2010-11-08
The 12th H.K. Int’l Light Fair Autumn Edition has been successfully completed on October 30th. Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT) has achieved great success on this fair. The exclusive “One Dollar LED Lighting Experience” campaign has received tremendous supports from visitors around the world. Also, brand new Q3 products, which were first launched in H.K. Light Fair, have gathered lots attention and orders.
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2010-11-08
Matrix Lighting, a subsidiary of Matrix Holding Limited will showcase VIRIBRIGHT LED lighting products at the Greenbuild Expo Trade Show from November 17-19, 2010 at the McCormick Place West Convention Center in Chicago, IL.
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2010-11-08
Styron recently announced the launch of a new customized material solution for durable LED applications. Opalescent and tinted versions of CALIBRE™ 301-58LT tailored to customer needs are now available. In addition, UV protection can be provided on request depending on the requirements of the end-application.
High Performance Lighting Resin
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2010-11-08
Reportly, the PEPSI REFRESH PROJECT has chose LED Light Energy of Chicago as a candidate for one of its $250,000 REFRESH awards.
The LED Light Energy project will relamp the Chicago Navy Pier, the largest tourist attraction in the mid-west with LEDs. So far, Navy Pier has over 4,000 incandescent bulbs, 50 metal halide streetlights and more than 1000 halogen PAR lamps.
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2010-11-05
Taiwan LCD TV maker Amtran Technology October revenues were NT$6.12 billion (US$202.65 million), up 10.7% sequentially and 13.4% on year. The whole revenues in the first ten months of 2010 totaled NT$49.01 billion, down 5.28%. Its consolidated revenues for October go to NT$7.2 billion, up 14.44%. The whole revenues in the first ten months of 2010 totaled NT$57.77 billion, up 8.74%.
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2010-11-05
Recently, affected from tight supply, it is said that sapphire as a material for making LED chips price may reach 40% in 4Q10.
Market estimated that sapphire ingot shipments for 2010 would reach 22 million millimeters (mm) from 17 million mm in 2009 and shipments for 2011would be projected to total 35-37 million mm.
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2010-11-05
AUO has designed a 70-inch, 21:9 ratio beast of a 3D panel, which is co-called the world’s largest 3D TV.
It’s also designed with a 240Hz double frame rate, LED scanning backlighting and a ultra-narrow border.
The ratio is the same as used in movies theaters, which is why the company is marketing it as the perfect companion to state of the art home theater systems.
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2010-11-05
Micrel Inc. has introduced the MIC3202, a new step-down HBLED driver with high-side current sense, suits for MR-16 lamps and other general illumination applications.
The MIC3202 has capacity for handling up to eight 1A HBLEDs in series at over 90 percent efficiency with ±5 percent current accuracy from input voltages of 6V to 37V.
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2010-11-05
It’s reported that Taiwan Delta Electronics has made a contract with Osram for LED light bulbs using chipmaker Epistar `s high-voltage chip, a solution to making LED luminaires adaptable to household 110-220V power outlets.
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2010-11-05
OSRAM is presenting a completely updated product range for signage and illuminated advertising at Viscom 2010. New products for the major applications of light boxes and signage letters as well as the new IP-protected Linearlight Flex Protect offer customers flexible and high performance solutions for various applications.
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2010-11-05
Halo chosen in all four lighting categories including Brands Used Most
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2010-11-05
From November 9 to 12 at the 2010 electronica fair in Munich OSRAM Opto Semiconductors will be showing just how extensively opto semiconductors are now being used in our everyday lives. In Hall 3, booth 107, the company will be showcasing LEDs, infrared and laser components for a wide variety of applications in the commercial, industrial and residential sectors. The slogan this year is “Follow the band of inspiration” – and there is plenty of scope for inspiration!
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2010-11-04
The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has cooperated with campus officials to fix LED retrofit lamps instead of 119 incandescent bulbs in the 9-story George M. Low Center for Industrial Innovation (CII) building. The Smart Lighting ERC thought it took 12 to 16 months to do the investment in SSL (solid-state lighting).
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2010-11-04
AIXTRON AG today announced an order from Jiangxi Changda, a new customer in the southern province of PR China.
Jiangxi Changda has ordered two AIX 2800G4 HT 2 inch MOCVD tools. The new HB GaN LED growth reactors have been successfully installed and commissioned by the local AIXTRON support team at the company’s facility.
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2010-11-04
Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) published four new 16-channel driver ICs for LED-backlit applications ranging from notebook PCs to large TVs. The TC62D722 targeted high-end displays in TVs and offered a 16-bit pulse-width-modulation (PWM) mode that reduced display flicker in features specific to the application. And the new TC62D776 targeted applications in idle-mode power consumption such as battery powered devices.
