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. ...

Lite-On Technology held its 2013 annual general meeting on June 19, during which the shareholders approved Lite-On's results in 2012 and distribution of a NT$2.4 dividend per common share. Of that sum, the cash and stock dividend portions will be NT$2.35 and NT$0.05 per share respectively. The payout ratio and cash dividend yield are 72% and 4.8%, in line with the company’s historic high and stable payout ratio. Meanwhile, approval was also granted for the election of Mr. Kuo-Feng Wu, Mr. Harvey Chang and Mr. Edward Yang to serve as independent directors. ...

Xeleum Lighting recently announced its new Athena Series Stairwell LED Light Fixture. It can automatically provide 100% light levels only when the space is occupied, while the space is empty, it will provide 20% light levels at the power saving level of. The combined use of occupancy sensors and LED lighting can obviously reduce energy consumption, with savings of up to 85% comparing to conventional stairwell fixtures. Mehrdad Ghalebi, President of Xeleum said that “One of the unique features of this product is the emergency battery back-up system inside the fixt...

The National Restaurant Association (NRA) Expo held in Chicago this year draws over 58,000 industry professionals from all 50 states and over 100 countries to seek or share the latest innovations and information about trends and issues. At this NRA Expo, Vantage LED cooperated with Burton Signworks Inc. (BSI) to show the performance of Vantage LED’s display and software technology combined with BSI’s supreme service. “Vantage LED has been a great partner for BSI. Their industry leading warranty is a sure sign and shows our clients t...

It is reported that Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed silicon substrate green and yellow nitride semiconductor LEDs. Details of the development were published in the May 29th issue of IEEE Electronic Device Letters. The researchers claim their 565nm yellow LEDs are the first multi-quantum well (MQW) devices produced on silicon. The researchers used metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to grow the initial template, grown on 2-inch silicon. The template consisted of aluminium nitride (AlN) nucleation, 8 pai...

After the world's first 55-inch OLED produced by LG Electronics accepted pre-orders in January, Samsung 55-inch OLED TV will be put on sale for more than 10 million won in South Korea next week, and it is similar to LG's products. News also indicated that Samsung plans to launch OLED TV with a curved screen in South Korea next week. The pre-order for the world's first 55-inch OLED HDTV "55EA9800" from LG Electronics was available in the April 29, and it began being shipped in South Korea in June, it is priced at 15 mill...

FOREPI displayed three newly released products at Taipei International Optoelectronics Week, and FOREPI said that two of the three models adopt Package Free Chip technology the company exclusively developed, namely 3.5 watts / 350 lumens candle light and up to 10-watts / 2000 lumens bulb, and the third product is new chip used in headlights, the current products used in headlights were shipped in small amount in June, and it will begin to be shipped in large volume in July. FOREPI said that the company publicly released in last September that it has developed a...

Recently, Bath & North East Somerset Council is celebrating that being the first local authority in the United Kingdom to replace all main road lights with LED street lights. After this conversion, the energy consumption is expected to be decreased by over 1.5 Kilowatt Hours (Kwh) and the council is likely to save about £200,000 per year in electricity bills. For the environment, carbon emissions are expected to be reduced by more than 780 tones. There were some intelligent lighting lanterns installed, which will reduce energy usage by adjusting their output ...

Lite-On Technology announced on June 19 that the Board has approved to appoint Mr. Danny Liao, the CEO of Lite-On IT, to serve as CEO of New Business Development of Lite-On Group, mainly responsible for the Group's long-term growth strategy and new Non-PC business development, with the focus on LED lighting, Automotive Electronics and Biotech and Medical industries. In order to accelerate the integration of the group resources and transition, the new businesses will play a vital role in driving the company's further secular growth and profit, looki...

Taiwan AcBel signed an investment collaboration agreement with Henan Shengmao Photoelectric through its subsidiary in Dongguan, they will set up a new joint-venture company attacking Chinese mainland LED lights and outdoor lighting markets, preliminary estimates suggest that the investment will reach billions of dollars, the output and market outlook will be a hundred times beyond the current situation. Shengmao Photoelectric is the leading enterprise of signal lights and LED lights in Henan Province, its market share is in the first place, and its products have been ava...

Philips recently announced that it will build 19 "Community Light Centers" throughout Kenya by 2015. These Community Light Centers are areas of about 1000 square meters as large as a small football pitch, being lit up by using solar powered LED lighting. Philips East Africa Director Roeloi Assies, who made the announcement, said that the activity of building Community Light Centers aims at creating areas of bright light for people who live in rural communities without electricity, thus they can do social, sports and economic activities in the evening. He al...

Everlight announced on June 18 that its LED Lamp Beads receive certifications of four major international lighting brands, and it will enter the OEM system, it is expected that Everlight LED lighting will be doubled this year, the sales in June will continue to be higher. Everlight not only builds channels in Asia with its own brand, also it plays a important role in the LED lighting components OEM in Europe and America markets, Everlight has obtained certifications of international lighting manufacturers successively, it will supply the LED light source to E...

Falmouth selectmen voted on June 17 on whether to participate in the Cape Light Compact’s LED Street Light Conversion Project, converting existing 2,900 street lights in Falmouth into LED street lights.   Before the vote, CLC Program Manager Kevin Galligan said that Falmouth has more street lights than any other community in the Cape and Islands. In February, there were eight LED street lights installed in some place of Falmouth as a demonstration project, which were well received. If LED street lights are successfully installed throughout th...

Recently, Elmos announced a non-contact photoelectric sensor chip E527.16 able to recognize simple gestures such as approaching or swiping movements at a distance of up to approx. 25 cm. The chip is based on the HALIOS working principle. HALIOS systems are unaffected by extreme effects of light, variable light conditions, or temperature fluctuations. No mechanical components are required. It is s a full-featured gesture recognition solution, and can be used for all types of lighting applications. The corresponding E527.16 reference design illustrates the opportuni...

It is reported that an Australian venture company called LIFX plans to launch a LED bulb connected by Wi-Fi in this year. This LED bulb connected by Wi-Fi can be controlled via smart phone applications; each bulb is a computer running open source Contiki operating system. A set of bulbs forms a wireless mesh network (wireless mesh network: the core guiding principle of Mesh is to allow all nodes in the network to send and receive signals), and connects with the Wi-Fi signal from outside world. The creative inspiration of "smart" bulb comes from a conv...