New flash LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors harmonizes form and function Osram Opto Semiconductors has added a new type of LED to its well-known Oslux family. With flash applications compromises no longer have to be accepted – due to its specially shaped lens the Oslux LED can be discreetly fitted in the device. Thanks to its high output power the new LED is also capable of taking perfectly illuminated shots with cellphones. This means design and function of smartphones work together even more closely. Manufacturers of high-end smartphones often have to ...

Hitachi Appliances is to release 80 W-equivalent LED Bulb on June 15th. The new bulb gives off almost 1160 lumens, and consumes 11.4 watts. It can be available in E26-base, and diffuses light like the incandescent light bulb. With the new bulb, it can not only improve the brightness, but also reduce power consumption. Nuclear power shortage has driven up demand for LED lamps after the March 11 earthquake. Hitachi Appliances will diversify LED bulbs on brightness and light distribution to cater different demands from customers....

Lately, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (SMM) has teamed up with a research team from Tohoku University’s Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM) headed by Professor Masato Kakihana, to successfully develop a new silicon-containing oxide-based red phosphor for use in white LEDs. The new phosphor is less expensively than earlier red phosphors and is expected to contribute to higher performance in white LEDs as sources of illumination. The collaborative R&D program succeeded in developing the first oxide-based pho...

Onteco Corporation has announced to negotiate additional international licensing agreements with potential LED manufacturers in several countries for its cutting-edge NexPhase Intellectual property. on April 30th, Onteco Corporation has signed its first international license agreement with JARLYN S.A, a Uruguayan corporation, for its proprietary LED intellectual property ("IP"), developed by its subsidiary, NexPhase Lighting, Inc., dedicated in LED "intelligent" lighting development. As compensation for the license, the Company is t...

According to Photonic Industry & Technology Development Association (PIDA), a Taiwan-based market research organization tracking the optoelectronics industry, Taiwan’s LED industry would rise 10% in revenue this year from 2011. PIDA set the 2012 revenue goal at NT$200 billion (US$6.8 billion at US$1:NT$29) and estimated the Taiwan industry would start to grow in the second half in anticipation of climbing demand for LED lighting. According to PIDA, the growth in LED lighting market in the second half will be fueled by the increased numbe...

Cree announced that John Kurtzweil has resigned as executive vice president-finance and chief financial officer, effective May 21, 2012, to pursue other opportunities, and that Michael McDevitt has been appointed CFO on an interim basis.  Mr. Kurtzweil plans to continue as a Cree employee until June 15, 2012, to assist with the transition of his responsibilities. Cree has commissioned a search for a replacement through Russell Reynolds Associates, executive search consultants. Cree's interim CFO, Mike McDevitt, joined Cree in 2002 as corporate control...

PowerSecure International has received new awards for over 25,000 of its energy efficient LED lights including its new EfficientLights(R) walk-in cooler lights for retailers, and its SecureLite(R) Area Light for utilities. The lights for these orders are expected to be shipped primarily during the last three quarters of 2012, and the Company expects revenue from these orders to be approximately $5 million....

Chinese LED Display manufacturer Unilumin Group Co., Ltd has paved the way for its LED rental display sales in mainland China. Building on its high quality products and strong sales network, Unilumin’s projects have gained good reputation at home and abroad, such as display at Times Square in New York USA; rental display for the special Olympic Games in 2007; sports display in Stockholm Sweden; display for the 60th national anniversary; displays for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo; 491sqm indoor display in Tianmu City Qingdao and national LED tunnel l...

As newer technologies like 3D and smart TVs become popular around the world, LCDs have seen a slump in demand. And Samsung has intended to focus on selling LED TVs in India after spinning off its loss-making LCD business globally. The company’s executive has disclosed that the company will withdraw its LCD models in the 40-inch and above category as part of a larger global strategy to push the brighter, thinner LED TVs.   According to Raj Kumar Rishi, VP, Samsung Electronics, this move combined with lowering of prices by about 10%, is expect...

Art Van Furniture, Michigan's largest furniture retailer and America's largest independent furniture retailer, has executed a plan to replace 38,000 incandescent lamps with LED throughout the 34 Art Van showrooms in Michigan to save energy. And these savings led DTE Energy and the Engineering Society of Detroit to honor it for its trailblazing efforts. The switch from incandescent to LED will save 63 watts of energy per lamp. Moreover, the new lamps have a maximum temperature of only 85 degrees. The traditional, incandescent lamps reach temperatures of mor...

