2016-03-01

Samsung Scales up Investment in New OLED TV Fab

Our friends at OLEDinfo have compiled news from several Korean sources confirming total investments in Samsung’s upcoming OLED TV panel fab might be higher than previous reports, and sheds light on the OLED technology the company will be utilizing.
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2016-03-01

NDRC Sheds Light on DOE New Proposed Light Bulb Energy Efficiency Standards

Noah Horowitz is a senior scientist in NRDC's energy program gives an in-depth review of the latest DOE light bulb energy efficiency standards and its impact in the U.S. market.
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2016-03-01

Vac-Con Selects Orion Lighting for Major Facility Expansion

Orion Energy Systems, Inc. , a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance, energy-efficient retrofit lighting platforms, today announced Vac-Con®, Inc., a Florida-based manufacturer, has again selected Orion lighting for a major facility expansion. The project features a combination of first and second generation HARRIS LED High Bays.
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2016-03-01

KAD Aerospace Introduces New LED Anti-collision Light for Aircraft

KAD Aerospace Inc., together with Whelen Engineering Company of Chester, Conn., is pleased to announce the new 90777 Hyperion/Orion LED Position/Anti-Collision Light and the new Hyperion/Orion STC for Beechcraft King Air and 1900C aircraft.
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2016-03-01

Lumileds to Unveil New Mid Power LED Breakthroughs in March

Lumileds kicks off Mid Power March, a month-long event to introduce a variety of mid power products that feature breakthrough performance and unmatched product reliability. “Since we first entered the mid power market in 2012, our focus has been to offer mid power LEDs with a performance edge over our competitors,” said Lumileds Senior VP of Sales & Marketing Emmanuel Dieppedalle. “Part of that edge has come from leveraging our leading high power technologies for the mid power market. Mid Power March is all about showcasing the many breakthroughs we’ve made and are making in application-optimized mid power LED development.”
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2016-03-01

Instrument Systems Showcases New Gonionphotometer at Light & Building 2016

With a view to future energy-efficient lighting solutions in buildings, at Light & Building 2016, Stand 4.1/K 89 Instrument Systems will be showcasing its LGS 350 goniophotometer to demonstrate applications for the highly accurate and fast testing of medium-sized LED modules according to the EU Eco-Design Directive.
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2016-02-26

Hot Picks of the Week Feb.22-26

There has been quite some activity in the Middle East and African lighting markets lately. One of Middle East’s largest LED installation projects has been rolled out by Dubai this week, and under the government project 160,000 LED light bulbs will be installed in 2,000 new houses. In Africa, the Zambian government’s decision to phase out incandescent bulbs has encouraged local LED manufacturer The Zambia Electrometer to scale up annual LED bulb production by four times to 2 million LED bulbs.
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2016-02-26

Cree Launches New Brand Essentia by Cree with 90+ LPW Products

Cree announces Essentia® by Cree, a new brand of commercial lighting products that offer a broad range of high quality lighting solutions at a great value.  Created in response to market demand, Essentia by Cree branded products will meet industry competitive efficacy of 90+ LPW and color temperatures between 2700k and 5000k that customers have come to expect from Cree as the leading LED lighting technology supplier. This new brand compliments market leading Cree branded lighting products and provides the industry with more high quality lighting that leverage Cree’s market leading LED capabilities.
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2016-02-26

EGAT launches campaign to help Thailand save energy by giving away 2,000 “Label no. 5” LED bulbs for FREE with a total value over 230,000 baht

EGAT continues to move forward in its campaign to promote energy saving through a new initiative in which the public is asked to bring in their old bulbs or tubes and have them exchanged for one of the new EGAT label 5 watt LED bulbs. EGAT will give away a total of 2,000 bulbs, one per household, with a total value of 230,000 baht at LED Expo & Thailand Energy Saving Week 2016, which will be held on 19-22 April 2016 at Hall 4-8, IMPACT Exhibition & Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand.
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2016-02-26

Russian Physicists Make Breakthrough in Applying Copper Nanophotonic Components in Photonic Devices

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have for the first time experimentally demonstrated that copper nanophotonic components can operate successfully in photonic devices - it was previously believed that only gold and silver components have the required properties for this. Copper components are not only just as good as components based on noble metals, but, unlike them, they can easily be implemented in integrated circuits using industry-standard fabrication processes. "This is a kind of revolution - using copper will solve one of the main problems in nanophotonics," say the authors of the paper. The results have been published in the scientific journal Nano Letters.
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2016-02-26

