2012-12-24

TILS 2013:Xxentria Technology Materials Co., LTD. -REFLECTON® series

Xxentria Technology Materials Co., LTD. -REFLECTON®  series of high-refelction aluminum coil materials are produced by applying high-tech physical vapor deposition(PVD) vacuum coating and magnetron sputtering process.  These products are tailored for lighting industry; with up to 98% reflection rate can significantly enhance the luminous efficiency. The reflective aluminum coils is not only tough and flexible, plasticity, easy-to-reprocess, but also to maintain its high-performance specular reflection effect. In addition, Xxentria offers a variety of surf...
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2012-12-24

New light technologies:Energy saving, Extremely Long Life, Recyclable & Eco-Friendly

YCC TEK Taiwan Ltd. Inc. is situated in the premises of the world science and technology center – Taiwan Hsinchu Science Park. We are an industrial leader of research and development of Taiwan's advanced environmental protection and energy saving lighting products – the high-end electrodeless lamp system.   Insisting of the belief of helping customers save money, energy, and promote environmental protection to cherish the earth and the nature, the company has gathered distinguished industrial professionals and talents to build up an elite research and d...
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2012-12-24

FZLED Provides Energy-Saving Solution for Home lighting in Taiwan

FZLED, a leading maker of LED lighting product, is pleased to introduce the case that its energy-saving and environmental-friendly lights are being used in the applications of residential home lighting in Taiwan. The comfort house of this project is located in the residential area in Tainan, the south of Taiwan. The owner knows the value of energy-saving and cost efficient; therefore, he decides to use LED lighting products instead of traditional and halogen lights. In the house, LED down lights is widely being used in the most of area. The interior designer uses ...
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2012-12-21

GlacialLight Announces the New 12.5W Vega Series Interior LED lamps - GL-AR111-V2-12

- Stylish LED Lamps with Patented Thermal Design for Reduced Energy Consumption - GlacialLight, a division of the Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., has launched the new stylish GL-AR111-V2-12 Vega Series interior LED lamps with patented thermal design – helping to boost heat dissipation. Following the 9W GL-AR111-V2-9 Vega Series, these 12.5W lamps are the second addition to the cost-effective and environmentally-friendly Vega Series LED lamps. These 12.5W GL-AR111-V2-12 LED lamps offer a luminous efficacy of up...
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2012-12-21

GE Lighting announce the launch of its brand new Asia website

GE Lighting is pleased to announce the launch of its brand new Asia website.The new website will offer users a more friendly and convenient browsing experience as well as an ideal visual effect, which embody GE Lighting’s consistent focus on user experiences. The new website has a contemporary and crisp look in line with GE Lighting’s corporate brand identity. It provides users a streamlined experience with resources and functionality that are designed to serve the lighting industry and strategic end-users. GE Lighting’s latest digital platform provides ...
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2012-12-21

Winona Lighting Receives 2012 Architectural Record Product Award

Full Circle curvilinear luminaire recognized as one of the most innovative building products.  The Winona® Lighting Full Circle luminaire from Acuity Brands has been acknowledged as one of the most innovative and useful building products of 2012 by Architectural Record. A panel of judges selected the Full Circle luminaire as a lighting solution for architects, specifiers and designers to help distinguish the best product options for 2013 projects. The Full Circle luminaire breaks away from traditional recessed linear fluorescent slot fixtures. It allows light ...
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2012-12-21

Bright Energy launched the LED Lighting Products

Bright Energy Co., Ltd (BE)is one of the top manufacturers & suppliers in Taiwan specializing in LED streetlamp mainly, also projection lamp, ceiling light, solar-energy applied spot light, and other kinds of high-brightness LED devices, the product line is wide. We are also a supplier for public accommodation like governmental and university streetlamp construction, the feedbacks were all admiration. Temporarily we cooperate with LED chip supplier that comes from Japan, its anti-vulcanization decreases LED light-decay evidently, it also lengthen the lifetime, ...
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2012-12-20

TILS 2013:Yah Juang Lighting Enterprise's LED COB-AR111

Yah Juang Lighting Enterprise has LED COB-AR111 in replacement of old halogen AR111. The design motive: replace old high-wattage halogen lamps to reduce energy consuming, decrease carbon producing, save the environment where we live, rescue the earth, and increase the lamp brightness. The three most popular color temperatures world-wide are developed: The LED COB light source has passed the LM80 test, having the LED substrate temperature set at 85℃ and the light source lit for continual 6,000 hours. The result must meet less than 3% in luminous decay. Gea...
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2012-12-20

