Even at high temperatures and high currents the MicroSideled 3806 from Osram Opto Semiconductors ensures stable light conditions on the display. The brightness of this light emitting diode, which is available in white and blue, remains constant throughout its lifetime, and the color rendering leaves nothing to be desired. They also offer particularly impressive efficiency so these semiconductor light sources are ideal for portable devices such as tablets and smartphones. Thanks to its excellent efficiency, the MicroSideled from Osram Opto Semiconductors is the ideal energy...

Dialight recently announces that its Vigilant Series L-864 LED medium-intensity beacon system has accessed to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification for wind turbine applications.   Inside the housing of this beacon system, there is an integrated GPS controller and complete monitoring system to form a more rugged, weather-resistant unit. Global GPS synchronization can ensure precise synchronized flashing of multiple beacons. The precision, patented optics design offers maximum aerial visibility and safety. The vigilant beacon is the latest additi...

Source: Courtesy of Dow Corning   As electronics designers and manufacturers continue to move toward smaller, faster and higher performing devices, the challenge of thermal management is steadily mounting. Less board space and increased operating frequencies are raising temperatures, and risking reduced device performance and reliability over time. To help electronics designers and manufacturers address these thermal challenges, Dow Corning is introducing two advanced new products to its proven line of Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs):  Dow Corning® T...

Source: Courtesy of Dow Corning   Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation,today introduced to the Asian market new Dow Corning® Dispensable Thermal Pads, an innovative newtechnology developed for more cost-effectivethermal management in LED lighting applications. The new silicone materials now enable LED lamp and luminaire manufacturers to quickly and precisely print a layer of thermally conductive silicone compound in controllable thicknesses on complex substrate shapes, while ensuring excellent thermal management...

Carmanah Technologies and its partner Sabik Oy recently announced that they have obtained the contract to supply solar LED marine lanterns for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). The one-year contract is worth over 1.2 million Canadian dollars and also includes an optional one-year extension. According to the contract, Carmanah and Sabik shall supply the M650 solar LED marine lantern for the 1.5 and 2 nautical miles applications, the M704-5 solar LED marine lantern for three nautical miles applications and the M708 for four nautical miles applications. &ldq...

  Larson Electronics has released a powerful LED work light, the LED40W-GNM LED High Output LED Light Emitter. It provides users with a powerful and easily adjustable lighting solution for its magnetic base can be firmly stick on the metal surface and its 20 inch long flexible gooseneck can be adjusted to any direction. This LED work light uses a 9 watt LED lamp to produce light output. The 9 watt LED lamp features 3 high output LEDs installed in a waterproof lamp housing and protected by an unbreakable polycarbonate lens. This LED work l...

Epistar chairman Biing-Jye Lee, said that global shipments of LED light bulbs in 2013 may reach up to 600 million units which is three times as much as that in 2012. The growth rate will surge to 300%. However, Lee thought that this figure is still small, if the growth rate can stay around 300% per year, the global shipments of LED light bulbs are likely to rise to 2 billion units. Lee added that when global shipments of LED light bulbs rise to 1.8-2 billion units, it will need 300 MOCVD equipments to meet the output. Considering the demands for LED tubes and oth...

According to a new report issued by Memoori Research, we can know the market quotation of LED lighting in buildings, market size data, investment data and all the factors that influence the industries future. The company predicted that revenue from the global LED lighting market for buildings will reach up to $25.4 billion by 2017, which is about $l6 billion more than that in this year. This means the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in the overall market reached 22%. The global market distribution of the LED lighting will remain the same during the next five years...

Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are the most efficient and environmentally friendly light bulbs on the market. But they come at a higher up-front price than other bulbs, especially the ones with warmer and more appealing hues. Researchers at the University of Washington have created a material they say would make LED bulbs cheaper and greener to manufacture, driving down the price. Their silicon-based nanoparticles soften the blue light emitted by LEDs, creating white light that more closely resembles sunlight. The company, LumiSands, started as a graduate student pr...

Lumex announces the global launch of its TitanBrite Wireless Bonded LED featuring “flip chips” that are up to 15% brighter than any others in the market. In addition to the standard 3W and 6W LEDs, Lumex’s TitanBrite Wireless Bonded LED is also available in 9W, ensuring Lumex’s wireless bonded LED is the brightest light source in the industry. Lumex’s TitanBrite Wireless Bonded LED offers several key performance benefits over traditional LEDs including enhanced durability, superior light performance and enhanced heat di...

