Recently researchers from the University of Washington have developed silicon-based nano particles to replace the expensive rare earth element (REE) phosphors currently used in LEDs. The REE phosphors in LEDs were used to soften the blue light emitted by LEDs. The silicon-based nano particles, derived from sand, now are used to do the softening. Chang-Ching Tu and Ji Hoo managed to separate the nano-sized particles from wafers of silicon. When the particle size is smaller than five nanometers it will start to glow. When the red-emitting silicon nano particles ar...

This year, Energizer cooperates with Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. to donate 13 million hours of solar light working with the global nonprofit One Million Lights. Energizer selects Ascent Solar to provide solar panel for the donated Energizer lanterns and lights because of Ascent's award-winning, flexible thin-film technology. And Energizer is interest in using the transformational technology of Ascent Solar to benefit rural families in developing countries. Unlike other traditional solar solutions, Ascent's CIGS technology is both flexible and rugged,...

FoxFury will exhibit its portable area lights, spotlights and shield lights at the 27th Annual Police Security Expo (PSE) in Atlantic City. This will be the first time that FoxFury presents at this large law enforcement event, which will attract over 7,000 industry professionals from June 25 to 26, 2013. Law enforcement officers are tasked with responding to ever-changing threats in order to keep the peace. Their job may include searching for people or property, assisting with post-disaster recovery and rescue efforts after natural disasters happened. Portable area lig...

Recently, Philips announced that it has developed an energy-efficient LED Tube suitable for basic lighting. Prototype of this LED tube has been produced, it can produce 200lm / w high quality white light (luminous efficacy of fluorescent is 100lm / w, while the luminous efficacy of traditional bulb is only 15lm / w); while the energy consumption of this new tube is only equivalent to half of the energy consumption of the similar LED products in current market. This innovation of Philips is expected to significantly reduce energy consumption and energy usage costs around the...

Osram is expanding its portfolio of LED lamps with some innovative products and thus giving its customers more selection. The current portfolio includes 60 different lamp types. In addition to retrofit lamps in classical shapes, the new LED portfolio also includes reflector lamps." With our expanded LED portfolio, we have LED lamps to suit every purpose at a very reasonable cost performance. Customers save money and get good quality," said Peter Dobiasch, head of the Lamps Business Unit at Osram. The broad portfolio, which will be offered across Europe, ...

The chairman of Unity Opto, Qinghui Wu, expressed on June 21 that all the LED plants are profitable this year because the capacity utilization has almost reached a high standard and the decline in value has reached a stage; the lighting device will be the greatest driver of growth of LED industry.   Qinghui Wu pointed out that the future of LED industry is bright; the backlit field is expected to grow in the next two years, after which it will enter a stable stage; while the lighting industry will continue to grow in the next five to seven years. Unity Opto achieved...

GE's Albeo LED High Bay lighting at the Dee Events Center in Weber State University (WSU) has been widely appreciated for its lighting quality and energy savings. Comparing to high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting previously used, the Albeo ABHX-Series can save more than 30% energy and is expected to save about $40,000 per year for the university. "HID lighting at the Dee Events Center was one of the single biggest power hogs, and we have no idea to reduce the high electric bills," said Jacob Cain, WSU Energy & Sustainability Ma...

NVC announced on last night that the founder and current CEO of NVC, Changjiang Wu was elected as executive director on shareholders' meeting held on June 21, which means that Changjiang Wu officially return to NVC's board of directors after experiencing ups and downs over the past year. Now, NVC's Board comprises nine directors, including three executive directors, namely, Changjiang Wu, Yu Mu who is the vice president of NVC and Dongming Wong who is the little brother of NVC's current chairman; three non-executive Directors, namely Hep...

With the great growth in LED TV backlighting demand in last year, lots of LED chip production capacity has been utilized, although the oversupply in the market has not yet been fully resolved, it has significantly reduce the gap between supply and demand, so manufacturers from Taiwan and Mainland have released news about expanding capacity, including Sanan, Silan Microelectronics and Aucksun, while Epistar and Lextar also are expanding chip production capacity by 25% to 33%, mainly betting on the rapid development of LED lighting in future, chip manufacturers are first ex...

Spiritual civilization is based on the material, and the entertainment industry in Japan can be traced back to 1920’s. In Japan, the entertainment industry has a very long history; it occupies a huge domestic market and develops steadily. In addition, since streets in Japan are narrow, various entertainment venues along the streets on both sides are dizzying. Spark LED Street Light enjoys great popularity among entertainment in Japan with its high quality and excellent performance. As the photo shows to us, the perfect lighting effect also reflects the development of...

