Recently, enterprises from mainland China such as BOE Technology Group and San’an Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. have privately inquired about corporate details of two Taiwanese LED chip makers, namely Formosa Epitaxy Incorporation (FOREPI) and Lextar, indicating an interest to invest in Taiwan’s LED industry after the lifting of maximum investment by Chinese investors. Chinese operators are interested in Taiwan’s LED epitaxy plants for their advanced technologies, according to institutional investors. Insiders say that the parent compan...

Acuity Brands Expands Portfolio of LED Renovation Solutions with the Introduction of VTLED Relight Assembly Kits from Lithonia Lighting Long-lasting LED technology results in reduced maintenance and disposal costs. The Lithonia Lighting® VTLED Relight assembly kits from Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) feature long-lasting LEDs with a service life of up 50,000 hours, reducing maintenance requirements and disposal costs compared to conventional lighting. The VTLED kits' advanced LED light engine and driver consume less energ...

The China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) has grandly opened on September 6, 2012. There are more than 3000 enterprises joined, and the exhibition area is up to 100,000 square meters. In particular, the exhibition area for LED is over 30,000 square meters. According to LEDinside, this exhibition covers all kinds of LED industry. Among them, enterprises which are engaged in substrate and epitaxial wafer development play a key role. Meanwhile, Chinese localization concept is obvious. Statistics have shown that the number of Chinese sapphire subs...

Gan-on-Si: Logic and Light on a Chip The research project Low Energy Electronics Systems (LEES) has started its work with a kick-off meeting. The program’s initiator is the renowned Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center based in Singapore. The LEES team consists of eminent research and science specialists and is targeting the development of cutting-edge technology to increase energy efficiency and advance high-tech industries that complement microelectronics. Two AIXTRON CRIUS 1x200 mm systems, which the proj...

Energy-efficient light bulbs can be far from perfect. CFLs can take minutes to achieve full brightness compared with LEDs that brighten instantly, but in tests, one LED was dim and emitted a ghastly, bluish light color, and others couldn't cast light in all directions. Consumer Reports has identified four light bulb letdowns and ways to prevent them. Dim bulbs: Opt for more lumens. Check the lighting facts label on the packages of CFLs and LEDs for the number of lumens. The higher the lumens, the brighter the bulb. Weird light color: Choose the r...

Osram is equipping the Arena Corinthians in São Paulo, which will host the opening match of the Football World Championships in 2014.   The highlight is the external façade, which will be transformed into the world’s biggest LED stadium panel and will serve as an extra-large screen. “In São Paulo, Osram is once again proving its expertise when it comes to lighting for sports venues. We have not let ourselves be intimidated by FIFA’s strict requirements – on the contrary: our high-tech lighting solutions exceed the speci...

Acuity Brands Lighting OLED Experts Play Influential Role at OLEDs World Summit 2012 Two OLED lighting experts from Acuity Brands Lighting will share their insight at the 2012 OLEDs World Summit in San Francisco, Calif. Sept. 26 – 28, 2012. Peter Ngai, Vice President, Innovation at the Acuity Brands Lighting OLED Lighting Design Center, will provide opening remarks and chair multiple sessions on day two of the summit, which focuses exclusively on OLED lighting.   “In the past, OLED display was a major emphasis a...

Veeco announced that Nantong Tongfang Semiconductor Co., Ltd. has received shipment of Veeco's TurboDisc® K465i™ MOCVD System for research of GaN-on-Si HB LEDs. The system was delivered to Tongfang’s new LED Technology Center in Nantong, China. Professor Liu Gang, General Manager of Nantong Tongfang Semiconductor, stated, “We successfully utilize Veeco’s MOCVD systems in our current production of GaN-on-sapphire based LEDs. It was the logical choice to select Veeco for our new research into GaN-on-Si...

According to Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., the market scale of LED lighting system to reach US$66.67 Billion by 2020. J.S. Bo, general manager of Philips Taiwan, says LED lighting (not including LED epitaxy and assembly) accounts for 20% of corporate revenues from lighting, and is expected to grow in the second half, during which Philips supplies 10~15% of global LED lighting. Philips’s market share in LED lighting exceeds 20% worldwide, higher than the firm’s 15% share in traditional lighting. Philip’s industrial research sh...

A recent report released by US consultancy, Consumer Reports, has revealed that of the 90% of Americans who have opted for energy efficient light bulbs, 75% are choosing CFLs over their LED counterparts, despite the latter’s superiority in efficiency, life span and light quality. Examples of this kind of purchasing behaviour are particularly relevant to the UK lighting industry – and especially the LED sector - during the current period of overhaul. EU regulations have ushered the incandescent bulbs of the past offstage in a total phase out and it remains t...

