Recently, LEDs and OLED lighting panels have played a key role on American hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas. The group has gone on stage on Paris on three shows, wearing clothes embroidered with LEDs and OLED lighting panels from Philips. Fergie had a 'leather cat woman' outfit that has 75 white Lumiblade OLED panels. The panels were controlled remotely - and were synchronized to the music and lighting sequences....

Dialight has unveiled its new SafeSite®  Series LED Area Light, the industry’s most compact, high-output Class I and Class II, Div 1 certified LED Area Light,as  Dialight’s industry-leading family of LED illumination products for hazardous locations. It’s designed to replace up to 150-watt HID fixtures. Consuming less than half the electricity of 150-watt HID units, Dialight’s 70-watt SafeSite Series delivers an impressive efficacy of 79 lumens per watt. Available in both cool white and neutral white models, the...

Philips has released its ‘ambience’ range of household products in the UAE to celebrate Dubai Summer Surprises. The household products can light up from within, through the tiny, embedded, white and colored LEDs that are designed to add your personal touch when setting a home’s ambiance, serving food and drinks, or accentuating decorative items like flowers. The ‘ambience’ products have a radiant glow that transforms any object or room, to reveal new details with a magical feel, fascinating effects, and an enchanting aura of light. The coll...

Reportedly, Giant Olympic rings and the Paralympic Agitos, the swirling symbol of the Paralympics, will shine from Tower Bridge throughout the London 2012 Games. It is to be funded through a deal between the Mayor, City of London and London 2012 sustainability partners GE and EDF. The funding package has been made possible through sponsorship recognition for GE and EDF during the Games. Planning permission is being sought from Southwark Council and Tower Hamlets Council. Plans include the use of energy efficient LED technology to cut the energy cons...

According to Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor from Kuala Lumpur, the government can reduce costs by up to 50 per cent with LED bulbs for road lighting. Currently, a pilot project on this had been started in partnership with Royal Philips Electronics involving the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Federal Highway and the Middle-Ring Road 2 (MRR2), entailing a total lenght of 63.1 kilometres. He said that "Lighting of highways in the country is costing the government RM26 million annually currently." He also added that he woul...

Recently, Amersfoort-Netherlands based AkzoNobel , plans to enlarge its production capacity for its key products: trimethyl gallium (TMG) and trimethyl indium (TMI) to meet continued strong global demand for its High Purity MetalOrganics (HPMO) product range, which manufactures semiconductor-grade indium-, gallium-, aluminum-, zinc- and magnesium-based metalorganics used as key precursor materials in the production of LEDs, solar cells and other semiconductor devices.   In June 2010 AkzoNobel doubled its TMG production capacity at its facilities in LaPor...

CEA-Leti , a French research and technology organization, has set up a partnership with NEOLUX, a French LED lighting company on developing and manufacturing innovative LED modules and products for lighting. It’s a three-year project which is known as MODULED. According to the project, they will industrialize smart LED systems in France by simplifying functioning and assembly, reducing the mechanics and electronics of current LED systems, and incorporating the latest LED features. In addition, they also will establish processes to allow the f...

Recently, LEDON OLED lighting has combined 9 LG Chem OLED panels and LEDON's own outcoupling and electrical contact system to design a new OLED module that is the brightest ever at 1001 lumens, which is considered to be the world's brightest OLED module. The color temperature is 4077K and the efficacy is over 30 lm/W. The total lamp size is 300x300² with a thickness of 5 mm. and it designed for professional lighting applications....

AquaLite in China has placed a new order from Aixtron for 55x2-inch CRIUS II reactor which will be dedicated to the growth of materials for high brightness LEDs and high Voltage (HV) LED production. The system was ordered in the first quarter of 2011 and the local Aixtron support team will install and commission the new reactor in the second quarter of 2011 at the dedicated AquaLite power chip LED facility within its mainland China production plant. it’s said that with state of the art epitaxial crystal growth and chip process technology, AquaLite&rs...

Lately, Osram has made two breakthroughs on OLED. One breakthrough is that, testing under application-oriented conditions in an integrating sphere, the company has achieved 87 lm/W with its OLED in the lab. In contrast to the previous achieved peak value, this efficacy is about 40 percent higher or nearly the efficiency of fluorescent lamps. And the OLED was measured at a brightness of 1,000 cd/m2 and a color temperature of approximately 4,000 K. The company also achieved almost 75 Im/W at a brightness of 5,000 cd/m2 in another test. It has already tested the org...