Xicato Adds Five New Modules and Core Arrays to its Product Portfolio

Xicato, a leading manufacturer of intelligent light sources, today announced the immediate availability of five new Xicato Thin Modules (XTM) and Xicato Core Arrays (XCA) in Artist Series® and Vibrant Series® V95, high fidelity color. The new LED light sources generate 2000 lumens of extremely high quality light from a surface just 9mm in diameter, enabling high levels of illumination and very tight beam control from a very small aperture fixture.
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2016-02-26

Elemental LED Forges Partnership with Lighting Consulting Agency to Provide Diode LED Products

Elemental LED, a leading U.S. based engineering and technology company that manufactures LED lighting solutions announced today a partnership with sales agency Lightspec that extends the Diode LED product brand into upstate New York. Elemental LED and its wholesale and manufacturing division, Diode LED provides a wide variety of superior quality linear, task, and accent LED lighting solutions for both residential and commercial applications.
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2016-02-26

Scientists Improves Graphene Electronic Properties with Common Glass

Graphene, the two-dimensional powerhouse, packs extreme durability, electrical conductivity, and transparency into a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon. Despite being heralded as a breakthrough “wonder material,” graphene has been slow to leap into commercial and industrial products and processes.
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2016-02-26

Media Facades Worldwide Shine Digital and Envrionment Friendly Light with LEDs

Media façade redefine the way we think of public art. With advancement in LED technology, media façades of all shapes and sizes have been popping up in major cities around the globe in the last decade. Looking to showcase events and attract customers, businesses are jumping on the digital illumination bandwagon to rejuvenate neighbourhoods and enliven city centers worldwide.
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2016-02-26

Columbia Lighting Releases New LED Troffer For Restricted Plenum Spaces

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today that Columbia Lighting has launched a LED version of its famous Zero Plenum® Troffer, the unique high performance luminaire for restricted plenum spaces.
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2016-02-26

Tracer Launches Leak Detection Kit with UV LED Flashlight

Finding leaks fast and efficiently in trucks, buses, refrigerated transport vehicles, tractor trailers and small vans is necessary to avoid breakdowns and interrupted service. Tracer Products saves technicians time and money on repairs with the TP-8657HD OPTI-PRO™ Plus/EZ-Ject™ Heavy Duty Kit, which easily pinpoints all refrigerant and fluid leaks quickly and easily.
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2016-02-25

Residents in North Carolina Capital Request Dimmer and Warmer Colored LED Lights

Crisp white LED streetlights rolled out by European and American cities have not always been welcomed by local residents, many have complained about its strong glare and unforgivingly powerful light beams streaming through windows that have been compared to transforming living rooms into football fields by upset residents.
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2016-02-25

Tridonic Reaches Settlement with AOC International on Silicate-based White LED Patent Lawsuit

Tridonic Jennersdorf GmbH, a subsidiary of Tridonic GmbH & Co KG, Dornbirn and part of the Zumtobel Group, has entered into a settlement agreement with the AOC International (Europe) B.V. and AOC International (Europe) GmbH for the use of silicate-based white LEDs. 
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2016-02-25

NEMA Business Conditions Indexes Downed in February

NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America fell back in February, dropping to 44.4 from 50 the previous month as more panelists reported conditions eroded than improved. Compared to January, smaller shares of the survey panel reported both that business conditions improved (22% in February compared to 41% in January) and that they deteriorated (33% in February compared to 41% in January). A plurality of panelists (44%) claimed conditions were unchanged in February. A considerably smaller 18% held this view a month ago.
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2016-02-25

Shuji Nakamura Co-founded Company SoraaLaser to Launch Laser Light Source for Specialty Lighting

SoraaLaser, a world leader in commercialization of visible laser light sources, will present its innovative light source technology at Strategies in Light conference, March 1-3, in Santa Clara, CA. These advanced light sources feature unique performance properties such as collimated output and waveguide delivery, and provide compelling advantages over LED, OLED, and legacy sources in specialty lighting.
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2016-02-25

