After considerable research, planning and development, Light-Based Technologies Inc. (LBT) is pleased to announce the unveiling of a significant update to their corporate imaging coinciding with the re-launch of their website, www.lightbased.com. A key component of LBT’s new image is their new logo that is intended to reflect LBT’s focus on new and innovative functionality for the general lighting Solid-State Lighting (SSL) industry. The new-look website clearly states the benefits of LBT’s products and technologies, while delivering easy access ...

AIXTRON SE announced a new order for MOCVD reactors from an Epistar joint venture, Epicrystal Corporation (Changzhou), Ltd. in China. The company, formed as a new joint venture between Epistar and Epistar’s customers, is engaged in manufacture and distribution of LED-based products. The order is made up of five AIX 2800G4 HT MOCVD systems. Following delivery in the second quarter of 2011, the systems will be used for production of ultra-high brightness (UHB) GaN-based LEDs. The new reactors will be commissioned by the local AIXT...

AIXTRON SE announced a new order for a CVD reactor from existing customer SemiSouth Laboratories of Starkville, MS, USA. The order is for an AIX 2800G4 WW deposition system in the 10x100 mm and the 6x150 mm configuration which will be used for the production of power silicon carbide (SiC) Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET) and Schottky Barrier Diode microelectronic devices. SemiSouth placed the order in the fourth quarter of 2010 and the system will be delivered in the second quarter of 2011. The local AIXTRON support team will commi...

New Executive Brings Decades of Lighting Industry Experience to LED Leader Eco-story, a leader in LED lighting solutions, announced that it has hired Jim Simunaci to serve as Vice President of Sales.  Beginning this month, Jim is charged with channel partner strategies and developing relationships with companies and distributors who could benefit from Eco-story’s high-quality LED lighting solutions.  His focus will be on national accounts in the retail, restaurant and hospitality industries. “It’s a great honor be joined by such a...

According to Veeco,  Shanghai Epilight Technology Co., Ltd has ordered Veeco TurboDisc® K465i™ MOCVD systems during the fourth quarter of 2010 for its new LED fab at Hefei, China for HB-LED manufacturing.

ANC Sports Enterprises has completed the installation of two new Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision video screens at Penn State University’s Rec Hall, home of the Nittany Lion gymnastics, volleyball and wrestling teams. Previously, ANC installed LED systems at the University’s Beaver Stadium and the Bryce Jordan Center.

AIXTRON SE today announced a new order for a MOCVD reactor from Russian company Saturn Joint Stock Company (Saturn JSC). The order comprises one AIX 2800 G4-R 15x4-inch configuration deposition system including an automated wafer transfer system. The Krasnodar based company placed the order during the fourth quarter of 2010 and following delivery in the second quarter of 2011, the system will be used to produce Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) solar cell epitaxial materials for the Russian space market. The new reactor will be commissioned by the AIXTRON...

Tyco Electronics was reported to team up with Bridgelux to develop the Nevalo system, a set of plug-and-play components for assembling solid state lighting systems for retail establishments, hotels, public areas and other locations. Bridgelux will offer LEDs and LED modules adapted for street lighting and commercial establishments to Tyco for Nevalo.  ...

New Bridgelux LED Arrays Double Light Output of Today’s Commercially Available LED Products New Portfolio Additions Deliver 3500 to 8000 Lumen Output Arrays Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced the expansion of its award-winning RS LED Array portfolio to include the industry’s highest performance LED products designed for very high lumen applications such as retail shop lighting, high-bay, roadway, exterior area and industrial lighting applications. Shatterin...

Currently, Philips has announced it will seek for acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region as a part of the company's strategic to keep up with its growth momentum for its lighting business. According to Philips Lighting Asia Regional Director Nigel D' Acre, the adoption rate of LEDs in the emerging markets, especially in Asia, was even faster. As a result, they felt that they need to catch up and be prepared with the growth through partnerships, future acquisitions, through close relationships and other infrastructure projects. In D' Acre‘s opinio...

Vizio, the U.S.-based sales arm for Taiwan Amtran Technology has signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with LG to reconcile over a years-long patent infringement dispute. Under the agreement, the two companies will settle all lawsuits they have filed in the U.S. and help to invalidate orders already made by International Trade Commission. According to market observers, it’s over 50% of Visio’s flat TVs sold in the U.S. are built with LGE`s display panels now that caused they signed this agreement. What’s more, Amtran has also secured a ...

The historical city wall in Penghu County, Taiwan has completed the decoration of RGB full color lighting products by Taiwan-based LED lighting solutions and products provider, Xodtec LED, Inc. The project was conducted by The Tourism Department of Penghu County Government. According to Curtis Su, Chairman of Xodtec LED, the company was not merely lighting up the Historical City Wall, but also achieving the interaction between light and people. The project is expected to attract attention during tourism season to increase the prosperity for local soci...

Building Operating Management readers honor Cooper Lighting and Cooper Controls products with top distinction. Products from Cooper Lighting and Cooper Controls, part of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), have been selected as 2011 Top Product winners by Building Operating Management magazine. The winning products are the Halo H7 LED Collection from Cooper Lighting and the Venergy Energy Monitoring Web Tool from Cooper Controls. The Top Product winners were selected using an e-mail ballot to readers of Building Operating Management who we...

Eulitha AG of Switzerland and Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) of Japan announced the successful patterning of 4” wafers with Eulitha’s proprietary PHABLE technology. Photonic crystal patterns with 600 nm period and hexagonal symmetry was created uniformly over 4” wafers. PHABLE is a novel mask based photolithography technology that promises to revolutionize production of photonic structures such as photonic crystals, diffraction gratings and anti-reflection surfaces. High-throughput fabrication of such patterns over large areas is required...

