Power Integrations has introduced new LED driver reference design (DER-286) for a 30 W LED tube replacement ballast power supply capable of achieving industry-leading efficiency levels of over 90% across a wide input-voltage range while meeting worldwide requirements for power factor (PF) and total harmonic distortion (THD). According to the company, the DER-286 is based on the LNK419EG, a member of Power Integrations’ LinkSwitch™-PH family of ICs. LinkSwitch-PH devices combine a controller and 725 V MOSFET to dramatically reduce th...

CAO Group, Inc. (CAO), a leading design and manufacturer of LED signage and lighting products, announces the newly enhanced Luxembright ®  LED Channel Letter Illumination system, Fire SeriesTM. The new Fire Series includes three different sizes of LED modules - Flare™, Blaze®, and Inferno® - and each module is intended for a different size of channel letter installation. The Flare™ product line is intended for small size channel letters, Blaze® is for middle size channel letters, and the Inferno® is intended for large ...

XLamp® XT-E White Designed to Accelerate LED Adoption and Lower System Cost Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announced a breakthrough in LED technology that completely redefines the lighting industry and erases old assumptions about up-front LED cost and performance. The Cree XLamp® XT-E White LED delivers twice the lumens-per-dollar of other LEDs and features the highest performance and efficacy in the industry. Based on a new silicon carbide technology platform, the XT-E LED and the recently released XB-D LED represent a dramatic ...

Updated HB-LED Manufacturing Tool Commands Unprecedented Cost of Ownership Advantages EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer-bonding and lithography equipment for the advanced semiconductor and packaging, compound semiconductors, MEMS, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and emerging nanotechnology markets, today announced the EVG620HBL Gen II—the second generation fully automated mask alignment system for volume manufacturing of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB-LEDs).  Introduced one year after the launch of the first-generation E...

Award recognizes nLiGHT system as the top product in the lighting controls category. Acuity Brands, Inc., (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy efficient lighting and control solutions, is pleased to announce that its nLiGHT® Network Lighting Control System from Sensor Switch® recently received a 2011 Top Products Award for lighting controls from Building Operating Management, the most preferred publication among building owners and facilities executives.   The Top Products Awards from Building O...

South Korean epi wafer manufacturer LG Siltron has ordered Veeco’s TurboDisc® K465i™ gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System for production of gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers for power electronics and LED devices. Dr. Hee Bog Kang, General Manager of LG Siltron R&D, commented, “We are pleased to have chosen the TurboDisc K465i MOCVD System as our first GaN-on-Si production system. It offers unparalleled throughput advantages, and its TurboDisc technology prov...

New Holophane GranVille® II LED luminaires combine timeless appearance and reliable performance   Fixtures offer efficiency in new or installed applications. Architectural appearance combined with sustainability and a high level of performance characterize new GranVille® II LED luminaires from Holophane. The fixtures offer the same timeless housing choices that made Holophane’s GranVille HID line popular and are offered with Classic or Premier prismatic borosilicate glass optics to facilitate use of new or installed pieces.   Holoph...

Albeo’s High Bay LED Lights provide up to 95% energy savings compared to fluorescent or metal halide (HID) Albeo Technologies, a leader in solid-state industrial and commercial lighting solutions, announced significant sales growth in 2011, making it the company’s most profitable year to date. Total company revenue increased 50 percent from 2010 and sales for retrofit and renovation grew 300 percent. All in all, Albeo shipped 26,675 fixtures in 2011 and added 10 new engineering jobs. Albeo LED fixtures currently light over 7 million square feet of space, ...

Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp has added two daylight- and incandescent-color cylindrical (T-type) LED light bulbs to its "E-core" series. According to the company, the brightnesses of the daylight products are 600lm, and 485lm for incandescent-color products, equivalent to the brightness of a 40W incandescent light bulb. Both of them have rated power consumption of 7.4W. It is the first time that the company has announced to release a T-type LED light bulb. The external diameter, length and light distribution angle of the 7.4W T-type product are ...

Recently, Optogan has developed new high power Chip-on-Board (COB) module, X10 . It is a COB-block, consisting of 50 segments, and can be easily divided into LED elements of smaller sizes and power, and each of them can be used in separate light fittings. The smallest segment of Optogan´s X10 consists of a 1cm² ceramic board and consumes 10 W (1 A, 10 V), with efficacy levels already exceeding 100 lm/W. According to Markus Zeiler General Manager of Business Unit International at Optogan GmbH in Germany, “X10 represents Optogan’...

