Barco is reported to launch its new NSL-5521 display which can be available in video walls and its stand-alone LDX series for control room applications. The new displays combine LCD technology with LED backlighting to produce brighter images and a wider color gamut, while providing a smart and space-saving design. According to Barco, this new LED backlit LCD displays will be showed off for the first time at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), from 1 to 3 February 2011....

Clever design by Netherlands firm, Audipack enables a Resolia screen to be deployed quickly and easily. Visitors arriving at this year’s ISE show from the RAI station entrance will be greeted by a unique standalone LED display, featuring a Mitsubishi Electric Resolia LED screen and rapid installation staging system.

Expressway Toyota Helps Customers “Come in From the Cold” While Reducing its Dealership Lighting Energy Costs by Over 80%   Qnuru™, the Noribach Group’s smart energy digital lighting division, today announced that Expressway Toyota of Dorchester, MA, a close-in Boston suburb, has retrofitted its iconic dealership with Qnuru’s Vector line of high wattage LED retrofit bulbs. Founded, owned and operated by brothers Richard and Robert Boch, Expressway Toyota sells new and used Toyota and Scion automobiles from its 45,000 s...

Acuity Brands has released its new Holophane® Petrolux® LED luminaires to satisfy the requirements of a range of lighting applications in harsh and environmentally challenging facilities, including waste water treatment, power generation, petro-chemical, pulp and paper, textile, and ethanol and biodiesel production plants. The energy-efficient Petrolux® LED luminaires feature multiple lumen package options and several optical choices to meet various needs....

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., today launches all-new Lyra Series of LED products with the GL-A19 LED bulb. Designed as a direct replacement for traditional A19 incandescent bulbs, GlacialLight's A19 LED fits into standard E26/E27/B22/GU10 sockets. With GlacialLight's two-year warranty and a rated life-span of at least 30,000 hours, the GL-A19 LED bulb is designed to provide exceptional and long-lasting decorative, window, spot, cabinet, accent, and hallway lighting, in both commercial an...

Fujitec is showing cylindrical (tubular) OLED lighting panels and OLED lighting processing equipment. The OLED panels are either blue, red or green, 70mm diameter and 80mm in length. The luminance is 100cd/m2 for red or blue and 1000cd/m2 for green - which also features 24lm/W efficacy level. The lifetime is just 100 hours currently.   According to the company by middle 2011 they will be able to produce white-color panels (45mm diameter, 70mm in length) featuring 20lm/W at 1000 hours lifetime. The aim of their current project is to reach a white OLED at 30mm di...

Made in U.S.A. to Meet Buy American Act Featuring Dialight’s Exclusive Driver Technology for Optimum Performance and Long-Life Reliability Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, today unveiled its latest innovation in LED roadway and area lighting with the new Dialight StreetSense™ Series LED Street Light featuring Dialight’s exclusive optics technology for precision light placement along with maximum energy efficiency and reliability for ultra-low total cost of ownership over the lifetime...

New Partner Program Encourages Industry-Wide Collaboration; Launches with First Several ControlScope Connected Partners   Daintree Networks, Inc., a leading provider of innovative wireless control solutions for energy-smart buildings, today announced the launch of its ControlScope Connected Partner Program, designed to encourage vendor collaboration and development. Through the program, launched today with its first five members, Daintree Networks works with industry-leading lighting vendors to create interoperability between third-party products, as well as w...

Power Integrations has added seven new members　(LNK413-LNK419) to　its popular LinkSwitch-PH family of LED driver ICs. The new devices can achieve up to 88% efficiency, feature a PWM-dimmable single-stage controller with both power factor correction and accurate constant current power conversion functionality. In addition, LinkSwitch-PH devices incorporate the PFC/CC controller, a 725 V MOSFET and MOSFET driver into a single package. The new ICs enable the ultimate in high reliability at low cost by eliminating up to 25 additional compone...

Maxim’s unique LED driver solution enables the design of LED-based MR16 lamps that are compatible with most electronic transformers and cut-angle dimmers. Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX16840, an LED driver that employs a proprietary architecture to ensure flicker-free, dimmable operation with electronic transformers and cut-angle dimmers. Maxim’s patent-pending approach enables the design of retrofit LED lamps that can replace halogen MR16s without any changes to the existing electrical infrastructure. This remove...

