LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, will be demonstrating emitters and LED modules that enable the size of entertainment lighting products to be significantly reduced on Stand 2-S11 at the PLASA 2012 exhibition, 9-12th September, Earls Court, London, UK. The company’s LuxiGen platform of white and multi-colour compact emitters generate the high luminous flux density demanded in entertainment lighting, particularly for spot beams, distance lighting effects and in dynamic lighting scenarios. Patented thermal management technology a...

With its LARCH system, DAS Environmental Expert GmbH has developed a new product solution for environmentally friendly cleaning of waste process gases in the LED industry.   New technology for an environment friendly LED industry: The LARCH system of DAS Environmental Expert GmbH has been especially developed for the disposal of reactive waste gases from the light-emitting diode (LED) industry. As the statutory provisions on waste water and waste gas disposal are to be tightened in Taiwan from 2013 onwards, Taiwanese companies will soon have to s...

Q2 2012 orders for MOCVD tools remained flattish with the trough-like Q1 numbers, according to Barclays Capital Inc. analysts confirmed at SEMICON West. Veeco and Aixtron confirm that activity is picking up into H2 2012. Sub-component suppliers to the MOCVD makers, as well as adjacent LED equipment suppliers, are anticipating gradual order growth in Q3 and Q4 2012. Key accounts that are in the process or on the cusp of placing orders in the remainder of 2012 include Sanan and 3E in China, Toyoda Gosei and Showa Denko in Japan, a little bit of E...

New products integrate digital driver and receiver logic for added integration and value Avago Technologies (Nasdaq: AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, has announced its latest product enhancements to the popular Versatile Link Plastic Optical Fiber product family.  This product platform has become a widely adopted solution for industrial communications and control links for industrial applications. Avago POF products offer infinite voltage isolation and EMI immunity performance that fa...

Lend Lease, a leader in public-private community development, and PolyBrite International, Inc., manufacturer and creator of Borealis® LED Lamps and Lighting, have partnered to convert the Oak Park Neighborhood at Knox Hills into the largest residential LED community in the world. The project, which consists of more than 9,500 Borealis LED light bulbs installed in 164 homes, is scheduled for completion in October 2012. The new Borealis LED bulbs will reduce community energy costs by $34,000 in one year, more than $859,000 over the 22-year life span of th...

Cree, Inc. announces its latest silicon carbide (SiC) offering with low basal plane dislocation (LBPD) 100-mm 4H SiC epitaxial wafers.  This LBPD material exhibits a total BPD density of < 1 cm-2 in the epitaxial drift layer, with BPDs capable of causing Vf drift as low as < 0.1 cm-2.   This low BPD material further demonstrates Cree’s long-standing commitment to continuous improvement and investment in SiC materials technology. “Bipolar devices in SiC have long been held back by forward voltage degradation caused by the pres...

Power Integrations has launched an 18W non-isolated A19 LED driver with 88%-efficient. It’s designed for a 100W incandescent bulb replacement and will support low-line (90 VAC to 135 VAC) operation. According to Andrew Smith, product marketing manager at Power Integrations, "The lighting industry typically asks for 80% efficiency for drivers targeting 60W A19 bulb replacements. To achieve viable LED-based replacements for 75W and 100W bulbs, much higher efficiency is needed in order to reduce the heat dissipated by the driver. The 88% efficiency...

The future of further human deep space exploration is dependent on the development of many new systems and technologies. And researchers have considered that nuclear-powered state of the art LED technology is “what will drive (the) photosynthesis so necessary to provide both food and oxygen for future lunar colonists.” “Future long-term lunar residents will need to grow their food either in sub-lunar lava tubes or in greenhouses shielded with several meters of lunar surface regolith. With no atmosphere, the moon is regularly exposed to lethal doses of cosmic rays,...

STMicroelectronics has signed a strategic agreement with France-based MicroOLED company that develops and distributes OLEDs. Besides, St declared a minority equity investment of € 6 million in the company.   MicroOLED's advanced technology offers superior pixel density for improved image quality and also proves 50% more power efficiency than competitive displays. OLEDs can now have two-fold pixel densities and 10 to 100x more contrast ratios than alternate displays. By integrating these technology advantages, ST offers exceptional manufacturing m...

Canadian firm Meaglow has made a breakthrough on a low temperature Migration Enhanced Afterglow film growth technique to produce a thick InGaN layer with strong yellow emission, for increasing the efficiency and lowering production costs of green LEDs and laser diodes. It is looking for collaboration opportunities to enhance the material properties required by industry for lighting, display, medical, and military applications and other uses. Meaglow's Chief Scientist K. Scott Butcher, says, "It's the brightest p-n junction I've ever seen in my life,...

