Today Lumileds introduces the LUXEON HR30 LED, a mid power device that withstands harsh chemical environments and is designed with robust packaging and industry-best materials to operate for over 100,000 hours of continuous operation. This LED addresses the tremendous need for dependable lighting that will operate in hazardous environments (such as chemical plants, power generation facilities and natatoriums) and be able to withstand extremes of temperature and operating current.

Fluxwerx, a Lumenpulse brand, is excited to announce the launch of Fold, Notch, and Inbox, three new LED luminaires for retail, commercial, institutional and healthcare environments. Available in both suspended and recessed configurations, these new luminaires combine minimalist design and architectural-grade materials with superior optical and energy performance, delivering precise batwing distribution, exceptional functionality and energy efficiency.

Wearable tech has become one of the popular topics for many companies and start-ups, including LED-lit clothes, shoes and backpacks. We have looked at LED-lit skirts and high heels for girls and LED-lit backpack for cyclists. They all use LED technology and provide a selection of control. But Sync Footwear offers something different. This pair of shoes can make you the highlight at clubs.   A Miami- based team creates a pair of shoes that gives user full control to the LEDs on their foot and a chance to overwhelm everyone at clubs. The start-up has successfu...

OPPLE Lighting, a leading lighting manufacturer based in Shanghai, China, recently announced that the company will accelerate its global expansion and enhance its communication and cooperation with global dealers to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced two new digitally enhanced power analog controllers designed for LED lighting applications. The MCP19116 and MCP19117 increase accuracy for LED lighting and allow users to carefully control LED light output levels without sacrificing color or light quality for reliable long-life applications.

Oclaro, Inc. , a leading provider and innovator of optical communications solutions, today announced the successful qualification of its non-hermetic 25Gbit/s 1.3 μm distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes for 100Gbit/s transceivers. Featuring leading optical performance with low operating current at high temperatures, the Oclaro 25Gbit/s DFB is a key component for enabling data center operators to transition faster to highly meshed 100Gbit/s connections over single-mode fiber.

In phase-cut dimming systems, a key technical issue has been mostly TRIAC holding current maintenance with low power LED lamps. In order to continue TRIAC conduction until the line voltage zero crossing, there have been several trials to flatten the driver input current higher than the holding current. In the previous compensation methods to provide constant input current, the input current is not precisely constant with a compensation error.

Phihong, a leading global supplier of OEM power solutions, has introduced a new 10A, touch-operated dimming control module for constant voltage indoor LED lighting applications, such as under cabinet lighting and architectural accent lighting. Designed to integrate into both new and existing LED applications, the new PDA-DIM10A touch dimming control module is rated for constant voltage input spanning 8V – 42V, and features an on-board touch sensor and a 200-step dimming resolution. The new wall-mounted touch module also features tap on/tap off and touch-and-hold dimming controls, which allow users to turn the module on and off and adjust dimming with ease.

Lunera® Lighting, Inc., a leader in lighting innovations accelerating the transformation to advanced LED technology announces the next generation plug and play replacement for compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), the Helen Lamp GX23. Commercial building owners and operators can save energy and reduce operating expenses by simply replacing the 13W CFL commonly used in downlights and sconces. Lunera’s five-watt Helen Lamp reduces lighting energy consumption by over 60 percent, while consistently delivering quality illumination.

Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today introduced the AL1697 LED driver. This device targets line-powered, triac-dimmable LED lighting applications. It also provides compatibility with leading- and trailing-edge triac dimmers using a single-stage, high power-factor dimming circuit that complies with the NEMA SSL-6 dimming curve, delivering optimal line and load regulation. This integrated MOSFET eliminates the need for auxiliary winding, which lowers BOM cost and enables a smaller PCB, making this an attractive and competitive solution for driving LED lamps up to 15W.

Cree continues to break performance barriers with the introduction of Cree® XLamp® CXB1310 and CXB1520 High Density LED arrays. Incorporating elements of Cree's SC5 Technology™ Platform, the new LEDs deliver the highest lumen density at 6mm and 9mm - the most lumens in the industry for their LES [light emitting surface] sizes.  The advancement enables radically new and differentiated LED lighting form factors for applications like track lights, lamps and downlights. 