Using its Recycling Light Technology (RLT), Wavien, Inc. recently unveiled an ultra-bright LED fibre optic illuminators designed for architectural and signage applications. The new system combines the RTL technology's enhanced brightness with the long lifetime of LED technology. This combination overcomes past obstacles to fibre optic signage and architectural applications, which were hampered by the short lifetime of arc lamp illuminators and insufficient brightness of LED illuminators. The company's new illuminator can support both...

Larson Electronics has announced a LED work light—the EHL-LED-7W-50LV-AC LED Drop Light—designed to provide explosion proof protection combined with the LED lighting technology. The EHL-LED-7W-50LV-AC LED drop light in demanding conditions offers high output and extreme durability combined with low voltage operation. This drop light features a 7 watt LED lamp that provides 3 times more foot candles at five feet than a 100 watt incandescent lamp. This LED drop light generates less heat than incandescent work lights, has a 50,...

  For IDEC has produced the new mini and long units, its LF1D light units can apply to a wide variety of machine, process and assembly line applications. It claimed that the maximum brightness in their class can up to 67.2 Lumens/Watt. Its LED lights provide lighting brightening up not only the target object, but also a wider area. The new mini unit owns a small size of only 100 x 50 x 25 mm (4 x 2 x 1-in.), making it suitable for small-sized machines where high brightness is needed but space is little. Mini versions use one large LED light engine, rather tha...

  DEKOR™ proudly introduce three new waterproof LED Landscape Lights. The three new and unique landscape lights respectively are the Ginny Light, the Puck Light and the Empress Light. They reflect DEKOR™’s constant pursuit to bring “never before seen products” to the marketplace and customers. The Ginny LED Landscape Light has a sleek and fashionable look, and is useful for both pathway and façade lighting. It has a hinged joint allowing a full 180° of articulation. So, the Ginny can be twirled to face com...

The orphanage as part of the New Hope Church of Traverse City’s mission trip, will receive tPOD1s during the third week of June. The partnership between the church and Tellurex was formed for a chance meeting between Tellurex Program Manager, Richard Harmon and Patrick Siler, one of the advocators of the mission trip. Arrangements were quickly made in order to supply enough tPOD1s to provide bright, clean, safe, LED lighting for each of the 80 homes at the orphanage which is located nearly 30 miles away from the Ugandan capital Kampala. “The tP...

Wavien launches an ultra bright LED fiber optic illuminator using its patented Recycling Light Technology (RLT), designed for architectural and signage applications. Wavien combined the high brightness produced by RLT technology with the long lifespan of LED technology, which can solve the problems caused by the short lifespan of arc lamp illuminators and inadequate brightness of LED illuminators. This new illuminator of Wavien can support both 3M single core fiber or Schott multi-fiber bundles, allowing the RLT system to take the place of neon-based signs currentl...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) did a study of how much electricity was saved last year thanks to the use of LED in nine kinds of applications (various kinds of indoor lights, streetlights, etc). The numbers are impressive: "In 2012, about 49 million LED lamps and luminaires were installed in the nine applications. LEDs in these markets saved approximately 71 trillion British thermal units (tBtu), equivalent to an annual energy cost savings of about $675 million"!   But what's even more impressive is the potential for improvement. There is stil...

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced three new Prescolite LED solutions for downlighting applications—a 6” LiteBox LED downlight module (LB6LEDA10L), a 6” Retroficient LED downlight (RLC6LED), and a wall wash version of the 4” LiteFrame LED downlight (LF4LED). Prescolite’s products bring an exceptional combination of outstanding light output, high efficiency, beautiful color, and greater affordability to downlighting applications.   Offering an outstanding efficacy at 87 lumens per watt...

Green Ray LED, the aggressive, locally headquartered lighting manufacturer, has produced what is being hailed as the world’s most efficient LED lamp The U.S. Department of Energy has pronounced Green Ray’s new tube lamp the brightest of all, at a record-breaking 173 lumens per watt. LED lights sold in most big-box stores are 48-60 lm/W, with specialty products running as high as 130 lm/W. "Our bulb blows the doors off,” said Peter Richard, corporate manager of Green Ray USA. "This is a real technological breakthrough that’...

HENGRI Lighting will exhibit in the 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition at booth D55, hall 9.2, from June 9 to 12. "We feel so excited for this year's lighting exhibition! Our company now is growing very fast, but we have a huge ambition! We need to make a leap! That's why we are here again!" general manager Cathy Jiang said excitedly on the flight to the Guangzhou expo scene, 10 days before the opening of the lighting fair. Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition is recognized as the biggest lighting exhibition in Asia and the ...

