On March 23, 2013 Green Ray LED Lighting a California/New York start up reached a milestone in the LED lighting world with the introduction of 173 Lm/W LED’s T8 lamp. US Department of Energy through its program “Lighting Facts” issued the label to Green Ray LED’s T8 lamp and the lamp became as of today the world’s most energy efficient light approved by DOE. Independent test results concluded to date, no others have surpassed its standing 173 Lumens per Watt. This is a global record in efficiency for this type of ligh...

In order to meet the growing demand for sustainable lighting, Technology Foundation STW and Philips have taken the initiative to form the ‘Advanced Sustainable Lighting Solutions’ partnership. With eight recently approved research project proposals, the program is now officially launched. The aim of these projects is to develop innovative, efficient lighting that will also be available for new applications. The five-year program has had the sum of three million euros allocated to it: each of the partners will pay half. The initial results are expected in 2014.&n...

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) will hold a Technology Tuesday educational series on April 23 at Lightfair International (LFI) 2013 in Philadelphia. Technology Tuesday will explore advanced technologies that are paving the way for solid-state lighting. “The purpose of LFI 2013 is to pair industry experts with lighting professionals to help advance the lighting industry,” said Steve Lydecker, Acuity Brands Senior Vice President of Technology.  “Technology Tuesday allows attendees to learn about revolutionary technologies and take an...

Audi’s LED headlights are reported to be recognized by The European Union as an energy efficient technology that can help cars reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions. According to a press release from Audi (media credentials required), LED headlights can achieve this greater fuel efficiency because they use less power– a little more than half what traditional halogen lights on low beam setting would use. The EU Commission found in its studies of the technology that LED headlight-equipped vehicles emit 1.61 fewer grams of carbon dioxide per mile than...

Today's LED retail and office lighting fixtures that marry fashion and function are creating more modern ceiling landscapes and visually striking possibilities for lighting designers. With the new Lumination™ EL Series LED Luminaire, GE continues to lead the way to inspired indoor spaces with a never-before-seen LED lighting technology option. Minimal and exceptionally thin, the blade-like fixture stabs at the heart of conventional design while slashing energy costs at the same time.   The new Lumination™ EL Series LED Luminaire is sus...

Spark successfully wins the bidding of a solar LED street light project aided by Ministry of Commerce of P.R.C (MOFCOM) for Egypt recently.   This LED street light project is initiated by China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (CICETE); it is a measure taken to implement Eight New Measurements to Africa, and also a governmental aided demonstration project for Egypt, to combine solar energy and LED lighting.   This project is situated in Kuraymat, N29°16′, E31°15′. Kuraymat is abundant in s...

Soraa Inc will ramp up orders with its contract manufacturers in Malaysia for its LED modules used in directional light LED lamps, riding on an approximate US$4bil (RM12.16bil) global market size for such illumination products in the replacement segment. Soraa outsources the manufacturing of LED modules to Globetronics Technology Bhd in Penang and another local electronic manufacturing company in Ipoh. Soraa chief operating officer Dr Tom Caulfield said the demand for its directional light lamps was increasing, especially from the commercial and special lighti...

Improvements to the iPad's LED backlighting will allow Apple to create a thinner iPad 5, according to NPD DisplaySearch's Paul Semenza. "It's likely that part of the thinner/lighter design will be reducing the size of the LED backlight, partly by making the display more efficient and partly by using more efficient LEDs," said Paul Semenza, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, in an e-mail to CNET. The Retina displays of the third and fourth generation iPads required a dual-LED backlight along with a bigger battery, which caused th...

First LED lamp prototype delivering 200 lumen per watt high quality light, halving the energy use compared to current LED lamps Royal Philips Electronics announces a new innovation in LED lighting, creating the world’s most energy-efficient LED lamp suitable for general lighting applications. Philips researchers developed a tube lighting (TL) replacement TLED prototype that produces a record 200 lumens per watt of high-quality white light (compared with 100lm/W for fluorescent lighting and just 15lm/W for traditional light bulbs). This prototype TLED...

Intematix Corporation has been awarded a new U.S. patent. Patent 8,376,580 for LED based lightingsSystems is related to the firm's remote phosphor technology. This patent marks the 21st remote phosphor patent the company has received. This new patent contains broad and fundamental claims covering a wide variety of remote phosphor systems and applications. Allowed claims cover various two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes used in remote phosphor systems. Application coverage includes remote phosphor systems where the phosphor is provided as a surface layer on a c...

Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-scale grocery retailer in the northeast United States, recently selected energy-efficient LED lighting by Cree, Inc. to illuminate its 51,364-square-foot store in Geneva, NY. The store, which opened in November 2012, features Cree CS18™ luminaires and CR24™ troffers lighting the aisles, specialty departments and pharmacy for an estimated energy savings of 70 percent over the T5 fluorescent lighting that Tops Markets had previously installed. “Tops Markets has always been progressive in designing energy effici...

Dialight has introduced integrated controls for its industry leading LED lighting fixture portfolio.  The patent-pending, smart grid compatible control package is available in variety of communications protocols. These include powerline communications (PLC), wireless (industry standard Zigbee) or DALI platforms and can be manually configured or accessed utilizing a touch screen wall controller via mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, or Android, or from a remote network computer. “Dialight is reinventing the way our customers operate and maintain their lightin...

Sony Corp showed 56- (3,840 x 2,160-pixel) and 30-inch (4,096 x 2,160-pixel) OLED monitors capable of displaying 4k2k video and targeted at broadcasting companies in Sony's booth at 2013 NAB Show, a trade show of broadcasting equipment, which runs from April 6 to 11, 2013, in Las Vegas, the US. Though the company has not yet decided the prices of the monitors, it aims to release the 30-inch monitor within 2014. OLED panels are expected to be used as master monitors for broadcasting because of their high black color reproducibility and high response speed fo...

Saint Petersburg governor Georgy Poltavchenko and Anatoly Chubais, CEO & chairman of RUSNANO (Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, a sovereign investment corporation based in Moscow, Russia), visited the St Petersburg site of LED chip and luminaire maker Optogan, where the joint venture ‘Philips and Optogan’ has started production of the new ‘Avenue’ LED luminaire.   The maximum capacity of the line is more than 50,000 LED luminaries per year.  Founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2004 by Russian entrepreneurs ...

Samsung Electronics has introduced 20 new television models across its flagship Smart TV and LED TV series. “With the launch of our 2013 Smart TV range, we are looking to consolidate our leadership in the Panel TV market in India. We expect LED TVs to drive our Panel TV growth, with Smart TVs contributing at least 20 per cent of our Panel TV volumes this year,” Samsung India Senior Vice-President (Consumer Electronics) S K Kim told. Designed to deliver the ultimate lean back experience to consumers, the F8000 and F7500 are the f...

Plessey announced that samples of its GaN on silicon LED products are available. These entry level products are the first LEDs manufactured on 6-inch GaN on silicon substrates to be commercially available anywhere in the world. Plessey is using its proprietary large diameter GaN on silicon process technology to manufacture the LEDs onits 6-inch MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN I/C) line at its Plymouth, England facility.   The use of Plessey’s MAGIC GaN line using standard semiconductor manufacturing processing provides yield entitlements of g...

Lighting Science Group Corporation® has achieved the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001: 2008 certification for the development and manufacture of LED lighting products. This independent certification validates Lighting Science commitment to quality and affirms that Lighting Science has thoroughly documented its quality processes while meeting the stringent qualifications for the global ISO 9001:2008 standard. ISO 9001 Quality Management System Certification provides Lighting Science a ways to demonstrate its ability to consisten...

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, together with Frans van Houten, CEO of Royal Philips Electronics  officially opened the Philips museum in the city center of Eindhoven. Her Majesty the Queen symbolically switched on the lights in the museum by fitting a wireless LED lamp in a light sculpture to illuminate it.     The opening ceremony was accompanied by music performed by members of the Philips Symphony Orchestra. Subsequently, the Queen was given a guided tour of the museum. Visitors to the Philips Museum can experience the development o...

Brilliant, evenly illuminated outdoor signage is key to showcasing a company's brand. GE's new Tetra® PowerStrip, miniStrip and EdgeStrip high output LED box sign lighting solutions are meeting today's signage needs by delivering 25 to 105 percent of the brightness of standard Tetra product with virtually no maintenance for several years. This next generation of award-winning Tetra LED lighting technology transforms any size cabinet and box sign—including larger signs 24-36" in depth—into a strategic branding advantage by delivering up to...

The LED industry has been in an oversupply following the large capacity expansion in 2011; how will the landscape shift in 2013? As the LED-related applications make their way into various areas and receive increasing interest in the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean markets, the LED industry embarks on a whole new chapter. In light of the stagnant end-market demand, fund shortage and the cease of subsidy, the Chinese LED chip makers drastically revised their capacity expansion plans. Currently, the Chinese government aims to stimulate the LED demand through its pla...

Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan has developed a GaN-based power transistor with a blocking voltage of 600V that enables stable switching operations. Shipment of evaluation samples began in March. The firm claims that its design will for the first time ensure ‘failure-free operation’ by 600V GaN power transistors. The GaN transistors, housed in a small-size package, are also said to contribute to saving energy in a variety of power switching systems for both industrial and consumer applications. The new GaN transistor has the following three key technic...

SWITCH® Lighting has signed a partnership agreement with Canon Marketing Japan that enables Canon to be the lead import, distribution and sales partner to SWITCH in Japan. "Japan is currently the largest LED market in the world and we are proud to work with Canon Marketing Japan to bring our products to market there,” said Bill Lenihan, Executive Vice President, International. “Japanese consumers and businesses are very energy conscious, quality-oriented, and technology-focused, which is a great fit with our product line. This rela...

Intematix Corporation, and Feit Electric, announced a 100-watt equivalent LED light bulb is now available in all Lowe’s stores nationwide and on Lowes.com for under $35. This new Utilitech PRO product follows the January 2013 launch of a 75-watt equivalent LED light bulb available at Lowe’s for less than $25. The Utilitech PRO LED bulbs, produced by Feit Electric, feature Intematix’s ChromaLit™ remote phosphor technology. The Utilitech PRO 100W LED bulb features include: •    300 degree lighting distrib...

Offers Stepped Brightness Selection to Maximize Energy Savings and Design Versatility American Illumination, Inc.®, a specialist in designing and creating LED light engines, has unveiled the next generation of its popular Light Boltz LED engine which will now offer stepped brightness selection through an integral switch. Integral Switch on LED Module Makes it a Breeze A position adjustment on the LED module itself allows the selection of the desired lighting output at four levels (100%, 65%, 40% or 20%).   In addition, the new generatio...

Philips Ledalite introduces BoldPlay, a new portfolio of high-performance LED lighting systems that is 44 percent more efficient and consumes 28 percent less energy than traditional technologies like fluorescent. Integrating daylight harvesting with the latest Philips LED technology and advanced optics, BoldPlay is the latest in the Philips’ family of luminaires to offer building owners a flexible, intuitive lighting solution that allows for fewer fixtures in a space, while delivering all the light quality, energy efficiency and cost savings that have become hallmarks...

A new facility for GaN, the key material needed to make LEDs, has set up in Cambridge, enabling researchers to expand and accelerate their pioneering work in the field. GaN-based LEDs are already used in traffic lights, bicycle lights, televisions, computer screens, car headlamps and other devices, but they are too expensive to be used widely in homes and offices.The main reason for this is that they are normally grown on expensive substrates, which pushes up the price of LED lightbulbs.The new GaN growth reactor at Cambridge will allow researchers to further improve a...

Lighting Science Group Corporation® (OTCBB: LSCG) announced that it recently partnered with LED Source® and Hurricane Grill & Wings® to install energy-savings lighting in its restaurants. Hurricane Grill & Wings®, a West Palm Beach, Florida-based restaurant chain, found it was able to reduce operating costs and ensure energy-efficiency by installing Definity™ LED lamps from Lighting Science throughout its franchised locations and maintain its company standard to ensure it operates as a responsible corporate citizen. With t...

With Integrated Controls, New Products Offer Cost-Competitive Solution for Challenging Environments Digital Lumens introduced a new line of intelligent LED lighting fixtures for hazardous locations, all with the integrated controls that drive the industry’s best energy efficiency and faster payback periods. The company also unveiled a new line of intelligent LED lighting fixtures for retail applications and new 13,000-lumen Xpress LED lighting fixtures that offer occupancy-driven savings. These fixture additions triple the size of the Digital Lumens’...

There is a breakthrough on wearable tech revolution where we can ditching our smartphones for smartwatches like the LinkMe bracelet. The LinkMe is designed to serve as a mini billboard to display text messages on your wrist. Although the device is well designed and looks decidedly futuristic, its functions are actually pretty simple. When a person sends a text message via the LinkMe app, the message is transmitted from their smartphone, to the recipient's smartphone, and then over to the person's LinkMe bracelet in bold, colorful LED letters. When not in use...

Toshiba has developed a new AC/DC offline LED controller IC with a single converter PFC*1 for LED lighting and lighting equipment. The samples are currently available and the company will move to commercialization in July. The new product is an isolated flyback LED power controller that was developed to meet demanding design criteria: support for triac dimming; high PFC and fewer external parts by achieving active PFC with a single converter; and no use of opto-couplers and detectors for average LED current control of the second side of the transformer. Th...