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.

LED products makers are organising a two-day exhibition here from tomorrow to create awareness and promote usage of LED in the country. According to LED Manufacturers Association (LEDMA), the demand for packaged LED and LED products in the country stands at $ 1 billion and is expected to reach $ 35 billion by 2020. "LEDs are finding more and more application in signals, signage/displays, automobiles, Back Lighting Units (BLUs) for TV, monitors and mobiles," LEDMA President M V Ramana Rao said. He added that their main thrust is ...

According reports from Nichia, Tokyo District Court has issued a provisional injunction order, fully in favor of Nichia in the case where Nichia filed provisional injunction action on September 6, 2010 at Tokyo District Court to enjoin Tsannkuen Japan, a sub Nichia sidiary of a Taiwanese company, from infringing Nichia's patent. The infringed patent is one of Nichia's patents concerning the technology of combining photo-luminescent material with blue LED, and is employed in many white LED products that combine photo-luminescent material with blue LED. ...

Recently, Philips has rolled out three robust, high-performance LED inspection lamps: a penlight, a LED inspection lamp on 240 V or 24 V, and a LED inspection lamp with docking station. These lamps provide high light output to illuminate confined dark spaces, for instance when servicing a motor vehicle engine. Penlight (battery-driven) The compact, cable-free penlight is particularly user-friendly. Six high-powered LEDs provide a bluish light with an intensity of 120 lux. The LED pointer on the pen tip illuminates the working area precisely with 85 lux. The pe...

North Seattle, LED Company SolidApollo.com announces their Constant Current LED Light Strip designed to be installed in linked runs without the noticeable lumen degradation found in traditional linked LED Light Strips. The LED strip allows for longer runs with just one power source applied every 60 feet. The Constant Current LED Light Strip also provides the most stable light output of its kind, making installation more versatile for designers and installers alike. Solid Apollo provider of LED Lighting Solutions has designed a LED lighting solutio...

Baja Designs, Inc. the leader in off road lighting since 1992 is excited to announce the latest light in their LED lineup. The Squadron utilizes four CREE XML LEDs - the brightest, most efficient LEDs on the market to give you a blinding 3600 lumens. Alan Roach, engineer and Baja racer said: “You have to see this thing, the spot really gets out there but has nice side lighting and the driving pattern is incredible.” The light and optics were designed in-house by their experienced staff of engineers and racers. This light weighs in at a svelte 12 ounces ...

ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, has expanded its portfolio of Constant Current Regulators (CCRs) to include the NSI50350A. This simple and extremely robust device is designed to provide a thermally efficient and cost-effective alternative to passive/discrete components or driver integrated circuit (IC) solutions for current regulation of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). The device is ideal for a variety of 1 watt (W) lighting applications including automotive, architectural l...

New architectural LED fixture for large indoor spaces brings high design consistency and fast ROI through energy and maintenance cost savings Lumenpulse Inc. , a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced the release and immediate availability of the Lumenbeam LBX (Xlarge) Pendant.  Developed for large interior spaces such as lobbies, atriums, convention centers and more the Lumenbeam LBX Pendant offers a greener, cost effective and d...

Grid Lay-In Fixture Integrates Seemlessly with Adura Technologies Wireless Control Platform   Lunera® Lighting, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, announced today the commercial availability of Lunera’s first Adura Technologies-enabled luminaire, the 2240 SERIES. Based on Lunera’s award winning two-foot by two-foot architectural grid lay-in and surface mountable 2200 SERIES fixture, the 2240 SERIES comes equipped with a factory-installed Adura LC-1RD wireless...

At ISAL in Darmstadt (September 26 to 28, 2011) OSRAM Opto Semiconductors will be showcasing two new LED prototypes for headlights in the shape of the OSLON Black Flat and the OSRAM OSTAR Headlamp Pro. Both combine new chip and package technologies and are equipped with a ceramic converter. Their strengths include high light output even at high currents, a uniform light pattern, thermal stability and a particularly good contrast ratio. More and more flexibility is needed for the light sources used in headlights, the “eyes” of any vehicle....

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is proud to announce that products from its Winona® Lighting unit, a leader in custom luminaire design and manufacturing, have been included as part of the National September 11 Memorial at New York’s Ground-Zero. The Memorial was architecturally designed to feature twin reflecting pools marking the exact footprints of the fallen towers. The pools are illuminated by 1500 feet of Winline™ 607 LED Submersible luminair...

Power backup solutions player Luminous Power Technologies has launched a LED based solar lighting product that it hopes would emerge as a low cost solution for rural home lighting requirements. The energy-efficient LED-based design of the new product with a single light output is on par with an 11W CFL and can be termed as single solution for daily household lighting needs, a statement from the company said. It offers uniform and constant bright light output over the entire battery voltage range and is specially designed for maximum energy harvesting from connected sola...

