Plessey is working closely with Plymouth City Council, to help achieve the Council's carbon reduction strategy for all their managed buildings and infrastructure. Plessey recently released the first commercially available 350mW GaN-on-silicon LEDs. The lighting products are manufactured on Plessey’s 6-inch MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN I/C) line. The GaN-on-silicon LEDs use a much thinner GaN layer at only 2.5μm, and they are cheaper than LEDs grown on sapphire or SiC. This latest solid-state LED lighting solution to be employed in Pl...

Green Watt Power (GWP), a division of Calex Mfg. Co., Inc. located Concord, California, announces the availability of the GLV75 constant voltage LED power supply. The GLV-24-75 is a 24 Volt output 3.15A fully encapsulated IP67 rated power supply, ideal for LED lighting applications requiring that voltage and current rating. The GLV-24-75 is protected by over voltage protection, short circuit protection with auto recovery, over temperature protection and backed by Green Watt Power's five year warranty for years of reliable performance. The MTBF for...

On July 3, Sharp released LC-60LE751 Series of 60-inch AQUOS LED TVs and remote control app. LE751 Series LED TVs offer 3D, smart connectivity and ultra-slim silver designs that feature a 15mm bezel. The series also involves 50-inch and 39-inch models with a 10mm bezel. Sharp stated that the LE751 Series LED TVs provide improved picture quality and smooth motion, thanks to its own Active Motion 200Hz technology, designed to reduce blur and add more natural movement. The AQUOS NET+ portal enables web browsing and integration with mobile...

Revolution Lighting, a leader in advanced LED lighting technology, yesterday announced its latest international retrofit installation project with Gasolineras Don Justo, a group of 11 gas stations and a subdivision of the largest gas station chain in Mexico. Seesmart, a Revolution Lighting brand, has installed 16 90W LED canopy lights in one of 11 stations in Leon, Mexico. The 16 LED canopy lights have improved light output levels by 70% within the past month. Seesmart’s LED canopy lights provide a 50,000 hour life, and save more than 50% in energy consumpt...

Dialog, a provider of highly integrated power management, audio and short-range wireless technologies, announced that it has acquired iWatt, a leading provider of digital power management integrated circuits (ICs), for a cash payment of approximately $310 million, with additional contingent consideration of up to $35 million. This Acquisition enhanced Dialog's leadership in power management for Tablets and Smart phones and promoted Dialog to enter LED Solid State Lighting market, which means that the market competition will be more intense, and the Taiwan manufacturers l...

According to the reports from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the LED lamp from Philips that won the L Prize in the 60 W replacement category has shown no reduction in light output after 25,000 hours of continuous lumen maintenance testing. The prize was awarded in August 2011. DOE has tested 200 Philips lamps for 7,000 hours in a specially constructed high-temperature (45° C) facility, so it predicted the Philips lamps would keep lumen maintenance of 97.1% at 25,000 hours. Even though this far exceeded the competition’s 70% requirement, DOE&rsquo...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (China) Co., Ltd with a total investment of 250 million euros is a major high-tech foreign-funded project in Wuxi New District over the recent years, the project has entered the installation phase of electrical and mechanical equipments, and it is expected to be put into operation in October this year. July 2, Lixin Huang, Standing Committee of Jiangsu and municipal party secretary, met with the CEO of German Osram Opto Semiconductor and other visitors, they negotiated and reached a consensus on speeding up construction projects and dee...

On Tuesday, Samsung released its first Ultra HD (4K) LED TV 8S59 with a price-tag of 27, 00,000 in Indian market. Atul Jain, Senior Vice President of Samsung India, who said during the launch event that the Timeless Gallery Design of the Samsung UHD TV meets the need of premium customers for Innovative design coupled with Best in Class performance. The UHD TV provides a resolution that is four-times higher than that of full HD TVs, and UHD screens offer enhanced clarity with rich colors. The new Samsung television features 'Timeless ...

Barco LiveDots, a Barco company, introduced its V14m, a 14 mm pixel pitch transparent LED display, with 4,300 nits brightness and a contrast of 6,000:1. Designed for the rental and staging market, the V14m is a lightweight LED display that is easy and safe to set up due to its special magnetic V-lock. The V14m is available now for commercial distribution. One of the most striking features of the V14m is its magnetic V-lock, which significantly reduces setup times and enables a single technician to safely install an 800x800 tile on his own. The V14m shares its mech...

As Larson Electronics introduced new LEDL-160W LED boat light, its Magnalight signaled the end of the 1000 watt halogen light common on larger vessels. Drawing only 14 amps instead of 84 amps on a 12 volt circuit, the LEDL-160W LED light offers a longer life, cooler operating temperature, lower wire gauge requirements and longer battery life than its 1000 watt halogen predecessors. This 'instant-on' light has a sophisticated optics design that enables the light to punch into the darkness while minimizing casting. "The LEDL-160W LED boat light of...