Lumileds introduces the LUXEON XR-3020, an ultra-slim module that serves as a building block for TLEDs or thin office and industrial fixtures. These slim (20 mm) products are available with 24 LEDs on a 280 mm thermally-conductive board (~1 ft) or 48 LEDs on a 560 mm board (~2 ft). The modules provide 1100 or 2200 lm, respectively, at 160 lm/W and 100 mA drive current per LED, with a board temperature of 45°C. LUXEON XR-3020 is the latest addition to the Matrix Platform family of infinitely configurable LED boards, linear flex strips and modules utilizing the industry’s most dependable LEDs.

Cree announces Essentia® LED Flat Panel Troffer and Track Light categories, the first products available in the new Essentia® by Cree lighting portfolio. Offering exceptional flexibility in application and design, both product lines transform commercial spaces where broad spectrum lighting and soft visual balance are most important.

Initially designed and developed for applications in the Defense, Medical, and Consumer Electronics industries, Design Phase in conjunction with FLEx Lighting has developed a brand new point of purchase media-The InvisiSign.  The patented ultra-thin, flexible and clear optical film technology is positioned to change the way shoppers are influenced at the point of purchase.

New Vision Display - a manufacturer of TFT and passive matrix LCDs, projected capacitive touch panels, glass cover lenses, and screen protectors - adds to its display portfolio Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays.

With the new commercial grade SYLVANIA SubstiTUBE® Value LED T8 lamp from OSRAM SYLVANIA, contractors can replace fluorescents lamps with a low cost, high quality linear LED option, lowering their customers’ energy and maintenance costs.  The new LED T8 lamp lasts up to 36,000 hours (L70) and reduces energy consumption up to 34 percent compared to traditional fluorescents.  Because the SubstiTUBE Value LED T8 is not affected by switching cycles, the use of occupancy or vacancy sensors can be installed with the existing instant start ballasts for optimal energy savings.  In addition, the lamp is compatible with instant start and select programmed rapid start (parallel-wiring) electronic T8 ballasts with input voltage of 120-277V and 347V.

Technical Consumer Products, Inc. (TCP), a leader in energy efficient lighting, is proud to announce its new three-way LED lamp. Providing a powerful combination of long-life, energy savings and exceptional light output in a traditional lamp style TCP's three-way LED is the ideal choice for the most demanding table lamp applications.

Aura Light has introduced a new innovative architectural luminaire that offers customers the opportunity to create and customise their new lighting scheme.

Modern LED outdoor lighting today takes into account all visual levels in an urban space and is not just limited to a norm-standard level of illuminance to light up those elements of the nocturnal cityscape in focus. Rather, this is about placing emphasis on the needs of people in living spaces at night. It's therefore worth brightening up urban spaces with spherical light components to create centres for human communication, creating visual points of attraction, and improving three-dimensional awareness. Moreover, special architectural features should be highlighted and complex space structures brought to life. This increases recognition value for a region and creates reliable guidance and orientation, even at night. In this way, security and wellbeing are significantly improved by lighting quality – always without wasting resources or increasing light pollution.

Although rapid technological advances are now allowing highly automated installation processes, the demand for high quality manual work is not decreasing. As a result, industrial workstations at which complex installation tasks are carried out require a high illuminance of up to 700 lx. However, improving the quality of light can often result in higher energy consumption, thus higher costs. In fact, however, this high illuminance is only needed at individual workstations; traffic routes or storage areas often only need 200 lx. The solution to this problem has been developed by Zumtobel with its ATIVO multisensor. The principle is incredibly simple: A task-based, flexibly adaptable zone control system ensures that the light is reduced according to time and activity in places where it isn't required. At workstations that demand a high level of concentration to ensure good productivity, the lighting level is increased. For added safety, the lighting level in general areas and corridors is also increased. The motion sensor recognises when people or vehicles are in the corridors and dims up automatically. The ATIVO DALI IP64 Kit that is already available is specially designed for detecting light and motion in even high-ceiling rooms. The contrast sensor system with its intelligent object detection is, unlike normal PIR and radar sensors, not only much more accurate, but also quicker – and therefore less prone to error. The ATIVO Sensor DALI Kit can be used in a wide variety of situations, including sports and multifunction events halls, industrial, production and assembly facilites, even in high-bay warehouses and logistics centres. In these situations, the sensor can precisely detect motion in rooms with ceilings between 6m and 20m.