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2010-11-04
Momentive Performance Materials has developed a partnership with Lee&Lee Hi-Tech Co., a manufacturer specializing in liquid silicone rubber (LSR) injection molding, to utilize Momentive’s Silopren* LSR 7000 Series to designed LED lens parts for flat-panel, LCD TVs.
LSR 7000 is a family of highly LSRs, which is capable of achieving highly complex optical components that surpass those made with traditional thermoplastic materials or glass.
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2010-11-04
Working with a $2 million US Department of Energy (DOE) Phase III Xlerator grant, Acuity cooperated with Universal Display to design and fabricate OLED lighting fixtures, which was an energy-efficient and color-tunable phosphorescent OLED lighting system. The two partners said that the system would build on the Universal’s OLED technology and Acuity’s experience designing and building solid-state-lighting (SSL) fixtures.
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2010-11-04
Dialight plc, the UK based leader in Applied Light Emitting Diode ("LED") Technology, today publishes its Interim Management Statement relating to the period from 1 July 2010 until 3 November 2010, in accordance with FSA Disclosure and Transparency Rule 4.3.
Signals/Illumination
The Board is pleased to report continuing good performance in the Signals/Illumination segment which is showing a strong revenue increase over 2009.
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2010-11-04
Taiwan LED company Team House Limited will bring its LED Lighting Products to 2011 Taiwan International Lighting Show.
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2010-11-04
Recently, Oxford Instruments-TDI, has entered into a licensing agreement with The Fox Group.
This agreement focuses on the acquisition of certain intellectual property, allowing Oxford Instruments-TDI to offer hardware and processes for the production of LEDs and p doped layers, in addition to the hardware and process already offered for the growth of III-Nitride materials.
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2010-11-04
The new Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) of Troy, NY, USA has arranged a test bed for first LED bulbs on a key building of RPI’s campus.
Led by director Robert Karlicek, the Smart Lighting ERC worked with campus officials to replace some of the conventional incandescent bulbs in overhead lights with LED bulbs in the nine-story George M. Low Center for Industrial Innovation (CII).
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2010-11-04
San Francisco based LED lighting company Elemental LED has introduced the Reign 12V LED Dimmer Switch and will soon release the PWM Injector, a pulse width modulation accessory which adds wattage expandability to the dimmer switch and dimmable LED lights.
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2010-11-04
Viewsonic has announced its latest all-LED backlit monitors, the 24-inch VG2436wm-LED and 22-inch VG2236wm-LED,which are as part of its commitment to move its entire display line to LED-backlit technology by early 2011.
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2010-11-04
It’s reported that Taiwan Delta Electronics is about to sell LED Lighting products on its own Brand in Taiwan’s retail stores at the end of 2010 as well as likely in overseas markets .
According to Delta, regulation, standardization and modulization are made up its three main criteria for LED lighting market growth. Besides, product designs in not only aesthetics and light but also color control will also play major roles.
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2010-11-04
AOC has launched its most cutting-edge design, just 1.29 cm thickness termed as “Razor” series display, which is considered as the world’s thinnest LED monitor. This sleek looking, ultra slim Razor series monitors are also complemented by its eco-friendly attributes.
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2010-11-03
A president of Lextar Electronics estimated, usually, market demand growth will increase significantly when market share reaches 15-20%, and LED-backlit TV market share will reach around 20% in 2010.
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2010-11-03
In 3Q10, AUO was the only profitable panel maker in Taiwan due to its leading shipments of LED-backlit TVs, in which LED-backlit TV panels accounted for 30% of its total TV panels. But look into 4Q, the company was expected to slow down result from vendors adjust LED-backlit TV shipment goals due to high product prices.
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2010-11-03
Recently, a leader of Epistar noted, LED-backlit TV market penetration would reach 40% in 2011 from 20% in 2010, and Epistar planed to ramp up capacity by 30% in 2011 after already raising its capacity by 30-40% in 2010.
The leader pointed out that because of upstream material shortage, seasonal impacts, downstream LED TV customers adjusting inventory and in the process of transferring to newer models, 4Q10 may become a difficult time for LED backlight companies.
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2010-11-03
WPG was expected its revenues would reach NT$10 billion (US$328.08 million) from sales of silicon wafers and LED products at least. The company planed to sell LED lighting products for Osram and Cree.
Similarly, Wahlee Industrial’s solar-grade polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) wafers was expected to contribute NT$900 million to NT$1 billion to the company's total revenues in 2010, and the amount is likely to double in 2011.
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2010-11-03
Powerful, efficient and surface mountable
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