2010-05-21

Taiwan’s VPEC orders eight AIXTRON MOCVD tools for production capacity increase

Visual Photonics Epitaxy Co. Ltd. (VPEC) of Taiwan has ordered AIXTRON AG eight 2600G3 IC MOCVD tools. In the fourth quarter 2009 VPEC placed its order for multiple additional epitaxial growth reactors making it the single largest purchase of its kind for the company this year. The systems will be commissioned at the company’s modern facility in Ping-Jen City, Taoyuan, Taiwan during the second and third quarters of 2010.
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2010-05-20

Taiwan’s LED Makers Shoot for Local LED Streetlight Business

Taiwan government plans to install LED streetlights in 2011, which has inspired local makers, including Epistar Corp., Delta Electronics Inc. and Nan Ya Photonics Inc., to collaborate to shoot for the market, which is estimated at over NT$10 billion.
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2010-05-19

Lithonia Lighting enters LED Lighting Market with introduction of RTLED

Lithonia Lighting, an Acuity Brands company based in Atlanta, Georgia USA, has introduced the new product RTLED and announced that Lithonia Jumps into LED lighting market. RTLED is a volumetric recessed luminaire that delivers ambient white light throughout an entire space. RTLED boasts 50,000 hours of light without having to replace lamps or ballasts, thereby reducing downtime.
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2010-05-19

Cleveland City Council Delays Vote on Contract with Chinese LED Fixture Maker

It’s reported that Cleveland, Ohio's mayor, Frank Jackson, announced to delay vote on LED fixture contract with Sunpu-Opto Semiconductor Ltd.
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2010-05-19

Applied Materials to Enter MOCVD Market Soon

According to a report, Applied Materials plans to enter MOCVD market as a new MOCVD equipment supplier as the company responds to soaring demand from consumers and OEMs for LED backlit TVs.
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2010-05-19

LED Market Explosion Will be Hampered by Materials Shortage

Fast-growing market for high-brightness LEDs in LCD TVs will be restricted by a shortage of key semiconductor materials in the second half of 2010, according to a report. The paper points out that demand has soared with the rapid penetration of LED backlighting modules in LCD TVs. This has also lead to a soaring demand for capital equipment, especially metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactors used to make gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs.
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2010-05-19

Cree Partnership to Bring LED Lights to New Habitat for Humanity Homes

Cree, Inc. and Habitat for Humanity International announce a three-year, $1.5 million pledge to provide high-efficiency Cree LED downlights for the kitchens in all new Habitat homes built in the United States. The Cree LED kitchen lighting packages can help reduce energy costs for Habitat homeowners, as kitchens generally see some of the highest lighting energy usage in a home, according to ENERGY STAR®.
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2010-05-19

2010 4th Road Lamp Patio Lamp & Outdoor Lighting Fair (RLF2010)

2010 4th Road Lamp Patio Lamp & Outdoor Lighting Fair(RLF2010) is one of the leading trade fair for all lighting industry in China. The exhibition will be held from Sep. 15 to Sep.17 2010 at Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Centre which is being organized by City Illumination Committee of China Municipal Engineering Association and Guangzhou Grandeur Exhibition Service Co., Limited.
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2010-05-18

Delta to Invest NT$20 billion on Green Business Development

Taiwan-based Delta Electronics Inc., a globally leading supplier of power supplies, has decided to pay more attention to green business deployment, and invest more than NT$20 billion (US$625 million at US$1: NT$32) in output expansion related to the matter. This is Delta’s biggest investment in capacity expansion in Taiwan in the decade.
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2010-05-18

Tekcore Scrambles for More Production Capacity to Cope with Flooding LED Orders

Taiwan’s LED chipmaker Tekcore Co. Ltd. will persistently expand production capacity to cope with flooding orders, which have inundated the company’s production lines。 According to company president Jonathan Lu, Tekcore will increase the number of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) machines to 46 by the end of this year from 38 systems recorded in the second quarter.
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2010-05-17

The Patent Lawsuit of Rothschild VS Cree to Go to Jury

Cree Inc. has not settled with Gertrude Neumark Rothschild about LED patent. Now William G. Young, the district judge in the case in Massachusetts ordered the case to go before a jury.
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2010-05-14

NNCrystal US Corporation to Supply Quantum Dot Materials to Acuity's LED lighting products

NNCrystal US Corporation of Fayetteville, Arkansas, a maker of colloidal nanocrystal materials that act as a light coverter, announces the company has signed a supply agreement with Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. NNCrystal US Corporation will soon be supplying quantum dot to Acuity Brands Lighting for Acuity's LED lighting products.
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2010-05-14

Sharp Decided to Start Mass Production of Blue LED Chips

To meet positive market demand in the mid to long term, Sharp Corporation of Japan has decided to start mass production of blue LED chips at its Fukuyama Plant in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan within 2010, as well and to expand materials procurement. This will boost Sharp's production capacity of blue LED chips to approximately five billion units a year in fiscal 2011.
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2010-05-13

Cree Brings the LED Lighting Revolution to Lightfair 2010

Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, will be showcasing its lighting fixtures, lamps and components in Booth 149 during the Lightfair 2010 show held May 12 to 14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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2010-05-13

PC memory company Rambus also eyes LED market

PC memory company Rambus has developed a process for making flat LED plates to replace overhead office lighting. The company will show off prototypes of a system that can lower the manufacturing costs of LED lighting for commercial buildings and flat-panel displays at the Lightfair Intenrational conference.
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2010-05-12