The oldest McDonald in Cheshire has dressed up by eco-friendly LED now. According to the owner, the rebuilt structure reflects the energy efficiency concerns of the 21st Century, with LED lighting inside and out, energy efficient fryers and used oil that is turned into bio-diesel fuel. The restaurant's new digital sign is also the only one in town. From LED lighting to fryer oil that's recycled into bio-diesel fuel, the newly built McDonald's will save energy while satisfying appetites....

It’s said that TfL (Transport for London) has completed UK-first installation of LED lightings in the Upper Thames Street westbound tunnel to improve visibility for cyclists and motorists to boost safety. According to Dana Skelley, director of roads at TfL and chair of the UK Lighting Board, the lights will cut CO2 emissions by more than 60%, compared with conventional systems. In addition, the installation is also good for maintenance costs. Projections show the cost of lighting the tunnel could fall from around £50,000 each year to less than &pou...

Reportedly, Philips has supplied its LED products to the Co-operative Group’s new flagship store in The Strand, London. Philips has installed its PowerBalance direct/indirect LED luminaire which allows passage of light across the ceiling and downwards into the facility. With Philips’s luminaire, the company can consumes 25% less energy compared to other traditional fluorescent luminaires. Philips has also provides Affinium LDM422 VISION PLUS canopy LED module for its refrigerated multi-deck display cabinets. The luminaire incorporates a...

Dialight recently has form Dialight Japan KK in Hamamatsu as a further step in the company’s global thrust into the industrial and hazardous LED lighting market.   Dialight Japan KK has signed agreements to acquire the assets and contracts of its Japanese distributor, I-Spec Ltd for an upfront consideration of £0.2m and a 25% stake in Dialight Japan KK. The industrial and hazardous lighting segment is highly regulated and there are in excess of 50,000 industrial facilities in Japan making this one of the world’s largest industrial / hazardou...

Recently, LED lighting company, HomeLights, has partnered with Bridgelux, to introduce a new generation of LED products to be sold through one of the world's largest retailers. HomeLights has selected Bridgelux’s industry-leading, high flux density LED Array technology to enable their new series of energy efficient, environmentally-friendly spotlight luminaires and bulbs. In addition, HomeLights and Bridgelux also partners on new and unique LED lighting solutions that will be sold directly by HomeLights in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Benel...

Osram had not seen Samsung’s complaint yet and did not know its specific content which has been issued in Korea. According to a spokesperson, Osram is well prepared regarding possible steps by Samsung and is therefore relaxed about the move by the counter claimant. Osram regards Samsung’s move as a typical counter attack of a defendant. Anticipating this move Osram had analyzed Samsung’s patent portfolio thoroughly before taking any legal actions and concluded that none of Samsung’s IP will cause a problem for any of OSRAM’s products. Osra...

Reportedly, the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Centre (ERC) led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,  has set up 21 key industrial partners including Osram Sylvania and Taiwan-based Epistar to help guide the centre’s leading-edge research programs and hasten the transition of important innovations from the lab bench to the marketplace. The ERC is led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It is dedicated to developing new LED technologies and applications for smarter, better-performing lighting devices and systems. At present, the ERC team i...

Philips has installed 1,000 Philips Fortimo LED SLM modules 2000lm 33W/830 in the ‘MAS’ (Museum aan de Stroom) in Antwerp, Belgium making the ‘MAS’ the first museum in the Benelux illuminating all its precious art with LED lighting. The Philips Fortimo LED SLM module 2000lm 33W/830 is the LED spot that was selected for this unique lighting project. It has a color temperature of 3000 K and a higher light output than a 100W halogen light source. The module is dimmable. Because of lower maintenance and energy costs than with h...

For decades, OSRAM’s former slogan – “Hell wie der lichte Tag– As bright as broad daylight" has been gracing the facade of buildings at Munich's Karlsplatz roundabout. Now the light manufacturer is also represented in the underground area of this bustling city-centre square, in the form of its subsidiary OSRAM Opto Semiconductors: the challenge was to implement the lighting concept in the entrance area of the newly redesigned station (for the S-Bahn suburban network and U-Bahn city metro). Schmidt-König, planning office for light...

A new EUROPE solar streetlight will be showcased by Spanish company Eurener, which based on LED technology and powered by the sun. The system features high-capacity light, long life and low power consumption. The new calculation system has been devised to adapt Eurener’s system in all variations (solar streetlights and bus shelters, lighting autonomous houses) to any geographical area in the world covering the specific needs of the user. The customer can get a customized installation of the product in terms of the specific terrain and weather conditions. ...

