LEDinside Perspectives

LEDforum China 2010, held by research institution LEDinside, debuted today. World-class speakers are invited to share professional points of view, analyze trends and challenges of the LED industry, and introduce the latest lighting technology. Over 1000 participants from the industry, government, and academia circles have all gathered at the forum.

The Lighting Quotient showed its first LED architectural lighting fixture at the 2010 annual conference of the American Institute of Architects. It will feature the latest Philips Lumileds LUXEON Rebel emitters with advanced Lumiramic phosphor technology. The latest generation of LUXEON Rebel LEDs provides crisp warm white light with greater color consistency and higher efficacy, enabling a new level in LED luminaire performance.

Luminus Devices Inc., announced that its PT-39 chipset is powering Acer's K11 second generation DLP projector, which is the world’s smallest 200 lm projector. Then the K10 projector, the K11 offers twice the performance in 12.2 x 11.6 mm2, and weight 0.61 Kg. The K11 is compatible with iPhones/iPads, supports USB media sources, High Definition multimedia devices and includes a built-in card reader for fast media sharing.

OpenPeak Inc. has secured additional $52 million of financing from existing investors and Intel Capital.

The ten stadiums that are set to The World Cup in South Africa use Osram products such as high-intensity discharge lamps, T5 and T8 fluorescent lamps and LEDs. And the LED-illuminated arc known as "The Arch" will be the highlight, featuring over 12,000 Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs and spanning the entire Durban stadium.

Christie Digital's modular display solution called MicroTile uses Luminus Devices’ PhlatLight LEDs in its PT-54 chipset. And Luminus Devices’ PhlatLight SBT-16 LED chipset is also used in Samsung’s new H03 Personal Media Player and Instant Projector.

Epistar will invest in and partner with Huga Optotech close July 19. It will become Huga's largest shareholder and in related news gallium arsenide (GaAs) foundry specialist Win Semiconductor will also invest in Huga. At that time Epistar will hold a 47.88% stake in Huga worth NT $8.6 billion (USD $268 million).

Polaroid, sign a five-year exclusive licensing agreement with AMW LA. Under the terms of the agreement, AMW LA will develop a wide range of Polaroid branded home electronics including standalone and portable LED backlit TVs, home theater systems and DVD and Blu-ray players as well as home theater accessories.

Evonik Industries is exhibiting its high quality SAVOSIL™ silica glass lens at the LED Lighting Taiwan 2010, the 6th International LED Lighting Exposition held in Taipei World Trade Center. It is the first time that Evonik participates in this tradeshow. Evonik Booth No:C216/218

This year’s Welker Award was conferred at the 37th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors – ISCS – in Takamatsu, Japan. The prize inaugurated in 1976 and sponsored by OSRAM is awarded for exceptional research conducted in the field of compound semiconductors. This year, the award goes to Pallab K. Bhattacharya, professor at the University of Michigan, for his pioneering work on photonic devices, which are based on III-V compound semiconductors.

Edward Smalley, director of the newly formed DOE Municipal Solid-state Street Lighting Consortium, in a one-on-one interview subsequent to the DOE webcast, initiated the discussion of controls and the potential for additional energy savings. Smalley stated, the reason for the consortium is to get these other municipalities up to speed." And Smalley meant up to speed both on LED lighting and the advantages afforded by controls.

Nichia has issued a public warning about patent infringement, which relate to its Red-Emitting Phosphors. Without Nichia’s authority, CASN phosphor , S-CASN phosphor and LEDs using these phosphors, have been manufactured in large quantities. It expects that these patents will be respected.

Mitsubishi Electric has completed installation of a 17m x 7m Diamond Vision LED screen that will serve as the main display at Hakodate Racecourse, Japan, on June 19, 2010. The main display system features high brightness LEDs aligned in a 10 mm dot pitch. The split-screen display can simultaneously showcase two screens of content, such as live footage of a race or the paddock on one screen and race odds and other data on the other.

LedEngin will showcase its Multi-Color and White High-Power LEDs at Guangzhou International Lighting Exposition in China. LedEngin will be demonstrating the complete line of LEDs, lenses and Lighting products, June 9 – June 12 at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, Guangzhou, China. LedEngin, introducing a 15W, 4-die (7mm x 7mm) package and a 40W, 12-die (9mm x 9mm) package. Available in RGB, RGBA, RGB-White multi-color LEDs and a full range of white LEDs, color temperatures range from 2700K to 6500K.

