Dow Electronic Materials has announced to acquire a private, US-based research company Lightscape Materials, Inc., to expand its LED technology portfolio. But financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Major Lightscape Materials' investors included Wisepower, a Korean company, and Silicon-Valley based SRI International. Date back to October of 2011, Dow has announced the formation of a new LED Technologies business segment to capture current and future demand for LEDs in the solid-state lighting market. Aside from  the newly added...

Recently, U. S. Navy ships have placed $1.5 million order to Energy Focus, Inc., for  IntelliTube(TM) LED fluorescent replacement tubes, IntelliTube LED berth light fixtures and a variety of high performance LED globe fixtures.   According to Roger Buelow, Energy Focus CTO, "Energy Focus LED products have a 50,000-hour lifespan compared to the 1,000-hour bulbs in incandescent globes and 7,500-hour fluorescent tubes while using less than half the energy. In addition, our LED fixtures are designed for easy installation. The globes use th...

Innovative Lusio LED high bay fixtures deliver superior quality of light and substantial energy savings   Lusio Solid-State Lighting announced the installation of Lusio SSL fixtures at the new Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Criminalistics Laboratory (JCCL) located in Olathe, KS.  Completed this spring, the new 62,500 square foot facility is expected to achieve LEED Platinum certification by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the highest rating a building can achieve under the council’s Leadership in Energy...

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHI) announced that the 200th licensee signed up to its LED luminaire and retrofit bulb licensing program. As a result, Paulmann Light GmbH has gained access to Philips’ comprehensive portfolio of patented LED technologies and solutions offered in the licensing program. The announcement marks a significant milestone in the Philips LED luminaire licensing program, enabling and fostering the industry’s growth in its transition from conventional lamps to energy efficient LED-based lighting solutions. A...

LEDforum 2012, organized by LEDinside and Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, will be held at the Chinese Export Commodities Fair Pazhou Complex, Area B, Room #8 on June 11, 2012. The sessions at the LEDforum will dissect the development of the LED industry in the next five years, the channel strategy of the Chinese LED industry and the challenge facing it. As for the concurrent sessions in the afternoon, they will focus on the prospects for the LED industry and the LED lighting market, the key development of the LED manufacturing process and equipment, providing a thorough analysis on the LED market.

"Several major brands have recently announced their intentions to cut LED bulb prices to encourage uptake in the consumer market. But what impact might this cost-cutting drive have on the quality of the technology we’re supplying and its future in the market?   Consumer reluctance to pay higher prices is a minor obstacle to widespread LED adoption compared with the disappointment and ultimate rejection that would result from technology falling short of expectations. As an industry that has learnt this lesson the hard way, we should know better. After all, we&rsqu...

Recently, U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) has recognized Finelite Inc., as a winner of the 2012 Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Indoor Design SSL Competition at LIGHTFAIR International in Las Vegas, Nevada. Finelite is among the 43 manufacturers who submitted over 187 products for consideration but only 53 products, including the HPR-LED has been chosen as a “Recognized” winner in the recessed modular category. The HPR-LED collection is a complete family of luminaires – 2x4, 2x2, 1x4, 1x2, 1x1 and wallwash - w...

Recently, Noribachi has successfully completed the installation of ultra-efficient, cold temperature compatible LED fixtures by Mark Pereira of C.I.M. Electric at Agro-Jal Farms’ new state-of-the-art cold storage warehouse. According to the company, the HIGHBAY.M is an indoor highbay solution exclusively distributed by Noribachi in the United States. Noribachi’s HIGHBAY.M fixtures deliver an astounding bright, natural white light that allows fruit and vegetable inspectors to determine ripeness without taking a trip outside, a serious inconven...

Astronics Luminescent Systems , a subsidiary backed by Astronics Corporation , has been selected by Learjet Inc., a subsidiary of Bombardier, to supply LED-based cockpit lighting panels for its newly introduced Learjet 70* and Learjet 75* light business jets.   Astronics will provide a complete suite of instruments panels that are illuminated with LEDs which provide increased reliability while reducing power consumption.  ...

SWITCH Lighting(TM) is offering liquid-cooled LED A-lamps to the hospitality industry and has received great feedback on their light quality--which matches the warm, room filling glow, and dimmability of an incandescent, with no drawbacks like the warm-up time and hazardous ingredients associated with CFLs. The full line includes 40, 60, 75, and 100 watt-equivalents, with the latest addition of the first-ever 3-Way LED lamp. Named SWITCH3-Way, it's a 25/50/75 watt-equivalent LED replacement A-Lamp. The full line is also on display for the hospitality...

