According to a paper written by scientists in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, they used a new instrument to study how clouds affect sky brightness in urban areas, and how the future of LED lighting might change the night time sky. With Light pollution has become a growing problem, and skylines continue to grow, the night sky becomes dimmer and dimmer. However, researchers estimate that that night time sky could become bluer thanks to LED lighting. Christopher Kyba, physicist at the Freie Universität and lead author of the study, sa...

SWARCO Traffic Americas has received Intertek ETL safety approval for its US based FUTURLUX LED streetlights. Frank Harder, CEO of SWARCO Traffic Americas, pointed out that "We've gone from zero to one-hundred in six months opening our US headquarters, building a team, getting our FUTURLUX manufacturing in California off the ground and getting FUTURLUX approved for ETL for use throughout the country." And Jim Helmer, Director of Strategy at SWARCO, has summarized two key reasons that municipalities an...

To cater for global hikes in energy prices and tight public budgets, as well as the European Union's Eco-Design guideline will in the future make sure that several lamp types are no longer available, LED is an important method of leverage in reducing such costs. And recently, Osram has designed the Decorative Street Lighting (DSL) LED refurbishing module for historic street luminaires. Compared to previously operated mercury vapour discharge lamps, the DSL cuts energy consumption by at least 60 per cent, and upgrade costs less than half of a new LED installat...

More than just the 2012 Olympics are lighting up London! GE and the City of London have re-lamped Tower Bridge with ultra-efficient GE LED lighting systems to create beautiful light, every night. Want to bring the lights home? Capture a nighttime photo or video of your favorite hometown landmarks or lighting, and post it on Instagram or Viddy with the tag #GELights. You could win a total lighting makeover for your home and a trip to London for a tour of Tower Bridge! Two contest winners will be selected -- the Instagram submission with the most likes on I...

Rubicon Technology has placed an order of multiple units of the Zeta 300 series optical profiler from San Jose based Zeta Instruments for its sapphire substrate and wafer production. The company will use the Zeta-300 series optical profilers for inspection and metrology of sapphire substrates to help improve wafer yield and lower costs for their LED customers. Zeta 300 optical profiler   Zeta's novel high-precision metrology systems have gained strong traction across the LED industry for cost-effective advanced functionality. The latest Zeta-300 series...

X2 LED Grow Lights, which from Hydro Grow, makes a big show at this year's San Francisco Indoor Gardening Expo. In addition, it provides in a public setting to have higher photosynthetic output and 55% less power consumption compared to a 1000W HPS. San Francisco has become a Mecca for indoor gardeners each July by hosting the largest show for hydroponics equipment in the US. One of the newest products to the hydroponics industry is LED Grow Lights, with several well-known manufacturers in attendance at this year's show. The show is one of the only ...

Fall River-based Philips Lightolier has increased its LED products to 20% of the company’s sales, making it a leader in renewable lighting technology within 3 years. The chairman of Philips Lighting North America, Zia Eftekhar, said it’s the world’s largest lighting company and credits the success in the LED market to a commitment to research and development of green and renewable product innovation. “I think a combination of making sense financially and supporting a commitment to sustainability gives you a better product. Energy efficiency is p...

SmartWatt Energy has made a LED lighting upgrade at a 200,000 square foot facility in Iowa Cold Storage, a premier provider of temperature-controlled warehousing, logistics, and transportation for food products in the Midwestern United States, for saving over $30,000 per year in total lighting costs. Iowa Cold Storage is committed to providing their customers with convenient and reliable warehousing services, and is now focusing on reducing energy use, lowering energy costs and conserving environmental resources. SmartWatt Energy’s Chicago office staff performed a...

According to Rubicon Technology, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed Rubicon’s patent application ‘Intelligent Machines and Process for Production of Monocrystalline Products with Goniometer Continual Feedback’. The patent covers Rubicon’s equipment and process developed to perform in-situ orientation of its sapphire crystals within the various fabrication tools used by the firm. Rubicon says that its customers in the LED, silicon-on-sapphire (SoS)/RFIC (radio-frequency integrated circuit) and optical markets...

Noribachi, a premier U.S. based LED and solar lighting accelerator, experiences rapid success with the NORImark LED alliance program. The program, debuted in early 2012, was created to standardize LED lighting while empowering lighting industry stakeholders with state-of-the-art, market-ready LED solutions. LightPolesPlus.com, one of NORImark’s earliest partners and one of the nation’s largest online light pole distributors and a commercial fixture vendor, exemplifies the benefits and business growth NORImark partners consistently experience. Pr...