AIXTRON AG announced today a new order from an existing customer in China. The order is for two CRIUS production deposition systems in a 31x2 inch configuration. LED manufacturer Xi An ZoomView placed the order in the fourth quarter of 2009, and will use both reactors for GaN HB-LED production. The systems will be delivered over the second to third quarter period of 2010 with the local AIXTRON support team installing and commissioning the new reactors at the company’s new production facility.

To increase the reliability of high brightness lamps, Diodes has employed new forms of current control in LED driver ICs. The ZXLD1370 LED driver controller operates in buck, boost and buck-boost topologies. And it uses a new control loop structure and high-side current sensing to ensure accurate current control of LED strings.

New LED light fixture could be wired into the network backbone, accomplishing ubiquitous wireless communications to any device in a room without burdening the already crowded radio-frequency bands.  

LG Electronics (LG), invented the LX9500, the world's first Full LED 3D TV, at City Mall, Amman. The LX9500 is the only 3D TV with dual IR emitter, which employs shutter glasses-type 3D technology, and innovative backlight structure to deliver remarkable picture and provide images of exceptional brightness and clarity.TruMotion 400Hz, and the award-winning INFINIA design are geared toward creating the ultimate 3D experience.

Scientists from Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. and the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge have developed Entangled Light Emitting Diode. The difference between this device and the emiconductor LED is that it contains a nanometer-scale quantum dot which produces the engtangled  photons, so  it makes quantum computing and highly secure optical networking possible.

Genesis Photonics Inc. has signed a pact to co-open LED-chip manufacturing venture at a total investment of US$200 million in cooperation with the Kunshan city government of mainland China . The joint venture is designed to zero in on the mainland’s lucrative LED-lighting market with its ultra-bright chips and lighting modules,and the city government will hold a 51% stake.

LG Display Co. of South Korea, Taiwan LED maker Everlight Electronics Co. and Taiwan TV maker Amtran Technology Co., will team up to set up a joint venture in Suzhou, China that will provide LED packages for backlight units for flat panels.

Solid-state lighting (SSL) has become to change from being a niche market to penetrating residential markets. And compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) retro-fit is one of the potential market. The cost, size and reliability are important for CFL retro-fit applications. One could use either passive PFC (power factor correction) or active PFC to achieve a high power factor.

Ostendo Technologies Inc. and Technologies and Devices International, Inc. (TDI), part of the Oxford Instruments Group, announce their joint development on Semi-Polar (11-22) GaN layer on sapphire substrate wafers is now available.

Fairchild Semiconductor introduces two LED drivers, FAN5701 and FAN5702. Both them deliver 92 percent peak efficiency, extending battery life. The company said they are designed for mobile handsets, gaming devices, MP3 players and other small display applications.

CBC/Radio-Canada, located in Toronto, plans to accelerate the replacement of incandescent TV production lighting with more efficient and flexible LED lighting in studios across the country. CBC/Radio-Canada TV studio will become one of the first fully LED-lit TV news studios in the world after Senior Lighting Director Brad Dickson pushed to try the technology in designs for a new Radio-Canada news studio in Toronto.  

The US company Luminus Devices, Inc. has announced its expansion into the transportation industry through a partnership with ABS Lighting. Luminus' CSM-360 White PhlatLight LED powers ABS Lighting's new LED-based roadway fixture for use on roadway underpasses and in highway tunnels.

Philips Lumileds announced the release of two new LUXEON Rebel LEDs with correlated color temperatures (CCTs) of 2700K and 3000K that expand the company’s portfolio for indoor illumination applications in hotels, shops, restaurants, and homes. The new emitters use Philips' latest thin film flip chip (TFFC) and proprietary Lumiramic phosphor technologies. At the high operating temperatures found in applications like recessed lamps, the new emitters set efficacy benchmarks.

Chinese Yangzhou Zhongke Semiconductor Lighting Center Co. Ltd has ordered two CRIUS 31x2-inch configuration deposition systems from AIXTRON AG. Zhongke placed the order in the fourth quarter of 2009 and after delivery in the second quarter of 2010 they will be used for GaN high brightness LED production for streetlight and display backlighting applications. The local AIXTRON support team will commission the new reactors at the facility within the company’s research group, ISCAS, in China.

Littelfuse, Inc. has introduced the PLED5 circuit protection device that provide unique 3-in-1 protection for LED strings, including open LED protection, ESD and lightning protection, and protection against reverse battery/power connections. The new device is particularly useful for maintaining brightness and reliability in the growing market for outdoor LED lighting and high-intensity LED applications.