O2Micro(R) International Limited was issued 20 claims under United States patent number 8,120,280 for its Circuits and Methods for LED control. This invention controls the power delivered to the LED string to achieve the predetermined brightness, including proper dimming control. "O2Micro's invention provides a user-friendly dimming control frequency to LED lighting applications," remarked Dr. Yung Lin, executive vice president, O2Micro....

The main benefits of the interface specifications for LED light sources With its interface specifications, Zhaga makes it possible to develop interchangeable LED light sources. Menno Treffers, Secretary General of Zhaga, summarises the most important benefits as follows: Success factor cost reduction. "LED light sources improve rapidly. A state-of-the-art LED light source will be mediocre within six month after its introduction. That forces manufacturers of LED luminaires to constantly upgrade the LEDs in their products. They can upgrade without re-d...

Albeo H-Series LED High Bay has received Top 2012 Next Generation Luminaries (NGL) Award sponsored by US Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society, and the International Association of Lighting Designers at Lightfair International 2012(LFI) in Las Vegas. The Albeo H-Series LED High Bay was honored for its modular design that provides an industry leading lumenrange of 5,840 to 82,893, and the capacity to replace  the majority of fluorescent and HID high bay lighting products currently on the market. The NGL Best in C...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized Testing and certification organization MET Laboratories as a Certification Body (CB) for Luminaires (including sub-components), Integral LED Lamps, & Set-Top and Cable Boxes under the ENERGY STAR® program. The EPA recognition establishes MET as an independent third-party eligible to certify products to ENERGY STAR energy efficiency requirements for these categories, in addition to already recognized categories.   MET Labs qualifies and verifies that produ...

According to Christopher Ruud, vice president of Ruud Lighting, the company has been awarded the national contract to supply outdoor LED lighting for Walmart's Neighborhood Markets. Ruud confirmed the information Monday night at the Mount Pleasant Village Board meeting. "This new Neighborhood Market will be a showcase for emerging technologies," he told Mount Pleasant trustees. "To be able to have a store down the street as a showcase is great for credibility for the technology and our business as a whole."  ...

LED Lighting Taiwan 2012 organized by Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), is to be held on June 19-21. This time, Cree, Osram, Philips, Panasonic, Seoul Semiconductor, Epistar, Everlight, Lite-On Technology Corp., Delta Electronics Inc., Formosa Epitaxy Inc., Kingbright Elec. Co., Ltd., Genesis Photonics Inc., Lextar, Nichia, MonoCrystal and GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd will join the event. They will display their latest products ranging from epitaxy wafer and sapphire to packages and lighting fixtures a...

Recently, a team of researchers from North Carolina and Japan have jointly made a breakthrough on UV disinfection using LED technology. As we know, aluminum nitride (AlN) is used in LEDs, based on its strengths which can handle a lot of power and create light in a wide spectrum of colors, particularly in the UV range. But AlN LEDs to create UV light have been severely limited because the substrates that served as the foundation for these semiconductors absorbed wavelengths of UV light that are crucial to applications in sterilization and water treatment technolo...

Company Joins Mayor Vincent Gray for the Installation of the 1,360 Street Lights Marking the End of First Phase of Project Lighting Science Group (OTCBB: LSCG), one of the world's leading LED lighting companies, today joined Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray and officials from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and the Department of the Environment (DDOE) to celebrate the completion of the first phase of the relighting project that will save the city tens of thousands of dollars each year in energy costs. Part of the ...

New CEO will lead Oree to commercial success by bringing its LightCell technology to the general lighting market Oree announced that LED lighting veteran Peter van Strijp has been named as the company’s new CEO. Mr. van Strijp has served as Oree's Chairman of the Board. This move comes as Oree’s focus shifts into aggressive sales, while building new channels and acquiring new high-profile accounts. The company is increasing its emphasis on the general lighting market for its LightCell™ technology, with an emphasis on Europe and Asia. E...

Resources from gizmag.com show that Osram Sylvania has intended to release its 100 W-replacement LED light bulb, joining its Sylvania Ultra series: a 20 W, 1600 lumen light bulb with a warm, "incandescenty" color appearance of 2700 K. Osram Sylvania claims its LED light bulb boasts omni-directional output, though none of the manufacturers has produced data to quantify this to our knowledge (which it is possible to do). It’s estimated that Osram Sylvania's 20 W Ultra should hit shelves between June and September this year....

