As the latest German soccer league championships get underway, OSRAM and the German recordholding football club FC Bayern München are embarking on an extensive lighting partnership which promises to be of mutual benefit to both players – on and off the pitch: OSRAM is to equip all sections of the planned FC Bayern theme world with the latest lighting technology. In the course of the current season, OSRAM will be creating unique, emotive lighting effects in all sections of the theme world, fitting cutting-edge LED technology in successive stages up to M...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has added another LED to its portfolio for projection applications. The new OSRAM OSTAR Compact 2x2 is the brightest LED of its type on the market. With twice the brightness in all colors and near record-breaking green values this new version is an excellent addition to the existing Compact versions. Its high performance makes it ideal for high-power projectors for the commercial and domestic sectors. LEDs in the OSRAM OSTAR Compact series now offer even greater flexibility for projectors thanks to the new 2x2 version. W...

Cooper Lighting’s popular Halo brand is awarded for its new 4-inch LED product expansion.   Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, announced its new Halo H4 LED 4-inch Adjustable Gimbal Series has been recognized as a winner in the prestigious ninth annual Lighting for Tomorrow competition. The awards, which recognize the best-designed, energy-efficient solid-state lighting (SSL) products in the residential market, were announced at the American Ligh...

Ammono has made a breakthrough on high transparency n-type gallium nitride substrates for the production of LEDs and photovoltaic applications. The company has developed a technology allowing the manufacture of GaN wafers with carrier concentrations between 2x1017 and 2x1020 cm-3. Currently, the standard n-type product has a carrier concentration of 1019cm-3. To meet the market demand, Ammono is introducing new products based on an innovative n-type material which has a higher transparency and a lower carrier concentration of 3x1017cm-3. The dislocation density in this ma...

LG Electronics Woomyeon R&D Campus (LG Electronics Advanced Research Institute),recently has ordered one AIX G5 HT MOCVD system in an 8x6-inch wafer configuration to develop GaN-on-Silicon power electronics. In addition, the contract also includes a cooperation agreement in order to optimise LGE´s GaN/Si processes and to accelerate its proprietary device-oriented production. The reactor was ordered in the first quarter of 2011 and following delivery in the third quarter of 2011 will be installed and commissioned by a local Aixtron service s...

The increasing popularity of light-emitting diode lights might have a downside for human health, researchers say. It has been know that "white" artificial light reduces melatonin production in the pineal gland. However, researchers have now qualified for the first time the degree of suppression depending on a person's exposure to different light sources. The multi-country study, published in the Journal of Environmental Management, compared high pressure sodium (HPS) bulbs, where give off an orange-yellow light and have been used in street lighting, with '...

LG announced it will invest $6.83 billion in green business sectors by 2015. The conglomerate says the investments - in electric vehicle batteries, LED lighting, solar PV and water treatment technologies - will generate $8.4 billion in revenue, while creating 10,000 green jobs around the world. It will also boost business for about 660 small and midsized enterprises in its supply chain. About a third of the investment will be in lithium batteries for electric vehicles (by 2013). It's also planning to get into the solar polysilicon business by 2014. Its LG Chem div...

Exar Corporation unveiled the XRP7618 an 8-channel constant current LED driver. Supporting up to 30V on its LED channel inputs, the XRP7618 is ideally suited to drive up to eight strings of multiple LEDs at currents up to 100mA. Several devices can be cascaded to drive additional channels. Key Product Features With a capability of 100mA per channel and outputs rated at 30V, the XRP7618 can control strings of multiple LEDs with better than +/- 1.5% channel to channel current matching. Multiple channels can be combined to increase current driving capabil...

Luminator congratulates Boeing on delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner. Luminator Aerospace, a preferred supplier, was selected to supply passenger information signs (PAX) and wireless emergency lighting system (WELS) lights and signs. The new LED lighting systems will provide greatly increased efficiency and service life. "The first 787 delivery is a major accomplishment, our design teams have worked closely with Boeing to achieve this and we look forward to the continued success of the program." – Riko Yap, VP Marketing and Business Devel...

