Sources inform that the US Department of Energy (DOE) is about to fund LED manufacturing R&D with up to $10M for developers of energy-saving lighting technologies,such as LEDs and OLEDs. It’s the third round of funding that directed toward this solid-state lighting research and development program area. Applicants should focus on reducing the cost of LEDs/OLEDs through better manufacturing equipment, processes, and process control. Between 2 and 4 project awards will be granted. These will address the technical challenges facing SSL in the main...

Acuity Brands, Inc., a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting, controls and daylighting solutions, has expanded its Sunoptics® high-performance prismatic daylighting portfolio with the introduction of the SEAMLIGHT™ Curbless Daylighting System (“SEAMLIGHT System”). The SEAMLIGHT System is designed for direct installation onto existing industrial standing seam roofing systems, creating new opportunities for the implementation of daylighting solutions. The Sunoptics high-performance prismatic skylights optimize...

Philips Roadway Lighting has added a new series of flexible, high-performance roadway luminaires to its outdoor LED lighting portfolio. Designed for demanding roadway environments, the RoadView Series is based on the Philips LEDgine platform, and benefits from a modular approach that protects a customer's technology investment while significantly reducing energy expenses and improving overall light quality. Based on the LEDgine platform, it allows for different LUXEON configurations, enabling the systems to be tailored to a customer's unique needs such a...

Encelium Technologies' Gary Meshberg, LEED-AP, LC, director of sales, has been named a guest speaker at the Illuminating Engineering Society-New York Chapter’s (IESNYC) ControlThis! 2011  on Thursday, October 20. An industry veteran and chair of the IESNYC Design Guide Committee, Meshberg will address “The Commissioning Process: IESNA DG29.”   ControlThis! will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion located at 125 West 18th Street in New York City from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The second annual educational...

A project to replace expensive spotlights with cheaper LED bulbs could help a Cornish church dramatically reduce its electricity bill. Camborne Parish Church wants to invest £10,000 in a new lighting system to save money in the long term. After reinstating the outside lighting with gas lamp replicas, Rector Mike Firbank is turning his attention to the inside of the building. The energy efficient LED lights will replace the old and expensive spotlights. The church has recently installed solar panels on the roof of the Cecil Norman building in the church gr...

The Terra LED pendant lamps by Album use their Universo LED technology for lighting right where you need it. In this way you have a light that is safe to handle (won’t break or be damaged due to touch), saves you money and energy and provides great accent or direct lighting solutions. Each pendant lamp is is handblown to traditional Italian craftsmanship standards out of borosilicate glass. It has a clear finish adorned with blue glass splinters for a dazzling effect. Resembling a small globe, Terra lamps are sure to enhance your interior decor and lighting sch...

The LED Street Lighting Industry Alliance of Taiwan and the Fujian Optoelectronics Industry Association of Fujian Province, mainland China recently co-unveiled mutually recognized standard for LED streetlights and signed a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) on LED standards.   The agreement and the recognized standards suggest that LED streetlights made in Taiwan or Fujian are allowed into the other signatory.   The recognized standards are only applicable to high-power LED streetlights and streetlight-used LEDs while the agreement lays fou...

As the latest German soccer league championships get underway, OSRAM and the German recordholding football club FC Bayern München are embarking on an extensive lighting partnership which promises to be of mutual benefit to both players – on and off the pitch: OSRAM is to equip all sections of the planned FC Bayern theme world with the latest lighting technology. In the course of the current season, OSRAM will be creating unique, emotive lighting effects in all sections of the theme world, fitting cutting-edge LED technology in successive stages up to M...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has added another LED to its portfolio for projection applications. The new OSRAM OSTAR Compact 2x2 is the brightest LED of its type on the market. With twice the brightness in all colors and near record-breaking green values this new version is an excellent addition to the existing Compact versions. Its high performance makes it ideal for high-power projectors for the commercial and domestic sectors. LEDs in the OSRAM OSTAR Compact series now offer even greater flexibility for projectors thanks to the new 2x2 version. W...

LED professional symposium + expo (LpS 2011) from 27th through 29th September 2011 LED: The light source of the future Experts all agree: the LEDs are the light source of the future – and the future is beginning today: It will be here in Bregenz world-wide for the first time that developer, purchaser, users, but also researchers, suppliers of LED and system solutions, distributors, engineer service providers and other people interested in this topic are gathering to participate at the convention and trade fair LpS in order to discuss the lighting solutions of t...