By Terry Mocherniak, director global business development for the LMS business unit of OSRAM SYLVANIA   A well-lit environment creates a more positive shopping experience for customers at retail locations of all sizes. As such, the retail industry in the U.S. spends nearly $20 billion on energy each year according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with lighting as the largest energy drain. The EPA also estimates that a 10% reduction in energy costs for average retail outlets could increase profit margins by 16% annually. An ...

Hidden and Track Mounted BRICKBLASTER Pros Provide the Perfect Lighting in the World’s Most Famous Wax Museum For the redesign of the lobby and entryway at Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas, Herrick Goldman, of HG Lighting Design (Brooklyn, NY), required a compact yet powerful LED fixture. The BRICKBLASTER Pro RGBW and WWCW were selected due to their compact size, high intensity output and theatrical grade DMX512 dimming.  At 4” cubed, and an amazing 50 watts, the BRICKBLASTER Pro can fit into ...

Airport officials aim to optimize energy savings while also providing a safe and well-lit parking environment for passengers. Officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport recognized a need for upgrading the parking garage lighting that would optimize energy savings, while continuing to provide a safe and well-lit environment for its passengers. Analyzing multiple products and their performance to find the best solution, they selected LED fixtures from Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational ...

As we know, Chinese standing committee of state council passed the basic public service system planning on 12th Five-Year and scheduled to arrange for 2.2 billion yuan RMB to promote energy-saving lamps and LED lights on May 16. After the release of the statement, LED manufacturers are curious about the number of lights relating to the promotion. And deputy secretary-general ZhaoJiaRong , from the national development and reform commission, pointed out that ,” there are two measures to put into practice. One is to gradually implement the Incandescent Bulb Phas...

The recent revamp of the MHA Mahindra Stadium in Mumbai, India, was capped off with a new radiance provided by GE Lighting’s EF2000 fixtures. The new solution provided quality lighting and controlled light pollution, while fulfilling Televised Event Norms specified by the International Hockey Federation. The MHA Mahindra Stadium, located in Mumbai, India, was recently given a total revamp, which included replacing existing lights with GE’s EF2000 fixtures designed for stadium lighting. The new lighting solution provided uniformity of light and...

Recently, Hubei Provincial Governor Wang Guosheng has made a visit to Taiwan Lite On. And Lite On’s chairman, Raymond Soong has announced to set up an operation center in Hubei Province of mainland China to tap the mainland’s thriving domestic market for optoelectronics products. The company’s optoelectronics products for the central region market will be LEDs, streetlights and lighting equipment in the initial stage. So far, the group’s investment in the province is a transformer-manufacturing venture held by subsidiary LSE Internation...

Lately, Klik Systems has engaged in ‘Luminous’, the world’s largest interactive light installations opening in the new Darling Quarter precinct in Sydney’s Central Business District (CBD). Klik Systems provides LED systems for the large new digital art canvas to help this new precinct become Sydney’s most loved community hub. The new Luminous at Darling Quarter will be a permanent platform solely for illuminated digital art – both animated and still. The ‘canvas’ extends over four levels of two campus-style buildin...

OSRAM SYLVANIA’s RLC22 - a new 2x2 luminaire for office, retail, education and healthcare environments, has win a Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Solid-State Lighting Design Competition award sponsored by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), the International Association of Lighting Designers (ILAD) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The RLC22 features a high performance of over 85 lumens per watt and a unique styling in the form of a uniformly diffuse, round aperture within a form factor compatible...

As early in May, Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, has issued the semiconductor lighting technology development- the 12th Five-Year Development Plan(draft), proposing that by the year of 2015, the LED lighting industry scale will soar to 500 billion yuan, and LED lighting products will account for 30% of the general lighting; it will specially focus on cultivating 20-30 domestic leading enterprises ,building 20 national industry bases as well as adding 50 cities to “Ten Thousand LED Lights in Ten Cities” program. At the same time, the above &...

Lexington-based QD Vision, Inc., a spinoff of MIT, has developed Quantum LightTM Optic and the lamp is termed a quantum LED (QLED), to produce both lamps and downlighting fixtures that emulate the warm colors of an incandescent bulb but provide much greater light power and lamp life-time. The mechanism behind this extraordinary development is the redistribution of color by means of “quantum dots”. The ability to tune the color of a quantum dot offers a way to redistribute the harsh LED light by placing a specially designed layer of quantum dots in fron...