LMR2 LED Module Can Enable Lighting Manufacturers to Expand Their LED Portfolio Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, is extending its LED module family with the Cree LMR2 LED Module, a compact, high-efficiency module that provides a simple solution for lighting designers and manufacturers looking to offer best-in-class LED lighting. The previously-released Cree LMR4 LED Module is also now available in four color points, 2700 K, 3000 K, 3500 K and 4000 K, each based on Cree TrueWhite® Technology. The v...

Japanese designers Motoi Ishibashi and Daito Manabe have created “LED smiles.” The pair was inspired by "LED throwies," or bundles of LED lights attached to a magnet. It’s said that the light-up mouths were originally featured in a fashion advertisement in a winter sale at a Japanese clothing store, and now they're starting to take off as an accessory. The LED smiles can easily be affixed to your teeth and glow different colors while you smile. Besides, the colors can be changed wirelessly through a computer interface....

D3 LED, LLC (D3), the world’s leader in specialized LED digital display applications, announced the debut of the largest continuous surface digital LED screen to date in New York’s Times Square. The custom display, located at 1568 Broadway above the entrance to the Doubletree Hotel at West 47th Street, was designed and engineered by D3 for its client, TSQ Digital, and measures 100 feet wide by 50 feet high. It was designed to serve multiple advertisers, and is capable of exchanging data transmitted via cell phones and broadcasting HD video feeds,...

KLA-Tencor introduces broad portfolio of process control solutions designed to improve productivity of LED device fabs • New KLARITY LED offers automated defect analysis for LED yield enhancement and rapid time to results • New ICOS WI-2220 provides low cost of ownership to support LED industry cost per lumen goals KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced KLARITY® LED—an a...

Tool Designed to Enable Improved Substrate and MOCVD Process Control Yield KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced its new Candela  8620 substrate and epitaxy (epi) wafer inspection system. Designed for high brightness light emitting diode (HBLED) manufacturers, the Candela 8620 provides automated defect inspection for LED materials such as gallium nitride, sapphire, and silicon carbide—enabling enhan...

Rohm developed a new (2nd-generation) OLED lighting panel that uses a red phosphorescent material. The new material results in a more efficient device - about 25-30lm/W, up from about 11lm/W in their first-generation all-fluorescent device.   Lumiotec (which is partly owned by Rohm) will start producing these new panels in "volume" within a few days (Lumiotec reported earlier that it will make around 60,000 panels a year). The new panel's size is 145x145mm (the same size of Lumiotec's older panels) and will cost ¥30,000 (about $365) - which is cheape...

Carmanah has introduced the EG300-series solar LED outdoor streetlight which is designed to satisfy the specific roadway performance features required for customers in global sun-belt regions where core infrastructure development is underway, including regions such as Latin American and the Caribbean. The EG300 can deliver the light output equivalent to a 200-watt metal halide light and includes two product sizes which power up to two LED fixtures. These fixtures are available in standard IES distribution types, are dark-sky friendly.   The new light features a ...

Digicom Electronics, precision and quality contract manufacturing specialist, will highlight the collaborative process involved in producing a reconfigurable open architecture computer hardware (ROACH) system at Pacific Design & Manufacturing / MDM West 2011, in booth #3880. Digicom collaborated in the design, development, prototyping, sourcing, manufacture, and test, and produced the finished, fully compliant product. The system was developed for space science and research applications. Digicom Electronics' ROACH system collects high speed, digitized data a...

It’s reported that Acuity Brands’s Holophane Washington Postlite Series was chosen by City of Vancouver to revitalize an upscale neighborhood. In February 2009Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson launched an initiative to become the world’s greenest city by 2020. For this outdoor lighting project supporting the mayor’s initiative LED luminaires were the only types considered and objectives focused on lighting quality, sustainability and energy-efficiency. After a competitive selection process, Acuity Brands’s product was considered as ...