Taiwan-based AOC International plans to storm India TV market with its low-cost LED TVs. AOC hopes to cash in on Indians' growing fondness for low-cost LEDs. On the cards are 24 warehouses and 20 branch offices across India and a R100-crore marketing blitz over the next six months. AOC offers the latest LED technology-based TVs at a low price of Rs 7,000 while leading brands such as LG and Samsung sell the product with comparable specifications at more than twice the price. However, LG also announced recently that India will be a manufacturing ba...

According to a new report from IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc, the market for LED driver ICs in LED lighting increase from $214 million in 2012 to $323 million this year. This will allow the LED market for lighting to exceed that of cell phones, which will have revenue of $316 million. Unit shipments of LED driver ICs this year will continue to favor mobile handsets with 1.5 billion units, versus 1.1 billion for LED lighting. However, in 2014 lighting is expected to exceed mobile as the volume shipment leader with 1.9 billion, compared to 1.7 billion for ...

Philips partnered with the Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) to propose a new solar-powered LED lighting concept, which will benefit at least 26 communities spread across Ghana. At the Accra stop of Philips’ pan-African Cape Town to Cairo Roadshow, CEO of Philips Africa, JJ van Dongen, yesterday announced that the company will be installing 26 ‘Community Light Centres (CLC)’ at locations across Ghana. The concept of the CLC, according to Philips, is to create areas of light for rural communities which live without electricity...

Frost & Sullivan's Electronics & Security Practice has announced that it will hold the 3rd Annual Executive Congress on the Indian LED Lighting Market, titled 'Towards a Brighter, Greener India' on July 9th, 2013 in New Delhi. The event aims to address the various challenges faced by LED Lighting suppliers and end users. Increasing awareness of energy efficient technologies as well as the growing efficacy of LED Lighting products is triggering massive growth in the Indian LED Lighting market. Frost & Sullivan's recent re...

The main aims of the common project are to improve the efficiency and service life of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). In addition, production costs have to be minimised to ensure that OLEDs can be successful in the general lighting mass market. In the past years, the participating companies have achieved innovative advantages that are intended to be expanded as a part of the funded project. The OLYMP project aims to make OLED attractive for the mass-market general lighting sector.   With OLYMP (Organic Light emitting sYstems based on energy ...

Research firm IHS expects that there will be more than 100 billion GaN LED units to be shipped in 2013 and the revenue from GaN LED products will exceed 100 billion U.S. dollars. IHS expects that the total revenue of GaN LED products applied in lighting will reach 3.4 billion U.S. dollars this year, and will come to 6.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2016. IHS noted that GaN LED products are mainly applied in TV backlight, lighting and other fields, revenue from this part accounts for 85% of the income of the entire LED industry. Global LED market inc...

Today, Energy-Efficient lighting manufacturer Precision-Paragon (P2) released two new LED lighting products that are suitable for use in a variety of wet locations. The VTL vaportight fixture and VTK vaportight retrofit kit deliver industry leading lighting efficiencies of between 97 and 104 lumens per watt using the latest in LED lighting technology. The fixtures are ideal for a variety of industrial applications including freezers, coolers, food processing areas, car wash areas and other locations where there is frequent contact with water. “We expect food ...

According to reports, Apple recently applied a trademark “iWatch” in Japan after having applied the same trademark in Russian regions. According to one patent official familiar with the situation, Apple submitted the iWatch trademark application on June 3, but Japan Patent Office website chose to release the patent on June 27. Just days before Apple kicked off its 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference, CEO Tim Cook spoke to Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at AllThingsD’s D11 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., where he discussed A...

Sharp intends to introduce its new 32-inch-class LCD monitor into the Japanese market, the PN-K322B. It is an originally developed professional-use touchscreen monitor with high sensitivity and high precision, and PN-K322B delivers 4K resolution (3,840 × 2,160 pixels), up to four times the resolution of full HD. The PN-K322B is the latest ultra-high-definition display of Sharp. Its high-precision touchscreen allows accurate onscreen handwriting of fine text and lines, with writing performed via a dedicated touch pen with a pen-tip width of just 2 mm. The dis...

LANXESS, a leading specialty chemicals company, has developed a new polyester material based on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Pocan TP 555-001, which is perfectly suitable for manufacturing housings, sockets and other components for light-emitting diodes (LED). What makes the product unique is its excellent light reflection, which hardly declines at all over time, and its high heat stability. Dr. Matthias Bienmüller, head of Pocan Product Development at LANXESS, explains that this high-tech material represents a new, growing material family that is the ...