Norburn Lighting is proud to introduce the Sōl™ Organic LED Chandelier from WAC Lighting. Sōl™ is an upscale decorative chandelier utilizing Organic LED panels, the world’s most revolutionary nanotechnology light source available today. Sōl™ is inherently sustainable, designed around energy efficient and environmentally friendly technology and individually crafted in WAC Lighting’s clean manufacturing campus featuring zero landfill status and inhouse UL Labs. Sōl™ features upgraded ORBEOS OLEDs from OSRAM ...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced its sponsorship of EDN’s Designing with LEDs event during the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) this week at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. The September 27th LED seminar will bring together editors of EDN and EE Times, circuit designers, system architects, LED light designers, device packaging engineers, lighting component designers, academic leaders and the industry’s mover...

Reportedly, German Zweibrüder Optoelectronics has created a gaint flashlight as big as a Volkswagen Golf with an array of 19 high-powered LED lights. The Germans have built a flashlight that is four meters long. That is thirteen feet long in the old money, which marks a world record for the biggest flashlight (electric torch) ever made. It has placed its makers firmly into the Guinness Book of Records. Zweibrüder Optoelectronics designed this giant-sized device as part of the celebrations for the Lichternacht (the Festival of Lights), held in Solingen, i...

LED venture of US$120 million which has been co-opened by Taiwanese LED makers Epistar, and Lite-On Technology as well as TV maker Konka Group comes on stream in Changzou ,China on Sept. 23, 2011  Epistar has in the dominating position of the venture with a 60% stake. The venture is its first overseas and the biggest in mainland China capable of making epitaxy wafers and chips.Plus, this venture is its first that involves LED packager (Lite-On) and end-product maker (Konka) as co investors. At the same time, Lite-On owns a 30% stake and Konka hold...

A Richmond manufacturing company was selected to produce a new street light technology that could result in huge energy savings for cities, businesses and individuals around the globe. LAD-JD Lighting of Muncie designed a new patent-pending LED street light that uses 90 percent less energy than current street lights. The Muncie company then stumbled across Richmond's CMJ Corp. -- a Department of Defense contractor -- during Google Internet searches to try to find a nearby manufacturer that could mass-produce the technology. The unit uses just 13 watts of pow...

Silicon Valley is known for computer chips, software companies and social networks -- but not light bulbs. Switch Lighting, a San Jose startup, hopes to change that. Later this fall, the venture capital-backed company plans to release a new line of bulbs aimed at replacing the ones consumers typically use in lamps and other fixtures. Switch's bulbs are among a new generation powered by light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, a technology that many experts bet will finally displace the incandescent bulb that Thomas Edison invented more than a century ago, in part because they&#...

In October, 2010, China’s State Council officially recognized the optoelectronics industry as one of China’s emerging industries of strategic importance, with reference to its sub-industries including new-style display devices and LED. In 2011, the starting year of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, CCID Consulting launched China Optoelectronics Industry Layout White Paper to facilitate China’s central and local governments in their layout planning of the industry, based on CCID Consulting’s analysis of China's optoelectronics in...

Fusion Optix announced today that it has completed a major upgrade to its in-house capabilities at its Woburn MA headquarters. The company is also embarking upon a new hiring program for technical and commercial personnel. Fusion Optix has expanded several processes to produce new products based upon the company’s CORE™ platform of innovations. The new equipment and clean rooms are fully operational and Fusion Optix has already begun sampling production ready products to OEM customers. The upgrades are focused primarily on the company’s line of Energy...

LED products makers are organising a two-day exhibition here from tomorrow to create awareness and promote usage of LED in the country. According to LED Manufacturers Association (LEDMA), the demand for packaged LED and LED products in the country stands at $ 1 billion and is expected to reach $ 35 billion by 2020. "LEDs are finding more and more application in signals, signage/displays, automobiles, Back Lighting Units (BLUs) for TV, monitors and mobiles," LEDMA President M V Ramana Rao said. He added that their main thrust is ...

Recently, Philips has rolled out three robust, high-performance LED inspection lamps: a penlight, a LED inspection lamp on 240 V or 24 V, and a LED inspection lamp with docking station. These lamps provide high light output to illuminate confined dark spaces, for instance when servicing a motor vehicle engine. Penlight (battery-driven) The compact, cable-free penlight is particularly user-friendly. Six high-powered LEDs provide a bluish light with an intensity of 120 lux. The LED pointer on the pen tip illuminates the working area precisely with 85 lux. The pe...

