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...

LED technology developed by Cree and Aeon creates warm glow of success at top international tourist destination   The warm mellow glow of a sunset is not what most consumers currently associate with LED lighting, but that is the effect now being delivered by the MR16 lamp from Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT). A key commercial LED light bulb manufacturer in Taiwan and well known in the industry for its retrofit bulbs, ALT has a well established relationship with Cree, Inc., and the Taiwan based company designed the Cree XLamp® XT-E 2200K CC...

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...

Professor Yue Kuo, from the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University , has fabricated a new type of LED, capable of producing a wide spectrum light while operating for long periods of time at atmospheric conditions. This device is based on a new concept of light emission from an ultra-thin amorphous dielectric layer.     According to an article published in Applied Physics Letters, the light emission mechanism, characteristics of the emission spectrum, fabrication method, and the operation parameter effects on this ty...

New tool detects electrical issues and small physical defects; helps optimize high-speed optical wafer inspection systems for preferential capture of yield-relevant defects KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) announced the eS805™, a new electron-beam inspection system for leading-edge chip manufacturers. Benefiting from more than twenty years of KLA-Tencor's e-beam inspection development and manufacturing expertise, the eS805 offers strong capability in detection of very small defects and defects that cause electrical problems in the integrated circuit, ...

Includes First-Ever LED series, Enhanced Detailing and Second Generation of Portable Fixtures—Affirming Brand’s Legacy as a Force To Be Reckoned Hudson Valley Lighting®, premier U.S. manufacturer of classic and transitional lighting fixtures with roots in historic and decorative design, presents one of its largest and most prolific collections yet. The expansive collection, which debuted officially at the 2013 Dallas Buyers Market in Dallas, includes scores of new lighting families and products, exceeding expectations with exquisite pendants, c...

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...

Luxury Manhattan apartments in turn-of-the-century warehouse on the Hudson River feature exquisite designs from Corbett Lighting, Hudson Valley Lighting® and Troy Lighting Littman Brands is proud to announce that it is the premier sponsor of Elle Decor, House Beautiful and Veranda magazines’ Designer Visions interior design showcase, which will open its doors on Tuesday January 29, 2013 with a gala and film screening for The 48 Hour Film Project. The showcase (where interiors are done by A-list architects and designers) features numerous lighting desi...

Prizmatix has introduced new collimated LED light sources, with over 60% increase in power over previous versions. And the company plans to show the white LED along with other new LED products at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco on February 5th to 8th. The UHP-T-LED-White has over 4.5 W of collimated light and can be used as a replacement for traditional mercury and xenon lamps in a variety of applications. Adapters are available for all major brands of microscopes including Olympus, Nikon, Zeiss, and Leica as well as for fibre opti...

Since 2007 the company has conducted development of the GroFlex Flexible LED light tape, and finally this year the product was complete, and has positive results on the trial project in the greenhouse of 1,5 hectares near St. Petersburg in greenhouse farm of CJSC “Vesna-Tikhvin”. “GroFlex” is designed to be used in various plant lighting applications both as a self-sufficient light source in fully enclosed surroundings, and supplement light source with HPS, HID lamps. The GroFlex series has a wide range of special wavelength combination...

Recently, at Lighting Japan 2013, Panasonic Idemitsu OLED Lighting (PIOL) Co Ltd exhibited OLED lighting panels developed for residences. The company showed a panel that looks like shoji (paper screen) in a Japanese room, a panel designed for wash stands, etc. It plans to release the panels in the spring of 2013. Meanwhile, it announced its line of products scheduled to be launched by fiscal 2018.   The exhibited OLED panels were the "100 x 100" series, a 10 x 10cm OLED lighting panel that PIOL released in November 2012, and the "...

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 ...

Sharp has released new 17-mm chip-on-board (COB) Mega Zenigata LEDs that are come in 15W, 25W, 35W and 50W versions, and have the same footprint as previous versions of Zenigata LEDs . The offer luminous efficacy of up to 108 lm/W. Sharp's GW6DxxxxNFC LEDs come in 2,700K, 3,000K, 3,500K, 4,000K, 5,000K, and 6,000K color temperatures with a CRI of 80 or more depending on the performance class. The 50W version of the LEDs have an output of 4780 lm with a typical drive current of 950 mA. However, the design apparently allows users to can...

Intematix has announced availability of its reference design for a low cost, high light quality and efficient LED high bay lighting system using remote phosphor technology. Intematix remote phosphors convert light from blue LEDs into white light up to 30% more efficiently than conventional white LEDs. As a consequence of increased efficacy, remote phosphor reduces costs for lighting systems by implementing fewer LEDs and other components and by cutting power consumption. The new 22,000 lumen light engine, based on a novel architecture, exceeds performance levels of traditi...

Emerge Lighting, a division of DDP, has developed a TRIAC dimmable line voltage linear lighting fixture optimized for continuous surface grazing and wall-washing applications. Designated WashGrazeLVD, the low-profile LED lighting fixture offers seamless light quality and substantial energy savings for new installations and lighting retrofits requiring high-efficacy white light. Designed to operate from 120VAC to 277VAC without remote drivers, the WashGrazeLVD features advanced internal circuitry to allow it to dim smoothly with either leading-edge (forward p...

