Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced the introduction of the TurboDisc® MaxBright™ Gallium Nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Multi-Reactor System for production of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs). MaxBright has already been accepted by a leading LED manufacturer and Veeco is currently shipping MaxBright systems to additional top manufacturers in Korea, Taiwan and China.  

According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Livermore-based LED lighting company Bridgelux has raised nearly $21 million in a new round of funding. Bridgelux mainly makes LED lighting for commercial use. According to analysts cited by the company, the worldwide market for LED lighting will grow to as much as $25 billion by 2020....

Nexxus Lighting has added its top selling Array LED bulb SKU to the ENERGY STAR Qualified LED Light Bulbs list.   Joining its R30 products, the Array MR16 also was recently approved.  The MR16 uses just 3.3 watts to produce over 150 lumens at a 3000 degree Kelvin color temperature and a color rendering index of 84.  The Company’s R16 and GU10 units also are approved for inclusion by ENERGY STAR. It has submitted additional lamps from its Array line to ENERGY STAR, including most recently its PAR38 LED...

LAcarGUY Dealership Group Accelerates its Green Agenda Retrofitting Lexus Santa Monica with Qnuru Smart Energy LED Lights   Qnuru™, the Noribach Group’s smart energy digital lighting division, announced that LAcarGUY has retrofitted its Lexus Santa Monica dealership with Qnuru’s Vector line of high wattage LED retrofit bulbs. LAcarGUY, comprised of 10 award-winning dealerships and two state-of-the-art body shops, is the number one hybrid dealer in the world and widely acknowledged as the foremost leader in the green automobil...

Orb Optronix, industry leader in LED Characterization Services and Systems, will be discussing IES LM-79 and IES LM-80 measurement services in Booth 529 during the Strategies In Light trade show at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA on February 22, 23, 24, 2011. Orb Optronix co-founders Rand Lee and David Bajorins will join Sales and Marketing Director Rob Leonard on site at Booth 529 to discuss IES LM-79 and IES LM-80 measurement services and give live demonstrations of the company’s products. They will be exhi...

Rugged, Low-Profile RoHS-Compliant Fixture Now Certified for Class I, Div 2 and Class II, Div 2 Applications Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), an innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, announced that its SafeSite™ Series LED Wallpack Luminaire has achieved Class I, Division 2 certification for use in hazardous locations, including oil platforms, chemical facilities and other potentially explosive environments. Offering superior energy savings and long-life performance with dramatically less maintenance than traditional solutions for haz...

Furniture Industry is Next Big Market to Take Advantage of LED Lighting Installation Saving Energy and Money! MSi Solid State Lighting has announced it will work exclusively providing LED lighting for The Furniture First buying group, a purchasing cooperative made up of retail furniture dealers with locally owned businesses around the United States.  Florida based MSi is one of nation’s fastest growing LED lighting manufacturers lighting up retailers like Macy’s, Abercrombie & Fitch, 9 West and Francesca’s, plus furniture r...

AIXTRON SE announced a new order for a CVD reactor from existing customer SemiSouth Laboratories of Starkville, MS, USA. The order is for an AIX 2800G4 WW deposition system in the 10x100 mm and the 6x150 mm configuration which will be used for the production of power silicon carbide (SiC) Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET) and Schottky Barrier Diode microelectronic devices. SemiSouth placed the order in the fourth quarter of 2010 and the system will be delivered in the second quarter of 2011. The local AIXTRON support team will commi...

Helieon by Bridgelux and Molex Allows Upgrades as LED Technology Advances   Continuing its “Greening the Capitol” initiative, the United States Senate has renovated the largest hearing room of the Hart Senate Office Building using high performance, energy efficient LED lighting from Nila Inc.  The renovation program included the replacement of traditional incandescent lighting technology with Nila’s NH LED lighting system for enhanced video recording applications, as well as a custom down light installation using the Helieon®...

According to Veeco,  Shanghai Epilight Technology Co., Ltd has ordered Veeco TurboDisc® K465i™ MOCVD systems during the fourth quarter of 2010 for its new LED fab at Hefei, China for HB-LED manufacturing.