NanoMarkets has released a new white paper on LED phosphors, titled "LED Lighting Driving Demand for New Phosphors." According to the report, in the next several years, saturation will slow growth for LED-based backlighting, phosphor prices will fall, LED-per-unit values will be reduced, display demand will soften, and backlight-free display technologies like AMOLEDs will take over market share in smartphones/tablets and TVs. However, a major shift occurring in the lighting industry toward more-efficient, longer-lifetime, LED-based lighting...

At the Olympic opening ceremony, Crystal CG has thrilled audiences as it displayed a range of computer-generated images on a giant video screen stretching across the entire expanse of audience seating. The giant video screen was made up of small paddle-shaped LED Pixel Tablets designed by Tait Technologies, each attached to a seat in the stadium and bearing 9 full colour pixels arranged in a square. Together, the 70,500 Pixel Tablets created a ‘human powered’ screen of unprecedented size, on which Crystal’s digital animations were displayed. The ...

Delta Electronics has kicked off the cooperation with President Chain Store Corp., which runs 4,822 7-Eleven shops throughout Taiwan, to sell its brand-name LED light bulbs, paving the way for becoming Taiwan’s No.1 LED bulb brand. The company has built up a stock of 300,000 8W LED light bulbs at 7-Eleven stores and is preparing another 300,000 bulbs for next round of promotions at the chain store system. According to the company, the bulbs sold at stores feature omni-directional 270-degree beam angle, 100,000 times of on-off, two-year warranty, and Nichia...

To go green, Ernst & Young LLP has enlisted the help of JAS consulting, Philips Lightolier Energy Services and lighting design firm One Lux Studio, to retrofit 32 floors of its US headquarters in New York City with LED lighting solutions from Philips. Ernst & Young LLP's Times Square office lighting system is heavily utilized by its more than 5,500 employees. With its traditional lighting system, the approximately 650,000 Useable Square Foot, Class A office space consumed roughly 6.2 million kWh annually. In contrast, the new LED l...

London Olympic Games has grandly opened on 27, July. And visitors may have a great impression on the wonderful LEDs which dresses up the host city. Now, let’s go and look at gloriously views. GE LEDs Light up London’s Tower Bridge GE, EDF, the Mayor of London and City of London Corporation refitted the 800-foot long London Tower Bridge with LED lighting system, expected to be in place for the next 25 years and cut its energy use by 40%.   The Tetra Contour system by GE provides the classic look of exposed neon and all the energy e...

AIXTRON SE today announced a new MOCVD system order from Finisar Corporation, USA, a market leader in high-speed optical data communications. The order is for one AIX 2800G4-TM automated reactor dedicated to the growth of indium phosphide materials for lasers and detectors. The new order was placed after the first AIX 2800G4-TM system had been successfully installed and qualified at Finisar’s facility in Allen, Texas, USA. AIXTRON’s local support team will install and commission the new reactor in a state-of-the-art clean-room at t...

As a London 2012 Sustainability Partner and a Global Olympic 2012 sponsor, GE Lighting has worked alongside the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) to deliver a series of lighting projects. GE Lighting Europe has provided energy-saving and eco-friendly lighting solutions for permanent as well as temporary lighting installations for the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games in London, United Kingdom. Their solutions will either continue to deliver energy savings for years to come or allow lamps to be re-used in projects around the city after...

•    GE technology included in all official London 2012 Olympic Games competition venues and commercial buildings totaling more than $100 million in sales •    Infrastructure solutions provided in Torino 2006, Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 •    Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games Organizing Committee purchased two advanced technology gas turbines to provide flexible, fast power for the 2014 Games GE, a worldwide partner of the Olympic Games, today announced it has exceeded $1 billion in infrastr...

The Baltic Crystal company announces that operations are under way at its new synthetic monocrystalline sapphire plant, whose investment total is USD 15 million. According to volume planned, Baltic Crystal is a mid-level crystal producer, supplying material for light-emitting diode-makers in Southeast Asia. During the initial stage of Baltic Crystal operations, the plant’s end-product will be 4" and 6" (in diameter) cylindrical crystal ingots. Long-term plans also include producing as-cut wafers. The plant’s average production capacity could reach aro...

Outside the main stadium at the London Olympics, 20 circular slabs lie underfoot, ready to capture the kinetic energy from bustling spectators when they run, walk, and jump. With every step, the recycled-rubber tiles will light up nearby LED lamps for 30 seconds. The millions of steps expected to pound the pavement between the stadium and a new mall could make it worthwhile. With three days of battery storage, the system can provide electricity as crowds ebb and flow. PaveGen, which makes the tiles, hopes to eventually lay its slabs where they make major impacts, such as off...

