2014-10-22

Samsung Electronics Announces 1W Mid-Power LED Package

Samsung Electronics has introduced the LM302A, a new 1W-level, high-luminance, mid-power LED package.
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2014-10-22

Access Fixtures Launches Wildlife Friendly LED Amber Flood Lights

Access Fixtures is proud to announce new LED amber flood lights as part of its comprehensive line of wildlife-friendly luminaires. In many areas, especially coastal communities, excessive artificial lighting can harm wildlife, like sea turtles that need a dark sky to orient towards the ocean. For this reason, many local ordinances require wildlife-friendly lighting. Access Fixtures LED amber flood lights and area lights are visible to humans, but not to most species affected by artificial lighting. The flood lights are ideal for a number of applications, including parking lot lighting, area lighting, park lighting, marinas, landscape lighting and roadway lighting.
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2014-10-21

Harvells Sylvania Launches Ivy 2 LED Range

The new Ivy 2 range from Sylvania is the perfect solution for organizations looking to upgrade their lighting in a quick and cost-effective fashion. The range is ideal for circulation spaces, offices, meeting rooms and reception areas, and includes a brand new recessed and updated surface mount options. The range also features new prismatic technology optics which add an attractive sparkle and high brightness light output.
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2014-10-21

Fermac New Digital Printing Machine Employs UV LED Curing From Phoseon Technology

Fermac introduces the JET ART full digital printing machine equipped with two printing stations. This CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) based machine includes white ink jet plus four-color CMYK ink jet printing with UV LED (ultraviolet light-emitting-diode) curing technology. The JET ART currently prints onto cylindrical parts, but it is designed to print onto any developable shape. 
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2014-10-21

Tiny and Tough: New SCHOTT Mini LEDs for Dental and Medical Applications

The international technology group SCHOTT is launching a new Mini LED for lighting applications in dental and medical technology that outperforms all previous solutions. As the world's smallest hermetic, yet fully autoclavable, high-power or high-brightness (HB) LED currently on the market, it is both tiny & tough. Thanks to its gas-tight housing made of inorganic, non-aging materials, the Mini LED is particularly robust and successfully withstands chemicals, corrosion, and pressure, even with changing temperatures. 
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2014-10-17

Texas Instruments Launches LED Matrix Manager for Adaptive Automotive Headlight Systems

Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced the industry's first fully integrated high-brightness LED matrix manager IC for adaptive automotive headlight systems. The TPS92661-Q1 is a compact, scalable solution that enables automobile manufacturers to create innovative LED headlamps that vary beam patterns and intensity dynamically for optimum roadway illumination and enhanced driver safety. For more information, samples and evaluation modules, visit www.ti.com/tps92661-q1.
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2014-10-17

Orion Energy Rolls out Outdoor LED Lighting Product Portfolio

Orion Energy Systems (NYSE MKT: OESX) ("Orion" or the "Company"), a designer and manufacturer of energy management systems consisting primarily of high-performance, energy-efficient lighting platforms, today announced the Company’s entry into the exterior lighting market through the official launch of a suite of new exterior LED lighting products.
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2014-10-17

Oort Launches LED Lights for Smart Homes

oort, inventor of the unique, patent-pending technology that lets users create smarter homes and businesses, has today launched its online store to offer the first system of smart devices based exclusively on Bluetooth Smart, that can be controlled with a single app.
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2014-10-16

Molex Introduces its New Low-Profile Lite-Trap™ SMT Wire-to-Board Connector System

Molex Incorporated announces its new Lite-Trap™ SMT Wire-to-Board Connector System featuring an overall compact size that meets the needs of thin LED lighting-module applications. With a profile height of just 4.20mm, this push-button style connector provides one of the lowest profiles and wire insertion forces available on the market today compared to wire-removable type connectors.
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2014-10-14

pureLiFi Creates Li-Fi Network with Off-the-Shelf LED Luminaires

pureLiFi, the light communications technology company, has produced the world’s first Li-Fi network by turning off-the-shelf LED light fixtures into wireless access points. The company has produced all the necessary components for the “atto-cellular” communication system that can serve multiple mobile users at the same time (multi-user access), allowing them to move around inside a room or premises while seamlessly connecting to the best serving light bulb (also termed “handover”).
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2014-10-14

Hubbell Lighting Launches Versatile Commercial LED Downlight Fixture

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, launched today the industry’s first all-in-one LED commercial downlight fixture—Prescolite’s LBSLEDA. Built to fit a standard 4x4 J-Box, the new fixture is the perfect alternative to recessed products in settings where plenum height is challenging or where fire codes restrict the use of recessed fixtures. Ideal for commercial, new construction, remodel, and residential applications, the LBSLEDA embraces an installation system that is versatile, simple, and seamless.
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2014-10-13