Recently, Panasonic has lit up around 100,000 ‘wishing star’ LED lights on Tokyo's Sumida River to embrace the ‘Symphony of Light’ event. The two-day event was held on the bank of the river, which runs through central Tokyo. The company, which announced record losses of £3.4bn, created the art installation alongside the lights of the Tokyo Sky Tree as part of the Tokyo Hotaru (Firefly) Festival. For the event, Panasonic created a special kind of orb called an "Inoriboshi" (prayer star) that incorporates one of the compa...

Optogan opens lamps and luminaires sales office in Varese, Italy, by signing a distribution agreement with the company LEDisOne srl. At the Grand Opening event in Varese, close to Milan, LEDisOne hosted more than 100 official guests, politicians, architects, representatives of industry and universities. The newly certified distributor LEDisOne is specialised in LED lighting and shows a broad background in the semiconductor industry. For Optogan the expansion to Italy has been a key target, since the country is considered as the home market for architectural l...

LEDforum 2012 Guangzhou organized by LEDinside and Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, will be held at the Chinese Export Commodities Fair Pazhou Complex, Area B, Room #8 on June 11, 2012. This year, LEDforum 2012 will provide a perfect platform to interact with global LED market leaders from Osram, Philips Lumileds, Seoul Semiconductor, Henkel (China), Lextar, Aixtron, Veeco Instruments, KLA-Tencor and Laytec. The sessions at the LEDforum will dissect the development of the LED industry in the next five years, the channel s...

Seoul Semiconductor has showcased its 3020 Series, adding to mid-power LEDs family in booth 3538 at the Lightfair International trade show in Las Vegas . The 3020 Series will be offered in the full range of ANSI white space, with standard binning and LM-80 testing. The entire family is general illumination class and comes with coloring rendering index (CRI) versions of 80 or 90 (minimum) and with luminous efficacies as high as 151lm/watt (cool white) and 136lm/watt (warm white). Following the firm’s 5630 package, the new LED is particularly suited to sma...

Nichia has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Germany at the District Court Düsseldorf against Zenaro Lighting GmbH ("Zenaro"), which is a German LED lighting company mainly owned by Everlight, and the German distributor REGO-Lighting GmbH on April 27, 2012. In the lawsuit, Nichia is seeking permanent injunction, rendering account, damages, recall and destruction against an office light of Zenaro (product number: OL-Deluxe/QL2/P44/LF/D50/SR/M/CE/ZN) including white LED tubes (product number: SL-Cobra/T5 048DC/C/P10/L...

Lumenbeam LBX Pendant and Lumencove recognized for excellence in the design of commercial LED luminaires   Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high-performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, announced that it has won two Next Generation Luminaires™ (NGL) awards presented at LIGHTFAIR International 2012.   The Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Solid State Lighting (SSL) Design Competition is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DO...

Bridgelux Inc. and Toshiba Corporation announced that Bridgelux and Toshiba have achieved the industry’s top class 8” GaN on Silicon LED chip emitting 614mW, <3.1V@350mA with 1.1mm square chip, just months after they have engaged in a joint collaborative agreement this year. Bridgelux and Toshiba will further accelerate their development efforts for LED chips, which have seen increasing demand for LCD panels and lightening systems world wide. Toshiba has also made an equity investment in Bridgelux with the intent to jointly pursue an innovative t...

Recently, NTL Electronics India Limited, the Rs. 550 Cr (US$ 110 million) Lighting Electronics major from India, has announced sales of 2.19 million LED lamps for the annual year 2011-2012.   According to the company, the sales came in not from a whole year of operation but from manufacturing LED bulbs for 9 months during the period. The LED market is expected to grow manifold over years, so the growth for NTL Electronics is also going to be exponential. Therefore, the company garnered over 5% of the total sales of LED lamps globally. NTL Ele...

AIXTRON SE announced a new MOCVD system order from the University of Warsaw, Poland. The contract is for one Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) reactor in a 3x2-inch wafer configuration, to be used for the growth of gallium nitride (GaN) materials. The system was ordered in the fourth quarter of 2011 and will be delivered in the second half 2012 as part of a project co-financed by the European Union titled "Physics as the basis for new technologies – development of modern research infrastructure at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw...

World’s most famous office building teams with Philips Color Kinetics to create state-of-the-art, dynamic lighting system that can change building’s mast colors in real-time Globally recognized as an engineering marvel and symbol of New York City, the Empire State Building (ESB) has selected Philips, the world’s leader in lighting, as its partner to transition the building’s iconic tower lights to innovative LEDs. The two organizations have pushed the boundaries of LED technology to develop a state-of-the-art dynamic lighting system from Phil...