Helios Crew, Corporation Taiwan, today announced the release of a revolutionary new LED product, the S35.  The S35 is a packaged component LED, which integrates MEMS with semiconductor processing to produce a unique silicon packaging technology.   In conjunction with a high brightness SemiLEDs chip, this compact size, silicon sub-mount technology delivers incredible brightness along with superior reliability.  In addition, the S35 silicon has a thermal conductance which is more than 8 times higher than aluminum oxide ceramic packages, and at a cons...

Albeo Technologies has launched the C3-Series as the next generation of their flagship C-Series product family for general illumination applications. According to the company, building on the merits of the award winning C-Series, the new C3-Series offers the same superior patent-pending thermal design, long lifetime up to 100,000 hours, mercury-free construction, and maintenance-free operation. Customers purchasing the C3-Series will benefit from a 10% - 20% reduction in price depending on the configuration.  ...

Tyco Electronics was reported to team up with Bridgelux to develop the Nevalo system, a set of plug-and-play components for assembling solid state lighting systems for retail establishments, hotels, public areas and other locations. Bridgelux will offer LEDs and LED modules adapted for street lighting and commercial establishments to Tyco for Nevalo.  ...

As part of a city-wide sustainability initiative, officials in Centennial, Colorado recently completed a project to upgrade each of the city’s traffic and pedestrian countdown signals from traditional incandescent units to Dialight’s high-efficiency, low-maintenance ITE-compliant LED traffic signals. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program (EECBG), not only improved visibility for drivers and pedestrians, but is expected to save the city $50,000-$60,000 a year in energy and maint...

New Bridgelux LED Arrays Double Light Output of Today’s Commercially Available LED Products New Portfolio Additions Deliver 3500 to 8000 Lumen Output Arrays Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced the expansion of its award-winning RS LED Array portfolio to include the industry’s highest performance LED products designed for very high lumen applications such as retail shop lighting, high-bay, roadway, exterior area and industrial lighting applications. Shatterin...

Diodes Incorporated has introduced it new LED driver, the AL9910. With standard SO-8 and high power dissipation exposed pad SO-8 packages, the AL9910 high brightness LED driver will support universal AC input voltages from 85V to as high as 265V. It utilizes a rugged high voltage process technology allowing it to withstand input voltage surges of up to 500V. It delivers an output of between a few milliamps and 1A via an external MOSFET operating at a resistor programmable switching frequency up to 300kHz. Removing the need for a start-up resistor,...

Vizio, the U.S.-based sales arm for Taiwan Amtran Technology has signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with LG to reconcile over a years-long patent infringement dispute. Under the agreement, the two companies will settle all lawsuits they have filed in the U.S. and help to invalidate orders already made by International Trade Commission. According to market observers, it’s over 50% of Visio’s flat TVs sold in the U.S. are built with LGE`s display panels now that caused they signed this agreement. What’s more, Amtran has also secured a ...

Lately, Entegris has introduced Ultrapak 100 mm thin wafer shipper which can reduce damage and contamination to better protect thin substrates used in LED manufacturing and other applications. It’s said that the new product is being showing at the Company's booth at the SEMICON Korea 2011 tradeshow being held in Seoul, Korea on January 26, 2011.  ...

Building Operating Management readers honor Cooper Lighting and Cooper Controls products with top distinction. Products from Cooper Lighting and Cooper Controls, part of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), have been selected as 2011 Top Product winners by Building Operating Management magazine. The winning products are the Halo H7 LED Collection from Cooper Lighting and the Venergy Energy Monitoring Web Tool from Cooper Controls. The Top Product winners were selected using an e-mail ballot to readers of Building Operating Management who we...

Today, 131 years ago, Thomas Alva Edison was granted U.S. patent 223,898 for “Improvement in Electric Lamps and in the method of manufacturing.” Today’s LED lighting revolution heralds the demise of Edison’s 1880, horse-and-buggy-era invention. In an industry first, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has demonstrated the brightest, most-efficient, LED-based A-lamp that can meet ENERGY STAR® performance requirements for a 60-watt standard LED replacement bulb. This unprecedented level of performance is the result of Cree innovatio...