Independence LED recently announced that it will offer $10 million in energy incentives to celebrate the win for the Best Lighting Retrofit at the EBie Awards. The EBie Awards were created by Urban Green Council, the New York Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, to reward the people working in Existing Buildings (EBies) who have made efforts to improve environmental performance, but whose merits was not well known. The core criteria for the Best Lighting Retrofit "Shine a Light on Me" is the greatest reduction in building lighting energ...

Earlier this year, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province promulgated "Suggestions to Accelerate the Development of LED Semiconductor Lighting Industry", which put forward to accelerate the development of LED industry to achieve the sales revenue more than 10 billion yuan in 2016. Recently, it has been learned from Jiaxing Inspection and Quarantine Bureau that the total exports of LED lighting products in Jiaxing in the first five months is more than 2000 batches, and the value is about US $ 90 million, growth of 40% and 70% have been achieved in batch and value over...

Recently, photos of iPhone 5S's front panel and motherboard have been exposed, and now foreign media expose two photos of iPhone 5S prototype, the photos show that the components and line connections on the motherboard of iPhone 5S is very similar to the mohterboard pictures previously exposed, and the oval shaped LED flash lamp is similar to iPhone 5S sketch a few days ago revealed. Allegedly this oval is formed with dual LED flash lamps we have heard in last year. Some say that one of the LED flash lamps is slightly blue and the other is normal, the purpose of th...

Most existing fluorescent lights in the Oak Ridge Central Services Complex Building, Civic Center and Municipal Building are being replaced with LED lights through a grant, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam said. Oak Ridge received $200,000 in Clean Tennessee Energy Grant for purchasing the new LED lights. Watson said it’s expected to take 90 days to get to the bidding process for the project. He said work would start in the Central Services Complex Building, move on to the Municipal Building and then, to the Civic Center and library. LED lights, ...

Last year, the exports of electric light source and lighting fixture in Xiamen reached US $ 800 million. The export of high-end products in Xiamen was the first and the industrial chain in Xiamen was the most complete in China. Reporters recently learned that Xiamen governments have reached hands to guide enterprises to take the road of industry standards when the LED enterprises are facing challenges. The LED supply in China has been able to account for 90% of global market share. However, a huge risk that the outsiders have blamed the LED market filled with inferio...

According to IHS isuppli's research's report titled “Q2 GaN LED Supply and Demand”, more than 100 billion GaN LEDs will ship in 2013. It means that there are 15 GaN LEDs for every person on the earth. In our daily life, there are many articles using LEDs. Mobile phones generally contain 5 or 10 LEDs and televisions contain LEDs numbering up to the hundreds, LED consumption is clearly large. And GaN LEDs account for 85% of total revenues in the LED industry. The GaN LED market is part of the total global LED market,...

According to industry sources, the demand for indoor LED lighting in the first-half of 2013 has been strong, some Chinese LED enterprises pointed out that there has been a shortage in supply of mid power LED indoor lighting products, including bulb, light tube and recessed Lighting. Industry sources estimated that Chinese LED lighting market will achieve a growth of 50% in 2013, so some Chinese LED enterprises may restart capacity expansions. The growth in the demand for LED stimulates the Chinese LED firms to restart capacity expansion. In particular, Sanan...

To seamlessly light indoor commercial spaces, Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today two new brilliantly designed enclosed basket fixtures from Columbia Lighting—the Transition® Enclosed TRE (fluorescent) and LTRE (LED). The new commercial lighting standard, the Transition® Enclosed TRE and LTRE bring an exceptional combination of outstanding light output, high efficiency and precise color rendering for a wide range of environments. Plus, reduced maintenance cost is assured with these long-life fixtures that come wit...

In order to show the next generation of OLED lighting innovations, Philips the world's first Lumiblade OLED lighting product on 2013 Taipei International Optoelectronics Show ─ LivingShapes interactive magic mirror. This innovative OLED product combines technological innovation and modern minimalist design, the appearance of LivingShapes interactive magic mirror is just more like an elegantly designed lighting installation, but also it is a sort of interactive mirror, it can sense people's contour and move via Intelligent Sensor technology. When it is hang...

Since its founding four decades ago by three sisters and families who dreamed of honoring their mother and her collections, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, has been committed to enhancing lives through art and educational programs. As an art-in-nature-focused museum that is certified “Travel Green” by the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, the Woodson also strives to be a model of sustainability. Deepening its commitment to environmental stewardship, the Woodson recently installed GE's energy-efficient Infusion™ LED modu...