TILS 2013 : ProLight Opto Upgrade High-power LED and COB Series

Prolight Opto Technology Co., Ltd. was established in October 2004, is a professional LED packaging company, focus on R & D and manufacturing, high-power, high-reliability LED packaging. Prolight Opto Technology Co., provides customers in the optical solutions. Products are mainly used in commercial lighting, stage lighting, street lamps ... all kinds of lighting applications. ProLight have upgraded high-power LED and released new COB light engine series. The COB light engine series is a compact high flux density light source that delivers high efficacy,...
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2012-12-19

Osram LEDs in Coal Mine Lighting

Shenzhen General Technology use LED technology to reduce Energy, Maintenance and Accidents Osram’s versatile Oslon SSL series are applied in Xishan Duerping coal mine lighting in Shanxi Province, the so-called “home of coal” in China.  The 19,500 LEDs are installed in 975 lamps, replacing the traditional fluorescent lamps, to light up the 63.1 square km high wattage coal mine.  They enable energy savings of 61% (from 427050 kilo Watt hour down to 170820 kilo Watt hour annually), as well as reduce maintenance requirements and accident r...
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2012-12-14

Micron Narrows Focus on LED and Cuts Jobs

The Boise-based computer chip maker Micron Technology Inc. is scaling back on its plans to develop energy-efficient lighting technology, leading to the layoff of at least 30 workers. Micron spokesman Dan Francisco confirmed the decision Wednesday in a story published by the Idaho Statesman. Francisco says increased competition in the LED market, a changing world economy and decision to focus on computer memory led Micron executives to narrow the focus on the development of LED technology. The company started the LED light technology program in 2009 with the help ...
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2012-12-12

Cree Introduces Industry’s Brightest, Highest-Performing, Single-Die LEDs

New XLamp XM-L2 LEDs Deliver 186 Lumens-per-Watt Efficacy Milestone to Accelerate Adoption of LED Lighting Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) once again sets an LED industry performance milestone with the commercial availability of XLamp® XM-L2 LEDs. The new XM-L2 LED delivers up to 186 lumens-per-watt at 350 mA, 25°C, a level of performance available only in a lab setting just three years prior. Built on Cree’s revolutionary SC³ Technology™ next-generation LED platform, the new XM-L2 LEDs double the lumens-p...
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2012-12-11

US Academic Creates Alternative Light Source

Lately, a US academic has made a breakthrough on a flicker-free, shatterproof, alternative light source for large-scale lighting applications. Dr David Carroll at Wake Forest University has utilized the technology based on Field-Induced Polymer Electroluminescent Technology (FIPEL) and emits a soft white light, to create the light source.       According to Dr Carroll, the light source is made from three layers of moldable, white-emitting polymer blended with nanomaterials that glow when stimulated to create bright, natural “white lig...
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2012-12-10

Taiwanese Optoelectronics Makers Reveal Pessimism for Q4 Outlook

Taiwanese optoelectronics manufacturers from LED, photovoltaic, LCD, and opto-communications sectors, revealed relatively weak confidence in the industry’s outlook for Q4, according to a survey conducted by Photonics Industry Technology and Development Association (PIDA). The survey questionnaire asked respondents to choose from among seven degrees of confidence: very optimistic (a score of 100), optimistic (85), slightly bright (66), fair (50), slightly upset (33), pessimistic (16), and very pessimistic (0). There are 341 Taiwanese optoelectronics manufacturers ...
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2012-12-06

Deli Optoelectronics Selects Veeco MOCVD for New LED Manufacturing Facility

Veeco has received orders from Guangdong Deli Optoelectronics Co., Ltd, a newly formed and privately held company located in the high tech development zone of Jiangmen, Guangdong, for multiple TurboDisc® K465i™ Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems to support its HB LED manufacturing ramp. Mai Qinghua, President of Deli Optoelectronics, commented, "We are excited to select Veeco’s K465i systems for our new production facility which will open in the spring of 2013. We chose Veeco over its competitors because of the...
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2012-12-06