Finnish private broadcaster MTV3 News has selected the Litepanels Sola 6 Fresnel LED lights and the Mono Flood, Bi-Focus and Low-profile Flood 1x1 LED production lights, as part of its move to HD news reporting and presentation. A major part of this project was the modernization of the 100 m2 studio used for the "Huomenta Suomi" ("Good Morning Finland") in Helsinki. Litepanels LEDs produce bright and soft 5600°K daylight. The Sola 6 consumes about a sixth of the energy of a conventional 650W tungsten spot. The light also foc...

The premiere Singapore International Light-Emitting Diode/Organic Light-Emitting Diode (LED/OLED) Technology Show, will take place at Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre from 28 to 30 March 2012. Jointly organized by EXPORUM Inc (EXPORUM) and Conference & Exhibition Management Services Pte Ltd (CEMS), LEDTEC ASIA 2012 will be held in Singapore for the first time and is the only dedicated LED/OLED technology show in the region of Singapore and around ASEAN countries. It is expected ...

Philips Lumileds had developed next generation high-voltage LED, LUXEON H. Compact and dimmable drivers are already available and LUXEON H is being designed into bulbs as a single LED solution which offers significant advantages over the multi-source designs previously required. The ease of solderless assembly reduces fixture manufacturing costs. Complementary components including drivers, optics, and clamps will be available through Future Lighting Solutions. High volume release of LUXEON H will be in March. Several features as below • ...

Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today announced the ZXLD1371 LED driver controller. By extending input voltage operation from 60V down to as low as 5.0V, the ZXLD1371 has been designed to handle as broad a range of applications as possible, including those subject to the greatest variance in input voltage, such as automotive lighting and 12V AC powered systems. Its ability to control an external drive...

STMicroelectronics has developed a new chip to boost light output from LED-based flashes available in smartphone cameras. Professional cameras use a xenon strobe light to produce a brief burst -- or flash -- of light, but the lighting on smartphone cameras is typically provided by an LED. The light output of a battery-powered LED is continuous, and much lower in intensity than a flash, leading to longer exposure times and darker, blurrier pictures. But ST hopes to change that with its new STCF04 multifunction chip, which it says can control flash power up to 40W, ...

Lately, Japanese LED Company Rohm Co Ltd has launched an E17-base small krypton gas (MiniKrypton) LED light bulb, "LDA4L-G-E17". The new LED light bulb is smaller, and the shape of its globe (semispherical cover) is closer to a sphere. By employing an LED module (light source) having a chip-on-board (COB) structure, the light distribution angle realize 180°. What’s more, the new product, which is equivalent to a 25W MiniKrypton light bulb, is made by using Rohm's own light-diffusing material for its globe. Other features inc...

Recently, with the outstanding designs of its LED lamps evaluated in a contest among 1,145 products from 426 manufacturers of various industries, Everlight has won the Taiwan Excellence Awards 2012. The awards were granted by Bureau of Foreign Trade and Taiwan External Trade Development, both of which under the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The awarded products include a series of multi-purpose desk lamps, light bulbs, and streetlights. DEM-designed desk lamps underscore their versatile functions by integrating reading light, mood light, nightlight and decorative...

Luminaires from Arquiled with Oslon SSL LEDs in all of the food retail group's new stores The Jerónimo Martins Group is among the first European retail companies to equip its new stores entirely with innovative LED lighting, a move that will save the company 50 percent of its lighting energy costs in future – thanks to Oslon SSL LEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and the intelligent light management system of the luminaires supplied by the Portuguese lamp manufacturer Arquiled. The Jeronimo Martins Group has been using the luminair...

Today OCG Lighting, the LED specialists, launch a new product - NeoBulb Escort ATEX - designed specifically for hazardous and explosive environments.   The high-power LEDs are ATEX compliant, meaning they are suitable for environments with flammable vapours, ignitable dusts, corrosive, wet, dusty, and extremely hot or cold conditions.   “The NeoBulb Escort ATEX is an important addition to our product portfolio, extending the range of industries that can benefit from our innovative LED technology,” said Simon Leggett, OCG Light...

Modules that deliver industry’s highest lux-on-target also on show LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, will demonstrate the world's first single LED emitter capable of halogen-like dimming at Strategies in Light, Santa Clara, California, 7-9th February. Using a single emitter and constant current source, together with standard 0 -10V dimmers, the color temperature of the light will get warmer as it dims. The LED emitter changes from 3200K at maximum output to a warm 2400K glow when fully dimmed. This halogen-like dimming is pa...

