Translucent, Inc., has designed a proprietary GaN-on-Si wafer template with embedded DBR mirrors for low-cost LED growth application. With its new embedded silicon solution (Mirrored Si™), LEDs can now be grown directly on top of the GaN-on-Si template that includes an embedded DBR mirror, directly lattice matched to the silicon substrate. On top of this DBR mirror is a layer of proprietary patented Rare Earth Oxide (REO), which allows GaN to cap the template and does not require subsequent removal of the substrate. At present, the company i...

Novaled recently makes a breakthrought on white OLED with light output of 60 lm/W at a brightness of 1,000 cd/m2. According to the company,  these LED have 100,000 hours lifetime at an initial brightness of 1,000 cd/m2 while using commercially available fluorescent blue emitting material. The color rendering index  is also tested high of 87 for these LEDs. A very broad light emission spectrum and good CIE color coordinates (0.470/0.429) were achieved, which is close to illuminant A and inside the US Department of Energy  quadrangles meeting the DO...

According to Philips, there may be a promising future for ambient lighting in glowing walls, therefore the company has scheduled to wallpapers containing integrated LEDs. The luminous sound-absorbing textiles would glow in variety of colors to cater to he user's requirements. Philips is collaborating with customizable acoustic panels Denmark-based anufacturer Kvadrat Soft Cells to evelop the luminous wallpaper panels. Soft Cells acoustic panels are flexible and can be tailored to fit a wide variety of interiors. The Philips' LED illuminated texture wallpape...

Longmont-based LED lighting company TerraLUX, Inc.has appointed lighting industry veteran Mark Verheyen as President and CEO, effective July 11, 2011. It’s said that started from his lighting career in sales and management roles at Osram, Verheyen has more than 20 years of sales and senior management experience in the lighting industry. Before joined TerraLUX, he most recently served as Senior Vice President of International Sales & Business Development at Universal Lighting Technologies, a division of Panasonic. Prior to that, Verheyen he...

FZLED, maker of high-performance LED lighting products, is excited to announce extremely high customer-satisfaction levels and exceptional growth. FZLED has been expanding quickly with consumers embracing their numerous lines of high-quality LED bulbs that offer dust-free lighting and several innovative options, like their easy-to-operate on/off switch-dimming feature. To date, FZLED boasts customers in many countries including the UK, Canada, France, South Africa, the UAE, and the United States. Because of the popularity of FZLED’s products, the ...

More light in the long run •    Junction temperature and thermal management of High Brightness LEDs (HMLEDs) optimized •    Fraunhofer Institute completes tests on substrates In close collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) Heraeus has continued to work on the design optimization of its SCB substrates for LEDs. Quite apart from the results already gained in the field of short duration LED applications, the focus this time was put on applications of a longer duration. ...

Recently, Uwe Strauss from Osram Opto Semiconductors has demonstrated  the company’s improved green laser performance that are fabricated on the conventional plane of GaN,at the ninth International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors. According to Strauss , these lasers will target pico-projectors, where they can combine with red and blue equivalents to provide a lighting source with a small footprint that is free from a focusing element. Strauss introduce that the green source in a pico-projector producing a 100 lumen brightness must meet the requirements as...

Philips has formed it’s first Lighting Experience Center (LEC) in Asia, to show how light can be used in various urban environments. The center is located in Singapore,and is spread over 4,640 square feet ,targeting to how light can be optimized in outdoor areas and retail environments.

Dialight has designed its fourth-generation LED-based L-864 Red Medium Intensity Beacon certified for Class I, Division 2 hazardous locations use. In contrast to traditional Xenon and incandescent units for lighting chimney stacks, cooling towers or wind turbines in hazardous locations, the Class I, Div 2 L-864 Red Beacon at just under 9 inches high and weighing only 20 pounds, offers significantly less wind load and is highly resistant to shock and vibration. Operating at just 20 watts, the L-864 is more than 90 percent more efficient than incandescent technology...

Elemental LED has added aluminum channels aimed at satisfying demand for stylish LED strip light installation options. The aluminum channels can be available in cabinet installations, display cases and for architectural accent lighting. Alternatively, channels can be used in conjunction with LED strip light in nearly any situation requiring more durability or the style of a sturdy fixture. According to the company,pairing an aluminum channel with the appropriate strip light choice enables customers to build the perfect fixture for almost any project. The Aluminum Cha...

