LayTec is happy to announce to have signed a strategic OEM agreement with Evatec Ltd. (Switzerland, www.evatecnet.com) – a leading supplier of thin film deposition systems to semiconductor and optics. LayTec will equip Evatec with high precision in-situ metrology tools for versatile process control. Evatec’s evaporation, sputter and PECVD systems find their applications in the MEMs, optoelectronics, precision optics as well as semiconductor markets. The OEM partnership enables an ongoing close cooperation for integration of advanced in-situ metrology in...

37th Annual National Lighting Design Competition Open to Professionals and Students Cooper Lighting, a division of diversified power management company Eaton, is now accepting entries for its 37th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The competition, which focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as a primary element in design, is open to all lighting designers, architects, engineers, professional designers and consultants who use Cooper Lighting fixtures in interior or exterior design projects. Students cu...

Kerala, India, The Energy Management Centre (EMC) is in the process of framing a street light policy, which, if implemented in the state, can save 24 million kwh of electricity every year. The policy will stress the need to use LED bulbs, which is now being implemented in 65 municipalities and corporations in the state. EMC director Dharesan Unnithan said that the pilot project of installing LED bulbs had been completed in 40 municipalities. The project is expected to be completed in all areas identified before June. "After the policy is framed, the local b...

Osram is to develop glare-free adaptive headlights, where modulating multiple LED die within a headlight allows the shape of its beam to be varied in response to data from forward-facing cameras in the vehicle. Low-beams that adapt with vehicle speed are another aspect: at high speed the range of the light is automatically increased, while in city traffic the beam is widened to include more of the pavement and road edges. "The aim of this project is to develop the technical framework for a new class of energy-efficient LED headlamps with supplementary traffic safety func...

Visitors attending the 2013 International Parking Institute (IPI) Conference and Expo at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale will be introduced to high performance lighting products from Lighting Science Group Corporation® (OTCQB: LSCG). Lighting Science (booth #1335) will showcase recently launched LED lamps and exterior luminaires that are environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient, and support their mission of unleashing the science of light to make people and the planet look, feel and heal better. New technologies are revolu...

GE Lighting isreplacing traditional high-pressure sodium lamps on Gulangyu Island with its  LED Iberia, a versatile outdoor luminaire that combines design excellence with energy savings and an extraordinary luminous quality. Gulangyu Island is a high impact eco-tourism destination in Xiamen, China, renowned for its delicate natural beauty, ancient relics and varied architecture. It is one of China’s National Scenic Spots and top scenic areas in the province. GE’soutdoor lighting project will bring improved visibility to the island’s residents and to...

DENVER, COLORADO - American Lighting, a manufacturer and distributor of lighting technologies for residential, commercial and specialty markets, announced LED Linkworks, a versatile, interconnecting linear lighting fixture.  The linkable lighting fixture is American Lighting’s latest addition to its LED product line and interconnects seamlessly eliminating the need for metal strip light housings while saving in ballast and lamp replacement costs. LED Linkworks makes it easy to deploy and install linkable energy-efficient and safe lighting sources in...

Leading UK manufacturer achieves 75% reduction in floodlight power consumption   Marshalls plc, the UK’s leading hard landscaping transformation company, has fitted Marl International Bay Range LED floodlighting to stockyards at five of its manufacturing sites to replace high pressure sodium and metal halide floodlights – reducing the energy consumption per floodlight by up to 75%.   Pete Stevens, Group Energy and Carbon Manager at Marshalls plc, who was responsible for managing this project, said, “Marl LED floodlights not only offer a...

Peerless Mino LED luminaires are now offered in 1’ x 4’ and 1’ x 1’ models; energy efficiency increased by up to 15%. Peerless — a leading designer and manufacturer of architectural luminaires and one of the innovative lighting brands under the Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) umbrella – announces the release of an expanded and enhanced line of Peerless® Mino direct ambient LED luminaires. In addition to the previously released 2’ x 2’ recessed, surface/wall and pendant models, the Peerless Mino suite now inclu...

Expanded Relationship to Drive GaN-on-Silicon Development Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced the closing of an agreement with Toshiba Corporation, a world-leading electronics manufacturer, which will strengthen and extend their strategic technology collaboration. The agreement was originally announced on April 22, 2013, and the companies have now completed the transfer of Bridgelux GaN-on-Silicon technology assets to Toshiba and inaugurated this new phase of GaN-on-Silicon LED collabor...

