Arroyo Instruments has completed a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research program for the development of a pulse/DC characterization system for LEDs. The goal of this project, successfully met by the completion of a prototype device, was to develop a commercially viable solution to determine and maintain accurate LED junction temperature during characterization.

LED-based tunnel lighting for two new highway tunnels in central China is saving up to 60% in energy consumption and related costs over fixtures built with traditional light sources. Utilizing LUXEON Rebel LEDs from Philips Lumileds, the 3,900 fixtures involved in the project were developed by Xi’an Liming Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., with engineering assistance and LED inventory management supplied by Future Lighting Solutions.

After being present at a meeting with President Barack Obama at NASA's Kennedy Space Center,Lighting Science GroupCorporation CEO Zach Gibler issued the following statement: "It was an honor and pleasure to meet President Obama today during his visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and I appreciate Senator Bill Nelson and Representative Suzanne Kosmas' hard work in putting together this event."

Light+Building 2010, the world's leading trade fair for Architecture and Technology, is the launch event for 'Zenaro- the Lighting Alliance', a new global company alliance between founding members Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. with headquarters in Taipei/Taiwan, Lighting Competence Center GmbH (LCC), the R&D centre of Everlight Electronics Europe in Karlsruhe/Germany and LED lighting expert Aphos Lighting based out of Texas/USA.

Luminus Devices, Inc., developer and manufacturer of high light output PhlatLight® LEDs, announced today that its flagship lighting class LED products, the SST-50 and SST-90, are the centerpieces of several new indoor and outdoor lighting applications.

Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc., which designs, develops and markets highly efficient renewable energy and energy conservation products in the solar and LED lighting industries, plans to triple the size of its facility and add 68 employees over three years after relocating to Sarasota County this year.

This year’s Expo 2010 Shanghai will be an LED-intensive event, boasting over 80% of high efficiency, energy saving landscape decorations and lighting featuring LED.  At the recent Annual Sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, delegates proposed the installation of 150 million energy saving lamps to replace large power incandescent lamps.  This scheme will be subsidised by the government.  The “Ten Cities Ten Thousand LED Lights” project launched in 21 cities marks a transition towards LED lighti

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs are chosen by PT Tricomm’s Solarens lighting solutions, deployed in the 9.7km long West 1 section of Jakarta Outer Ring Road. The LEDs, installed in 307 road lamps and 126 toll gate station lamps along toll road sections and 8 toll gate stations, will achieve 65% energy saving and create uniform and comfortable lighting for drivers.

OSRAM’s COINlight-OSTAR® LED modules and control gear have been specified by consulting mechanical and electrical engineers Michael Popper Associates and included in luminaires produced by lighting manufacturer Metro Ltd, to illuminate the famous Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. OSRAM’s LED modules were specified to provide a high level of light output as well as long lamp life. It was essential that the modules come equipped with a long lifetime as the fittings are in an awkward location which makes re-lamping difficult.

Company Focus will now begin a new series of products: LED lamps for housing and communal services. Luminaries series "Housing" designed to be installed in doorways, hallways and other areas of residential and nonresidential buildings. The main objective of these fixtures - away from the dark doorways, burnt and broken light bulbs, buzzing, blinking lights.

U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu with Pervaiz Lodhie, LEDtronics CEO and President. Immediately after being sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives from California’s 32nd District in July 2009, Congresswoman Judy Chu wasted no time in getting to work on behalf of her constituents. Her first task on Capitol Hill was voting on a number of important environmental bills.

Changelight ROY UHB LED ramp boost with two more AIXTRON MOCVD tools AIXTRON AG announced today an order for two additional MOCVD tools from Changelight Co., Ltd., a company based in Xiamen’s Torch Industry Park of Fujian Province, China. The order which is for two AIX 2600G3 IC multiwafer production systems, was placed in the fourth quarter of 2009 and both systems will be shipped in the second quarter of 2010.

Avago Technologies, a supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced the expansion of its series of compact, energy efficient 3-Watt (3W) high power LEDs for solid-state lighting (SSL) applications. Avago’s ASMT-Ax3x Power LED emitter has a footprint that is one of the most commonly used throughout the SSL industry. Typical applications include architectural lighting, retail display lighting and decorative lighting.

Seoul Semiconductor, a manufacturer has announced that Acriche, which is made by its own patented technology and driven by an alternating current power source for household or industrial use, achieved a luminous efficiency of 100 lm/w in February, and the company began to put the product into mass production in April and it also recently succeeded in achieving 150 lm/W.

Green Lighting LED offers a variety of dimmable LED bulbs including MR16 track lights, PAR lamps, and globe bulbs. Each dimmable LED light retrofits in any home or business for spot, accent, or flood lighting. The dimming design uses the most updated technology of Frequency and Peak Current Modulation, which provides even and stable dimming function ranged from 0% to 100% of full luminous flux.

