Netherlands based Lemnis Lighting’s Pharox 300 LED light bulb was named "Best of the Test" by the Dutch Consumers' Union. According to the company, the test, conducted in October 2011, pitted the 6-watt Pharox 300 against five other LED bulbs readily available in Europe. The Pharox bulb scored ten out of ten on four of the test's ten criteria: light output, light color, lifetime, and turning directly on. The results are significant because, while a small market, the Netherlands are particularly interested in LED technology, having been ...

Lately, Shenzhen Spark Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd has won the "semiconductor lighting technology and energy efficient products industry project" supported by the National Development and Reform Commission, which was included into the 2011 central budget investment plans. The supported projects from the central budget for investment in energy-saving plans mainly focus on engineering, circular economy and resource conservation demonstration projects and a major focus of industrial pollution control projects.   The commitment "semiconductor lightin...

Recently, Researchers from Dresden's University of Technology (TU Dresden) have made a breakthrough on a highly efficient white top-emitting OLED design that feature "outstanding" color quality, and is compatible with flexible OLEDs. In this new design a refractive index matched microlens film was laminated to the top-emitting OLED to form direct optical contact. It has a CRI of 93, CIE coordinates of (0.472, 0.430) and an emission from 410 to 750 nm that almost spans the complete visible spectrum (380 to 780 nm). The efficiency is up to 30 lm/W...

Recently, Taiwan's Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), has released a report on LED industry scale in 2011. Taiwan remains world's biggest in LED industry scale in 2011, despite lower-than-expected market growth.   As the eurozone's debt problems dragged down demand, the output value of the global LED market grew by only 2.6 percent to US$16.6 billion (NT$502.48 billion) this year from US$16.1 billion in 2010. In terms of regional performance, Taiwan still topped the market with a total output value of US$4.5...

Pakistan Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has asked the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to first launch a LED street lights pilot project in the city to assess whether the new expensive technology will help achieve the objectives. According to an official, when the directives were given to the CDA, some official are concerned about the huge cost of the project. The estimated cost of the project was over Rs 6 billion and it would cause a huge lose to the national exchequer, in case of a failure. Some high-ups of CDA also showed concern about the main...

Recently, 9-watt Energy Smart LED light bulbs from General Electric are tested in an oven at the lighting group's Nela Park headquarters in East Cleveland, Ohio. Republicans in Congress and Americans have reached a deal to postpone until October enforcement of energy standards that many fear will be the end of 100-watt bulbs and fill stores with those more expensive curlicue fluorescent lightbulbs. Environmentalists thought the delay was not a bright move....

According to Burton Councilman Steve Heffner, a $45,600 state grant will pay to install ballasts and buy LED lights at City Hall and the Department of Public Works and Police Administration buildings. And the grants also will pay to install the fixtures in parking lots outside the building. Additionally, City Controller Ginger Burke-Miller disclosed that approximately $600,000 has been set aside for street lighting in the 2011-2012 budget, an increase of $100,000 from the previous year. The company that did the audit, Macomb Township-based LumaSmart Technolo...

Energy Focus has completed an installation of more than 600 new LED lighting fixtures for USS Chafee (DDG 90). According to a recent Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) press release, "The new fixtures have a minimum 50,000-hour lifespan compared to the 1,000-hour incandescent globes and 7,500-hour fluorescents. The ship is expected to save more than $50,000 per year using the new lights. Savings are expected to exceed $100,000 per ship per year when the scope is expanded to include the T12 fluorescent fixtures. In early 2012, USS Preble (DDG 88) is ...

CSL’s Concealed LED Lighting Sets the Stage for James Wall’s Covered Terrace Installation in Acclaimed Magazine’s Second Showhouse Endeavor   CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting), leaders in energy-efficient LED downlighting and concealed lighting, is featured in ELLE DÉCOR’s 2011 Showhouse, presented as an official satellite exhibit of Design Miami/ during Art Basel from Dec. 3 to Dec. 19. CSL’s 12-V Ultra Compact PDQ Strip Lighting and Invizilite Generation 2 concealed lighting—inclu...

Lemnis Lighting, a leader in sustainable LED lighting technology, announces that the company's Pharox 300 LED light bulb was named "Best of the Test" by the Dutch Consumers' Union (Consumentenbond). The Pharox bulb scored ten out of ten on four of the test's ten criteria: light output, light color, lifetime, and turning directly on. The results are significant because, while a small market, the Netherlands are particularly interested in LED technology, having been early and wide adopters of LED bulbs since 2006. "We know how great the P...