Intematix Improves Its Phosphors Performance for LED by 10%

Intematix lately has enhanced its ChromaLit Ellipse, Candle and Dome remote phosphor products, which result in an average ten percent increase in light output and reduced system cost for lighting system manufacturers. “Higher lumens-per-watt means fewer LEDs and smaller heat-sinks in our customers’ products,” says Herb Schlegel, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Intematix. “While lowering costs, our ChromaLit Candle and Dome products also improve light quality and uniformity in applications like light bulbs, pendants and sconces.” ...
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2012-12-06

Dow Corning Releases New Optical Encapsulants for Demanding LED Designs

Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, further expanded its industry-leading portfolio of phenyl silicone optical encapsulants with five new two-part, heat-curable grades. The new products offer enhanced reliability, better anti-silver corrosion and greater durability for LED designs. They also further underscore Dow Corning’s commitment to driving best-in-class improvements in the performance and reliability of solid-state lighting. Delivering improved anti-silver corrosion capabilities, Dow Corning® OE-6662 and OE-66...
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2012-12-05

KLA-Tencor Launches ICOS(R) WI-2280 Wafer Inspector for LED and Adjacent Markets System Designed

To Provide Manufacturers Greater Flexibility, Reduced Cost of Ownership and Improved Efficiency KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) today announced its next-generation light-emitting diode (LED) patterned wafer inspection tool, the ICOS WI-2280. Designed specifically for defect inspection and 2D metrology for LED applications, the ICOS WI-2280 also provides enhanced inspection capabilities and increased flexibility for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and semiconductor wafers spanning two inches to eight inches in size. The ICOS...
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2012-12-05

Philips’ 60-Watt LED Bulb Gets a Makeover

Taking advantage of AirFlux Technology, the Philips A-19 LED bulb gets a new aesthetic look and enhanced performance Using just 11 watts of power while putting out over 830 lumens, the latest generation of Philips’ 60 watt A-19 LED bulb uses 10 percent less energy than its 12.5 watt predecessor, while increasing brightness by nearly 5 percent. The new lamp has an innovative new design that takes advantage of Philips AirFlux technology, a new airflow cooling system that eliminates the traditional distracting heat sink fins needed for thermal management of LED bu...
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2012-12-04

Dual-Lite’s New Architectural LED Combination Exit Sign / Emergency Light Solution -- the EVC Series

The new EVC Series delivers the most advanced features offered in an LED exit sign / emergency combination solution. Dual-Lite, a Hubbell Lighting Inc. brand, continues with the expansion of its most technologically advanced emergency lighting family on the market with the introduction of its EVC Architectural Exit Sign / Emergency Light. As the newest member of the popular Evolution EV-LED emergency lighting family, the EVC Series delivers a compact architectural LED combination exit sign and emergency lighting solution designed for longevity, versatilit...
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2012-12-03

FZLED Introduces Super Slim 2-inch LED Downlight for Display Lighting Solution

FZLED, a leading maker of LED lighting product, is pleased to introduce a family of super slim, long life, durable and easy to install 4.5W 2-inch LED downlights FZL-DL02-00 series. The light is designed to be energy-saving replacement for 2-inch halogen recessed downlights, used in both residential and commercial spaces, including galleries, museums, retail spaces, and showrooms; moreover, it could also be used in a variety of display lighting such as under cabinets, showcases and glass display cases. FZL-DL02-00 comes with advanced guide technology and low-power L...
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2012-12-03

Osram expanding parts of its corporate program Total cost savings of about 1 billion euros expected by 2015

Given the accelerated transformation of the lighting market to semiconductor based products, Osram is pushing forward the entered path of its corporate reorganization. The company had already initiated a comprehensive corporate program in early 2012, which in principle focuses on processes and structures, operational activities as well as the further development of the corporate culture. In addition to the previously announced measures, the company has now decided on further structural adjustments. The corresponding reduction of an additional 4,700 jobs by 2014 will mostly be achieved t...
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2012-11-29