After establishing a global leadership position in developing UV LED curing solutions, Phoseon Technology intends to showcase its wide array of the most advanced UV LED curing systems at the Shanghai International Ad & Sign Expo to be held at Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) from July 10 to July 13, 2013, and it is taken by Shanghai Modern International Exhibition Co., Ltd (SMIE), what's more, it has become the biggest professional industry exhibition of the globe after 20-year development and operation. The Phoseon Technology ...

Samsung Electronics America, a display market leader and award-winning technology innovator, has showcased its 2013 lineup of LED Smart TVs for the hospitality industry at HITEC 2013, the world's largest hospitality technology show. Samsung showcased a variety of LED TVs and software solutions for the hospitality market, including the new 890 Series LED TVs, which feature its LYNC™ SINC content management system, at the Minneapolis Convention Center. “Hotels are striving to keep up with the increasing demands of today’s tech-savv...

Marl International, a pioneer of the LED lighting revolution that is now sweeping the world, this year celebrates its 40th anniversary. The company has now supplied more than 500 million LEDs, many in assemblies designed and manufactured by its 100-strong British engineering and manufacturing team based in Ulverston. Commenting, Adrian Rawlinson, Managing Director at Marl International, said, “Marl, a pioneer in the technology, is ideally positioned to ride the crest of the LED wave. The secret of our success is that our products are designed, assembled, teste...

United States Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its municipal solid state lamps alliance (msslc) intends to hold annual meeting on September 11 in phoenix. The meeting will be available for alliance members, including government and utility workers, staff working for street project, lighting designers and consultants, as well as financial and budgetary professionals, such as energy services companies. Attendees will learn LED streetlight project committed by the American city from this meeting. Speeches will include information on funding options, especially in t...

Soraa has recently released the first GaN on GaN LED in a 50W halogen equivalent MR16 lamp with several new features.This LED has a gallium nitride substrate, triangular shaped chip, simplified epitaxial structure and an original silicon-based wafer level packaging. Soraa GaN on GaN LED packaged in a silicon-based wafer level packaging Source: Yole Développement Soraa used the GaN characteristics like the optical transparency and the high electrical and thermal conductivity to create a unique vertical structure for these LEDs. The layers depos...

On June 26, the Tenth World Brand Summit was held in Beijing, the World Brand Laboratory published the list of "2013 China Top 500 Valuable Brands". Among the Chinese brands awarded on the basis of financial analysis, consumer behavior and brand strength analysis, NVC ranks toward the top with brand value of 8.216 billion Yuan, and ranks the first in the lighting industry once more. Jean-ClaudeLarreche, Professor of INSEAD, RaviDhar, Professor of Yale University School of Management and Stephen Woolgar, Professor of University of Oxford ...

Orion Energy Systems, Inc., a leading power technology enterprise, announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of Harris Manufacturing, Inc. and Harris LED, LLC. Harris Manufacturing and Harris LED had specialized in designing, sourcing and manufacturing energy-efficient lighting systems including fluorescent and LED lighting solutions, and day-lighting products. The purchase price of the transaction was $10 million, subject to post-closing adjustments for net working capital. The purchase price was paid through a combination of $5 million in cash, $...

Harvatek, LED packaging business from Taiwan, has announced to quit joint venture project with China-based TV brand TCL. Harvatek stated that both parties have had taken different attitudes towards some terms, and after careful consideration, Harvatek decided to transfer its 50% stake in the joint venture to TCL. Harvatek stated that it has invested around CNY15 million (US$2.44 million) in this project for two years. On June 24, 2011, Harvatek signed a joint venture agreement with TCL through its subsidiary, Honor Light Limited, to establish an LED packa...

Most of the smart phones sold in the market now already come with a built-in flash which performs well in certain conditions. When it comes to night you’ll hope to have an external flash to take clear photos. Well, there is the iBlazr, an external LED flash, which is compatible with iOS and Android devices. The iBlazr connects to your cell phone via the 3.5 mm audio jack which is where you normally connect your headphones. It’s only 10 mm thin and comes with its own batteries so it does not need your cell phone to provide power. You will be able to rotate this ...

Kingbright, a leading LED manufacturer for over 30 years, pioneer in SMD LED display technology and offers the most complete lines of LED and related products. With continuous innovation in research and development, Kingbright developed the industry first 0.56 inch character height SMD LED display with thickness of only 0.094 inch (2.4mm). This ultra-thin 7-Segment SMD display package overcomes the physical constraints and offers both crisp display features and high maneuverability. Available in single & dual digits in various colors, this package is ideal f...