Ledzworld Technology, an innovative R&D and manufacturing company of high-end LED retro-fit lamps for professional users, Demonstrates its latest Chameleon Driver Technology during the Light Fair International in Las Vegas (May 09-11, 2012) These intelligent drivers create the world’s first MR16 range that is truly compatible. The biggest challenge for manufacturers of retrofit LED lamps is the compatibility with thousands of existing combinations of dimmers and transformers. The Chameleon driver of Ledzworld is a technological break-through. It...

Taiwan based company which makes backlight modules for personal computers, has intended to enter into LED lighting sector this year, with commercial products to be primary products in the initial stage, according to its Chairman B.R. Wang. The company will start to build up competitive strength and footholds for its LED lighting operation over next three to five years. Wang said the company will make most of its advantage in light guide plate R&D to drum up built-to-order contracts among international lighting brands. And the company’s lighting operation can prov...

The Nova Scotia energy department has announced draft regulations to give Nova Scotia Power and municipalities until June 30, 2019 for LED roadway lighting replacement. The draft regulations are available for a 30-day comment period.  “Municipalities have one year from the date the amended regulations take effect to file a report with the minister outlining how the conversion to LED street lighting will take place,” the energy department stated in a press release. “Converting to LED will save about $18 million when energy savings are combined with...

LED Street Light Now Being Installed in Puerto Rico Leading the global shift towards sustainable LED lighting solutions, Lighting Science Group announced the launch of its high performance and feature-rich RoadMaster(TM) street light. Currently being installed throughout Puerto Rico, the Company's new street light provides a reduction in energy costs during its extended operating life, helping governments and communities avoid soaring energy and maintenance costs associated with traditional high pressure sodium (HPS) street lights. Priced at a fraction of...

Intuitive controller makes complex lighting effects simple and accessible to all   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 availability of Lumentone, an intuitive LED lighting controller. Developed to simplify control, Lumentone opens the doors for anyone to be able to implement and manage sophisticated lighting shows.   Suitable for either white light or colored light installations, Lumentone is a wal...

Provide Traverse City Area Public Schools with New, Sustainable Learning Environment   Officials at Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) recognized that Long Lake Elementary School needed a major overhaul. Out of renovation options, the District opted for a complete rebuild of the nearly 50-year-old building in an effort to make the new school a model of energy efficiency and sustainability. To help achieve its overall goal of creating a high-quality, LEED-certified visual learning environment, the school turned to energy-efficient solutions from C...

2012 The Fourth Wuhan International Green Lighting Wuhan International Convention and Exhibition Center 25-27 September 2012 Urban and Rural Construction Committee of Wuhan City, Wuhan, street lights Authority, the China International Trade Promotion Committee branch in Wuhan City, the city road lighting, IT terminus Hubei station, Energy Conservation Monitoring Centre in Wuhan City, Wuhan Lighting Association ...

O2Micro® International Limited was issued 18 claims under United States patent number 8,076,867 for its Driving Circuit invention. O2Micro's patented invention includes the benefits of United States patent number 8,044,608, eliminating use of a dedicated apparatus to control LED brightness. Thus, component count and the cost of end-user panel brightness control are reduced. "This invention can continuously adjust LED brightness controlled by an AC wall switch," remarked Dr. Yung Lin, executive vice president, O2Micro.  ...

Carmanah Technologies has introduced launched its latest Aviation signaling product, the A704-H, which sets a new and higher level for solar LED lighting intensity in the aviation market. This light is easily installed, and can be remotely controlled. More importantly, the increased light intensity enables safe flights and ensures airfields can stay open more often in adverse weather. Lighting intensity is the top safety factor in the aviation sector, and when weather deteriorates, lighting intensities must be able to compensate for low visibility conditions. The A704-H m...

Philips Lumileds has launched LUXEON R, designed for outdoor and industrial lighting applications such as streetlights, high-bay lights, wall packs and bollards. LUXEON R is an Illumination Grade LED, and therefore is Hot Tested and Specified so that its performance at operating conditions is well understood. In addition, LUXEON R offers Freedom From Binning to ensure uniformity from solution to solution. Furthermore, LUXEON R is footprint compatible with LUXEON Rebel and LUXEON Rebel ES, while delivering more light output, higher...