38,000 LEDs Decorate Philadelphia's South Street Bridge

South Street Bridge, a Philadelphia landmark for nearly 90 years, was recently reconstructed. The new, award-winning bridge features four towers, adorned with 38,000 LEDs. The LEDs form dynamic mosaics that honor the city’s mural arts tradition, beautify the city’s skyline, and act as symbols of the Philadelphia’s evitalization. Lighting and control products from Traxon & e:cue were used to illuminate the South Street Bridge. Traxon’s flexible, outdoor-rated Dot XL-3 RGB fixtures satisfied all of the project requirements, including exce...
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2012-11-27

Lighting Korea 2012: In interview with Light Laboratory – the LED luminaries certification lab

Any electrical appliances are required to obtain a mandatory conformity mark that prove that they are certified by national- or industry-accredited bodies. LED luminaries and LED backlight application are no exemption from this industry norm. The US-based Light Laboratory, Inc (LLI) – a photometric testing laboratory that specializes in testing luminaries thus outstands itself. LEDinside has the opportunity to meet up with LLI company CEO Jason Gee during the recent Lighting Korea about his views over company competitive grounds plus LLI’s profes...
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2012-11-27

MagnaChip Introduces Advanced 4-Channel LED Backlight Unit Driver Achieving 50% Increase in Driver Output

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation ("MagnaChip"), a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, today announced the launch of an advanced 4-channel LED backlight unit (BLU) driver IC (model:MAP3242) that features a 50% increase in driving power making it ideally suited for TV applications.
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2012-11-27

Sony teases new work in progress 20.5-inch OLED display for medical use

Sony was the first company on the market with a OLED TV in 2009. The problem with the TV was that it had a very small screen at 11-inches and a very big price tag. The TV was only on the market for a few years before Sony stopped producing it partly because of poor sales. Despite Sony’s first retail OLED product being discontinued, Sony has still been working on OLED technology. Sony’s medical systems division has recently teased a new OLED display that is a work in progress. Sony is specific in noting that the 20.5-inch OLED display is not...
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2012-11-27

GE Acquires LED Lighting Startup Albeo Technologies

General Electric Lighting, a division of General Electric (GE), has signed an agreement to acquire the Boulder startup Albeo Technologies. The purchase will help GE boost its ability to offer all-LED solutions to customers, especially in the area of industrial lighting. "This acquisition is a big boost for GE customers moving aggressively toward an all-LED building envelope in new construction and retrofits, including retail, commercial and industrial high-bay applications," Maryrose Sylvester, president and CEO of GE Lighting, said in a statement. ...
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2012-11-23

SDK to Supply LED-based Plant Growth Facilities to Kawauchi Village

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to provide Kawauchi Village, Fukushima Prefecture, with a new cultivation method for LED-based plant growth facilities for free. The village, headed by Mr. Yuko Endo, is now building an LED-based plant growth facility. SDK has developed the new cultivation method jointly with Professor Masayoshi Shigyo, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University. Compared with conventional LED-based plant growth facilities, the new method shortens shipment cycles and increases the amount of harvest through the irradiation of red an...
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2012-11-20

Rubicon Technology Honored as a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Award Winner

Rubicon Technology, Inc. has been selected as a Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ award winner for 2012. The Deloitte’s 2012 Technology Fast 500™ is an annual ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award winners for 2012 were determined based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2007 to 2011. And in order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500™ recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technolog...
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2012-11-19

Edison Opto unveils high lm/$, high efficacy and energy-efficient products in 2012

Edison Opto has established in 2001 and become the Taiwanese leading LED manufacturer. In 2012, Edison Opto joined the industry-wide Zhaga consortium and established a LM80 approved laboratory which was certified by UL in product safety and performance. Since the third quarter in 2012, Edison Opto has implemented the large-scale integrated system – SAP to strengthen Edison Opto’s competitive advantages in LED lighting industry. With regard to product development, Edison Opto has unveiled many high lm/$, high efficacy and more energy-efficient products ...
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ams OSRAM’s OSIRE® E3731i and Stand-Alone Intelligent Driver (SAID) use OSP license-free protocol to connect color LEDs, sensors and microcontrollers. ams OSRAM, a global leader in intelligent emitting and sensing technologies, will... READ MORE

JBD, a pioneering MicroLED display manufacturer, has set a new standard with its Phoenix series microdisplay, achieving an industry-record white-balanced brightness of 2 million nits. JBD’s Phoenix - Native Monolithic RGB Panel Leveragin... READ MORE