Cree Achieves LED Efficacy Breakthrough with 25% Lumens per Watt Increase

Cree, Inc. records another LED industry first with the demonstration of a single high-power LED delivering nearly 1,600 lumens at 134 lumens-per-watt (LPW) with similar color quality as an incandescent light bulb. With this result, Cree achieved a breakthrough 25 percent increase in lumens per watt (LPW) over production LEDs of similar color quality under operating conditions found in real-world LED lighting applications. This important milestone coupled with Cree’s latest SC5 Technology™ platform will lead to LED systems with increased performance, lower cost and better light.
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2016-02-25

Ford's Automotive Lamps Improves Efficiency and Enhances Aesthetics

‧Ford Motor Company lighting innovations are guided by human psychology, as lighting inconsistencies and contrast irregularities can cause irritability and even depression ‧First debuting on Ford F-150 pick-up, and now available on the new Ford Fusion, the automaker’s Crystal Diamond Light is designed to disperse broad, even lighting that can help reduce irritability while improving efficiency by up to 62 percent – lowering cost and enhancing aesthetics ‧Interior lighting designed with the human eye in mind to offer optimal light perception and good contrast for night vision; because men and women see colors differently, the shade must be universally accepted by the color cones of both sexes
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2016-02-25

NTL Lemnis Adds Scoop Spot Light to Product Portfolio

NTL Lemnis, the LED Lighting solutions company has launched an innovative product “Pharox Scoop Spot light”.  Pharox Scoop has a sleek and unique design for enhancing décor of any retail space.
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2016-02-25

See-through Installations Using OLED Technology from Planar Won Clear Concept Awards

Planar, a Leyard company and global leader in display and digital signage technology, today announced that Fivestone Studios has won the Clear Concept Awards for its innovative use of a Planar® LookThru™ OLED transparent display, which makes it possible to create truly see-through installations that allow consumers to view physical products or spaces behind a display.
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2016-02-25

Griplock Systems Launches New LED Pendant Range without Power Cord

Griplock® Systems, LLC, a market leader in the cable suspension industry since 1992, introduces the most cutting-edge solution for LED fixtures - the Solimar™ Powered Suspension System.  Solimar™ is the latest in the line of powered suspension systems from Griplock® Systems, which began with the patented Rincon™, a single-conductor system utilizing CordFree™ technology for linear fixtures, light boxes, and multi-pendant LED fixtures requiring multiple connectors.
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2016-02-24

Tridonic and Panasonic Sign LED Light Source Patent License Agreement

Panasonic Corporation, Japan, Panasonic Lighting Europe , Germany and Tridonic, a leading manufacturer of lighting components and part of the Zumtobel Group of Austria, today announced that they have entered into a patent license agreement. With this agreement the parties grant each other a license to use certain patents in the field of lighting electronics, mainly in the field of control and operation of LED light sources. The specific terms of the settlement will remain confidential.
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2016-02-24

Zambian Government Incandescent Bulb Phase Out Spurs Local Manufacturer to Raise LED Bulb Production

The Zambia Electrometer has raised its LED bulb production to 2 million per year following the Zambian government’s decision to ban incandescent bulb imports, according to a report from the Times of Zambia.
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2016-02-24

Simon and Acuity Brands Kicks off Pilot Smart Parking Lot Lighting Projects in Atlanta and Florida

Simon announced that it is conducting a pilot program in conjunction with Acuity Brands that will employ outdoor LED lighting systems to monitor parking lot vehicle counts and occupancy data to facilitate the efficient management of traffic and parking. The pilot will be conducted at Lenox Square in Atlanta, GA and Florida Mall in Orlando, Florida.
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2016-02-24

Lumileds Launches Next-Gen LUXEON CoB Core Range with Breakthrough in Efficacy

Today Lumileds introduces its third generation of Chip on Board (CoB) arrays, the LUXEON Core Range (Gen 3), extending its market leadership in the CoB space with a breakthrough in efficacy. With the LUXEON CoB Core Range (Gen 3), luminaire designers can enjoy 10% higher efficacy at constant flux compared to previous generations.
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2016-02-24

Miami Heat Lights up Xfinity East Plaza with LED Displays

In this NanoLumens blog entry, Arch Nelson, the company’s Regional Sales Director for Southeast of U.S., shares why the NBA team Miami Heat has chosen it's LED displays to be installed in the American Airlines Arena in Florida, U.S..
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