Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada’s technology hub, has purchased a GEN10® Molecular Beam Epitaxy system for its recently opened Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) hosting the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC). The system will be installed in the new MBE laboratory being established by Professor Zbig Wasilewski, Endowed Nanotechnology Chair at WIN. According to Professor Wasilewski, “MBE technolog...

As we know, Google purchased Motorola Mobility and with that purchase came thousands of patents for mobile devices. A document posted online shown that there was one patent missing and Google has just applied for it. That patent was one for a multi-LED flash to be embedded on the back side of a smartphone, or tablet for that matter. The idea behind a multi-LED flash is so that a low light photo situation can have different levels of light and will create a better exposure for the photo. Phones on the market today typically have one LED flash, or maybe a dual-LED flash...

Technical lighting leader launches new product at Dallas International Lighting Market CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting), manufacturer of high performance, energy-efficient lighting solutions, is proud to announce the debut of its new 5" aperture IC Recessed Eco-Downlight LED. The product, which is the latest in a series of new releases over the past year, made its official debut at the Dallas International Lighting Market on January 17-21, 2013. "As we continue to evolve our LED downlighting pipeline,  CSL added a strategic piece to ou...

LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®), the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, will take place June 1-5, 2014 in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Staged alternately annually on the West Coast and the East Coast, LFI returns to Las Vegas in 2014 where it set new all-time attendance and trade show records during its five-day run in 2012.  In independent studies conducted by the research firm Moore & Symons, attendee and exhibitor ratings of overall value and satisfaction reache...

Breakthrough Innovations Deliver up to 130 LPW and Standard Efficacy of 100 LPW Continuing to build on the advantages of Cree TrueWhite® Technology, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) is announcing the CR Series LED Architectural High-Efficacy (HE) troffer, with an industry-leading 130 lumens per watt* and 90 CRI. Cree is also raising the bar by increasing the efficacy of the standard CR family to 100 lumens per watt. Cree is further expanding the CR troffer line with the new CR Series High-Definition (HD) troffer, featuring 80+ CRI ...

Series Embodies Brand’s Signature Style for Creating Artful Lighting Corbett Lighting, celebrated for fashion-forward designs presents the Fascination Collection, which premiered at the January 2013 Buyers Market held in Dallas. Fascination features 10 new series, the bulk of which offer variations on each design in the form of pendants, chandeliers, flush- and semi-flush mounts and sconces, offering myriad attractive selections for residential, retail, office and hospitality specifications. Corbett Lighting, known for incorporating precious metals, imported cry...

Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, a division from Sharp Electronics Corporation, releases  a series of striking, large-format professional LED displays for the indoor digital signage market. Key features include choice of portrait or landscape orientation, 24/7 operation, Sharp's UV2A LCD technology, picture-in-picture mode, ability to enlarge or daisy chain images on multiple monitors, built-in speakers, and an interface expansion board with comprehensive input/output capabilities including DisplayPort®. With 700 cd/m2 brightness and LE...

New LED floodlights offer a wide range of lumen output and beam distributions for consistent styling and performance.   Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) expands the TPS Floodlight Series with TPS2 LED luminaires from Hydrel. The TPS Series utilizes a dedicated optical system and internal electronic ballasts and drivers to deliver ideal light output for LED outdoor lighting applications. TPS2 LED luminaires feature a compact, axial design that allows light to weave into decorative displays and other floodlighting applications. TPS2 LED l...

Rubicon Technology has shipped totally 400,000 large diameter sapphire wafers to LED and SoS/RFIC manufacturers. Sapphire is a key building block for LEDs used in HDTVs, laptops, smart phones and tablets. Another significant market for sapphire is Silicon-on-Sapphire (SoS) Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs). SoS RFIC chips deliver high RF performance with low power consumption, a small form factor, and significantly reduced crosstalk in antenna applications that are pervasive in smart phones and other consumer devices. Rubicon claims...

Philips Lighting will be further realigning its North American business sales and operations around a solution-selling approach, giving partners and customers access to the full suite of Philips' industry-leading lighting products through a centralized organization that will accelerate their own ability to service customers.  Philips has recognized the changing trends in lighting and how they are affecting customers from the demographic and population shift to urban areas, the rise of energy costs, to the contribution of lighting to energy use in buildings. These changes a...