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced one of the industry’s smallest, most energy efficient 3-Watt (3W) high power LEDs with high color rendering index (CRI) for use in a wide range of solid-state lighting applications. With dimensions of 5 mm by 4 mm by 1.85 mm thick, Avago’s compact 3W ASMT-Jx33 is packaged in a 6-leaded small outline package (SOP) and capable of being driven to up to 700 mA to provide high flux output performance.

Ingo Maurer, internationally renowned designer and producer of exceptional lamps and lighting systems, will exhibit two OLED lamps which are the result of joint efforts with Novaled on the Light + Building trade show in Frankfurt. Novaled AG, a pioneer in OLED Lighting- and Display-Technology, has developed some transparent, highly efficient OLED modules for this purpose.

XLamp® XM LEDs Are Most Efficient Lighting-Class LEDs in the Industry Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces a breakthrough new lighting-class LED platform, the XLamp® XM LED. This new single chip LED delivers record-breaking efficacy of 160 lumens per watt at 350 mA. The LED also delivers 750 lumens at 2 A, which is equivalent to the light output of a 60 W incandescent light bulb at less than 7 watts.

Launch of innovative LED solutions to personalize homes and make cities more livable. Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) is underlining its global leadership in lighting by substantially broadening its portfolio of LED-based lighting solutions which enhance the lives of people at home and in cities.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) , a market leader in LED lighting, announces that Zumtobel, a leading lighting manufacturer, has launched three new groundbreaking LED fixtures based on Cree TrueWhite(TM) Technology. Debuting at the Light + Building tradeshow in Frankfurt this week, these fixtures are the latest result of an ongoing, multi-year collaboration between Cree and Zumtobel.

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In response to the increasing energy price and the global warming problem, LED related application imbued with energy-saving concept is thriving nowadays. To accommodate the growing LED lighting market, many industrial countries established LED related policies to support this prospective industry. After launching CLG-100 series, MEAN WELL introduced another 96W cost effective metal case LED power supplies with active PFC function and IP66 level ~ CEN-100 series.

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), today introduced a complete LED lighting driver reference board in collaboration with Lemnis Lighting to help address three important issues: cost, dimming and efficacy. The TPS92010 LED-lamp Reference Board applies TI’s semiconductor technology for general LED lighting and Lemnis Lighting’s expertise in dimmable lighting applications. The board can help speed adoption of energy-saving retrofit LED light bulbs.

Tess, a LED lighting developer and manufacturer in Taiwan, today announces its 10W/1,000lm LED bulb designed with CREE inside. The latest Tess 10W/1,000lm LED bulb delivers luminous efficiency of 100lm/W which is the most updated standard of the world and can replace 100W incandescent bulb with life time up to 10,000 hours.

OSRAM’s recently developed LED light engines manage the balancing act between maximum efficiency and light quality – with a light output of 122lm/W they achieve a new maximum with excellent colour reproduction (CRI >90, 2,700K). The Munich lighting manufacturer’s latest LED innovation is a winner with its warm white light (2,700K), colour-rendering index (CRI) of more than 90 and luminous flux of over 1,800lm while using only 15W of power. With its compact size it is especially suited to integration in downlights or spots.

China (Shanghai) International LED Industrial Technology Expo & LED Luminary and City Lighting Exhibition will be on July 7, 2010 in Shanghai.

Digital Lumens, the developer of the industry's first Intelligent Lighting System™, today announced that Michael Feinstein has joined the company as Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Feinstein brings more than 25 years' experience in product management, marketing, sales and, for the past 10 years, as an investor and entrepreneur involved in markets that included clean energy and software.

With T8 Substitube OSRAM provides a long-lasting LED alternative to T8 fluorescent lamps Saving energy could hardly be easier – existing lighting installations with regular T8 36W fluorescent lamps and conventional control gear can now be switched to economical LED technology with OSRAM’s high-performance T8 Substitube. T8 fluorescent lamps with conventional control gear are still used in many areas but OSRAM is the first major lighting manufacturer to develop a solution to replace them with energy-efficient and long-lasting LED lamps with one simple twist.

Bruck Lighting Systems, Inc. announces the launch of the new Ledra® Chroma and Chroma II. This is a fully adjustable, high-output 10W LED spot fixture with industry-best fixture-to-fixture color consistency of unprecedented +/- 50 Kelvin. This is achieved through the use of a single-source LED module with patented cold remote phosphor technology developed by Xicato, Inc.

New higher lumen packages and additional color temperature choices for commercial and residential general lighting applications