Luxonic Expands LED Luminaire Product Line

Setting the scene is Luxonic’s Skylux® pendant, a new decorative rchitectural fitting suspended from ceilings and presenting an horizontal disc of edge lit acrylic powered by LEDs.  Also designed for office interiors are the new direct/indirect versions of Luxonic’s successful Slimlux® and Skylux® LED luminaires.  Both designed for suspension mounting and using LEDs of 4,000k Ra80 the Skylux’s larger dimensions produces 2900 lumens and Slimlux® is just 66mm wide and it produces 1590 lumens.
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2014-10-09

Luminus Announces 5 Year Warranty on XNOVA Chip-On-Board LED Arrays

 Luminus Devices, Inc., a global manufacturer of high-performance LEDs and solid-state light sources, announced today a five year limited warranty for the XNOVA family of chip-on-board (COB) arrays designed for both indoor and outdoor directional lighting applications. The company introduces this warranty on the heels of competing their 6000 hour LM-80 testing which demonstrated long term color stability and robust lumen maintenance, even under extreme conditions including both high temperature and high drive current.
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2014-10-09

Wagner® Lighting Introduces LED Mini Lamps

The Wagner® Lighting brand from Federal-Mogul Motorparts has introduced its latest innovative replacement lighting solution for automotive, marine, powersport and other applications: new Wagner TruView® PLUS LED miniature lamps, engineered to deliver 10-plus years of performance while projecting a whiter, brighter and deeper light pattern than standard mini lamps. Federal-Mogul Motorparts is a division of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation.
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2014-10-08

INSTEON Announces LED Light Bulbs for European Connected Home and Workplace Markets

INSTEON, creators of the world’s best-selling home automation and control technology, today introduced four new LED light bulbs – created specifically for the European market – to its product line. INSTEON’s modular connected home system, which consists of nearly 200 products, now enables European-based smart home enthusiasts to add energy-conscious lighting to their home and office setups.
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2014-10-07

Soraa Raises the Bar on MR16 LED Lamp Performance

Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaN™ LED technology, launched today a complete new line of high performance MR16 LED lamps powered by the world’s most efficient LED—the company’s third generation GaN on GaN™ LED. Featuring the company’s signature elements of full visible spectrum light, Soraa’s new MR16 LED lamps feature a 30% improvement in efficiency, creating a no-compromise lighting solution for restaurants, retail, high-end residential, and office environments where superior light quality and smooth dimming are essential.
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2014-10-06

MaxLite Expands Outdoor Lighting with LED Adjustable Wall Packs and Bullet Flood Lights

Building on its line of flexible outdoor lighting solutions, MaxLite announces a new family of adjustable, installation-friendly LED Wall Packs and the launch of LED Bullet Flood Lights.
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2014-10-03

ALTLED launches Aluminum Plus Panel Light

The ALTLED 46W panel light is a sleek panel light which emits beautifully distributed light without glare. The product is equipped with premium aluminum thermal management which quickly dissipates unneeded heat generated from the chipset. The product adopts side-lighting type backlight module as opposed to the conventional direct-lighting type backlight module, which may be brighter but a lot thicker and provides uneven area light source, creating unwanted dark spots.       Side-lighting type backlight module has the advantag...
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2014-10-02

Edison Opto Launches 0.8W Filament LED Bulb

With the rise of global environmental awareness, incandescent bulb is banned in various countries successively which drives traditional lighting manufacturers to transform into LED lighting. Aiming for this opportunity, the Taiwanese LED packaging manufacturer, Edison Opto, branches out into filament market and releases 0.8W LED filament. Used in 4W bulb, the LED bulb can replace 40W incandescent bulb, bringing the advantages (energy saving and high efficiency) of LED into full play. Edison Opto can assist traditional incandescent bulb manufacturer in entering LED lighting market.
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2014-10-02

LUXeXceL’s 3D Printing Process for Optics Achieves Next Level

The Netherlands, LUXeXceL Group; Worlds only additive manufacturer of optical components, today announces both the launch of a new additive manufacturing platform that delivers high speed and precision as well as the introduction of a new clear material “LUX-Opticlear”, allowing high quality optics manufacturing up to 20mm in height.
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2014-10-02

