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October.17, 2014 - 17:21 — judy.lin
  

Hot Picks of the Week Oct. 13-Oct. 17

Key developments this week:

  • GTAT wind-down approved by U.S. court, company slashes 890 jobs.
  • Indian Energy Ministry actively promotes LED bulbs, and plans to sell them for less than US $1 each in rural areas.
  • Lextar board approves Cree NT $83 million (US $2.73 million) investment in company, company stocks to be sold at NT$ 30 per share.
  • Nichia announces first global spokesperson to be based in Taipei, an interesting development for a company mostly involved in B2B operations.
  • Nichia believes LED price competitions will intensify in 2015. Company also shares their side of the story about Nobel Laureate Shuji Nakamura’s lawsuit.
  • Technological developments: Duke University develops fluorescence powder that can speed up light emission by 1,000 times, enabling the production of superfast LEDs. Rutgers University researchers develop a more cost-effective alternative to GaN LED by using copper iodide instead.

Editor Recommendations

  1. The Story Behind Shuji Nakamura's Invention of Blue LEDs
  2. Shuji Nakamura’s Salary at Nichia was Equivalent to Listed Company Chairman
  3. Nichia Forecasts LED Industry Price Wars to Intensify in 2015
  4. LED Bulb Prices Drop the Most in Germany Last Month
  5. Indian Power Ministry to Sell LED Bulbs to Households for Less Than US $1
  6. Duke University Develops High-Speed Flourescence for Superfast LEDs
  7. Scientists Come Up with More Economic Copper Iodide LEDs Designs
  8. SSL Ecosystem Summit: CRI to Be Replaced with Other Color Standards Soon
  9. Beyond LEDs: Brighter, New Energy-saving Flat Panel Lights Based on Carbon Nanotubes
  10. GTAT Slashes Jobs, Prepares to File Lawsuit against Apple

What’s Trending

  1. DOE Finds Periodical Cleaning Important for Long Term LED Bridge Lighting
  2. DOE Announces Funding Opportunity for Solid-State Lighting R&D
  3. DOE Street Lighting Consortium Releases Results of Public Street and Area Lighting Inventory Survey
  4. Long Road Ahead for Chinese LED Manufacturers IPO Applications
  5. Key Recommendations from NGLIA LED Lifetime Report
  6. Spark Optoelectronics: The Three Wrong Assumptions Consumers Make When Buying LED Lights
  7. ‘Skin-Like’ Device Monitors Cardiovascular and Skin Health
  8. Magnetic Mirrors Enable New Technologies by Reflecting Light in Uncanny Ways 

Industry News

  1. Nichia: Taiwanese Manufacturers Should Strengthen Patent Portfolio
  2. Cree Keeps Promise of Buying Lextar Shares at NT $30
  3. Osram Makes Luminance Breakthrough in LED Headlight
  4. Law Firms Calls out to GTAT Investors Suffering Heavy Losses
  5. Osram Completes Acquisition of Clay Paky
  6. LED Nobel Illuminates Pioneering GE Research
  7. Aledia’s Nanowire LED Technology Endorsed by 2014 Physics Nobel Prize Winner
  8. Universal Display Corporation Named to the Barron's 400 Index
  9. Osram Inks Joint Development Agreement with Quantum Dot Manufacturer Nanoco
  10. Lighting by Gregory 2014 Interior Design Competition is Open for Submissions
  11. Ford, NextEnergy Announce Automotive Lighting Challenge to Accelerate Development of LED Technology
  12. Eaton Announces Halo® Photo Contest in Support of ENERGY STAR® Program

New Products

  1. pureLiFi Creates Li-Fi Network with Off-the-Shelf LED Luminaires
  2. Illuminating Engineering Society Recognizes Nine Eaton LED Products for Technical Achievement
  3. Hubbell Lighting Launches Versatile Commercial LED Downlight Fixture
  4. Alpha to Introduce New ALPHA® LED Materials Technologies at Strategies in Light
  5. Styron Highlights Performance Plastics at Fakuma
  6. Molex Introduces its New Low-Profile Lite-Trap™ SMT Wire-to-Board Connector System
  7. Oort Launches LED Lights for Smart Homes
  8. Orion Energy Rolls out Outdoor LED Lighting Product Portfolio
  9. Texas Instruments Launches LED Matrix Manager for Adaptive Automotive Headlight Systems

Interesting Applications

Lighting Projects

  1. French Photographer Creates Stunning Light Painting with LED Kites
  2. Lighting Designer Claudia Paz Transforms Public Spaces into Art
  3. US Naval Academy Makes the Switch to LED Using Ephesus Lighting
  4. LG Chem OLED Panels Illuminate Pop-Up Restaurant Tincan
  5. ARC Complete the Dynamic Lighting System of Mehas Residential Building in Taipei
  6. Lunera Lighting Gets High Marks from Trinity School
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