Samsung to Invest $7.5 Billion in LED Technology Applications

Samsung Group of Seoul Korea has planed to invest $20.6 billion in technologies including solar cells, rechargeable cells for hybrid electric vehicles, LED technologies, biopharmaceuticals and medical devices. Samsung Group's largest individual investment planned is $7.5 billion in LED technology applications such as backlit TVs and displays, lighting and car electronics.
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2010-05-12

US start-up Porifera orders AIXTRON Black Magic tool for CNT water filter membranes

California based start-up company Porifera Inc., has ordered one Black Magic CNT system from AIXTRON AG. Successfully installed by the local AIXTRON support team at Porifera’s state-of-the-art facility in Hayward, CA, USA, the system enabled the first CNT material to be grown within less than a week.
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2010-05-12

Tyco Electronics and Redwood Systems Establish Strategic Collaboration for Energy-Efficient Lighting Platform

Tyco Electronics Corporation and Redwood Systems, a manufacturer of network-based lighting power and control systems, has announced a strategic collaboration to pioneer Redwood Systems’ new lighting platform in the commercial lighting market.
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2010-05-11

New Cree LED Luminaire Breaks 100 LPW Barrier for Indoor Lighting

Cree, Inc. announces a new LED-based troffer that delivers more than 100 lumens per Watt fixture efficacy, the first indoor fixture known to deliver this level of performance. Cree says it will be reducing the price of its award-winning LR24 LED troffer by 15 percent to reduce upfront cost and accelerate the LED lighting revolution.
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2010-05-11

Cree Extends New Warranty Standard on LED Fixtures to 5-Year

Cree, Inc., announces it is extending the warranty on its entire family of fixture products to five years. Lengthening the warranty lets customers know that Cree stands behind the long-term performance and reliability of our fixtures. Ty Mitchell, Cree vice president and general manager, LED Lighting said that they have almost 20,000 hours of real-world data on products from their early installations nearly three years ago, and the performance is rock solid.
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2010-05-11

Tyndall orders AIXTRON CCS MOCVD tool to develop its GaN capabilities

AIXTRON AG has announced an order for one Close Coupled Showerhead MOCVD system from Tyndall National Institute, based in University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. The order was received in the fourth quarter 2009 and the system will be delivered in the first half of 2010 in a 3x2 inch wafer configuration.
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2010-05-11

Carmanah Technologies to Unveil Solar Lighting Innovations at LightFair 2010

Carmanah Technologies is unveiling some exciting additions to its line of EverGEN™ solar LED lighting products at LIGHTFAIR® 2010. Carmanah will reveal new wireless features for the thinnest, brightest solar light ever produced. More efficient LEDs and new occupancy sensing capabilities are increasing the applications for solar lighting and LightFair attendees will be the first to see Carmanah’s pioneering advancements that will change the way solar LED lighting can be used.
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2010-05-10

SemiLEDs to Increase UV LED Capacity with New UV Reactor

SemiLEDs Corporation, a manufacturer of ultra high bright LED and UV chips, has announced today that they are increasing their production capacity of UV LED chips with the addition of a new SR 4000 MOCVD reactor from Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation.
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2010-05-07

Diguang International to showcase its LED Products at 2010 China Optoelectronics and Display EXPO in Shenzhen

Diguang International Development Co., Ltd. will participate in the 2010 China Optoelectronics and Display EXPO at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on May 8 ~ 10, 2010. Diguang will showcase the Company's CCFL and LED backlights and liquid crystal modules, 19", 22", 24" LED ultra-slim monitors, and 19", 22", 32", 42" and 46" LED TVs. Visitors can view Diguang's products at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center booth No. A013.
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2010-05-07

Philips Lumileds Brings Best Practices to Analysis of LED array “lifetime” performance

Philips Lumileds has published a new white paper titled “Evaluating the Lifetime Behavior of LED Systems” that provides the lighting industry with a methodology for evaluating how arrays of LEDs behave over time and how LED luminaire manufacturers can confidently make business decisions such as warranty commitments.
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2010-05-06

Skyline Exhibits expands its line-up of exhibit lighting in Canada

Skyline Exhibits, has adds new LED lighting options to its product Line of Canadian Trade Show Exhibits,which includes a variety of LED lighting options from simple one-color washes of light to multi-color light shows.
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2010-05-05

Axiom NZ LED and AoTuroaLED announce the Green Step Forward Incentive

Axiom NZ LED of Las Vegas, Nevada and AoTuroaLED of Auckland, New Zealand announced today that the companies are offering a "Green Step Forward" program for the month of May 2010 that facilitates the worldwide effort to reduce one's Carbon Footprint.
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2010-05-05

Dialight Introduces First SafeSite® LED High Bay Fixture Classified for Hazardous Locations

First of Its Kind High-Bay Luminaire Delivers 67 Lumens per Watt, Reduces Energy Consumption, Maintenance Costs for Wide Range of Industrial, Petrochemical and Other Rugged Applications.
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2010-05-05

LEDtronics LED Bulbs Help Art Museum toward Environmental Sustainability

A critical letter about the use of chemical pesticides on its lawns in 2008 led to a series of steps and decisions at Farnsworth Art Museum that culminated with a resolution to become a leader in environmentally sustainable practices. Converting the entire museum from halogen to LED light bulbs was a major part of that decision.
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2010-05-03

Osram: Leditron is the future of dimming

Dimmable OSRAM compact fluorescent lamps create a pleasant ambience combined with extreme energy efficiency thanks to the new Leditron technology.
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Tokushima, Japan - 6 March 2024: Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, has started mass production of the new UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs in its popular 434 Series packa... READ MORE

New XLamp® S Line LEDs enhance growth, last longer, lower energy costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Whether you are interested... READ MORE