Lighting Science Group Corporation® (OTCBB: LSCG) announced that it recently partnered with LED Source® and Hurricane Grill & Wings® to install energy-savings lighting in its restaurants. Hurricane Grill & Wings®, a West Palm Beach, Florida-based restaurant chain, found it was able to reduce operating costs and ensure energy-efficiency by installing Definity™ LED lamps from Lighting Science throughout its franchised locations and maintain its company standard to ensure it operates as a responsible corporate citizen. With t...

With Integrated Controls, New Products Offer Cost-Competitive Solution for Challenging Environments Digital Lumens introduced a new line of intelligent LED lighting fixtures for hazardous locations, all with the integrated controls that drive the industry’s best energy efficiency and faster payback periods. The company also unveiled a new line of intelligent LED lighting fixtures for retail applications and new 13,000-lumen Xpress LED lighting fixtures that offer occupancy-driven savings. These fixture additions triple the size of the Digital Lumens’...

There is a breakthrough on wearable tech revolution where we can ditching our smartphones for smartwatches like the LinkMe bracelet. The LinkMe is designed to serve as a mini billboard to display text messages on your wrist. Although the device is well designed and looks decidedly futuristic, its functions are actually pretty simple. When a person sends a text message via the LinkMe app, the message is transmitted from their smartphone, to the recipient's smartphone, and then over to the person's LinkMe bracelet in bold, colorful LED letters. When not in use...

Toshiba has developed a new AC/DC offline LED controller IC with a single converter PFC*1 for LED lighting and lighting equipment. The samples are currently available and the company will move to commercialization in July. The new product is an isolated flyback LED power controller that was developed to meet demanding design criteria: support for triac dimming; high PFC and fewer external parts by achieving active PFC with a single converter; and no use of opto-couplers and detectors for average LED current control of the second side of the transformer. Th...

When specialty frozen food retailer M&M Meat Shops began developing a new strategy to become more competitive, it explored various store improvement projects that would enhance shopper experience, build the bottom line, and could be replicated across its 430 franchise locations as part of a multi-year renovation mandate. The grocer found one cost-cutting answer in GE’s ImmersionTM RV40 LED refrigerated display lighting for reach-in cases. The energy-efficient LED retail lighting systems will save M&M Meat Shops about $600,000 in lighting costs annually o...

 The Las Vegas Convention Center selected approximately 2,000 Holophane® DualBay high bay luminaires from Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) to improve lighting and reduce costs in its 3.2 million-square-foot facility. Installed in the convention center’s central exhibit halls, DualBay high bay luminaires feature Holophane ISD Superglass™ reflectors, dual lamp technology, solid-state electronic ballasts, and a state-of-the-art thermal management system to deliver better light quality, distribution and energy savings. The luminaires are ideal for a variety of industrial, retail and commercial applications.

TSMC Solid State Lighting in the later part of the year will put into production uncased LED, saving cost to the LED illuminate packaging sector. TSMC Solid State Lighting President Dr. Jacob Tarn pointed out that the future of indoor lighting has become a large portion of the LED lighting supply market. This has caused competition within LED factories, making product prices being the key to market success.  TSMC Solid State Lighting President Dr. Jacob Tarn expressed that in near future, the selling point of LED bulbs already released by Cree has dropped as low as 10 USD. However, this has still not sparked a fierce......

The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) announced that Leapfrog Lighting will receive up to $150,000 through the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program. Leapfrog Lighting's goal is to improve LED lighting technologies with a special focus on quality of light. Leapfrog Lighting’s CEO, Stephen Naor, explained that the two obstacles to mainstream adoption of LED lighting are “quality of light and economic value proposition.” The new LED technology, based on ...

Recently a customer from Czech has undertaken a local LED street light project, replacing traditional street lights with Spark LED street lights. After the replacement of the whole, the lighting effect has been greatly improved, saving 60% energy . Also, people’s eyes get a comfortable experience. The customer and local government staff speak highly of Spark street lights and are quite satisfied with the lighting effect and intelligent system. It is expected the street lighting requirements of Czech market will get a substantial growth in 2013. In this LED street ...

As demand for LED lighting products is heating up amid the improving global economy, Epistar is expected to see its gross margin rebound this quarter after posting a record loss last year. Due to oversupply in the LED market, which resulted in a drop in product prices, Epistar’s performance fell short of analysts’ expectation last year, JPMorgan Securities said in a note on Tuesday last week. Because of a decreased utilization rate and continual price decreases, Epistar last quarter posted a net loss of NT$1.11 billion (US$37.18 million) after booking a...