LED light bulbs have a slight environmental edge on compact fluorescent bulbs and both trump traditional incandescent bulbs by a wide margin, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory says in a new report. PNNL, a U.S. Department of Energy lab based in Richland, Wash., compared the environmental footprint of the three bulbs, including mining of raw materials, manufacturing, disposal and electricity use. It's the first public report to examine the impact of LED manufacturing in depth, the lab says. Among the study's conclusions: * Both LEDs and CFL...

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced that Finland-based Kruunutekniikka Oy, a leading manufacturer of solid-state LED lighting systems, has adopted Therma-Tech™ thermal management solutions to replace aluminum in its recently patented Coolics™ LED light fixtures. The PolyOne solution helps Kruunutekniikka Oy optimize its manufacturing processes and improve overall productivity. “These metal-replacement solutions manage heat while also providing the design...

Samsung and LG exhibited 55-inch OLED TVs at IFA 2012. This is the first time that they have been exhibited at a trade show in Europe. LG showed 3D video with special glasses and emphasized the slimness of a panel part (4mm). Starting by releasing the 55-inch full-HD (1,920 x 1,080-pixel) TV within 2012, LG Electronics plans to launch a 4k2k (3,840 x 2,160-pixel) OLED TV with a size of 60 inches or larger in 2013. "We expect that the price of the TV will be about 10,000 to 13,000 euro (in Europe)," the company said. Samsung showed...

Taiwan LED makers Unity Opto, I-Chiun Precision Industry Co., Ltd., Leadlink, Lextar and Formosa Epitaxy seen to have brisk sales in August. Unity Opto, I-Chiun, and Leadlink saw sales hit new highs in July and are estimated to score another high in August in the regularly busy third quarter. According to industry executives, capacity utilization of Taiwan’s LED industry is still on the climb, leading to satisfactory earnings in the first half of 2012 at most of the island’s LED makers. They felt that these manufacturers would be more profit...

Agnitron Technology, Inc. has completed the development of the original state of the art compact MOCVD research and development system, known as Agilis. The small volume reactor system provides an economical choice to universities and research and development organizations looking for high temperature AlGaN, GaN or general III-Nitride growth capabilities. The compact size enables reduced startup costs for R&D work as well as significantly reduced operating costs as precursor consumption is greatly reduced. Agilis is packed full of features typically only foun...

Lately, Sharp has announced four kinds of the "LED Dining Light" LED lighting apparatus, designed for dining rooms. The new lamp has a design like a plate floating in the air. There are two type of the lamp, the rectangular "Round Square" type and the circular "Circle" type. The Round Square type comes in two models: one is for four-seat tables, and the other is for six-seat tables. And the Circle type is available as a model on which leaves are seen when it is on in addition to a normal model. As in the case of the LED b...

The Sydney based clean-tech innovator BluGlass’s patent US2008272463, "Method and apparatus for growing a group (III) metal nitride film" has now been allowed in the U.S. This patent brings its international patent portfolio up to 16 granted patents in key semiconductor markets including the U.S., Europe, Japan, Korea and China. These patents help to provide the company with broad protection of its Remote Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition (RPCVD) technology and underpin the commercial opportunities for BluGlass in the production of high e...

According to a report published in Electronics For You magazine, a flagship publication of EFY Group, the single factor that puts LED lighting out of the reach of masses today is the high initial cost.   Therefore, the dream of every player in the LED lighting industry today is to create a commercially-feasible LED lamp that is equivalent to a 60W incandescent bulb, saleable at a cost of $5 to $10. The efficiency and light output of LEDs are increasing exponentially, effectively doubling every 36 months, in line with Moore's Law. LED efficiency, colo...

Kyma Technologies has tapped into the market for GaN crystal growth equipment. The firm’s GaN crystal growth system is based on the hydride vapour phase epitaxy (HVPE) growth process which is a proven high growth rate approach for producing high purity crystalline compound semiconductor materials including GaN, GaAs, InP, and CdS. HVPE is the dominant process used today for production of free-standing GaN substrates and recently has been used by Kyma and others to produce high quality GaN on sapphire templates and GaN on silicon templates. HVPE g...

New family delivers energy-efficient solution for large area floodlighting applications   Hubbell Outdoor Lighting Inc. is proud to introduce the Magniluter MLED Series, a family of LED floodlights designed specifically to provide energy-efficient and versatile solutions for large area floodlighting applications.  With two powerful lumen packages of 5,500 lm (40 LED) and 11,000 lm (80 LED), the MLED Series delivers controlled illumination with 50-60% energy savings.  A 60,000 hour rated life, L90 rating, 4800K CCT and a variety of distribution...