SemiLEDs Corporation (NASDAQ: LEDS), a leading developer and manufacturer of LED chips and LED components, today announced that its UV LED chips are capable of emitting radiation at a wavelength of 390-420 nm with 40% external quantum efficiencies (EQE – a LED’s ability to convert electrons into photons) at 350 mA (up to 500 mW output power*, typical 3.3V forward voltage). “Our patented structure and metal alloy substrate allow us to produce and supply to the industrial curing market UV LEDs that are capable of operating at high c...

As part of a city-wide goal to reduce energy usage and improve nighttime visibility and overall facility safety, the South Durham Water Reclamation Facility installed energy-efficient LED lighting from Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE). The new Cree lighting simultaneously addresses the facility’s competing exterior lighting requirements – the need to improve safety and light levels and the need to reduce energy usage and maintenance costs. “This lighting project delivers multiple benefits,” said Joel Reitzer, director of the City’s General Se...

Cree Japan, backed by Cree Inc, has recently launched a white LED lamp "XLamp XB-D”, at the 4th LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo in Tokyo. The company employed a newly-developed LED chip "DA Chip Family" which was developed by improving the light extraction efficiency of a blue LED chip, to realize the small size and higher brightness. It improved the light extraction efficiency by forming several V-shaped ditches on the substrate of the blue LED chip. The DA Chip is made by growing gallium nitride (GaN)-based semicondu...

Philips Lumileds has released LUXEON K to set new direction for retrofit and downlight LED lighting applications. According to Rahul Bammi, VP Marketing from Philips Lumileds, “LUXEON K extends our portfolio of illumination grade LEDs engineered to optimize end-user satisfaction of specific applications. For downlights and retrofit bulbs, LUXEON K provides a unique approach that delivers the highest, most consistent quality of light in an easy-to-implement array. Our hot testing and specification at 85°C, and freedom from color, flux, and ...

LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, announces a family of metal-core printed circuit boards (MCPCBs) with integral connectors that eliminate soldering during the assembly of LED fixtures. The poke-home connectors, which accept 18-24 AWG wires, offer quick, solderless assembly of fixtures and can eliminate the need for OEMs to use sub-contractors because the work can be taken in-house. The boards utilize a common 50mm footprint for both the LuxiGen LZC 12 die and LZP 24 die series of high flux density emitters, helping OEMs to st...

•    Extensive Patinal® product range comprises more than 40 highly reliable vapor deposition materials •    WR Patinal® product portfolio: Anti-fingerprint and easy-to-clean surface functionality for the touch panel industry Merck KGaA has presented its developments for the optics and photonics industry at the SPIE Photonics West Exhibition from January 24 to 26, 2012 in San Francisco, California, USA. Merck’s exhibition stand will be focusing on the Patinal®, Solarpur®and Optipur® product rang...

Philips has developed what is said to be the world’s most efficient and cost effective solar powered LED street lighting solution per km of road. Philips’ latest Solar Gen2 innovation is developed together with NXP Semiconductors N.V. and presents a total solution for highly sustainable and efficient street lighting that is a serious alternative to grid connected systems, cutting back energy costs and CO2 emissions. Solar Gen2 offers a highly energy-efficient LED solution which is superior to any conventional lighting and allows for a lamp post spacing o...

Dialight's 433 LED Rail Crossing Signal Module Features & Benefits • 5 year full performance warranty • AC / DC operation from 8 to 16 volts full output (operation down to 5 volts) • Side light indicators reflect main beam signal for extra safety • Designed for retrofit into existing lamp housings with no beam alignment necessary • Ring terminations easily attach to AREMA posts • Red tinted, UV-stabilized, and hard-coated lens for extended life • Better visibility and faster response time than incandescent &bu...

Lighting Internet Technology Enterprises (LITE) proudly announces that the revolutionary "LED Lamp Locator" will be expanded to include a new LED fixture portal component. Located at www.LEDFixtureLocator.com and officially set to launch in February 2012, the powerful new "LED Fixture Locator" will complement the existing LED Lamp Locator by providing lighting professionals with unprecedented access to information on thousands of LED fixture products currently on the market.   Covering such major LED fixture types as "D...

New Collections Electrify World’s Largest Wholesale Merchandise Mart The Littman Brands, renowned for high-quality lighting solutions, debuted the highly awaited 2012 collections of five brands during Dallas International Lighting Market from Jan. 19-23, 2012. The never-before-seen collections from Hudson Valley Lighting®, Troy Lighting, Corbett Lighting, Troy Landscape and CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting) wowed thousands of buyers who visited the manufacturer’s expansive 17,000 square-foot showroom (#3902) at Dallas Market Center dur...