LayTec AG, leading manufacturer of in-situ metrology for MOCVD processes, announces that it has acquired the majority of tangible and intangible assets of Optical Reference Systems Ltd (ORS). ORS Ltd, former competitor of LayTec, entered liquidation in August 2011 after a extended period of difficult trading conditions. Thomas Zettler, CEO & president of LayTec, stated: “The R&D team of ORS did a great job du¬ring the last 3 years in developing complementary metrology technologies. These technologies now will be integrated into LayT...

Cooper Lighting’s popular Halo brand is awarded for its new 4-inch LED product expansion.   Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, announced its new Halo H4 LED 4-inch Adjustable Gimbal Series has been recognized as a winner in the prestigious ninth annual Lighting for Tomorrow competition. The awards, which recognize the best-designed, energy-efficient solid-state lighting (SSL) products in the residential market, were announced at the American Ligh...

Ammono has made a breakthrough on high transparency n-type gallium nitride substrates for the production of LEDs and photovoltaic applications. The company has developed a technology allowing the manufacture of GaN wafers with carrier concentrations between 2x1017 and 2x1020 cm-3. Currently, the standard n-type product has a carrier concentration of 1019cm-3. To meet the market demand, Ammono is introducing new products based on an innovative n-type material which has a higher transparency and a lower carrier concentration of 3x1017cm-3. The dislocation density in this ma...

LG Electronics Woomyeon R&D Campus (LG Electronics Advanced Research Institute),recently has ordered one AIX G5 HT MOCVD system in an 8x6-inch wafer configuration to develop GaN-on-Silicon power electronics. In addition, the contract also includes a cooperation agreement in order to optimise LGE´s GaN/Si processes and to accelerate its proprietary device-oriented production. The reactor was ordered in the first quarter of 2011 and following delivery in the third quarter of 2011 will be installed and commissioned by a local Aixtron service s...

The increasing popularity of light-emitting diode lights might have a downside for human health, researchers say. It has been know that "white" artificial light reduces melatonin production in the pineal gland. However, researchers have now qualified for the first time the degree of suppression depending on a person's exposure to different light sources. The multi-country study, published in the Journal of Environmental Management, compared high pressure sodium (HPS) bulbs, where give off an orange-yellow light and have been used in street lighting, with '...

LG announced it will invest $6.83 billion in green business sectors by 2015. The conglomerate says the investments - in electric vehicle batteries, LED lighting, solar PV and water treatment technologies - will generate $8.4 billion in revenue, while creating 10,000 green jobs around the world. It will also boost business for about 660 small and midsized enterprises in its supply chain. About a third of the investment will be in lithium batteries for electric vehicles (by 2013). It's also planning to get into the solar polysilicon business by 2014. Its LG Chem div...

Exar Corporation unveiled the XRP7618 an 8-channel constant current LED driver. Supporting up to 30V on its LED channel inputs, the XRP7618 is ideally suited to drive up to eight strings of multiple LEDs at currents up to 100mA. Several devices can be cascaded to drive additional channels. Key Product Features With a capability of 100mA per channel and outputs rated at 30V, the XRP7618 can control strings of multiple LEDs with better than +/- 1.5% channel to channel current matching. Multiple channels can be combined to increase current driving capabil...

Luminator congratulates Boeing on delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner. Luminator Aerospace, a preferred supplier, was selected to supply passenger information signs (PAX) and wireless emergency lighting system (WELS) lights and signs. The new LED lighting systems will provide greatly increased efficiency and service life. "The first 787 delivery is a major accomplishment, our design teams have worked closely with Boeing to achieve this and we look forward to the continued success of the program." – Riko Yap, VP Marketing and Business Devel...

Norburn Lighting is proud to introduce the Sōl™ Organic LED Chandelier from WAC Lighting. Sōl™ is an upscale decorative chandelier utilizing Organic LED panels, the world’s most revolutionary nanotechnology light source available today. Sōl™ is inherently sustainable, designed around energy efficient and environmentally friendly technology and individually crafted in WAC Lighting’s clean manufacturing campus featuring zero landfill status and inhouse UL Labs. Sōl™ features upgraded ORBEOS OLEDs from OSRAM ...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced its sponsorship of EDN’s Designing with LEDs event during the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) this week at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. The September 27th LED seminar will bring together editors of EDN and EE Times, circuit designers, system architects, LED light designers, device packaging engineers, lighting component designers, academic leaders and the industry’s mover...

