light “SecureLiteTM”. Furthermore, it recently has introduced two new LED-based street lights to the marketplace, including replacements for traditional 250 and 400 watt HID street lighting, “PowerLitesTM” to meet the demand of customers....

According to Hi Score Corporation, it has completed the test of the company's LED street lights that had been installed in the city of Tamarac, Florida.   The company has started the test since April of 2009. Initially the company had installed 25 Green LED Energy Saving Streetlights along West Commercial in Tamarac, Florida. At present, its LED Street Lights received high marks in the pilot program, and city officials are considering moving forward with their plan to put out a bid to purchase Energy Saving Street Lights. The city expects to pu...

It’s reported that OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has become a sponsor of the 2011 Strategies in Light Conference Exhibition,which is an industry conference and exhibition with a focus on High-Brightness LEDs and lighting. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors' President and CEO, Aldo Kamper will be a Keynote Speaker at the conference and share fresh insight into the LED world. In addition, the company will be showcasing their LEDs in applications and bringing some of its top professionals as speakers on February 22-24 at the Santa Clara Convention C...

Macroblock introduces a high efficiency 60V, 1A DC/DC buck converter-MBI6661 for LED street light, wall washer and tunnel light applications. MBI6661 accepts wide input voltage range from 9V to 60V and provides up to 97% efficiency. The maximum externally adjustable output current is 1A with ±5% current accuracy. MBI6661 integrates the power switch and is able to drive an array of 10~14 pieces of 1W LEDs by a 52V DC power supply. With hysteretic PFM control scheme, MBI6661 requires no external compensation with better efficiency at light loading...

Oree’s innovative LightCell technology now available for lighting designers and manufacturers   Oree, developer of solid-state lighting planar illumination technology, and Future Lighting Solutions, the leading provider of solid-state lighting solutions, announced a worldwide distribution agreement today. As a result of this agreement, Future Lighting Solutions will market, sell and support Oree’s LightCell™ products to customers around the world. The Oree LightCell™ is a thin, flat and uniform solid-state light source – with an illum...

AIXTRON SE announced a new order for MOCVD reactors from existing customer, the Institute of Semiconductors Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS). The order comprises one AIX 200/4 in the 3x2-inch wafer configuration and one AIX 2600G3 IC in the 8x3-inch wafer configuration.   The Beijing, PR China based institute placed the order during the third quarter of 2010 and following delivery in the second quarter of 2011, the systems will be used for production of electronic devices and red LEDs. The local AIXTRON support team will commission ...

Monocrystal, a leading manufacturer of electronic materials for LED and solar industries, announced today shipment of its premium 8-inch C-plane epi-ready sapphire substrates to one of the world’s leading LED manufacturers. It was almost a recent discussion of LED industry players and experts concerning the possibilities for the industry of employing larger than 2-inch sapphire substrates for LED production.

Panasonic Corporation is reported to develop a four-channel LED driver LSI (model number: AN37010) based on 190V voltage process. The new product is capable of driving multiple LEDs connected in series for edge-type LED backlight LCD TVs. Samples will be available in March 2011 at a cost of 200 yen each. With the development of this new chip, the　company will further develop a series of LED driver LSIs that support applications for displays with high picture quality across a wide range of sizes.  ...

It’s reported the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium will be held in Santa Clara, CA on Thursday, February 24, 2011.   The objective of the event is to share information from industry leaders that are focused on the technology surrounding the adoption of LED's for general lighting. Nexxus Lighting's President & CEO, Mike Bauer will present at the event. Asides from Nexxus Lighting, nine companies including Veeco, National Semiconductor and Rubicon Technologies also are invited to this event.   ...

DiCon Lighting announced the launch of its new LED business unit, Cielux. Cielux was founded on a simple concept: to bring brilliant light with user-friendly interfaces into the home. Its family of products focuses on LED driven lamps that emit radiant light for task, accent and mood lighting. Cielux will ship its first product, LUNE, an LED mood light, on March 1st.   “Our goal was to bring professional-level lighting capabilities and controls to the everyday consumer, so we set out to create a new way to experience and interact with light,” said Br...

Light-Based Technologies Inc. (LBT), a developer and supplier of lighting application specific integrated circuits, announced they will be exhibiting their cutting edge LED control solutions in booth #244 at Strategies in Light 2011, held in Santa Clara California from February 22nd to the 24th.  Strategies in Light has grown over the past 12 years into the largest conference in the high brightness LED lighting industry. Strategies in Light draws the most knowledgeable participants in the area of LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) who are particularly wel...

Kaneka announced that it will start accepting orders for OLED lighting panels on March 22nd, 2011 in Japan (and later in April in Europe). Kaneka will offer OLED square panels in give colors (warm white, red, orange, blue and green). The panels will be dimmable (in the range from 1,000cd/m2 to 5,000cd/m2).   Kaneka's OLED panels will cost around ¥2 million (approx $24,000) per square meter - and the company believes that the price will drop to ¥200,000 ($2,400) next year and to ¥50,000 ($600) or less by 2020. Production capacity in 2011 will be 10,...

It’s said that Piccadilly Circus will replace the iconic red and white Sanyo sign, which has been in place since 1978. The Japanese electronics company has been told to replace the sign with a more modern LED display, which allows for moving images. However, according to a spokesman for Sanyo,” the owner of the ad space wanted to change the neon sign to LED for the coming London Olympics, but we didn't feel the need to change it for economic reasons.”...

Event LED China 2011 Venue China import and export fair pazhou complex,Area B Dates March. 1 ~ 4, 2011 Organizers UBM Asia Ltd, a fully-owned subsidiary of UBM, announced that it has formed a Sino-foreign joint venture, UBM Trust Co Ltd, with the organiser of LED CHINA, Trust Exhibition Co Ltd, to jointly develop the event. General information LE...

Featuring Intelligent Thermal Sensing Technology and Reduced Carbon Footprint   American Illumination, Inc®, a LED engine design and manufacturing company, is introducing the patent pending Light Plugz® light engines designed for the Cree XP family of LEDs.  Produced especially for light fixture designers, the Light Plugz® series incorporates intelligent thermal sensing technology, advanced custom optics, improved heat tolerance and a selection of interchangeable heat sinks.     In order to prevent shortened lifetime due to e...

According to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, it may form units in the solar and LED businesses. Formerly, TSMC and other Taiwan technology companies have been pushing into the $35 billion global solar energy market to leverage their expertise in chip and LCD manufacturing into new growth prospects. Last September, TSMC said it would complete the first phase of a planned solar energy plant in Taiwan in the first half of 2011 after an investment of over $200 million.  ...