Thanks to lighting product sales increasing sharply as a result of reduction of LED prices and increased acceptance of LED lamps by consumers, Everlight’s Q2 earnings jump twofolds QoQ. The company earned NT$0.55 per share in Q2, more than double the NT$0.2 per share it made the first quarter. In the first half of 2012, the company had total after-tax net income of NT$302 million (US$10 million at US$1: NT$30), dwindling 66% year on year. The earnings were diluted into NT$0.75 per share. The company’s spokesman, B.Y. Liu, estimated the com...

PolyBrite International, Inc. of Naperville IL is one of the top 75 finalists for the prestigious 2012 Chicago Innovation Awards reflecting a cross section of the Chicago and surrounding regions’ business communities.  The final ten winners will be announced Monday, October 22 and celebrated at an event with over 1,500 business and civic leaders at Chicago’s Harris Theater. The Chicago Innovation Awards, celebrating its 11th year, is the only organization in the country dedicated to honoring the most innovative new products or services brought to mark...

LED specialist Light Planet is proud to announce its selection as a finalist in the Energy Efficiency Initiative of the Year category in The Electrical Industry Awards 2012.   The Electrical Industry Awards recognises the achievements of those working in the UK’s diverse electrical sector and celebrates all that is best in the industry. The Energy Efficiency Initiative of the Year category rewards the introduction or application of a new process, system or product that has brought about significant to energy savings. The selection is based on the comp...

- High Quality, Low Energy Consuming LED Lighting for Indoor Applications - GlacialLight, a division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., today announced the new GL-DL06D LED down light series. This high‐performance 12 Watt LED down light comes with a dimmable driver allowing the lighting to be adjusted to fit the preferred lighting scenario. The GL-DL06D series is a lightweight all‐in‐one lighting solution combining the LED source with a slim, sleek, and fashionable circular fixture for ease of installation. Energy-effi...

The GL SPECTIS 1.1 is the youngest member of the family of handy mini-spectrometers from GL Optic, which allow for a reliable spectral light measurement. Together with the handy integrating sphere GL OPTI SPHERE 48, available as an accessory, brightness values can be determined with a current duration of 25 ms and very high precision. Designers and developers of lamps are often faced with the problem that the standard LED shipping dimensions and configurations of certain series types contain a product group, which can possibly include LEDs with different c...

Its LEDs Completed 6,000 Hours of LM-80 Testing on Its 3014 and 5630 Package   Lextar Electronics Corp. (“Lextar” or the “Company) (TAIEX: 3698) announces its “Photometric Laboratory” has been listed with LM-79 and LM-80 accreditation. This makes Lextar the first of any LED corporation in Taiwan to be awarded both accreditations and shows the company’s commitment to cultivating the LED industry. Additionally, Lextar’s 3014 and 5630 LED package have exceeded 6,000 hours of LM-80 testing, indicating the...

City Creek Center, a newly completed LEED Silver project in the heart of Salt Lake City, is evocative of a European streetscape and features 200 custom LED hanging light fixtures, each containing three Cree XLamp XP-G LEDs. Designed by Mike Joye of Auroralight, the LED festoon lighting creates as welcoming atmosphere for visitors to enjoy outdoor seating at night at any of the several restaurants located in the area.   The luminaires, nicknamed “The Necklace,” are three different lengths, 12”, 24” and 36”, and hang in a r...

New Eurotique Luminaires from Antique Street Lamps bring Euro-styling, long term reliability to outdoor environments Family scaled fixtures offer visual appeal, design continuity   Popular Euro-styling and superior nighttime performance merge in Antique Street Lamps™ new Eurotique LED luminaires. The high performance fixtures offer design flexibility with striking “Munich” and “Hanover” styles in two different sizes and either post top or pendant mounting.   New Eurotique LED luminaires are family scaled to offer designe...

Recently, LED chipmaker San’an Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. from mainland China is attempting to lure customers away from Taiwan’s suppliers with fairly low price, however, contracts are still flooding to Taiwan’s LED chipmakers Epistar and Formosa Epitaxy Inc. for Q3. San’an has risen quickly over the past two years to prominent position in the LED chip making sector by poaching engineers from Taiwan’s chipmakers, including Epistar and FPI. Although the mainland Chinese chipmaker has sent samples to Taiwan’s assemblers for v...

Brewer Science, which is engaged in developing specialty materials, integrated processes, and laboratory-scale wafer processing equipment, will feature two conference presentations at SEMICON Taiwan being held between 5th and 7th ,September. The firm will be highlighting product technologies for HB LED manufacturing for wafer protection, thin wafer handling, epitaxial layer transfer, trench filling, and planarisation. “Brewer Science has been delivering advanced technology solutions for the HB LED market for over seven years through close partnerships with...