Cree announces availability of high quality, low micropipe 150-mm 4H n-type silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers. Cree continues to lead the SiC materials marketplace in driving to larger diameters and this latest advancement lowers device cost and enables adoption for customers with existing 150-mm diameter device processing lines. 150-mm epitaxial wafers with highly uniform epitaxial layers as thick as 100 microns are available for immediate purchase. SiC is a high-performance semiconductor material used in the production of a broad range of lighting, power and communication ...

CRS Electronics Inc. has announced financial results for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2012. For the three months ended June 30, 2012, the Company reported sales of $687,700 and a net loss of $0.02 per share as compared to sales of $614,900 and a net loss of $0.02 per share in the same period one year ago. For the six months ended June 30, 2012, the Company reported sales of $2.0 million and a net loss of $2.1 million or $0.05 per share. This compares to sales of $1.2 million and a net loss of $1.1 million or $0.03 per share for the same six-month period l...

Ushio Inc of Tokyo, Japan has announced that in November it will start sales of Superline LEDs, a series of LED MR16 halogen replacement lamps from Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ substrates. The Japanese company says that, as a series of next-generation LED halogen replacement lamps, Superline LED delivers not only the brightness of halogen lamps demanded by users, but also faithfully recreates the quality and properties of the light. The company plans to sell the produc...

Acuity Brands Adds New AL Series Luminaires from Lithonia Lighting To Its Portfolio of Innovative LED Architectural Lighting The Lithonia Lighting® AL Series architectural recessed LED luminaires from Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) combine clean, fine lines with a high-end design that complements any space. The completely luminous optical system provides a concave visual appearance that blends with the ceiling plane, while providing higher fixture efficacy and even illumination. The AL Series is the most recent addition to an industry-leadin...

Intematix Corporation announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a notice of allowance for claims on its patent covering red nitride phosphor compositions used in LEDs. Intematix expects issuance of the patent by the end of 2012. Intematix’s patent application number 12/632,550, entitled “Nitride-based Red Phosphors” is expected to be the 18th U.S. patent issued to Intematix in the area of LED phosphors and the 71st U.S Patent overall.   “Our novel chemical formulation lowers the concentratio...

Acuity Brands Premieres Smart + Simple Lighting Solutions Videos   Video series showcases the multiple benefits of integrated, intelligent lighting for indoor applications.   Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) has produced a series of five videos exploring the practical integration of intelligent LED luminaires and digital controls for interior applications. The Smart + Simple Lighting Solutions video series provides insight on how lighting with embedded controls can be easily tailored to a specific application, while monitoring and responding to the imm...

Lux on TargetTM more than doubled, enabling energy-efficient replacement of 75W halogen lamps in retail and commercial applications LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, announces the LZ9 LuxiGenTM emitter, a new family of devices that deliver 2.5 times the lumens of existing LZ4 products within the same 7mm x 7mm footprint. The LZ9 emitter more than doubles the Lux on TargetTM, making it ideal for directional lighting fixtures such as the spot, accent and downlighting used in retail and commercial applications.  LED Engin also...

Latest Innovation Integrates Precise Optical Control, Exceptional Color Quality and Fast Payback Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces THE EDGE® High Output (H.O.) Area and Flood Light LED luminaires. Capable of replacing high output sources of the past such as 1000 watt metal halide and using 50 percent less energy in most applications, the new luminaire features more than 20 optical configurations. Among them is a new FrontlineOptic™ technology designed specifically for auto dealerships. THE EDGE H.O. luminaire delivers brilliant ...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that it has recently completed installation of a GEN2000® Edge™ Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) System at IPG Photonics Corporation. The system was delivered to further expand their production of high-quality GaAs-based lasers. This order follows IPG’s prior purchases of three Veeco GEN200® Systems. Dr. Alex Ovtchinnikov, Vice President-Components for IPG, stated, “We have been very pleased with the cost of ownership advantages and the unsurpassed performance of our p...

New VP of Sales and Marketing Dirk Pieter Smedema Will Lead Global Initiative   Planar lighting pioneer Oree announced it has strengthened its management team by appointing Dirk Pieter “DP” Smedema as Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Mr. Smedema, a 20-year veteran of the lighting market, will, based in Europe, oversee the company’s newly-expanded network of sales representatives in Europe, China, Japan and Korea, in addition to the sales and marketing staff at Oree’s headquarters in Israel. This strategic expansion follow...