Technical Downlighting Leader’s Expanded LED Recessed Downlighting Collection Features High CRI, Modularity and Increased Efficiency Following the successful debut of its 2011 Eco-Downlight LED collection, CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting) has once again emerged as a technical leader and manufacturer of energy-efficient LED systems with the launch of its 2012 Eco-Downlight collection. Featuring a newly expanded line of high-performance LED downlights, the new collection includes three ground-breaking products: a brand-new 5” aperture ...

The biennial Light+Building 2012, the largest lighting exposition in Europe, kicked off on April 15 in Frankfurt, Germany. As LED lighting markets around the world became more mature in 2012, the exposition this year attracted more companies to participate. According to the organizer Messe Frankfurt, 2,352 companies from 50 countries participated and exhibited at Light+Building 2012, a 9% increase compared to 2010, showcasing the latest lighting and building products. Light-Building 2012 centered around the concept of energy-saving buildings. Aside from innovative and...

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced that it has trained its 500th customer engineer at its state-of-the-art China Training Center (CTC), located in Shanghai. The CTC opened in mid-2011 to help key LED manufacturers, including its two largest customers, Sanan Optoelectronics and Elec-Tech International, scale-up production, optimize their use of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems, and support the industry's rapid growth.   Lin Zhiqiang, Chief Executive Officer of Sanan Optoelectronics, commented, "We congratulate Veeco on a...

According to LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, the March revenues of Taiwanese listed LED manufacturers totaled NT$8.109 billion (MoM+17.72%, YoY-12.2%). Due to the inventory stocking in the backlight market and the impending peak season of the commercial lighting market, the orders are expected to pour in well into May. The 1Q12 revenues of Taiwanese LED companies amounted to NT$21.05 billion (-2.5%QoQ, -14.9%YoY). The TV demand triggered by the May Day Holiday will help shed light on the market acceptance of the new TVs. Reven...

euroLED 2012 is taking place on the 13th & 14th June at the NEC, Birmingham, UK.  euroLED comprises of an exhibition showcasing all levels of the LED supply chain, technical conference and highly popular gala dinner. Why attend euroLED 2012: •    The euroLED exhibition features all technologies from throughout the whole of the LED supply chain, giving an extensive and all-inclusive view of cutting edge technology and who's leading the pack. See who's exhibiting •    A dedicated panel of experts has bee...

Philips has kicked off working on a technology that will significantly reduce its dependence on rare earth minerals for its LED lighting products. According to Frans van Houten, CEO of Royal Philips Electronics, “We have launched some innovation projects in order to become less dependent on rare earths.” Mr van Houten explained creating the LED lighting products will remain dependent on rare earths, it being a vital component to its efficiency. But such dependence can be lessened. In his opinion, people cannot eliminate it of course. But in their labs t...

Recently,Toshiba International Corporation has launched new PAR38 and MR16 lamps to its LED lighting line. The new PAR38 1100 Series is a direct replacement for 90 to 110W halogen lamps, offers outputs of up to 1170 lumens, and uses up to 75% less energy than halogens. It’s is available in 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, and 4000K. And the new MR16 450 Series is a direct replacement for 35W halogen lamps, offers lumen outputs of up to 475 lumens, and uses up to 80% less energy than halogens. It comes in 2700K, 3000K, and 4000K color temperatures. Both models...

Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc (SETi) has made a breakthrough on efficiencies of ultraviolet light (UV) LEDs operating in the germicidal UV-C range. Generally, the UV-C range peaks at around 254nm although the latest LEDs developed by SETi have been designed to emit at 278nm. Under the DARPA Compact Mid-Ultraviolet Technology (CMUVT) program and performed in collaboration with Army Research Laboratories (ARL), the firm's latest devices have an external quantum efficiency of 11% with a corresponding wall-plug efficiency of 8%. This l...

The Taiwan-based Fin-Core Corporation has developed a patented heat sink that delivers 30% more thermal dissipation efficiency than competing types in LED lamps with its 20% larger thermal area, ending up with doubling lifespan of an LED light bulb. Currently, the thermal technology can be available in light tubes, recessed lights, MR16, AR111, and T-BAR in addition to light bulbs, rated at 7W, 12W, 16W and 24W in power specification. Additionally, the company is also good at power supply solutions to LED lighting. The company is a subsidiary of the publicl...

Taiwan based maker of household appliances, Tatung Corp., is about to roll out over 20 models of LED lamps on April 26 in association with its subsidiaries, including sapphire-wafer maker San Chih Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and LED packager Forward Electronics Co., Ltd., as well as LED makers Formosa Epitaxy Inc. and Unity Opto Co., Ltd. According to the cooperation, Tatung will contract Unity to make the lamps and slap its brand names on them. San Chih is designated to supply sapphire as carrier substrate, on which Formosa will use to grow LED epitaxy l...

