Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2009.

Nichia and General Led/AgiLight have entered into an agreement whereby AgiLight will utilize Nichia's white LEDs for its ThinRayz and ThinRayz Extra product line. General LED/AgiLight has chosen Nichia as its preferred supplier for a range of new white LED products currently under development, as a result of evaluating their world-class white LED products, coupled with Nichia's strong patent portfolio and clear leadership in the LED industry.

Cyberlux Corporation, a LED lighting solutions provider, has introduced a new line of portable lighting systems, the WhiteEye Tactical Illumination Systems, to address the large opportunities for white-only portable lighting in the military, law enforcement, first responder and commercial markets.

Cree, Inc. has lately introduced the LRP-38 LED lamp. Now shipping in volume, this light provides a tightly-focused beam, exceptional color quality, extended life and unmatched energy-efficiency.

Albeo Technologies, a Solid-State (SSL) manufacturer, announces a breakthrough in white-LED lighting technology, with its C-Series High-Bay overcoming the challenge in price and performance for large scale industrial-commercial deployment. Priced at better than $50 per kilo-lumen in quantities of 250 units or greater, the combined energy and maintenance savings enable customers to achieve pay-back in 1 to 3 years.

The Designer LED Lighted Cabinet range is a dramatic storage solution from Lasertron, a Florida-based company.

Leds America, Inc. announces a breakthrough in developing a LCC- LED Cluster Chip technology light source to replace incandescent bulbs. The 10W Led-O has replaced a 100W standard bulb to offer the same lumens output and saves 90% of the energy used currently, or 50% compared to a CFL, emitting no of UV light and having no mercury.

An "adaptive lighting" concept is now being tested in San Jose, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley. In this test, streets can be made brighter, darker or even be illuminated with flashing strobes upon command.

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc., an energy independence company based in Florida, U.S., announced Wednesday that it has completed Phase I of the Fairview Parkway roadway LED installation, and has released a video of the installation.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader in consumer electronics and telecommunications, today announced that it has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide consumer electronics and home appliances for the ‘Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR’ campaign event at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. through Earth Day, April 22.

W2 Architectural Lighting, a lighting products provider specializing in architectural applications, will introduce VAMP LED Spotlights, a new series of track fixtures developed specifically for the specification market, at 2009 Lightfair International.

Beginning on April 22, 2009 at 10 a.m., HolidayLEDs.com, an e-commerce retailer of LED decorative lighting in U.S., will give away 1 free set of solar powered LED Christmas lights to the first 60 visitors to celebrate the Earth Day.

For the third quarter ended March 29, LED products maker Cree reported earnings of $4.0 million, compared with $5.7 million in the year-ago period, which is above market estimates. And the company has forecasted stronger-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter.

Rubicon Technology Inc., a LED sapphire substrate provider, claimed to have successfully grown what it believes to be the world’s largest sapphire crystal (or boule) which weighs 200 kg.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., has joined the LED City Program, a worldwide joint effort initiated by Cree, a leader in the LED industry, to promote and deploy energy-efficient LED lighting all over the world.

Illumination Power and control specialist Endicott Research Group (ERG), known for its expertise in powering CCFL and LED backlights for LCDs, is developing new LED driver solutions for the solid state lighting market.  Leveraging technology developed for its CCFL inverters and LED backlight drivers, ERG will be introducing a family of Smart Force™ LED drivers that combine full-function power supplies with energy-efficient controllers for commercial, industrial, architectural and other SSL applications.

Just press the snap onto the top of a 9 volt battery you can get a LED flashlight, you should like the idea of the Battery Snaps. Press the button on top to turn on the LED light. And when it stops working, just replace the battery. For $5, it comes with a 9 volt battery included. It would be handy to have for power outages.

Aeon Lighting Technology has launched a brand new street light, the Lodestar Street Light S02. The benefit of this street light is that it’s developed with a light weight design. It can work almost anywhere in the world, suitable with -40°C to 40°C ambient temperature. The most important is that it’s built with our most advanced LED street lighting technology for excellent stability and high performance. It has surpassed all of our previous street lights in that it provides better performance and lighting.

The new Infrared Ostar Lighting LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors provides 3.5 W of optical output power at 1A with six powerful thin-film chips and a hemispherical. The beam angle and radiant intensity can be varied with standard secondary optics which are readily available on the market. The hexagonal honeycomb shape of this high-power component enables multiple IR LEDs to be combined to form a large space-saving matrix so that the output power can be increased many times.

This week, the city of Canton in Ohio, U.S., and American Electric Power will launch an experimental program to switch high pressure sodium lights with LED lights in four “cobra head” street lights over Market Avenue near 40th Street. Two years ago, Canton replaced the sodium lights in the decorative lampposts along a one-mile stretch of Tuscarawas Street with LED lights. Five years ago, the city began switching traffic signals from incandescent bulbs to LED lights.

University of Miami has joined the LED University(tm) program to install new LED pole lights to improve walkway illuminatin on the main campus and retrofitting LED lighting at various interior locations, according to Cree, a leader in the LED lighting field and also the initiator of the program.

GlasWeld, an international glass repair solutions provider, today announced that its Technical Services Division is in final testing stages of ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes (LED) for its auto glass repair curing systems.

OptoElectronix announced Wednesday a new series of small, high-efficient, 180-degree LED modules. The round, 60mm (2.35-inch) diameter, aluminum modules are precisely engineered for optimal thermal management. They integrate the LED, lens, and electronics, and are rated for 50,000 hours. The modules are designed to flush mount through a standard 44.5mm (1.75-inch) mounting hole with three screws, and the flange and lens are only 4mm (0.16 inches) thick.

LED lighting developer ilumisys Inc. is to partner with the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) to develop environmentally sustainable solid-state lighting on a $590,000 grant from the Department of Energy (DOE).

The iHome iH15 LED speaker has a boxy, modern design. As simple as it looks, there is no radio, no GSM-shielding for iPhone, no alarm, no remote, and the brilliant design is in the color-changing: you can customize your favorite color or set it to run through a “rainbow” of seven colors. With the LED lights on, you’ll find the $59.99 cube really cute! Perfect for parties and fun occasions.

Inlustra Technologies, a US-based startup spun out from the world-renowned gallium nitride research laboratories at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has now developed a scalable production process for nonpolar and semipolar GaN substrates. The company is expanding its production facilities and has recently started to fill orders from customers. 

Opto Diode Corporation, a US-based manufacturer of LEDs, has recently developed a new 60 Die LED array product line.

Mouser Electronics,  Inc., an electronic component distributor known for its rapid introduction of the newest products, announced on Tuesday to have signed an agreement with OSRAM Opto Semiconductors to distribute the lighting, sensor, and visualization sectors, adding to its existing portfolio of OSRAM’s high-powered, mid-powered, and standard LEDs as well as infrared and sensor products.

Neoti, the regional digital signage network in Bluffton, Indiana, has recently introduced its latest product, a 9 foot ×12 foot mobile LED screen that is 8 feet high and is housed and transported in a 20-foot trailer. Nomad, which is the name of the screen, can be taken nearly anywhere in the trailer and is able to display any type of signal from static images to live video at sporting events. It can operate for continuous 28 hours on its own diesel-powered generator.

Braemar Energy Ventures has invested in Nuventix Inc., a cooling systems company in Texas, according to the company. Braemar contributed $3 million of the $8 million total that closes out the Series C round for Nuventix. Another $1 million was from Uniquest of Korea and the remaining come from an agreement with Silicon Valley Bank that makes $4 million credit available to the company.