North Seattle, LED Company SolidApollo.com announces their Constant Current LED Light Strip designed to be installed in linked runs without the noticeable lumen degradation found in traditional linked LED Light Strips. The LED strip allows for longer runs with just one power source applied every 60 feet. The Constant Current LED Light Strip also provides the most stable light output of its kind, making installation more versatile for designers and installers alike. Solid Apollo provider of LED Lighting Solutions has designed a LED lighting solutio...

Baja Designs, Inc. the leader in off road lighting since 1992 is excited to announce the latest light in their LED lineup. The Squadron utilizes four CREE XML LEDs - the brightest, most efficient LEDs on the market to give you a blinding 3600 lumens. Alan Roach, engineer and Baja racer said: “You have to see this thing, the spot really gets out there but has nice side lighting and the driving pattern is incredible.” The light and optics were designed in-house by their experienced staff of engineers and racers. This light weighs in at a svelte 12 ounces ...

ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, has expanded its portfolio of Constant Current Regulators (CCRs) to include the NSI50350A. This simple and extremely robust device is designed to provide a thermally efficient and cost-effective alternative to passive/discrete components or driver integrated circuit (IC) solutions for current regulation of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). The device is ideal for a variety of 1 watt (W) lighting applications including automotive, architectural l...

New architectural LED fixture for large indoor spaces brings high design consistency and fast ROI through energy and maintenance cost savings Lumenpulse Inc. , a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced the release and immediate availability of the Lumenbeam LBX (Xlarge) Pendant.  Developed for large interior spaces such as lobbies, atriums, convention centers and more the Lumenbeam LBX Pendant offers a greener, cost effective and d...

Grid Lay-In Fixture Integrates Seemlessly with Adura Technologies Wireless Control Platform   Lunera® Lighting, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, announced today the commercial availability of Lunera’s first Adura Technologies-enabled luminaire, the 2240 SERIES. Based on Lunera’s award winning two-foot by two-foot architectural grid lay-in and surface mountable 2200 SERIES fixture, the 2240 SERIES comes equipped with a factory-installed Adura LC-1RD wireless...

At ISAL in Darmstadt (September 26 to 28, 2011) OSRAM Opto Semiconductors will be showcasing two new LED prototypes for headlights in the shape of the OSLON Black Flat and the OSRAM OSTAR Headlamp Pro. Both combine new chip and package technologies and are equipped with a ceramic converter. Their strengths include high light output even at high currents, a uniform light pattern, thermal stability and a particularly good contrast ratio. More and more flexibility is needed for the light sources used in headlights, the “eyes” of any vehicle....

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is proud to announce that products from its Winona® Lighting unit, a leader in custom luminaire design and manufacturing, have been included as part of the National September 11 Memorial at New York’s Ground-Zero. The Memorial was architecturally designed to feature twin reflecting pools marking the exact footprints of the fallen towers. The pools are illuminated by 1500 feet of Winline™ 607 LED Submersible luminair...

Power backup solutions player Luminous Power Technologies has launched a LED based solar lighting product that it hopes would emerge as a low cost solution for rural home lighting requirements. The energy-efficient LED-based design of the new product with a single light output is on par with an 11W CFL and can be termed as single solution for daily household lighting needs, a statement from the company said. It offers uniform and constant bright light output over the entire battery voltage range and is specially designed for maximum energy harvesting from connected sola...

Report releases that Lighting Science Group has supplied LED bulbs for over a quarter of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 houses.   Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Old Dominion University and Hampton University, Middlebury College, The Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology, and Florida International University have spent nearly two years creating houses that blend affordability, consumer appea...

WAC Lighting's new Impulse uses an integrated multi-chip LED spot or low-voltage MR16 lamps.  Robustly engineered from solid die-cast aluminum, Impulse is a thermally efficient luminaire offering architectural lighting options. Additional optical beam spread and color temperature selections make this luminaire an all-in-one choice for lighting professionals. The Energy Star compliant luminaire uses a 12-watt multi-chip LED that offers a 50,000-hour potential life from ANSI compliant warm/neutral bins for optimal color consistency. Multi-chip technology imp...

Power Integrations has a reference design for an 85%-efficient, 15W PAR38 downlight driver that it claims will deliver flicker-free dimming without the use of electrolytic bulk capacitors. Based around the firm’s LNK405EG LED driver IC, it is designed to provide flicker-free performance across a broad range of triac dimmers. Typical TRIAC dimmers were designed for incandescent lights that use an order of magnitude more power than LED lights of equivalent lumen output. According to the supplier, the low current requirement of LED lights, especially...