Japanese companies from Tamura Corp and Koha Co Ltd have created a white LED using gallium oxide (β-type Ga2O3) and exhibited it at Lighting Japan 2013 from Jan 16 to 18, 2013. The LED consists of a blue LED chip made on a β-type Ga2O3 substrate by using GaN-based semiconductor and  a fluorescent material. Compared with a case where a common blue LED chip formed on a sapphire substrate is used, the new LED realizes a higher optical output. At the show, Tamura and Koha showcased two kinds of white LEDs that use 0.3 x 0.3mm and 2 x 2mm...

UK UV technology developer Integration Technology Ltd (ITL) has introduced an LED variant to its heritage SubZero UV lamp range providing class leading high power output for an air-cooled system.   A dedicated curing system for wide format inkjet printers, the new Subzero LED (above) offers ground-breaking performance for air-cooled LED technology combined with the architectural pedigree, features and benefits of the UK-based company’s 2005 launched SubZero UV lamp range.   Key features align the brand’s reduced footprint, low weight ...

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...

TerraLUX Inc.’s Line Voltage Linear LED Engine has received the European ENEC Mark, which is the high quality European Mark for electrical products that demonstrates compliance with European standards (EN). The Line Voltage Linear LED Engine is tested according to EN 62031:2008 (Ta 55°C Tc 85°C). Additionally, the Line Voltage Linear LED Engine has also received UL certification (UL recognized component (cURus) and UL Certified retrofit kit under UL1598C) making it a global replacement lighting solution for incandescen...

InfiniLED claims its latest MicroLEDs (µLEDs) have set up the highest recorded for a commercially available LED type device, with a light output density of more than 300 W/cm2. The device can produce up to 1mW of light from a single 20µm pixel at 405nm. The MicroLED combines the benefits of a laser and a LED to produce ultra-high light output. The MicroLED provides the wavelength flexibility, drive characteristics and simplicity of a LED as well as the power and collimated beam of a laser. The ability to produce such light intensity and ...

Japanese researchers Akinori Koukitu and Yoshinao Kumagai, who are professor and associate professor, respectively, at the Division of Applied Chemistry, the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), and researchers of Tokuyama Corp. , have made breakthroughs on a deep ultraviolet LED that has the world's highest levels of output characteristics. With a forward current of 150mA, its output and external quantum efficiency are 20mW and 3.0%, respectively. There were two problems in the development of the deep ultraviolet LED: developing a high...

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 German company ASB Systembau has created glass flooring (called ASB Glassfloor) that uses programmable LED lighting to create boundaries as well as create video messaging and other wording underneath the gym floor. As we know, though most gym floors fit the dimensions of various courts (e.g. basketball, badminton, tennis, etc.), there's been that long-standing struggle of painted lines. Hard to play badminton on a court made for basketball and vice-versa.  And LED lights come in and solve this problem. The floor, which is currently in place in a German...

The latest in cutting-edge video display technology will be showcased at this year’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show with the unveiling of two next generation LED display screens from one of Europe’s leading manufacturers, EKTA. Exhibiting at ISE, which is being held at RAI in Amsterdam from 29-31 January, EKTA will be launching its state-of-the-art iLVM 4C-Qs LED-Wall Indoor series and LVM 6C-Q LED-Wall Outdoor series, both of which are designed and built at EKTA’s facility in Ukraine. Further technologic...

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...

Dialight has unveiled its next-generation StreetSense® LED Roadway Sign Light for roadway and infrastructure signage. Offering unprecedented flexible mounting options and years of maintenance-free illumination backed by Dialight’s full-performance 5 year warranty, the new StreetSense fixtures are ideal for both new construction and retrofit from existing HID metal halide, high-pressure sodium and phased-out mercury vapor fixtures. The new StreetSense Roadway Sign Light is available in two versions. A 6,000-lumen, 70W unit used in multiples to illuminate...

Verbatim will launch a new range of LED products based on Seoul Semiconductor (SSC)’s ”nPola” technology. Since 2010, Verbatim has been introducing a growing portfolio of high performance LED lamps to the lighting market. To address market requirements for LED lamps that more closely approximate the characteristics of halogen lighting, Verbatim will launch a new range of LED products based on Seoul Semiconductor (SSC)’s ”nPola” technology. “nPola” utililizes gallium nitride (GaN) substrates from Verbatim&r...

Londis store improves shopper experience whilst saving over £17,000 AWARD-winning lighting manufacturer, MHA Lighting, is helping a Londis convenience storeslash its lighting energy bills by 63%. The projectat Hillnews, Darlington, will cutlighting energy bills by 63% and Co2 emissions by 63 tonnes. Greater Manchester-basedMHA Lighting replacedtraditional fluorescents throughout Hillsnews’shop floor, back office and post office areaswith a selection of their award-winning TiLite fittings. Hillsnews owner and Londis Retail partner,And...