Recently, the Streetlights between Ship Canal and 65th Street in Fremont have been replaced with LED fixtures, just some of the 5,000 LED streetlights that were converted over the last year in Seattle which planed to convert all 40,000 residential streetlights to LED within the next four years.  ...

Expressway Toyota Helps Customers “Come in From the Cold” While Reducing its Dealership Lighting Energy Costs by Over 80%   Qnuru™, the Noribach Group’s smart energy digital lighting division, today announced that Expressway Toyota of Dorchester, MA, a close-in Boston suburb, has retrofitted its iconic dealership with Qnuru’s Vector line of high wattage LED retrofit bulbs. Founded, owned and operated by brothers Richard and Robert Boch, Expressway Toyota sells new and used Toyota and Scion automobiles from its 45,000 s...

Acuity Brands has released its new Holophane® Petrolux® LED luminaires to satisfy the requirements of a range of lighting applications in harsh and environmentally challenging facilities, including waste water treatment, power generation, petro-chemical, pulp and paper, textile, and ethanol and biodiesel production plants. The energy-efficient Petrolux® LED luminaires feature multiple lumen package options and several optical choices to meet various needs....

Luxury Lighting Manufacturer Honored with Industry’s Most Prestigious Award Corbett Lighting, luxury lighting manufacturer for more than 40 years, won the “Lighting Manufacturer of the Year” Award at the 22nd Annual ARTS gala, held on January 22 during the Dallas International Lighting Market and the Dallas Total Home & Gift Market.  In partnership with the Dallas Market Center, the Accessories Resource Team (ART) has hosted the prestigious Annual ARTS Awards program for the past 20 years, and to be nominated is one o...

Made in U.S.A. to Meet Buy American Act Featuring Dialight’s Exclusive Driver Technology for Optimum Performance and Long-Life Reliability Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, today unveiled its latest innovation in LED roadway and area lighting with the new Dialight StreetSense™ Series LED Street Light featuring Dialight’s exclusive optics technology for precision light placement along with maximum energy efficiency and reliability for ultra-low total cost of ownership over the lifetime...

New Partner Program Encourages Industry-Wide Collaboration; Launches with First Several ControlScope Connected Partners   Daintree Networks, Inc., a leading provider of innovative wireless control solutions for energy-smart buildings, today announced the launch of its ControlScope Connected Partner Program, designed to encourage vendor collaboration and development. Through the program, launched today with its first five members, Daintree Networks works with industry-leading lighting vendors to create interoperability between third-party products, as well as w...

Power Integrations has added seven new members　(LNK413-LNK419) to　its popular LinkSwitch-PH family of LED driver ICs. The new devices can achieve up to 88% efficiency, feature a PWM-dimmable single-stage controller with both power factor correction and accurate constant current power conversion functionality. In addition, LinkSwitch-PH devices incorporate the PFC/CC controller, a 725 V MOSFET and MOSFET driver into a single package. The new ICs enable the ultimate in high reliability at low cost by eliminating up to 25 additional compone...

Maxim’s unique LED driver solution enables the design of LED-based MR16 lamps that are compatible with most electronic transformers and cut-angle dimmers. Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX16840, an LED driver that employs a proprietary architecture to ensure flicker-free, dimmable operation with electronic transformers and cut-angle dimmers. Maxim’s patent-pending approach enables the design of retrofit LED lamps that can replace halogen MR16s without any changes to the existing electrical infrastructure. This remove...

LMR2 LED Module Can Enable Lighting Manufacturers to Expand Their LED Portfolio Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, is extending its LED module family with the Cree LMR2 LED Module, a compact, high-efficiency module that provides a simple solution for lighting designers and manufacturers looking to offer best-in-class LED lighting. The previously-released Cree LMR4 LED Module is also now available in four color points, 2700 K, 3000 K, 3500 K and 4000 K, each based on Cree TrueWhite® Technology. The v...

Vermont's largest municipal electric utility is going green with 35 LED streetlights retrofits in a residential area for the first time, and saving 74% of the energy used by traditional streetlights. It’s said the Burlington Electric Department already had been using LED streetlights in downtown commercial areas, but now will do so on Shore Road along Lake Champlain and neighboring streets. This LED retrofit was estimated to save74% of the energy used by traditional streetlights and officials hoped to expand the installment in the future....