Today, 131 years ago, Thomas Alva Edison was granted U.S. patent 223,898 for “Improvement in Electric Lamps and in the method of manufacturing.” Today’s LED lighting revolution heralds the demise of Edison’s 1880, horse-and-buggy-era invention. In an industry first, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has demonstrated the brightest, most-efficient, LED-based A-lamp that can meet ENERGY STAR® performance requirements for a 60-watt standard LED replacement bulb. This unprecedented level of performance is the result of Cree innovatio...

Recently, the Streetlights between Ship Canal and 65th Street in Fremont have been replaced with LED fixtures, just some of the 5,000 LED streetlights that were converted over the last year in Seattle which planed to convert all 40,000 residential streetlights to LED within the next four years.  ...

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.

It’s announced that Panasonic has made a decision to sell 9 million LED light bulbs in Japan next fiscal year, up from 4.4 million units targeted for the year ending March 31. According to Panasonic, the overall domestic market for LED lights will jump from 11 million units to 18 million next fiscal year and it targets to grab half of the domestic market. The company plans to begin offering on March 18 LED bulbs capable of shedding light over a wide, 300-degree swath, putting them on par with incandescent lamps. It also widened the angle of illumination from...

Last year, Instrument Systems GmbH further reinforced its leading position in LED Test & Measurement by gaining a major order worth several million euros. The order for a large number of array spectrometers from the CAS 140CT series placed by Korean company LG Innotek has strengthened the market leadership of the manufacturer of light measurement systems based in Munich.

Luxury Lighting Manufacturer Honored with Industry’s Most Prestigious Award Corbett Lighting, luxury lighting manufacturer for more than 40 years, won the “Lighting Manufacturer of the Year” Award at the 22nd Annual ARTS gala, held on January 22 during the Dallas International Lighting Market and the Dallas Total Home & Gift Market.  In partnership with the Dallas Market Center, the Accessories Resource Team (ART) has hosted the prestigious Annual ARTS Awards program for the past 20 years, and to be nominated is one o...

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, announced the production of 12-inch polished wafers, the largest high-quality, sapphire wafer ready for production of LEDs (light emitting diodes). Rubicon now offers a complete range of high quality sapphire substrates including two-, three- and four- inch core, and six-, eight- and 12-inch wafers.  

Taiwan’s display panel makers Wintek Corp., Jeng Shiang Precision Ind. Co., Ltd and ArmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd. have paved the way for tapping Taiwan’s market for LED lighting. It’s said that Wintek specializes in touch screen, Jeng Shiang in light guide plate for the panel and ArmTRAN in LCD monitor. They have recently branched out into LED lighting from the LCD sector. Wintek has found an LED-lighting business division with a team of 20-30 specialists. The division began shipping the lamps in the second half of 2010, hav...

After Cree released LMR2 LED module, Arrow Electronics announced that it would play a distributor for this new product. According to Gary Zullo, director of Arrow’s lighting segment, “at Arrow, we share Cree’s passion for and commitment to advancing the widespread adoption of LED lighting. The new LMR2 module is a solid addition to our offering of Cree LED modules and components, and will help our customers simplify and accelerate the design and development cycle.”...

Vermont's largest municipal electric utility is going green with 35 LED streetlights retrofits in a residential area for the first time, and saving 74% of the energy used by traditional streetlights. It’s said the Burlington Electric Department already had been using LED streetlights in downtown commercial areas, but now will do so on Shore Road along Lake Champlain and neighboring streets. This LED retrofit was estimated to save74% of the energy used by traditional streetlights and officials hoped to expand the installment in the future....

Reportedly, Taiwan LED maker Epistar has acquired Apple’s order for LED backlights for use in iPad. Benefiting from increasing LED applications in TV, notebook PCs and lightings, Epistar confirmed that its production lines have been fully booked by contract orders till this June. This secures the firm strong growth momentum in sales and shipments in the first half of 2011.  ...

Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), has released the 2011 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting and design community. The SOURCE, the industries’ leading lighting education facility, is located at Cooper Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia, and offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and its applications. The SOURCE has been servicing the lighting industry for over nineteen years and to date, over 100,000 lighting and interior designers, a...

Reportedly, South Korea-based OCI Co. Ltd. has injected $33 million to order sapphire crystallization furnaces from GT Solar, marking OCI's entrance into the LED industry and GT Solar's first commercial sale of its sapphire crystallization furnaces in Korea. According to Tom Guiterrez, GT Solar's president and CEO, it’s the third order for their sapphire crystallization furnaces in the last two months from leading PV manufacturers that are entering the LED market. They worked closely with OCI several years ago when they launched the...

Colorado’s Oldest Volkswagen Dealership Achieves 18 Month Return on Investment from Energy Savings and Xcel Conservation Rebates with Qnuru’s LED Lighting Retrofit   Qnuru™, the Noribach Group’s smart energy digital lighting division, and SoGoGreen, a Colorado-based distributor of LED lighting products and services, today announced that Emich Volkswagen of Denver has installed Qnuru’s LED bulbs throughout its new and used car dealership. Emich VW, the oldest Volkswagen dealership in Colorado, is owned and operated ...

It’s reported that China Intelligent Lighting and Electronics has set up an approximately 215,000 square feet facility in Huizhou, China. The company has invested approximately US$1.0 million in five new production lines for the new space, including a production line for LED street lamp components. And it expects the installation of these five lines to be completed in January 2011. It’s estimated that the five new production lines, at full capacity, will be capable of increasing the company's total capacity on an annual basis by approximately 20%. And i...

Based on its recent analysis of the automotive light-emitting diodes (LED) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Philips Lumileds with the 2010 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation of the Year for being a major factor driving the advance of improved lighting technologies for the global auto industry.