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is paving the way for the world's largest light sculpture. Designed by artist Leo Villareal, more than 25,000 white LED lights will be displayed across the bridge starting on March 5, and will be lit from dusk until midnight for two years.   The individually programmed lights will create stunning designs and patterns across its 1.8 mile span as part of a massive light show. The move is in part to celebrate the bridge's 75th anniversary. Installing the LED light system has been no easy task. Electricians started ...

Noribachi has completed an expansive lighting improvement project for the City of Manhattan Beach, California. One of L.A.’s chic ocean front cities, Manhattan Beach draws tens of thousands of visitors annually to its waterfront attractions. Noribachi replaced the fluorescents with the popular LOWBAY vapor proof fixture. The new lights use about half of the energy while emitting a much brighter, cleaner light. Inside the parking structure this translates into an increased feeling of security and heightened color perception, making it easier for drivers to locate t...

In Febuary , Los Angeles will meet its four-year anniversary of the world’s most ambitious LED street light conversion project, as  Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and President Bill Clinton announced  a partnership On February 16, 2009 under which the city, advised by the Clinton Climate Initiative, would outfit 140,000 street lights with LED fixtures. The City of Los Angeles owns and operates the nation’s second-largest street lighting system: 210,000 street lights (including 70,000 decorative street lamps that will be retrofitted ...

U.S.-based Seesmart, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. (RVLT), has received a $5 million order for LED lighting products with a total potential value of $10 million.   These LED products manufactured by Seesmart will be installed in retail stores, office complexes, warehouses and storage facilities within the first quarter of 2013. And Revolution Lighting Technologies expects to receive a second order totaling $5 million immediately thereafter. According to Ken Ames, Director of Sales for Seesmart, “We are...

The International Trade Commission has upheld a General Exclusion Order recommended by an administrative judge regarding film, video and photographic LED lighting product patents held by Litepanels, Inc. of Van Nuys, California. The Vitec Group owns Litepanels, as part of its Videocomm division. The commission blocked 14 LED competitors like Cool Lights, Flolight, Ikan, Prompter People, Elation Lighting, Fotodiox, Visio Light, Stellar Lighting and six other lighting companies from importing rival designs without paying licensing fees to Litepanels. ...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), announced revenue of $346.3 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2013, ended December 30, 2012. This represents a 14% increase compared to revenue of $304.1 million reported for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 and a 10% increase compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2013. GAAP net income for the second quarter was $20.4 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, an increase of 69% year-over-year compared to GAAP net income of $12.1 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2012. On a non-GAAP basis, net income for...

Researchers from Boston University have invented a unique way of using LED lights to transmit location information to mobile devices within buildings.   Researchers Dan Ryan and Aaron Ganick’s start-up, ByteLight, is based entirely around proprietary software that can accurately map the inside of buildings using only LED lighting to transmit location information. with the trend toward LED lighting replacing fluorescents in many buildings throughout the world, and the continued growth of mobile smart devices, LED lights that broadcast location data can he...

Care-A-Lot Pet Supply reduces energy use and effectively highlights merchandise with integrated LED lighting and digital controls.  Leading Virginia pet retailer, Care-A-Lot® Pet Supply, installed more than 200 indoor and outdoor LED luminaires and poles and digital controls from Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI) in its new 20,000-square-foot facility in Virginia Beach, Va. A combination of Lithonia Lighting®, Winona® Lighting, Gotham®, and Sensor Switch® LED lighting and controls solutions work seamlessly together to highli...

Recently, the lighting sector has urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program to address light quality, specifically color rendering, in its new lamp specification, in a bid to ensure the long-term success and widespread market adoption of LED lamps. In addition to Soraa, the California Lighting Technology Center; Drs. Shuji Nakamura and Steven DenBaars; the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD); Northeast Utilities Companies (NSTAR); and lighting designer Chip Israel as well as a num...

Scientists from University of Georgia have made breakthroughs on creating an LED that emits a warm white light using a single light emitting material, or phosphor, with a single emitting center for illumination. One of the researchers on the project, Zhengwei Pan, an associate professor in the department of physics in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and in the College of Engineering, said in a posting on the UGA website, “Our material achieves a warm color temperature while at the same time giving highly accurate color rendition, which is somethin...