Lunera® Lighting has introduced 1200 Series Grid Lay-in Fixture,　which provides high quality and affordable commercial lighting. Lunera’s approach to design is from the work plane up, ensuring a fixture fits the needs of a space. The 1200 Series provides high lumens per watt output enabling over 30 foot-candles of quality light at the work plane in typical installations. The fixtures can be placed with 10ft x10ft spacing on 10ft ceilings offering the possibility of fewer fixtures per installation, while bathing the area in warm LED light and further lowering soluti...

AIXTRON SE today announced a new order for a silicon carbide (SiC) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system from a major corporate research & development center located in the northeast of the USA. The order comprises a VP508GFR 1x4-inch wafer configuration Hot-Wall reactor system with additional features including a Dual Tube Hot-Wall reactor with the AIXTRON patented Gas Foil Rotation® for individual wafer uniformity and high temperature capability.   The company placed the order during the third quarter of 2010. Following delivery in t...

The Fremont, Calif.-based company, Intematix has developed a component, ChromaLit product line, to improve LED lighting efficiency and give light fixture manufacturers more flexibility in adjusting light qualities. According to Intematix, the ChromaLit product line, which offers a separate phosphor component can converts the blue light of LED light sources into white light. In addition, a separate phosphor component is up to 30 percent more energy efficient and manufacturers can swap in various phosphor components on the same LED light source to create products with...

Taiwan LED packaging manufacturer VisEra Technologies is reported to put its manufacturing emphasis on high-power packages dedicated to light bulbs in 2011.  At present, the company produces 2,000 200mm wafers of packages a month, roughly equal to four million packages. In 2010 alone, it shipped as many as 800,000 packages to streetlight makers in the mainland. Based on the bans imposed in 2012 by many economic powers on the energy-hungry incandescent bulbs, the company believes demands for LED light bulbs will begin exploding in the third quarter this year. To captu...

IXYS Corp. has introduced samples and evaluation boards of its inductor-based, 6-channel white LED driver, the LDS8763 which can be used for backlight LED lighting of medium-size LCD displays and large-area LED lighting panels for indoor and outdoor LED lighting fixtures. The LDS8763, an integrated DC/DC boost converter with an internal MOSFET switch as a synchronous rectifier for highest efficiency, can drive 72 WLEDs in six strings with up to 12 LEDs per string. It is available with factory-programmed LED current at 20mA, 25mA, or 30m...

Japan Seiko Instruments Inc. (SII) has introduced the S-5855A Series, a PWM output temperature sensor IC for LED lighting designs. The new product begins to decrease the duty ratio of PWM signal output when the temperature exceeds the specified value, thus enables LED lighting circuits to avoid temperatures increasing above design limits, improving safety and efficiency while reducing total design cost. The S-5855A is connected to the DIM pin of an LED driver IC to control the LED luminance, enhancing safety protection and boosting efficiency. It...

It’s said that city of Novato is in the process of conducting a streetlight test to get public feedback in its selection of energy-efficient fixtures. Four LED fixtures have been installed between Rowland Boulevard and Adele Drive, and four induction fixtures were installed between Arthur Drive and Yukon Way. All lights being considered would reduce monthly energy costs by about 40 percent and reduce routine maintenance costs three to four times that of the current fixtures.

J. P. Sercel Associates Inc. (JPSA), a leading designer, and supplier of laser micro machining systems, announced that it will be exhibiting at Photonics West 2011in San Francisco, CA from January 25 – 27, 2011.  JPSA will be exhibiting at booth #5309 in the North Hall of the Moscone Center.

Lately, QD Vision has demonstrated the world’s highest resolution quantum dot-based active matrix display under a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research Program (SBIR) for the U.S. Army. With QD Vision’s QLED technology, the portable micro-display imaging system featured SVGA resolution (800 x 600 pixel count) and a 15.6 mm diagonal.

North American LED lights manufacturer, Phoster Industries, has successfully replaced  436 350-500 watt incandescent light fixtures in the lobby with 52 watt PAR 64 LED lighting retrofit kits at Place Ville Marie, Montreal.

New GR-52 LED garage fixture provides replacement ease and thermal management for long lasting performance Philips Sportlite introduces the LED Garage Fixture Series, specifically designed to provide more efficient lighting at an economical price. The fixtures maintain more than 70% of their lumens up to 82,000 hours, providing less need for maintenance or replacement.