The city of Bakersfield, California, is preparing its fourth pilot installation of LED streetlights. Three previous installations were deployed along collector and arterial roadways in high profile segments of the city. Approximately seventy LED fixtures from various manufacturers were used in the earlier pilots. LED streetlight fixtures included those manufactured by Cree, Holophane, and Leotek, and were used to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of energy efficient solid-state lighting. The upcoming installation includes approximately nineteen LED streetlight...

Viper Networks, Inc., in conjunction with Apollo Metro Solutions, to announce that Apollo (a U.S.-based LED manufacturer and distributor), has recently completed the design and development of a new generation of LED product configurations with efficacies that can now reach 128 LPW (Lumen per Watt). In partnership with Apollo Metro Solutions, this notable accomplishment propels the Company into very select status whereby only a few firms exist with LED products that provide this level of efficiency with high light output. In response to this development, sev...

Cree, Inc. announces the availability of a new product family, XLamp® XQ LEDs, featuring a unique combination of small size, novel light distribution and high-reliability design. This combination of features enables the next generation of designs for applications that require broader light distribution such as omni-directional lamps and fixtures. The XQ LEDs are Cree’s smallest lighting-class LEDs at just 1.6 mm x 1.6 mm, 57 percent smaller than Cree’s XLamp XB package. Built on Cree’s revolutionary SC3 Technology™ Platform, the c...

AIXTRON SE announced that China’s Peking University is adding to its AIXTRON equipment base with an order for a further Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) reactor with capacity for three 2-inch (3x2”) substrates in a single run. The order was made in the second quarter of 2012 with delivery scheduled for the first quarter of 2013.   One of the researchers who will be using the AIXTRON system is Professor Shen Bo. He says: “We already have an AIXTRON CCS system in use, and we are very satisfied with it. We now needed ...

Turkey hopes to save millions of Turkish Liras and kilowatts of energy with an ambitious LED street light conversion project that has whet the appetite of sector players, including its leader, General Electric. The project to replace Turkey’s seven million street lights with LED-illuminated ones emerged last June with the remarks of Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız. The project would be an important attempt to cure Turkey’s distressing current deficit, which is majorly sourced by energy import dependency, by being more sustainable. In order to co...

Rubicon has been granted its "Asymmetrical Wafer Configurations and Method for Creating the Same,” U.S. Patent No. 8,389,099 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent covers the creation of visual and tactile indicators to make sapphire wafers asymmetric according to their crystalline orientation. Sapphire wafers have a specific orientation that is invisible to the naked eye. Rubicon has developed a simple and elegant process to make wafers appear asymmetrical via visual or tactile inspection. This is important as LE...

CEA-Leti spin off Aledia, has made its first GaN LEDs on 8 inch (200mm) silicon wafers. The cost of Aledia’s LED 3D chips based on microwires is expected to be four times less than traditional planar (2D) LEDs. What's more, Aledia has announced its first-round financing totalling €10 million (approximately $13 million) with US and European investors, which was closed in 2012. Aledia solves the important cost issue in the very large and growing LED market. The continued integration of LEDs into new applications, such as general lighting...

Cooper Lighting has joined the Green Parking Council (GPC) as a platinum-level partner. Working together with the GPC and members, Cooper Lighting will collaborate to develop, implement and accelerate sustainable programs, technologies and standards. In addition, Cooper will assist to educate parking professionals on energy-efficient LED technologies to help transform their facilities into sustainable and environmentally responsible assets. These conversions and new installations can result in energy and maintenance savings of up to 80 percent over traditional HID s...

Embargoed until 00.01AM on Thursday 28TH March 2013 Greater Manchester-based LED lighting manufacturer MHA Lighting aims to double turnover by the end of the year following a £750,000 investment from The North West Fund for Energy & Environmental, managed by CT Investment Partners, as part of a £1.5million funding round along with venture capital firm Harwell Capital. The company, which is based in Atherton, is an award-winning manufacturer of LED lighting solutions thatprovide unrivalled energy-savings for both internal and external ligh...