This includes all new stores and replacement in old stores commencing with KFC, and following those of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.   The Pharox range of LED lighting by NTL Lemnis, a JV company of NTL Electronics of India and Lemnis Lighting Netherlands has been appointed as the preferred lighting supplier for Yum Restaurant International.  The Pharox range has been found and cleared of all the performance and quality requirements including Tempo 21 test.    Tempo 21 is the suite of twenty one thermal, electrical, mechanical, photometric...

Award for museum project Neue Galerie Kassel The prizes of the German Lichtdesign-Preis 2013 were awarded. OSRAM received together with the Licht Kunst Licht AG an award for the project Neue Galerie Kassel. The Neue Galerie Kassel has been closed in 2006 for five years for extensive renovation and refurbishment work. In November 2011, the museum celebrated the reopening and returned to her family home in the beautiful view above the Karlsaue. The art inventory presents itself in a completely modernized building, on a larger space and with a new LED ligh...

Ecomaa Lighting’s PAR 30 and PAR 38 which are hot seller in Europe and United States had passed the "Electrical Appliance and Material Safety Law of Japan (DENAE) PSE (Product Safety of Electrical Appliance & Materials) certification. The PAR30 and PAR38 series which had passed the PSE certification with exclusive active fan cooling technology, high stability power supply design and UL94V0 anti-fire material, a reflection for high-power LED lighting of combination between integration, application and design. And also approved b...

OSRAM, supporters of Delight in Light, the new concept created to encourage excellence in lighting design are supplying an LED lamp to the first 10 submitted entries. The OSRAM LED STAR CLASSIC A60 10W (which won’t be available to buy in the shops until July) is the new 60W equivalent LED lamp with very low energy consumption and a long lifetime. It’s also shockproof and vibration-proof thanks to the latest LED technology. These lamps enable the designers of tomorrow to see and work with the latest technologies from a leading na...

National Lighting Design Competition Winners Announced at LIGHTFAIR® International   Cooper Lighting, a leader at the forefront of transforming the lighting industry and setting an unmatched standard for innovation and reliability, is pleased to announce the winners of the 36th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The winners were recognized at LIGHTFAIR® International 2013 held on April 22 in Philadelphia, Pa. Six professional awards and five student awards were presented.   The annual competition, started...

Recently, LED street lighting project completed by Kingsun and Yamada Denki lit up officially in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The project includes seven roads'LED street lights retrofit and is the first time to apply LED street lighting - in wide range in Japan. It's learned that the demonstration project has strictly demand in lights quality, technology, and stability. It adopts Kingsun star products—Apollo series LED street lights with advantages such as accurate light distribution, modular heat radiation structure, flexible drive configuration. The...

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN) a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical markets, today announced that it has relaunched its website to reflect the company’s focus on market leadership, innovation and expanding markets. The web site will feature new and expanded content about Rubicon’s innovations and vertically integrated approach to the production of sapphire as well as sapphire applications in the LED, semiconductor and optical markets. Online visitors can visit Rubicon at a new URL, www.rubicontechnology.com.  Rubicon is the world’s largest, most experienced and most reliable provider of large-diameter ......

China is one of the major LED lighting markets in the world, the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition is most important LED lighting exhibitions in China. That will be held on June 9-12. Taiwan-based firms such as Epistar, Everlight, Lextar, Lite-On Technology, Genesis Photonics, Delta Electronics and Edison Opto will all participate. The China government has a series of policies in place to stimulate domestic LED lighting demand. Market observers believe LED demand in China may reach US$10 billion by 2015 and US$22 billion by 2020. The G...

As June is dawning near, LEDinside is ready to hold a grand and perfect LEDforum 2013 Guangzhou at the Chinese Export Commodities Fair Pazhou Complex, Area B, Room # 8.   LED industry has undergone big changes. Based on the potential market demands, many companies have mushroomed all over the world in recent years. However, an oversupply comes after the large capacity expansion. What’s worse, due to credit crisis, LED development in European market has slowed down. And it also has influenced Asian LED manufacturers which rely on the external ...

A report by the US Department of Energy entitled ‘Adoption of light-emitting diodes in common lighting applications’ published in April has discovered that LEDs could save the US $37 billion in energy costs. Lighting reports that an overnight switch to LEDs could save the US $37 billion in annual energy costs. The report states that 49 million LED lamps and luminaires were installed in nine lighting applications in 2012, saving $675 million in energy costs across these markets that year. It reveals that if the US began using 100% LEDs overnight, as...