According to the reports from foreign media, europium nanocrystals could become the missing ingredient lowering the production costs and enhancing the energy-efficient of white LED. Reported that Scientists Budai is working with a group of scientists from the University of Georgia and Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratory to study a set of new crystals, this kind of crystals can produce right mix color white LED and other purposes require. Experts from the University of Georgia consider the nanocrystals made of europium oxide and aluminum oxide powder as raw materi...

As a response to the (solid-state lighting) SSL Manufacturing R&D funding opportunity announcement made in December, the US. Department of Energy (DOE) has competitively selected five projects for SSL to receive the fourth round of funding. The two-year projects will focus on reducing costs while maintaining quality by improving the quality and performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Total DOE funding for the five projects is $10.1 million, while the five companies will put in a matching $10.1 million investment...

LEDs provide optimal solution for sea turtles and other wildlife dependent on natural light Lighting Science Group Corporation® announced the release of the outdoor Coastal Light, designed with amber-colored LEDs to deter sea turtle hatchlings and other wildlife that are sensitive or threatened by light that is not from a natural nighttime source. Properties located in coastal areas are often required by law to comply with light pollution standards for the protection of wildlife, especially sea turtle hatchlings. Each year, nearly 20,000 hatchlings are disorientated b...

BulbAmerica, America’s largest online and wholesale retailer of light bulbs and lighting fixtures, has announced the launch of an LED support system. LEDs are all set to make more efficient street lights with less light pollution and this technology that now provides the back-light for many flat panel TVs will also replace fluorescent tubes in commercial applications. Slow in gaining traction, though this technology has been around for more than 100 years, it found commercial applications only in the late 1960s as costs fell. While Japan is the largest market for LED...

Light-emitting diode (LED) technology has the potential to light up the African continent if the political will can be found, a major producer has said. LED technology was invented by Oleg Vladimirovich Losev in 1927, though it was believed to have no practical purpose. Monsanto was the first company to mass produce LEDs and, major manufactures include Toshiba, Osram, Sharp, Philips and others. "If you did a straightforward replacement of an existing luminair, you've got to look at the overall package of what you're getting. You're getting an LE...

New White Paper Examines the LED Market and Emerging Markets for Sapphire  Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN) a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical industries, today announced the publication of a new white paper that examines markets that leverage the highly versatile material, sapphire. “Opportunities for Sapphire,” based on research from IMS Research, takes an in-depth look at the demand for sapphire in key markets. IMS Research is a leading provider of market research and consultancy to the global electronics industry and is part of IHS Inc.  Sapphire has emerged as a versatile material in a range of industries for many varied applications. Sapphire’s inherent physical attributes for durability, light transmission, chemical inertness and thermal

Lextar Electronics Corp. (“Lextar” or the “Company) announces t its latest plug-in COB “CORE” Series which brings its plug-and-play concept to realization. With the mechanically incorporated COB, Core allows series connection that effectively reduces assembly costs. Lextar will formally unveil the new product from June 9 to 12 at the 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. Having foreseen the integration trend in LED lighting component, Lextar presents CORE Series that is optical mechanical integrated and delivers...

General Electric has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lighting Co Specialist, a franchisee of Krislite (Singapore), to explore the distribution of GE lighting solutions in Myanmar, its ninth market in Asean. GE's solutions include LED (light-emitting diode) units for signage, architectural lighting, transport lighting, and display and general lighting. This week, the company also signed a letter of intention with Partners Associates, a Myanmar provider of integrated technology solutions, to market GE's Durathon storage solutions for the local telec...

A19 LEDnovation of Tampa, Florida USA, has added a warm-dimming version of its Bright For Life® A19 Omnidirectional line. The company claims that the 110 lm/W A19 Warm-Dimming Omnidirectional has the highest efficiency and high color rendering (CRI). Notably, the lamp is LEDnovation’s first omnidirectional lamps to feature the warm-dimming solution previously introduced on the company's Bright For Life® BR30 and Recessed Downlight families. LEDnovation points out that incandescent and halogen lamps turn warmer in color temperature...

China, Guangzhou - GE Lighting is set to present an exciting showcase themed “The Future. Illuminated.” at the 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, to be held from June 9th to 12th, 2013 (Booth 3.1 B02). GE’s booth will display the seamless application of its comprehensive solutions for Hotel, Industrial, Office, Roadway, Supermarket, Sports and Fast Fashion verticals. A major focus of this year’s exhibition is GE Lighting’s launch of two key LED new products which will soon be available in the Asia Pacific market...