Heavyweights in durability, yet sleek in design, MaxLite’s new series of LED Hazardous Location fixtures is designed to meet the challenges of lighting environments where safety and efficiency matter most.

Today Lumileds introduces the perfect upgrade for an industry standard LED package, the LUXEON 2835 Line. LUXEON 2835 LEDs are available in five configurations of light output and string voltage and ESD protection to meet a variety of illumination application needs including retrofit lamps, downlights and troffers. “The LED retrofit bulb and other application segments are taking off right now. We decided to optimize for each application requirement via different offerings within the LUXEON 2835 Line,” explains Matthew Everett, Senior Director of Mid Power Products.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced components, today introduced a multi-purpose Smart Lighting Module (SLM) – the most fundamental IoT building block – for the fast-growing, smart building and smart city markets. By providing the core building block for a wide variety of potential smart lighting systems, Samsung’s SLM will play a key role in speeding up system development, lowering risk, improving system quality and reducing time to market for smart lighting manufacturers. The module will be sampled with Samsung smart lighting partners and will be shipped to OEMs in April.

Plessey announced today that it will be releasing its LED beam control module, which they are branding Stellar™ at the Light and Building event from 13-18 March 2016 at the Fair and Exhibition Centre in Frankfurt, Germany.  Stellar is Plessey’s latest, GaN-on-silicon, LED solution and showcases the combination of Plessey’s MaGIC™ low cost, high efficiency, surface-emitting LEDs with unique modular optics representing the next phase in LED lighting.

Hubbell Control Solutions is excited to announce the wiSCAPE™ Fixture Module UNV lighting control, with new universal 120-480V input. This bidirectional wireless device allows any outdoor light fixture to be managed, monitored and metered. Hubbell Control Solutions' new module demonstrates the brand's commitment to lighting control innovation.

New “TEN°” binning from Osram Opto Semiconductors provides the basis for unprecedented color consistency for white LEDs which are used for example as single-LED light sources in spotlights and downlights. To achieve this the current standard CIE 1931 2° xy color space has been supplemented with CIE 2015 10° u‘v‘, recently developed by the International Commission on Illumination and implemented by Osram Opto Semiconductors as 10° binning. In the third generation of the Soleriq S 13, “TEN°“ will be available on the market as an additional feature from March 2016.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced component solutions, today introduced a full line-up of chip-scale LED packages* (CSP), including 0.6W-class and 3W-class packages, CSP arrays, and PoW (Phosphor on Wafer) packages.

More lumens, hot and cold Sharp Devices Europe (SDE) has launched a new range of COB LEDs with outputs ranging from 600 to 6000 lumens. Available in the popular Mini and Mega ZENIGATA footprints, the new HD6 and BF6 series LEDs from Sharp are some of the most efficient on the market, achieving up to 153 lm/W.

EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry, announces the Shwo F-ELB high power LED series, the latest and most powerful update to the existing high power and bright "Shwo" LED Series. Shwo F-ELB features Flip Chip technology to enable better overdrive conditions while maintaining high efficiency.  

Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, will offer at Light+Building (Booth A51, Hall 4.0) an exclusive glimpse of upcoming products and technologies as well as its broad commercial portfolio of cutting-edge optical silicone solutions, which are driving new advances in LED lamp and luminaire lighting worldwide. Also highlighted at Dow Corning’s booth will be a wide selection of breakthrough applications that the company’s proven solutions helped pioneer.