As the LED backlight market entered a plateau period, the lighting market becomes the major battlefield for the global LED makers to compete in. Given the fierce price competition, a number of LED manufacturers have shifted their focus to LED specialty lighting, plant lighting and medical lighting in seek of higher profits. With its vertical LED structure technology, American LED epitaxy manufacturer SemiLEDs developed UV LEDs of the wavelength range below 385nm. Additionally, the company optimized LEDs’ curing characteristics and developed a curin...

As New Year is drawing near, a key number in the countdown has arrived in Times Square on Wednesday. There are 526 advanced LED bulbs consist of the seven-foot-tall number "2" sign. And the number will be swapped out for one of the "1" signs from last year to make 2012. Organizers say the display shows the end of the era of Edison, and the beginning of a more efficient future. As Peter Soares of Phillips Lighting, said "It's an icon for New York, right? But more importantly, it's representation of the future, the lighting future.&q...

San Francisco based Elemental LED has teamed up with the city of Richmond, CA to expanding the REACH (Reduce Energy And Contribute to Humanity) program, which aims to help promote energy conservation in the Bay Area community. On November 29th, REACH conducted a lighting science and energy conservation workshop for the students of the RichmondBUILD green job-training academy to kickoff the new partnership. Established in April 2007, the RichmondBUILD Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Skills and Green Jobs Training Academy creates employme...

San Francisco’s Lemnis Lighting is offering a charitable holiday season twist on traditional “buy one, get one” promotions, to bring solar LED lighting to Rural Zambians. With the promotion of “buy one, give one,” Lemnis is matching every US purchase of its Pharox Solar Kits with a donation to Empowered by Light, a new nonprofit foundation that is delivering renewable energy lighting to schools in rural communities in Africa that do not have access to electricity. Normally, Pharox Solar Kits sell at a manufacturer’s suggested r...

GE Lighting Solutions, part of the GE -- Appliances & Lighting business unit of General Electric Company, has announced the settlement of a patent infringement lawsuit filed in May 2010 against Dongbu Lightec, formerly Fawoo Technology. The settlement terminates a pending action before the court regarding allegations of Dongbu Lightec's infringements of US Patents 6,799,864 and 6,787,999 that cover, among other things, LED lamp heat sink designs and systems and methods for efficiently replacing existing lamps with such designs. The specific terms of th...

Philips LEDs are to light up a dazzling green ball in Times Square to celebrate New Year’s Eve. This year, 32,256 LUXEON LEDs will glitter in a range of colors as the Times Square Ball descends to partiers’ delight.   The LED ball will also welcome the new U.S. energy and lighting standards that go into effect on January 1st, under the Energy Independence and Security Act. But aside from symbolizing the movement into the New Year, the ball drop will also signify Phillip’s next move — to replace the usage of incandescen...

On December 20th, 2011, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (“MCC” "; Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Yoshimitsu Kobayashi), has filed an infringement lawsuit in Seoul Central District Court against a US company, Intematix Corporation and a Korean distributor, GVP, to enjoin them from importing and selling their phosphor products, claiming that they infringe a red phosphor patent in Korea (No. 816693) which is owned by MCC and National Institute of Material Science. The Korean patent No. 816693 (*) relates to a nitride-type red ...

Recently, GE Lighting expects most light bulbs, including the incandescent to be replaced within a decade by LED. Maryrose Sylvester, who was appointed GE’s head of the lighting unit in March, said in an interview, that “People are starting to talk about LEDs for general lighting for indoors. By 2020, about 70 to 80 percent of the general lighting market is going to be enabled by LEDs.” Sylvester pointed out that GE’s lighting unit has doubled its research and development spending on LED technology over the past five years to seize this...

Bridgelux has released a report to show its achievement and confidence in LED Lighting Market. During the past year, the company raised $76M in additional funding, added several noteworthy customers, introduced innovative products and technology and received numerous industry awards. The company's revenue grew an extraordinary 792% from FY 2006 to 2010, and it expects to see an additional 100% year over year growth by the end of 2011. Bill Watkins, Bridgelux's Chief Executive Officer, announced that, "We're seeing significant increases in adoption ...

Carmanah recently has received nearly $400,000 orders for EverGEN 1530 solar LED outdoor lighting system from a nuclear power facility, aiming to increase the security of the site by providing backup safety lighting in the event of a power failure. The solar energy-powered lighting system is designed for industrial-scale applications including parking lot and perimeter lighting, which have the ability to meet the security functions mandated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Additionally, through Lemnis Lighting's "buy one, give one" campaign, s...