Reportedly, German Zweibrüder Optoelectronics has created a gaint flashlight as big as a Volkswagen Golf with an array of 19 high-powered LED lights. The Germans have built a flashlight that is four meters long. That is thirteen feet long in the old money, which marks a world record for the biggest flashlight (electric torch) ever made. It has placed its makers firmly into the Guinness Book of Records. Zweibrüder Optoelectronics designed this giant-sized device as part of the celebrations for the Lichternacht (the Festival of Lights), held in Solingen, i...

Shortly after stopping producing standard incandescent lamps to focus on LEDs and other solid-state lighting products, Toshiba International Corp., has set up its LED Lighting Systems Division which consists of team of U.S. lighting veterans. Ken Honeycutt, is now senior V.P. of Toshiba International Corp. and chief venture executive for Toshiba. Previously,he spent most of his lighting career with Acuity Brands Lighting, where he rose to the position of CEO. Mark Altomare, V.P. of business development, who was regional V.P. of sales at Hubbell Lig...

Sources inform that recently, Walsin Lihwa Corp. has kick off volume production at an LED-epitaxy venture in Shanxi Province, mainland China. According to the company,the venture is designed to have annual output of 150,000 4-inch epitaxy wafers with 20 MOCVD chambers, estimated to bring in Walsin Lihwa around NT$1.3-1.5 billion (US$43-50 million at US$1:NT$30) in revenue a year.   Walsin Lihwa has spent around US$127 million on the investment of the venture. And the company will see return from its investment in LED industry over the next one to two...

LED venture of US$120 million which has been co-opened by Taiwanese LED makers Epistar, and Lite-On Technology as well as TV maker Konka Group comes on stream in Changzou ,China on Sept. 23, 2011  Epistar has in the dominating position of the venture with a 60% stake. The venture is its first overseas and the biggest in mainland China capable of making epitaxy wafers and chips.Plus, this venture is its first that involves LED packager (Lite-On) and end-product maker (Konka) as co investors. At the same time, Lite-On owns a 30% stake and Konka hold...

Reposts have released that Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) has made a program to provide access to solar photovoltaic (PV) and LED lighting systems for 1,000 households and ten schools in villages in India at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City on September 21st, 2011 . In the meanwhile , the program will expand access to household finance for home solar systems, as well as providing training for entrepreneurs from Africa and Central America to replicate the model in other regions. According to Mark Walker ...

A Richmond manufacturing company was selected to produce a new street light technology that could result in huge energy savings for cities, businesses and individuals around the globe. LAD-JD Lighting of Muncie designed a new patent-pending LED street light that uses 90 percent less energy than current street lights. The Muncie company then stumbled across Richmond's CMJ Corp. -- a Department of Defense contractor -- during Google Internet searches to try to find a nearby manufacturer that could mass-produce the technology. The unit uses just 13 watts of pow...

Silicon Valley is known for computer chips, software companies and social networks -- but not light bulbs. Switch Lighting, a San Jose startup, hopes to change that. Later this fall, the venture capital-backed company plans to release a new line of bulbs aimed at replacing the ones consumers typically use in lamps and other fixtures. Switch's bulbs are among a new generation powered by light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, a technology that many experts bet will finally displace the incandescent bulb that Thomas Edison invented more than a century ago, in part because they&#...

In October, 2010, China’s State Council officially recognized the optoelectronics industry as one of China’s emerging industries of strategic importance, with reference to its sub-industries including new-style display devices and LED. In 2011, the starting year of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, CCID Consulting launched China Optoelectronics Industry Layout White Paper to facilitate China’s central and local governments in their layout planning of the industry, based on CCID Consulting’s analysis of China's optoelectronics in...

Fusion Optix announced today that it has completed a major upgrade to its in-house capabilities at its Woburn MA headquarters. The company is also embarking upon a new hiring program for technical and commercial personnel. Fusion Optix has expanded several processes to produce new products based upon the company’s CORE™ platform of innovations. The new equipment and clean rooms are fully operational and Fusion Optix has already begun sampling production ready products to OEM customers. The upgrades are focused primarily on the company’s line of Energy...

LEDforum, an annual and the largest LED conference in Taiwan, will again bring together the leading manufacturers, materials and component suppliers, technology innovators, and the lighting community. Come and meet the representing elites from Aixtron, Delta, Epistar, Everlight, Henkel, KLA-Tencor, Merck, OSRAM, Philips Lumileds, ULVAC and Veeco. Don't miss your opportunity to network and learn from this international gathering event.