ESI, Inc.has released its most advanced LED wafer scribing system, the AccuScribe 2600 and shows it at the SEMICON(R) West exhibition in San Francisco. with patented, industry-leading technology, ESI's AccuScribe 2600 targets to cater to customer requirements for LED  manufacturing, including Patterned Sapphire Substrate (PSS), Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR), Metal Mirror (MM) and other advanced light extraction technologies....

Seattle City has benefited from tens of thousands more new LED lightings and saved the city $300,000 ,according to City Councilmember Bruce Harrell and City Light Superintendent Jorge Carrasco. City Light has started work on the second phase of installing LED streetlights throughout the residential neighborhoods in its service territory. The utility installed 6,000 lights last year between the Ship Canal and North 65th Street. Contractors will install 12,000 LED streetlights this year from North 65th Street to the north end of City Light’s service ...

Broad Portfolio Simplifies Supply Chain Complexity; Value-Added Solutions Achieve High-Efficiency System Performance With the increasing popularity of LED lighting applications, designers face challenges ranging from design complexity and the need for high system efficiency to limited PCB space and the management of multiple vendors to meet all of their design requirements. To address these challenges, Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, offers a broad portfolio of LED lighting ...

LumiGrow, Inc.,the provider of LED lighting solutions for horticulture, has received an undisclosed sum in Series A financing from Clean Pacific Ventures, to accelerate the market expansion of energy-efficient LumiGrow® lighting solutions for commercial agriculture and horticultural research. Clean Pacific Ventures' General Partner and Chief Investment Officer Sean Schickedanz will join LumiGrow's Board of Directors. Generally, greenhouse growers supplement sunlight with high-intensity discharge  lighting to boost crop growth and extend grow...

According to Hi Score Corporation , its Board of Directors has decided to restart its efforts to pursue sales in the ever growing Energy Saving LED Streetlight market. The decision to resume attention in this direction comes after months of ensuring corporate integrity as the company adjusted to the acquisition of DMD Lighting and Energy Control Systems. The company is very optimistic about the future. COO of Hi Score and CEO of DMD, Dominick Falso, believed that the Energy Saving Streetlight Market was huge and they had opportunities to sell milli...

Reportedly, Ireland’s Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock T.D., has set up InfiniLED Ltd of Cork, Ireland, a spin-off from Tyndall National Institute, UCC (University College Cork), as a development and production company for next-generation LEDs. InfiniLED is based on Micro LED (µLED) technology invented by a team of researchers led by Brian Corbett in the III-V Materials and Devices group of Tyndall National Institute, supported and funded by Enterprise Ireland (EI). With free-standing gallium nitride (G...

Creating a celebration of light, lighting designer Paul Cocksedge used 80 ETC Selador® Classic Ice™ LED fixtures in an exhibition space as part of the Salone del Mobile home furnishing exhibition in Milan, Italy. The project involved projecting light from the blue part of the color spectrum from concealed Selador fixtures onto an 82-foot-long, curved white wall extension of a lighting showroom in the heart of Milan’s design district. When visitors viewed the wall through a red light shade, a previously hidden video of a car appeared to the viewer. C...

Illumitex recently has developed Surexi LEDs to accelerate plant growth while promoting maximum plant size and vitality. According to Illumitex ,the Surexi is the only LED on the market that includes a custom light spectra in a single LED package, eliminating the colour separation issues inherent in other horticulture LED lighting. Utilising Illumitex’s patented square light pattern and precision beam control, Surexi LEDs produce unrivalled edge-to-edge light uniformity while ensuring all plants receive the same amount of light – leading to more unifo...

Reportedly, Samsung LED and the Korea Photonics Technology Institute (KOPTI) signed an agreement to enhance the development of LED lighting technology On 30 June 2011. Combines with Samsung LED’s rich experience in the LED business,and the assets that KOPTI has obtained over many years such as technical skills, highly skilled researchers and equipment, both organisations are aiming to obtain global competitiveness.  ...

It’s reported that Precision Flow Technologies (PFT) ,the provider of outsource manufacturing, gas and chemical handling equipment, has been awarded $1.5 million from New York State Energy Research and Development (NYSERDA). This NYSERDA award will be used to help the company expand its capacity to manufacture solar thin-film and LED production equipment. NYSERDA has started to provide funding to help New York State companies develop or expand facilities to manufacture innovative renewable, clean energy or energy efficient products since 2...