For the eighth straight year – a longer run than any other lighting manufacturer – GE Lighting has been recognized with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence Award . This award acknowledges outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through energy efficiency. GE Lighting’s Steve Briggs, global product general manager, accepted the award Tuesday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. “Energy efficiency is what drives our innovation and development at G...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has gotten involved in a patent infringement with Boston University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.   Boston University alleges that Samsung “regularly and deliberately” infringed upon the BU-owned patents, Patent Nos. 5,686,738 and 6,953,703. The complaint alleges that the infringement occurred when it imported and sold LED devices that were manufactured by preparing highly insulating monocrystalline gallium nitride single crystal films in a molecular beam growth chamber. The complaint also...

Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has just announced the winners of the fifth annual Next Generation Luminaires™ (NGL) 2012 Outdoor Lighting Competition. The competition includes 120 outdoor lighting entries from 42 manufacturers based on lighting quality, appearance, construction, serviceability, efficacy and value.   The judging sessions was conducted by a group of judging panels last November 5-6, 2012, and the awards event took place during the 2013 Strategies in Light Conference on February 14, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA.  This ...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) extends the XLamp® CXA family of integrated LED arrays with the new higher-light-output CXA2540 and CXA3050 LEDs. Optimized to simplify designs and lower system cost, the new CXA LEDs deliver 5,000 to over 10,000 lumens, enabling new applications such as high-output track lights and downlights, outdoor area lighting and high-bay lighting. The new Cree® CXA3050 LED is now the brightest member of the CXA family and can enable LED replacements for up to 100-watt ceramic metal halide in spot lighting or up to 175 w...

White feel-good light on the move The new generation of the Mini Topled and Topled classics from Osram Opto Semiconductors produce light of a particularly high quality. The successful standard packages have been retained but now contain LEDs in a new brightness class with pleasant white light that is ideal for the interior illumination of buses, trains, aircraft and cars. And then there are properties such as durability, resistance to electrostatic discharge (ESD), improved corrosion stability and certification to automotive industry standard AEC Q101. The new gene...

Innovative Products Feature at Electronics, ICT and Lighting Fairs Over 4,200 Exhibitors Expected at April Events   Three April fairs will showcase the latest products and marketing trends in lighting, electronics, and information and communications technology, beginning next week, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC).   Lighting the Way The fifth edition of the HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) opens next Saturday (6 April) and continues through 9 April.   The four-day event ...

Luxury sustainable kitchen and bath mainstay, Native Trails, furthers its commitment to the environment and to supporting talented American artisans by launching a series of expertly crafted, eco-friendly, ‘Made in America’ furnishings, the Americana Collection. Inspired by early American design, the collection of bath vanities, storage and mirrors validates the brand’s ability to create varied, well made sustainable pieces that bring a refined, relaxed look as well as practical storage to the bath – or indeed to any living space – all while reflecting...

Philadelphia-area company takes business overseas with new hire and special patents   Independence LED Lighting, LLC today announced it has hired Benjamin Stammen as Director of International Business Development as part of a new push to reach international markets for its energy-saving LED tubes.   Stammen has more than 17 years of experience in the lighting industry. He worked for five years in Belgium and 12 years as managing director in Hungary for the category-leading European company Massive Lighting, where he developed and led a factory with more...

Effective 27 February 2013, Optronik Berlin GmbH was merged with the parent company Instrument Systems GmbH. Since 2010, Optronik and Instrument Systems have been working closely together on joint product developments and production operations. This cooperation is now going to continue under one roof following the merger of the two companies.  The Optronik location in Berlin will be retained with all the employees working as a team of experts specializing in goniophotometry and for equipping turnkey photometric laboratories. ......

Company debuts MOCVD Platform for low-cost high-volume manufacture of HB-LEDS, with extendibility to GaN-on-Silicon applications At SEMICON China next week, Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC) will make its Solid-State Lighting (SSL) market debut with a new multi-reactor Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) cluster tool. The Prismo D-Blue™ MOCVD platform enables high-volume manufacturing of sophisticated GaN, InGaN and AlGaN ultrathin layered structures required for high-brightness LEDs. W...

The University of Georgia has been in the forefront of evaluating alternative lighting systems.  In their study, comparisons were made among conventional incandescent bulbs, compact fluorescent lamps, cold cathode and LED bulbs in poultry houses.  It was demonstrated that dimming compact fluorescent bulbs below 5 lux resulted in a higher rate of lamp failure than operation at non-dimmed levels of light output. This loss in life span could however be reduced by limiting the extent of dimming.  All bulbs exhibited a loss of light output ranging from 25% to 50% over ...