When Lake Nona pursued a vision to line its Southeast Orlando streets with new lighting, the 7,000-acre, master-planned community needed to match exacting aesthetic guidelines to leading-edge technology. Community leaders found their answer in GE Lighting’s Evolve™ LED Contemporary Twin Support Post Top and Evolve LED Roadway fixtures. Combined, the energy-saving street lighting fixtures will consume approximately 253,000 fewer kilowatt hours (kWhs) of electricity a year as opposed to traditional high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting – a $27,00...

Arrow Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Intematix Corporation to deliver ChromaLit™ remote phosphor components for LED lighting. Compared to conventional LED designs, where blue chips are coated with a phosphor compound, ChromaLit, now available through Arrow Electronics, uses a phosphor composite separated from the blue LED energy source. This architecture provides reduced system costs, more efficient manufacturing processes, exceptional light quality and up to 30 percent higher system efficacy. “Intematix ChromaLit remote ...

New indoor ambient lighting saves energy, improves work environment and enhances aesthetics in 381,000-square-foot Rose Building – corporate headquarters of Medical Mutual of Ohio. Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI), a leading provider of   comprehensive, energy-saving lighting solutions, announces that its Lithonia Lighting® high-performance volumetric Relight kits were installed in the corporate headquarters of Medical Mutual of Ohio located in the historic Rose Building in Cleveland, Ohio. The extensive lighting renovation project was comple...

Provides unprecedented design flexibility and opens door to wide variety of new low-light applications Shapeable LED backlight is up to 97% thinner and 30% less expensive than alternative backlights Lumex announces the global launch of its first-in-the-industry QuantumBrite Shapeable LED Backlight. With the new shapeable LED backlight, holes can be cut into the backlight in virtually any shape (for example, to allow space for a switch or other component on the circuit board). This combination of flexible and shapeable LED backlight technology is unique in the indus...

Three cities including Yucca Valley in San Bernardino County's Morongo Basin, Goleta on the Santa Barbara coast, and South Lake Tahoe in Eldorado County have made full use of a California Energy Commission program to help spread municipal use of better lighting. In Yucca Valley, the CEC helped the city replace more than 1,000 older fluorescent lights and their ballasts with more efficient "T8" tubes, which can reduce energy consumption by up to 5 watts per bulb. The city also replaced lighting in exit signs with LED bulbs. The upgrades were don...

Shanghai Lightsky Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. located in Shanghai, China ("Lightsky") has designated SunSi Energies Inc. ("SunSi") as the exclusive North American rights to distribute Lightsky’s LED products. Lightsky is a leading LED manufacturer for large commercial and institutional users with a strong product portfolio ranging from illumination LED lighting, to LED video display systems and architectural LED lighting. To acquire these rights to distribute Lightsky's LED products, SunSi paid $750,000 in ...

Consumer Reports has show that 3 out of 4 Americans prefer CFLs to LEDs, mainly based on LED’s high cost. In spite of current expensive price, LED bulbs have their advantages as following. Keeps strong when turned on and off frequently Consumer Reports put CFLs and LEDs side by side and turned them on and off every two minutes. Some CFLs burned out, but all the LEDs were still going strong after 200,000 cycles. Dimmed as low as an incandescent bulb Unlike CFLs, some LEDs can be dimmed as low as an incandescent bulb. Additionally, they co...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product.  Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of product: Energizer Rotating Night Lights Units: About 260,000 Importer: Energizer, of St. Louis, Mo. Manufacturer: Ningbo Sun-alps Industry Develop Co. Ltd, of China Hazard: The night lights can overheat and smoke, posing a burn hazard to consumers. Incidents/I...

A Consumer Reports study released Thursday has shown American consumers’ attitudes toward LEDs. Only 25% use LEDs According to the study, of the 90% of Americans who have used LED or CFL light bulbs to save energy and cut costs most use CFLs. Almost 75% of consumers who have switched from incandescent bulbs currently use CFLs. In spite of LED features such as 75% less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs, last as long as 25 years, brighten immediately and often offer better light quality than compact fluorescents, only 25% use LEDs. Pr...

Lighting designers, specifiers and property managers can shape indoor spaces in engaging new ways with GE Lighting's LED Architectural Lighting portfolio. New GE LED Accent, Tetra® PowerGrid and GE LED Wall Washer lighting systems add rich layers, bold backdrops and dramatic accents to retail shops, hotels, offices, restaurants, and a variety of other commercial spaces. "Lighting evokes emotion in its subtle sophistication," said Sarah Truman, GE Lighting Architectural LED Lighting Product Manager. "What we've done here is...