Philips Lighting has launched Philips Fortimo LED Strip system, a new module and driver for OEMs to start tackling general lighting and explicit areas where fluorescent is central. The Philips Fortimo LED Strip system consists of LED pcb modules of 280mm (630Lm) convoyed by a programmable Xitanium 75w driver in T5 shaped linear housing, which is fully dimmable and compatible with DALI controls, such as the Philips ActiLume system....

The U.S. delegation headed by U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu (PhD) visited the Optogan LED production plant in St. Petersburg. Nobel Laureate Steven Chu (PhD) is a recognized expert in the development of energy efficient technologies. The aim of the official visit of the US delegation to Russia was to become acquainted with Russian industry innovation and to search for possible ways to implement joint projects in energy and energy efficiency. Mutual projects were discussed within the Working Group on Energy and Environment - a bilateral...

Lately, Siemens has filed a lawsuit with Samsung and LG in Germany and the United States, claiming the two companies infringed on Siemens’s patented LED lighting technology.   The technology transforms blue light into white light, a feature used in some flat-panel televisions and increasingly in common household LED light bulbs.   The German lawsuit was filed in Hamburg. In the United States, Siemens filed its complaints with the International Trade Commission in Washington and in United States District Court in Wilmington, Del. Siemens s...

Reportedly,  Philips Lumileds and Future Electronics have expanded new five-year agreement builds on the decade long relationship that has enabled the development of solid-state lighting solutions worldwide. Steve Barlow, Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Philips Lumileds, said that “Future Lighting Solutions has proven over the last decade that with LUXEON LEDs, highly trained LED solution engineers, and the core services of a global solutions provider, they are well positioned to support and enable the growing number of companies that w...

The name Luzinterruptus which installed LED lighting and tiny animal figurines around the cities of Madrid and Barcelona operated by Urban artists. The project, entitled “Implanted Nature”, filled with soil and a rooting agent to add to the plants were a flock of small plastic animals including horses, sheep and cows and LED lighting. In order to respond to the lack of green spaces, they all covered by small portable domed “greenhouses” which protect from pollution and heavy rain. Fifty of the tiny green spaces were installed over five hours in one ...

Philips today announced the New Zealand release of its LED (light emitting diode) range of light bulbs for the home. Delivering significant energy savings and with an exceptionally long life, LEDs are set to provide a step change in home lighting. Philips’ range of LED light bulbs use up to 80% less energy and can last up to 25 times longer than an incandescent bulb and are fully compatible with existing light fittings, making it hassle-free to make the switch.1 As well as presenting an opportunity for households to reduce their energy use, the Philips LED light b...

Reportedly, Aalberts Industries N.V. has signed an agreement with the Air Liquide group to buy out 100% of the shares of Dutch based firm Lamers High Tech Systems B.V. (Lamers) in the Netherlands subject to antitrust clearance. It’s said that since 1984, Lamers has been active in the development, engineering, manufacturing, assembling, testing and qualification of systems for control and distribution of high purity gases and chemicals. The systems are used in photolithography systems supplied to the semiconductor industry and MOCVD equipment supplied to the L...

Uniform illumination in linear and flat lighting solutions The new product family in the low-power range from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors starts with Duris E 3. The small dimensions and wide beam angle of these new LEDs make them ideal for applications that require uniform illumination. These highly efficient LEDs can be used as replacements for conventional fluorescent lamps in T5 or T8 luminaires for example. Duris E 3 has been designed specifically for applications that call for uniform distribution of light, high efficiency and low procurement costs. The main ...

Recently, Royal Philips Electronics have poured EUR 40 million to increase its production capacity for OLED-based lighting at its facility in Aachen, Germany, to support the rapid growth of Philips’ OLED business, with increased availability of Philips OLED modules for high-end design lighting applications for decorative and ambience creation purposes. This additional capacity at Philips’ OLED facility in Aachen is expected to be available in 2012. In addition, Philips also recently opened its Lumiblade Creative Lab in Aachen, inviting li...

Recently, AIXTRON has received a large multiple order of its G5 HT MOCVD Planetary Reactor for the industry standard LED production platform from Samsung LED. The new systems will be installed within this year at Samsung’s latest state-of-the-art production facility and be used for volume production of HB blue and white GaN-based LEDs for television back-light units and LED lamps for solid-state lighting applications. Samsung LED has been using AIX 2800G4 HT GaN MOCVD systems for several years. Following successful commission...