Recently, the Lighting Research Center (LRC) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has cooperated with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to jointly study the use of LED lighting in airfield installations, and has released LED Airfield Lighting report. The report was published by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies through the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP), which funded the study. A panel of experts from aviation, government, industry, and academia appointed by the National Academies oversaw the...

Opened in late 2004, the Kailua Town Center Parking Garage was built to service a newer commercial district that today includes Long's Drug Store, California Pizza Kitchen and Whole Foods Supermarket. Starting in late 2011 and culminating in early 2012, the parking garage underwent a complete lighting retrofit. Increasing energy costs and environmental impact led Nishijima, Assistant Vice President-Asset Management of Kaneohe Ranch Management Ltd and his team to start considering LED fixtures as a solution to these challenges.   "We looked at...

With the significant LED display project being done in the New International Exhibition Center of Century City, Chengdu, Unilumin Tech has shocked the whole industry. This project includes three parts, one of which (named “Top Project”) will be the largest indoor LED displays around the world. It is said that this screen will be located in The Ocean Park of New Century City. With 136 meters’ width and 30 meters’ height, it really matches the name “Largest”. According to the actual environment and specific requirements, engin...

Targeting at the opportunity that European Union legislation will ban the manufacture and import of all incandescent bulbs since September 1st 2012, Verbatim has unveiled a complete family of cost effective retrofit LED lamps for households. Verbatim's new consumer product line-up comprises 13 products including LED lamps to replace 25W to 60W Classic A bulbs, 15W to 25W Classic B candle lamps, 25W droplet bulbs and 20W spotlights for both MR16 GU5.3 and PAR16 fittings. Colour temperatures range from 2700K to 3000K and each model has a minimum colour re...

Panasonic in Japan has kicked off selling its new LED bulb "LDA6L/C" since July, 20. With the new bright glass chimney, “LDA6L/C” can emit its light to lamp socket. In addition, the bulb utilizes the center installation technology to produce the dazzling light. Other features as following, E26 base Output: 485lm Lifespan: 40000 hours Power: 6.7W Colour temperature: warm white Size of outer diameter: 60 mm × 117 mm   ...

GE Lighting’s innovative LED solution was the right brew for Korea’s popular Hollys Coffee. The new ambient lighting at 18 Hollys Coffee branches across the country was sculptedwith GE’s Energy Smart LED PAR30light. This lightoffers superb quality for retail environments, complete with high energy efficiency and long life span. With the new lights, Hollys Coffee branches enjoylower energy consumption and maintenance costs whilst enhancing its customers’ experience. GE Lighting’s innovative energy-savingLED solution is the choic...

With its latest product, AIX G5+, AIXTRON SE has introduced a 5x200 mm GaN-on-Si (Gallium Nitride on Silicon) technology package for its AIX G5 Planetary Reactor platform. Following a customer-focused development program, this technology was designed and created in AIXTRON’s R&D laboratory and consists of specially designed reactor hardware and process capabilities. It is now available as a part of the AIX G5 product family and any existing G5 system can be upgraded to this latest version. Details of G5+ have already been disclosed to ...

New Downlights Enable Rapid Payback, Exceptional Light Quality and Efficacy Over Fluorescent and Incandescent Lighting LED lighting leader Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces a new four-inch CR4™ LED downlight and a higher lumen output six-inch downlight. Relentless innovation has enabled Cree to attack cost barriers to LED adoption, while exceeding the industry’s highest standards for performance, color quality and ease of use. The new six-inch CR6™ downlight uses 87 percent less energy than comparable incandescent lighting and deli...

Nualight, dedicated in LED lighting for food retail, has come up with two new lighting solutions to revolutionise colour vibrancy in fresh food displays. The company has developed LED lighting colour technology Vivace to bring out the natural colours in food when it is on display in supermarkets. The company, based in Cork, Ireland, has been making headlines of late. Last September, for instance, it announced it had acquired Dutch LED lighting technology firm Lumoluce for nearly €11m. This past March, Nualight secured a US$100m opportunity with Hussman,...

Noribachi, a premier US based LED lighting engineering house, announces the addition of over 100 ultra bright LED light engines to the Design Lights Consortium’s (DLC) Qualified Products List (QPL) for solid-state lighting. An expansive listing on the DLC’s QPL, encompassing Noribachi’s LED light engines containing 18 to 144 LEDs, has already secured Noribachi a place in the top 4% of solid-state lighting manufacturers qualified by DLC. With the addition of more than 100 new products, specifically ultra bright solutions with 145 to...