Winners of the LED Aurora Awards 2013 were announced after a careful review of technology, efficiency, market performance, lighting quality, lighting design, and lighting compatibility was made by a professional committee. Details of a total of 18 awarded companies and products are shown below. Complete list of LED product awards 2013 Best LED Packaging Product C08-DR Series Lite-On Technology Corporation Lite-On Technology Corporation won the 2013 Best LED packaging Product award with their C08DR series. When selecting a winner for t...

According to the news reported by PR Newswire on June 18, SMIC announced that Mr. Sean Maloney has been appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director of SMIC came into effect on June 15, 2013. And Dr. Gao Yonggang has served as SMIC's Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning and has been re-designated as an Executive Director came into effect on June 17, 2013. Dr. Gao has served as SMIC's Non-executive Director from 2009. He is also a director of two subsidiaries of SMIC, namely Semiconductor Manufacturing Internationa...

Power Integrations introduced its LYTSwitch-0 ICs on June 18, a new series of devices within the LYTSwitch family. LYTSwitch-0 ICs come with a unique combination of simplicity, reliability and efficiency. These new LED driver ICs would be the optimal choice for cost-sensitive, non-isolated, non-dimmable GU10 bulbs and other space-constrained bulb applications. LYTSwitch-0 devices feature efficiencies of more than 90% and deliver constant current with better than +/-5% regulation in typical applications. Power factor is greater than 0.8 at 115 VAC and 0.5...

On June 20, Vishay announced a new series of QPL MIL-PRF-55342-qualified surface-mount chip resistors that provides established reliability with an "R" level failure rate of 0.01 % per 1000 hours. Built using a moisture-resistant tantalum nitride resistive film technology, the new E/H (Ta2N) resistors offer enhanced specifications for military and aerospace applications, involving tolerances to 0.1 % and TCR of 25 ppm/°C. The Vishay Dale Thin Film QPL resistors released on June 20 are specially designed for the use in control systems for milita...

It is reported that the traditional high-pole lamps at Harbin International Exhibition Center Plaza were replaced by new high-brightness LED high-pole lamps on June 14, the high-brightness LED lamps make the night of whole square to be brighter. Jian Liu, the general manager of HIT Optoelectronics Corp. of HIT Group, introduced that the minimum temperature the traditional LED high-pole lamp can endure is minus 35 ℃. The new high-brightness LED high-pole lamps installed at Harbin International Exhibition Center Plaza are specifically designed for extrem...

An international LED project was begun in a softball field of Langley Township due to the brand new technology and an international partnership between Korea’s Yuyang Dnu Co. Ltd. and the Langley Township. On the evening of June 19, an official lighting ceremony was held by the Township and the Korean partners. “Cooperating with businesses around the world and seeking ways to enhance the Langley Township’s international business opportunities is part of the Township’s economic development vision.” said Mayor Jack Froese. “It is ...

Elec-Tech International Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Elec-Tech) released announcement on June 20 to clarify, it was stated in the announcement that income data reported in media reports only is the judgment of Donglei Wang based on his personal opinion about the development prospects of LED lighting industry, not budget data and earnings forecasts of Elec-Tech and NVC. Recently, it has been reported that Donglei Wang said in an interview that NVC's sales revenue in this year will be more than $ 6 billion Yuan, and the total revenue of NVC and Elec...

Aucksun announced its non-public offering plan that it intends to issue not more than 100 million shares at the price of not less than 5.12 Yuan / share. It can raise funds of 500 Million Yuan net of issuance costs, 400 million Yuan will be invested to develop LED epitaxial wafer and chip projects, and the remaining amount will be considered as supplement of working capital. The better external environment of LED industry promotes the company to accelerate development of the project. Since 2011, Aucksun formed a strategy to develop metal logistics operations and LED epit...

New Japan Radio Co., Ltd. (New JRC) recently has released its new product NJL5303R, a reflective optical sensor combining a green LED and photo transistor into a small COB package which is very applicable to pulse detection. Many pulse testing equipments on the now market, utilize near infrared light to do blood flow detection. The NJL5303R adopts green light with 570nm emission wave length well-suitable for pulse detection. The reflection factor of green light provides higher sensitive pulse detection than the detection employing near infrared light. The NJL...

Dymax introduced a new LED light-curing system—the BlueWave LED DX-1000 VisiCure, which produces visible light energy in a relatively narrow wavelength band centered at 405 nm. This system is significantly superior to conventional lamp-curing systems, which embody in these aspects: cooler curing temperatures for thermally sensitive substrates, lower intensity degradation, more consistent cure results, and lower costs. The system, using an environmentally friendly LED light source, can be configured to operate in different mode to adapt to changing business needs. ...