Over 200 LED lighting suppliers including 80 from overseas will introduce their latest technology to local and regional buyers, home and industrial sectors at the LED Expo Thailand 2013, scheduled from May 23-25, 2013 at Hall 4 - IMPACT Muang Thong Thani. Of those 200 LED exhibitors, China and Taiwan represent the biggest number of overseas suppliers who will be showcasing energy efficient lighting products. There are also exhibitors from India, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore as well as multi-national and domestic entrepreneurs joining the show to...

Mayor Bob Foster climbs in a cherry picker to christen pilot LED street lights in a Westside neighborhood. Long Beach, California - Lined with quaint single-family homes and manicured lawns, the 3000 block of Baltic Ave. looks like many others in Long Beach's residential Westside. Even the neighborhood's street lights look typical: pillars of speckled stone standing every 40 feet atop which is perched a light that hangs over the curb into the street. But since last month, these street lights have been the focus of a pilot project in which the typical high-press...

Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, When the ballasts in the existing fluorescent light fixtures in the gymnasium at Trinidad’s community center began failing in recent months, causing the lights to go out one-by-one, Marty Velasquez, the center’s director, called Dean Duran, city power and light superintendent, to get some help for the problem. The solution to the problem turned out to be LED light fixtures that provide better lighting, cost less to operate and are expected to last much longer than the fluorescent lighting they have replaced. Duran said in...

Under the award of £250,000 in matched funding from the UK Innovation Agency – Technology Strategy Board (TSB), Cambridge Nanotherm is to build its first prototype manufacturing plant in Haverhill, UK. Cambridge Nanotherm has developed and patented a nanoceramic-aluminum substrate for thermal management of electronics, which can be used in LED lighting modules. The investment from the TSB and company shareholder Enso Ventures will create a facility to develop applications for the technology such as LED lighting and power electronics. It will t...

Singapore, a beautiful garden city, is famous for its cleanness. Spark LED high bay light, based on LED technology, is energy saving, environmental friendly and durable. The installation of Spark LED high bay light in this beautiful city makes perfect combination between the two. On April 14th, 2013, after 5 months’ field test, which started from November 14th, 2012, Singapore client announced that Spark LED high bay lights successfully passed their test in terms of reliability, photometric performance, brightness maintenance, quality and lighting effect. The c...

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio - May 16, 2013 - GE's new Evolve™ LED Scalable Cobrahead lighting fixtures have been installed by Xcel Energy in the city of West St. Paul, Minn., as part of a utility-initiated implementation of LED street lights. Xcel Energy will monitor performance of the new lights for two years and use the data to develop an LED program for every state in its service area: Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. The utility maintains approximately 500,000 Xcel Energy and ...

According to new research by Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture in collaboration with Philips, exposing tomatoes to extra light from LED lamps during the growing process boosts the fruit’s nutritional value by nearly doubling the amount of vitamin C. The partnership will be continued in a joint facility for research into the application of LED lamps in horticulture (IDC LED) that will open May 16 in Bleiswijk. Scientists at Wageningen UR studied several tomato varieties and various intensities of light. They used special LED modules that were sus...

Epistar, recently pulled aside the curtains to reveal a hint of its next big-time product late this year to boost revenue, with industry insiders guessing the new launch to be automotive LEDs. Other major LED companies in Taiwan, including Everlight, Lextar, Unity Opto Technology, Formosa Epitaxy, are all reportedly aggressively developing business in this lucrative field with low profile. Epistar's high-voltage LED successfully tapped into Philips' supply chain in 2012, and the company has been aggressively trying to widen the gap with its mainland Chines...

Recently, a new research has claimed that the so-called ecofriendly LED lights may cause permanent damage to your eyes. The study found that exposure to LED lights can cause irreparable harm to the retina of the human eye. According to Think-Spain.com, once the retina cells are destroyed by prolonged and continuous exposure to LED rays, they cannot be replaced and will not regrow. Researchers said this is caused by the high levels of radiation in the 'blue band' , and is likely to become a global epidemic in the medium term given that computer, mobiles and TV s...

Soraa has garnered much attention since founder Japanese LED scientist Shuji Nakamura has been helping drive the company towards success. Soraa was able to leverage funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE), and now the company has been appointed by the DOE to lead a commission currently in progress focused on developing a low-cost GaN substrate, since it is a leader in this technology. Its new products, denoted as SORAA VIVID 2 and PREMIUM 2 lamps, utilising this GaN-on-GaN LED technology are claimed to leverage the 1000 times lower cr...