PowerSecure International, Inc. has received $10 million of new awards for its Interactive Distributed Generation(R) (IDG(R)) smart grid power systems, LED Area Lights, and utility infrastructure projects. Among these awards, there are total $4.5 million for the new IDG System, including installations for industrial, retail, municipal, and military facilities. The new LED Area Light awards total $0.4 million, including orders from seven utilities, and several repeat orders. And the utility infrastructure awards total $5.1 million, including transmission, distr...

Blue laser diode with high optical power from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors With the new high power laser diode PL TB450, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors strengthens its leading role in lasers on indium-gallium-nitride basis. Mounted in a compact TO56 package, the blue laser diode features an optical power of 1.4 Watt (W). Thus it is particularly suitable for high-quality projectors in the professional field. Other applications for this high power component reach from laser systems for stage and decoration illumination to medical applications. Professional projectors ...

FZLED's smallest panel light fits into any space, PL30-00-22 smaller form factor adds adjustable illumination to 22-watt LED panel light FZLED, a provider of high-performance LED lighting products, added a third compact model to its range of panel lights . The all-new PL30-00-22 design measures 300 by 300 millimeters, a size that fits in any space. Using just 22 watts of power, the panel light delivers the brightness of a T8 tube light, reducing energy bills by 50 percent or more. Designed to illuminate large spaces, the FZLED lights are the perfect fit...

Lasertel, Inc. a subsidiary of SELEX Galileo Inc., a Finmeccanica company, and Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Lasertel has purchased a second high-throughput, multi-wafer GEN200® Edge™ Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) production system from Veeco to increase their manufacturing capacity for laser diodes. “The additional GEN200 Edge production MBE system provides the extra capacity required to support the increased demand for Lasertel devices. The GEN200 system offers advanced automation, precise process con...

Start: 06/13/2012 8:00 End: 06/14/2012 17:00 Time Zone: Pacific  US DOE Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Workshop 2012 will be June 13–14, 2012, in San Jose, California, USA. Event Name US DOE SSL MANUFACTURING R&D WORKSHOP 2012 Region North America Location DoubleTree by Hilton, San Jose, CA Dates June 13–14, 2012 ...

Sacramento Facility to Save 91% of Lighting Energy with Integrated Wireless Lighting Controls and LED Fixtures Daintree Networks, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent wireless lighting controls for commercial buildings, today announced a successful installation for the Sacramento facility of United Stationers Inc., a leading North American wholesale distributor of business products. With the help of Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), United Stationers installed an integrated intelligent lighting system consisting of Cree’s energy-savi...

Rubicon displays industry-leading, very large, defect-free sapphire crystal for use in the optical market for a wide range of industrial applications Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, today announced that it will be showing its line of sapphire optical products including sapphire ingots, windows and blanks at the SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing conference in Baltimore, MD, April 23 - 27, 2012 in booth #545. Sapphire is ideal for hig...

ASP of 40W equivalent LED light bulb slid below US$20 in U.S. According to the latest survey conducted by LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, the global LED light bulb price continued to dip in 12’Feb, but the downtrend has curbed – the ASP of 40W equivalent LED light bulb merely dropped 0.1%, while the ASP plummeted by 19% in the United States to below US$20. The global ASP of 60W equivalent LED light bulb dropped to US$33.6, and the price downtrend was most prominent in the United States and Japan. ASP ...

The energy shortage raises energy-saving awareness around the world, and with the effort of the major companies, LED lighting once again takes over the spotlight in 2012. According to LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, Europe has become one of the most fast-growing LED markets in the world besides Japan. Benefiting from the ban imposed by certain countries against selling incandescent light bulb of high wattage in 2012, the value of European LED lighting market will soar to US$3.01 billion in 2012, a 44% YoY growth; the value is expected to reach U...

An ideal alternative solution for metal replacement provides design freedom, enhanced thermal performance, weight reduction and manufacturing cost savings PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, unveiled new Therma-Tech™ thermally conductive grades for light-emitting diode (LED) lighting applications this week at Chinaplas 2012 (booth N1F41). Replacing metal heat sinks with these new materials can enable parts consolidation and better management of hot spots, resulting in longer LED l...