Japanese Nanoco Group has made great breakthrough on a 1kg batch of green cadmium-free quantum dots for a major Japanese corporation, triggering a US $2 million payment to Nanoco. The green quantum dots were produced at Nanoco's production facility in Runcorn, Cheshire. It marks major technical achievement by Nanoco because green dots are significantly more challenging than red ones due to their smaller size. The Japanese corporation plans to incorporate Nanoco's red and green quantum dots including the backlighting of LCD displays and LED-based general li...

Cooper Notification, a solution platform of Cooper Industries has introduced the industry's first LED notification appliances. Its Wheelock Exceder(TM) Series expands to include LED horn strobes, strobes and horns in one of the smallest, most compact single gang designs. As the first LED notification appliances to be UL listed for both public and private mode Life Safety applications, Cooper Notification's patented technology provides the industry's lowest current draw. It allows for energy savings of up to 52 percent compared to competitive mode...

First issued patent of 7 patents pending around Lumentalk technology Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced it has received U.S. Patent 8,179,058, issued May 15, 2012. The patent, the first of seven pending for the company’s Lumentalk™ technology, provides a method of intuitively reading a traditional analog TRIAC dimmer in a digital fashion, which enables digital control of LED lighting over existing AC po...

On May 16, Chinese premier wen jiabao presided the standing committee of state council, and passed The basic public service system Planning on 12th Five-Year .According to the new plan, the government schedules to arrange for 2.2 billion yuan RMB to promote energy-saving lamps and LED lights.

Manila’s Boni Tunnel is bathed in Philips solar-power LEDs. It’s the first time in the country that LEDs and solar panels have been integrated into one system that will enhance driver safety when using the 280-meter tunnel.   The lighting system consists of Philips tubular LED lighting systems that are solar-powered by day and is powered by the Meralco power grid at night via a grid-interactive photovoltaic system. The photovoltaic system is made up of the solar panels along with the power converter, and is hooked up to the Meralco grid. With the system...

Dow Electronic Materials has announced to acquire a private, US-based research company Lightscape Materials, Inc., to expand its LED technology portfolio. But financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Major Lightscape Materials' investors included Wisepower, a Korean company, and Silicon-Valley based SRI International. Date back to October of 2011, Dow has announced the formation of a new LED Technologies business segment to capture current and future demand for LEDs in the solid-state lighting market. Aside from  the newly added...

Recently, U. S. Navy ships have placed $1.5 million order to Energy Focus, Inc., for  IntelliTube(TM) LED fluorescent replacement tubes, IntelliTube LED berth light fixtures and a variety of high performance LED globe fixtures.   According to Roger Buelow, Energy Focus CTO, "Energy Focus LED products have a 50,000-hour lifespan compared to the 1,000-hour bulbs in incandescent globes and 7,500-hour fluorescent tubes while using less than half the energy. In addition, our LED fixtures are designed for easy installation. The globes use th...

Innovative Lusio LED high bay fixtures deliver superior quality of light and substantial energy savings   Lusio Solid-State Lighting announced the installation of Lusio SSL fixtures at the new Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Criminalistics Laboratory (JCCL) located in Olathe, KS.  Completed this spring, the new 62,500 square foot facility is expected to achieve LEED Platinum certification by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the highest rating a building can achieve under the council’s Leadership in Energy...

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHI) announced that the 200th licensee signed up to its LED luminaire and retrofit bulb licensing program. As a result, Paulmann Light GmbH has gained access to Philips’ comprehensive portfolio of patented LED technologies and solutions offered in the licensing program. The announcement marks a significant milestone in the Philips LED luminaire licensing program, enabling and fostering the industry’s growth in its transition from conventional lamps to energy efficient LED-based lighting solutions. A...

LEDforum 2012, organized by LEDinside and Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, will be held at the Chinese Export Commodities Fair Pazhou Complex, Area B, Room #8 on June 11, 2012. The sessions at the LEDforum will dissect the development of the LED industry in the next five years, the channel strategy of the Chinese LED industry and the challenge facing it. As for the concurrent sessions in the afternoon, they will focus on the prospects for the LED industry and the LED lighting market, the key development of the LED manufacturing process and equipment, providing a thorough analysis on the LED market.