El Dorado Ventures has awarded the 2010 Bourne Technology Award to Bridgelux, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of technologies and solutions transforming the global lighting industry.

The Bourne Technology Award is presented annually by El Dorado Ventures to recognize companies that develop and deploy unique technology with demonstrated customer impact. The award is named for Steve Bourne, Chief Technology Officer of El Dorado Ventures, who is internationally known for his work on the UNIX system while at Bell Laboratories, where he designed the popular UNIX command language known as the 'Bourne Shell.'

Bridgelux delivers compact, energy efficient integrated LED based lighting solutions, reducing the design complexity and solution cost for their lamp and luminaire customers.

Bridgelux's LED Array portfolio delivers high quality lighting with performance ranging from 240 to 4500 lumens, enabling the replacement of many high-volume conventional light sources such as incandescent, halogen, fluorescent and high intensity discharge (HID) lamps for interior and exterior lighting applications.

Bridgelux LED arrays contain proprietary technology at the EPI, chip and packaging level, enabling the industry's lowest thermal resistance with excellent color control and consistency in an easy to use plug and play product.

In his award presentation to Bridgelux, Bourne noted that the company had pioneered significant innovations in the chip layer, wiring patterns and packaging that drive down the cost and improve the energy efficiency of LED lighting systems. With more than 275 patent applications filed or granted worldwide, Bridgelux is the only vertically integrated LED manufacturer and developer of solid-state light sources that designs its solutions specifically for the lighting industry.