EPISTAR LAB announces its highest efficacy with warm white high voltage chipset. With its outstanding efficacy, higher CRI, and competitive lm/$, the solution of direct red platform is widely used in warm white application. Recently, EPISTAR LAB has successfully achieved the warm white efficacy     of 216 lm/W at an operating current of 5 mA and CRI of 87 Ra at CCT of 2700K. Under a typical driving current of 15mA (or about 1 W operation equivalent), the luminous efficacy of 197 lm/W was achieved. EPISTAR LAB’s ...

Screen Master® C4SMT LED Designed with 20 Degree Tilted Viewing Angle Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, extends its high-brightness LED leadership with the commercial availability of the new Screen Master C4SMT and C4SMD 4mm LEDs. The superior brightness and unrivaled far-field pattern matching, combined with industry-leading packaging technology, can enable Cree LED customers to deliver a better viewing experience for their audience and achieve lower system and operating costs than previous generations of LEDs....

Republic Street, Victoria has gotten LED makeover for a new set of Christmas lights taken by the Ministry for Gozo, through the National and Regional Celebrations Committee. It will be spread over three years and the designs were selected after a public call made by the Ministry. The entire project consists of fourteen light valances, with the first seven up this year. All lights used in these designs are LED and each valance consumes only about 750 watts, in line with the eco-Gozo project. “This means that when all the lighting has been completed its con...

Ledzworld Technology, an innovative R&D and manufacturing company of high-end LED retro-fit lamps for professional users, has signed a patent license agreement with Cree Inc.   Cree, Inc. announced on Monday December 19 that it has granted five innovative LED lighting manufacturers licenses to select Cree patents through its recently launched remote phosphor licensing program. By making fundamental remote phosphor patents available through license, Cree is further enabling LED lighting adoption, as Cree innovations facilitate the development of LED lights...

Cree, Inc. announces it has granted five LED lighting manufacturers licenses to select Cree patents through its recently launched remote phosphor licensing program. By making fundamental remote phosphor patents available through license, Cree is further enabling LED lighting adoption, as Cree innovations facilitate the development of LED lights combining remote phosphor optical elements with blue LEDs. “Cree is committed to the development of innovative, energy-efficient LED lighting technology and this program provides access to important technology developed ...

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. has introduced its new PAR20 and PAR30 bulbs to its premium Array LED replacement lamp line.   The Array PAR30, which is equivalent up to a 75 watt halogen bulb, and the PAR20, which is equivalent up to a 50 watt halogen bulb, are both available in 2700 and 3000 degree Kelvin color temperatures and spot, accent, and flood beam spreads. Both bulbs are lightweight, fully dimmable and have been tested by accredited third party laboratories. The lamps suit for track lighting, spot lighting and numerous other accent lighting applications....

TC Interconnect Holdings Limited announced that it has obtained national quality standard certification for LED lighting products. Acquiring such certification is one of the stipulations to bid for Chinese government’s projects. Since the group’s LED road lighting products won the bid of the Project of Three National Ministries, it has obtained the Product Certificate and China Certificate for Energy Conservation Product issued by China Quality Certification Centre (CQC), which is an official recognition to the Group’s LED road lightin...

Recently, UK-based Energy Saving Trust (EST) has conducted a study which measured the performance of more than 4,250 LED light fittings installed at 35 sites in social housing. At the 35 sites in the field trial, the report calculated that the LED fittings saved more than three million kilowatt hours each year when compared with the previous lighting. The technology is also much more energy efficient, using up to 90% less energy than incandescent bulbs. “We like to test things in-situ in order to understand their real performance rather than rely on manufacturer...

Incandescent lights may disappear and LEDs will play a key role in this year's Festival of Lights at the VanDusen Botanical Garden. According to Van-Dusen spokeswoman Nancy Wong,"About eight years ago, the Festival of Lights used 25,000 incandescent lights. Now we have close to 1.4 million [lights] and 85 to 90 per cent of them are LED.The 1.4 million use the same amount of power as the incandescents did because the LEDs use 95-per-cent less power." The annual display, spread over 4.8 hectares (11.8 acres), helped lead the provincewide trend tow...

SiliconCore Technology has launched its breakthrough 1.9mm pitch LED display panel technology with a high integration, low power LED Driver integrated circuit for indoor applications. The device can drive up to 128 RGB (Red-Green-Blue) LED pixels resulting in a drastic component count reduction. The fine pitch technology also pioneers the use of “Common Cathode” RGB LED topology which results in up to 30% reduction in power dissipation and overcomes the overheating issue. Other innovations include ghost image elimination, true 16-bit color, dra...