ProLight Launches 3030 HV LED

As one of the leading Taiwan professional high power LED packaging house, ProLight Opto, have been devoted its R&D on developing the best AC-HV LED technology. We will showcase our high voltage (HV) LED in 3030 and 3535 package size at the 2014 HK International Lighting Fair.
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2014-10-01

LG Innotek Introduces UV LEDs with World-class Power Performance

LG Innotek, a global components manufacturer, today announced that the company succeeded in the mass-production of the world’s highest power 275nm UV (ultraviolet) LEDs. Such success is expected to trigger an explosion of UV LEDs for purification and sterilization applications.
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2014-10-01

Philips Launches Wearable Blue LED Light Therapy Device to Treat Skin Disease

Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHIA), the global leader in lighting, today announces the launch of Philips BlueControl, a clinically tested1,5 wearable medical device2 that uses blue LED light to control mild to moderate cases of psoriasis vulgaris. Philips BlueControl will be introduced to international healthcare professionals at the European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology (EADV) Congress (8th - 12th October) in Amsterdam. It will be prescribed by physicians and available through distributors in The Netherlands, Germany and The UK from October 2014.
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2014-10-01

Making Every Light Fixture a Wireless Node with Philips Advance Xitanium SR LED Drivers

You can make a light fixture a wireless node today. It isn’t magic. The first question, however, should be: Does it make sense to make every fixture a wireless node?
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2014-10-01

TI's New 450-V Linear Controller for Offline LED Lighting Design

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a 450-V linear controller that simplifies current regulation of high-voltage LED strings. The TPS92410 controller integrates a multiplier and tunable phase dimmer detection, as well as analog dimming inputs and drive circuit protection functions to ease design of downlights, fixtures and lamps powered from an offline AC or conventional DC power source.  For more information, samples and evaluation modules, visit www.ti.com/tps92410-pr.
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2014-10-01

Cree Offers Commercial 150 Lumens-Per-Watt Troffer

Cree introduces the ZR High-Efficacy (HE) LED troffer, an industry-leading commercial specification-grade troffer designed to reduce energy consumption by 70 percent when compared to traditional fluorescent troffers, enabling greater design freedom for customers looking to achieve LEED certification. Cree’s vertical integration and LED lighting system development expertise has outpaced the industry once again by bringing a commercially available 150-lumens-per-watt LED troffer to market. 
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2014-10-01

Samsung Introduces Self-Contained Step Dimming LED Tube at NECA 2014

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. today introduced the industry’s first AC Direct step-dimming LED linear replacement for T8 and T12 fluorescent tubes at the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Convention 2014. Designed for use in commercial environments, the new LED Tube (L-Tube) offers an alternative to traditional fluorescent lamps to maximize energy efficiency and lower facility maintenance costs. It will be on display in booth #2112 at Chicago’s McCormick Place West from September 27-30.
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2014-10-01

Acuity Brands Further Expands Residential and Light Commercial Portfolio

Acuity Brands, Inc.​ introduces six additional designs to its line of new generation LED flush mounts​from Lithonia Lighting®®​. The new luminaires are ENERGY STAR®​ qualified and offer up to 84-percent energy savings over traditional incandescent sources. The LED flush mount luminaires are commercial-rated for 24-hour operation and do not require lamps, simplifying installation and maintenance in residential and light commercial applications.
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2014-09-29

AEL Launches LED NEMA Head Luminaires

New LNH2 luminaires from American Electric Lighting® provide a cost-effective solution to convert existing HID security lighting systems to LED. Presenting a familiar NEMA Head look, LNH2 luminaires provide a 60 percent energy reduction, while cutting maintenance costs by half to ensure very rapid payback versus HID.  ®
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2014-09-25

Alpha Introduces TrueHeight™ Spacer Blocks For Precise Height Tolerance

Alpha, a global leading materials supplier, introduces a new preform product into the market, to improve assembly yield when using large BGA devices. The product also has usability by enabling reflow soldering of some types of through-hole devices, making it a truly versatile offering.  Named for their precise height control and burr free edges, these non-collapse disc spacers mitigate corner solder bridging caused by BGA warping during SMT reflow.  The spacer blocks are offered in tape and reel packaging for automatic placement with excellent pick rate yield.
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From June 10 to 12 in Amsterdam, GreenTech visitors can explore how the latest-generation LED and sensor solutions from ams OSRAM enhance plant growth, save energy, and promote sustainable farming. At Hall 05, Booth 05.357, attendees will expe... READ MORE

The number of modern applications using 3D sensor technologies is steadily increasing, including ambient sensing for industrial robots, various face recognition applications, object detection, and machine vision. Vertical Cavity Surface Emitti... READ MORE