Report releases that Lighting Science Group has supplied LED bulbs for over a quarter of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 houses.   Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Old Dominion University and Hampton University, Middlebury College, The Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology, and Florida International University have spent nearly two years creating houses that blend affordability, consumer appea...

WAC Lighting's new Impulse uses an integrated multi-chip LED spot or low-voltage MR16 lamps.  Robustly engineered from solid die-cast aluminum, Impulse is a thermally efficient luminaire offering architectural lighting options. Additional optical beam spread and color temperature selections make this luminaire an all-in-one choice for lighting professionals. The Energy Star compliant luminaire uses a 12-watt multi-chip LED that offers a 50,000-hour potential life from ANSI compliant warm/neutral bins for optimal color consistency. Multi-chip technology imp...

Power Integrations has a reference design for an 85%-efficient, 15W PAR38 downlight driver that it claims will deliver flicker-free dimming without the use of electrolytic bulk capacitors. Based around the firm’s LNK405EG LED driver IC, it is designed to provide flicker-free performance across a broad range of triac dimmers. Typical TRIAC dimmers were designed for incandescent lights that use an order of magnitude more power than LED lights of equivalent lumen output. According to the supplier, the low current requirement of LED lights, especially...

CCFL T8 tube with embedded ballast Directly replacing T8 tube, do not need to remove ballast Amazing Comfortable: Over Ra 85 Peak Durable: Lifespan over 50,000 hours, Switch on/off times over 100,000 times Super Healthy: UV-cut It is ideal for any indoor places where need comfortable lighting which like office, hospital, school, retail store and other commercial places. ...

Infineon Technologies AG has introduced a family of switch-mode LED driver ICs for a broad range of general lighting applications. The LED drivers combine thermal protection with output currents that range from 350mA up to several amps. The range has an integrated power stage, or can be used with an external power MOSFET, and achieve up to 98 percent efficiency, Infineon said. Applications range from MR16 halogen replacement to residential and commercial lighting, and street lighting. The drivers include support for both the analog and pulse width modulation m...

Gem Hsin, master of cool design and creative products, has launched the new Albite LED Home Lighting Series, featuring a floor lamp, wall lamp and ceiling lamp: albite.stand, albite.line and albite.sky, respectively. With the new Albite series, Gem Hsin is introducing an innovative new concept in LED home lighting, highly functional LED lamps that suit a wide range of home types, combining LED lighting seamlessly with the user's living space. The new Albite series of LED home lamps is different from older LED products. Competing LED lights use higher-...

Officials of the Guangdong Provincial Government stated that they are working towards the goal that by 2015, LED lighting will make up 30% of the interior lighting in Guangdong. Street lighting is the breaking point for the government to popularize LED lighting: in the next two years, there will be over 600 thousand LED street lamps lightening up the night sky of the Pearl River Delta. The government will implement the LED plan starting in 2012 and aims to increase the penetration rate of LED in interior lighting to 30% by 2015. At the moment, there are 200 tho...

2230 SERIES, 6430 SERIES and 6830 SERIES Designed for Low Voltage DC Control Systems Lunera® Lighting, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, announced today the commercial availability of Lunera’s luminaires to be factory configured for compatibility with Redwood Systems control solutions. By using Lunera’s new fixture series in tandem with the Redwood Systems low voltage lighting control and building intelligence platform, the combined system will provide facility manager...

New energy efficiency standards, set to become effective as of January 1st, 2012, are expected to phase out incandescent lightbulbs. Although the law does not expressly ban the use of incandescent lightbulbs, it does require lightbulbs to be 25 to 30 percent and at least 60 percent more efficient by 2014 and 2020, respectively, which will effectively eliminate the bulbs falling short of the standards. However, specialty bulbs, three-way bulbs, chandelier bulbs, refrigerator bulbs, plant grow lights and others will not be restricted by the new law. A lot of consumers are not happy ...

LED lighting manufacturer Evluma announces the renewal of its Sales and Marketing Agreement with Service Concepts. As part of the new agreement Service Concepts will work with Evluma to provide exclusive distribution for Evluma’s first Commercial and Industrial LED product, the soon to be released 50W Omnipar. Service Concepts is owned by 30 Midwest utilities and serves as a supplier to hundreds more. Evluma and Service Concepts have been working together to promote the Clearlight outdoor LED retrofits to the co-op market since July 2009. “Give...

LumiGrow, Inc., the leader in LED-based horticultural lighting solutions, announced today that it will provide energy-efficient illumination for Green Winter Farm, an indoor farm in Palmer, Alaska. LumiGrow LED lighting solutions will enable Green Winter Farm to grow vegetables with half the energy consumption and cost required by current farming methods. A family of four in Palmer, Alaska spends an average of $1,300 more on groceries each year than does the same-size Portland, Oregon family, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extensio...