The Nova Scotia government is investing another $1 million in a company that makes LED lighting for the province’s roads and highways and exports its products around the world. Nova Scotia Business Inc., the province’s business development agency, announced that it is making the equity investment in LED Roadway Lighting, based in Amherst and Halifax. Including this latest investment, NSBI has made an $11-million equity investment in the company since 2009. “A company needs cash to fuel that growth,” Peter MacNeil, NSBI’s di...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) is extending the revolutionary XSP Series LED Street Light portfolio to deliver municipalities improved performance at even more affordable price points. The new XSP2L™ LED street light increases lumen output over 35 percent compared to the original XSP luminaire. The XSP2L LED is the ideal replacement for outdated high-pressure sodium and metal-halide fixtures up to 400 watts. Delivering better performance and lower cost per lumen, the Cree® XSP Series LED Street Light boasts an industry-leading ten year wa...

Lumenpulse Inc. has signed an agreement with Lutron Electronics, which is engaged in the lighting controls and energy management market. The agreement allows Lumenpulse to embed Lutron's EcoSystem technology directly into Lumenpulse's entire LED product line, both indoor and outdoor LED luminaires. Lutron's EcoSystem is a commercial lighting control system that is comprised of digitally addressable dimming ballasts and LED drivers, controls, and environmental sensors. These components provide businesses with energy savings from 40 to 70%, while increasin...

Next-Generation LR6-10L LED Fixture Delivers Exceptional Energy Savings and Long Lifetime to Obsolete Outdated Fluorescent and CFL Lighting Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces the LR6-10L six-inch LED downlight delivering 1000 lumens of exceptional 90+ CRI light while achieving 90 lumens per watt. This breakthrough performance is achieved by combining the high efficacy and high-quality light of Cree TrueWhite® Technology with an integrated driver, enabling energy savings of up to 50 percent compared to incumbent CFL technology or 30 percent comp...

Definity(TM) Ranks Amongst the Best PAR 30 Reflector Lamps on the Market Today Lighting Science Group Corporation® (OTCQB: LSCG), one of the world's leading LED lighting technology companies, announced that its DEFINITY™ PAR30 LED lamp has been recognized by the IEE, an Institute of the Edison Foundation, as one of the TOP TEN best LED lamps. Using an innovative approach that factors in energy efficiency, light quality, cost, and consumer appeal, three energy efficiency leaders -- IEE, TopTen USA, and Ecova ...

Lithonia Lighting D-Series LED Wall luminaires offer a variety of mounting and control options for enhanced energy savings, longer life and consistent styling for outdoor lighting applications. Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) introduces the D-Series LED Wall luminaires from Lithonia Lighting. Contemporary design combined with two sizes, three power packages and six photometric distribution options help create a custom lighting solution suitable for most outdoor lighting applications. These LED luminaires deliver more than 75 percent in energy savings over...

The Empire State Building (ESB) is asking the general public to determine the official standard colors for its new LED tower lights from January 14-20. Each evening from sunset to 2 a.m., January 14-20, 2013, the North, South, East and West sides of the building will light up the New York City skyline in four shades each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and pink (in this order, one color per night). Local tri-state area residents, who see ESB's lights nightly, are invited to look up at the building and vote for their favorite shade of color via th...

Bright, uniform, reliable channel letter lighting is important to the brand image of countless businesses. Inconsistent or unlit elements can undermine customers' positive perceptions. With more than 20 million linear feet of Tetra® product installed worldwide, GE continues to provide business owners and sign makers with the easy-to-install, worry-free and dependable LED channel letter lighting systems they demand. "Professionals appreciate and specify GE LED sign lighting for more than its quality and reliability. They go with GE because we've designed ...

Needham & Company reiterated a Buy rating on Cree and raised its price target to $36.00 (from $32.00). The increased price target relates to analysts' view that LED lighting has "Come of Age". "We expect initial adoption of LED will be in the high-end commercial and outdoor segments, where we believe Cree's chip performance and integration are crucial to achieving strong adoption," said analyst Y. Edwin Mok. Mok thinks Cree has an advantage that will allow it to charge premium prices and drive strong margins.  ...

Post-Top LED Street Lamps Help the City of Roses Reduce Energy and Maintenance Costs. LEDtronics, Inc. is one of the Southern California companies helping the Pasadena City Council in its goal to “increase conservation and sustainability” and put these funds to good use. U.S. Department of Energy authorized the city with up to $1,507,800 in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to be utilized “to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases and develop and retain...