USHIO INC. has kicked off shipping the world's first 200-mm wafer full-field projection lithography tool "UX4-LEDs FFPL 200" for manufacturing High-Brightness LED chips. Additionally, the company has completed development of the laser lift-off system "UX4-LEDs LLO 150" for volume manufacturing of vertical-structure LED chips. These latest models of the UX4-LEDs are based on the same platform as USHIO's field-proven UX series, which has an installed base of more than 1,100 systems. They will be exhibited thro...

Newly, Kyocera Corporation has developed the KVL-G3 Series LED-UV curing system, a key component in industrial printing machines. Combined with LED techology, the new product achieves a 70% reduction in power consumption compared to existing lamp-system products (metal halide). In addition, thanks to Kyocera's proprietary high-density packaging technologies, the company has succeeded in arranging LED chips on a high-density surface as opposed to in-line conventional products. With this development, Kyocera has enabled the fastest label printing capability...

RoseStreet Labs, (RSL), has utilized low cost silicon wafer substrates to develop  the world's first long wavelength LED device. The RSL longer wavelength device is fabricated utilizing commercial scale deposition tools at RSL's Nitride Research Center in Phoenix, Arizona. In contrast to the more traditional sapphire or silicon carbide substrates typically utilized in LED fabrication, silicon substrates have a substantial cost advantage. Green or longer wavelength nitride based LEDs are very challenging to fabricate compared to UV and Blue ...

BenQ has introduced its new L-Series LED TV to the Middle East with several new features. The new TV comes in a simple yet elegant design with its high-gloss, crystal black display. It is power-packed with a Reflection Defense Panel that reduces reflections caused by other light sources in the room and Senseye – a BenQ-exclusive lifelike digital image enhancement technology that delivers 28 independent color calibrations. The L-Series LED TV also provides 27.3% more contrast in comparison to other TVs. In particular,it has the Smart On/Off featu...

Advanced RenewableEnergy Company (ARC Energy), specializing in innovative c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting, has announced to ship its 100th CHES Furnace,which is highly automated “c-axis” growth furnaces that are used to produce sapphire boules. Cores from these crystals are turned into LED wafers, and finally into the High Brightness and Ultra-High Brightness LED chips that are used in LED backlighting, general lighting, and automotive and signage applications. Besides, ARC Energy...

The Galleria Centercity shopping mall in Cheonan of Korea has been a new landscape with more than 22,000 LED lighting. This huge building is visible from afar as one reaches the end of the journey to Cheonan, located 80 km from Seoul. The vast 12,600 m2 media façade is huge. Dynamic light shows produced by more than 22,000 LED lighting points wrap the structure in a shimmering skin that stands out impressively against its urban setting. The high-power LED spotlights developed by luminaire manufacturer Zumtobel are designed to merge almost imperceptibly in...

As the argument among Osram, Samsung,LG has grown sharply, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to institute an investigation. Including Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (and Samsung Electronics America Inc of Ridgefield Park, NJ), Samsung LED Co Ltd (and Samsung LED America Inc of Atlanta, GA); as well as LG Electronics Inc (and LG Electronics USA Inc of Englewood Cliffs, NJ) and LG Innotek Co Ltd (and LG Innotek USA Inc of San Diego, CA) involved in this investigation. Early on June, O...

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a supplier of innovative laser-based manufacturing solutions for the microtechnology industry, will show off  its new and expanded suite of LED manufacturing systems and applications at Semicon West 2011 be held in San Francisco on July 12-14. According to Nick Konidaris, president and CEO of ESI, "ESI has long been recognized as a pioneer and innovator of breakthrough technologies for laser-based LED manufacturing processes. In working closely with our LED customers, ESI has developed revolutionary systems t...

Samsung Electronics Philippines Corp., has released Samsung SyncMaster SA950 3D LED monitor,featuring real-life 3D pictures,elegance of nature , Eco Motion Sensor and a “zero-bright spot” guarantee serves. According to the company, it is capable of showing real-life 3D pictures by adopting 3D HyperReal Engine, the reaction is particularly fast, enabling the monitor to produce vivid 3D images without dizziness. The new product is equipped with Ultra Clear Panel, which enhances color contrast for sharper images. Secondly, the new LED monitor is...

Recently, Lighting Science Group, has celebrated a production milestone with the production of a total two million LED light bulbs. Management’s looking ahead with optimism, evidenced by a doubling of its workforce to 400 in 2010. In addition, the company also has developed a partnership with Dixon Technologies which grants the latter exclusive rights to distribute LSG’s products in India. Jim Haworth, LSG’s CEO,announced that “Our entry into China earlier in the year and now India is an indication of what’s to come for Lighting Sc...