Eating out has become increasingly commonplace in today’s busy life. This has triggered an urgent need for a sanitizing product that is portable, environmentally friendly, and leaves no chemical residue. ITRI developed a one-of-a-kind "Pocket Chopstick Sanitizer," which in just 90 seconds can kill 99.99% of E.coli and other pathogens. This innovation wins the COMPUTEX Best Choice Award 2016 and will be unveiled on May 31 at COMPUTEX Taipei. 

Access Fixtures, an industry leader in commercial and industrial LED lighting, is announcing the launch of new 2' and 4' new high-performance, purpose-built vapor tight linear luminaires with integrated LED arrays and drivers. In all categories, the 4' vapor tight linear luminaires exceed the performance of two-lamp T12 and T8 vapor tight linear fluorescent fixtures: they are dimmable, offer more lumens per watt, more overall lumens, and—perhaps most importantly—they are available from Access Fixtures at less than $90.00.

Commissioning and programming is both simple and intuitive, and various scenes, zones and effects are easily set using a rotary button. Programming knowledge or software is not required and the operating terminal designed for wall mounting features a high quality glass surface.

Molekule, a science and clean technology company, today introduced the world's first molecular air purifier. Molekule's patented technology brings a fundamentally new approach to air purification by completely eliminating the full spectrum of indoor pollutants, breaking them down on a molecular level.

Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe showcased its technology lineup for PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) 2016, which took place May 10 - 12 in Nuremberg, Germany. At Stand 429 in Hall 6 the company highlighted industry-leading innovations -- including passive components, semiconductors and thermal management solutions -- that provide increased efficiency and reliability for a wide range of applications.

AcroOptics, a research lighting company with product lines focused on aquaculture, algaculture, horticulture and biological research, has developed the CRAVE LED Reef Aquarium Lighting System, a configurable native habitat simulation lighting system for aquaculture and reef aquariums, illuminated with LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors.

Citing energy savings between 40% - 50% with matching light levels and quality, a report published by the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Green Proving Ground (GPG) program recommended plug-and-play LED downlight lamps as a replacement for compact fluorescent lamps. Plug-and-play LED downlamps used for this evaluation were provided by Lunera® Lighting.

MaxLite introduces the DiscMAX LED Post Top Luminaire as energy efficient lighting with architectural appeal for parking areas and large outdoor spaces.

The Taris luminaire family designed by the renowned Berlin design studios of Aisslinger has an elegant and integrative design with a new Optical Core System based on a combination of louvre and lens technology. Peripheral light-guiding structures ensure high visual comfort, and thanks to very good glare reduction (UGR <= 19) the product range is ideal for lighting in offices and public buildings complying with current standards.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced component solutions, today announced that its test lab for LED packages and modules has been qualified by UL (Underwriters Laboratories), a widely-recognized global safety science organization, to operate the UL Total Certification Program (TCP), one of the highest levels of testing and qualification under the UL Data Acceptance Program (DAP).

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI), today announced an expansion to its portfolio of 48V Gallium Nitride (GaN) RF power transistors optimized for Doherty power amplifiers for use in current and next-generation cellular base stations. The four new transistors collectively cover cellular bands from 1805 to 3600 MHz, meeting the needs of wireless carriers for superior performance at higher frequencies.

iDevices®, the preeminent brand in the smart home industry, announces the availability of Socket. This latest innovation allows you to turn any ordinary light bulb into a connected bulb quickly and easily. Simply screw Socket into your favorite lighting fixture and insert any standard bulb to enjoy the peace of mind that comes from the ability to control your lighting from anywhere.

Cree, extends the groundbreaking performance of its industry-leading OSQ Series Area and Flood LED luminaires, delivering up to 58% more efficacy on existing lumen packages at up to 136 lumens-per-watt (LPW) for increased energy savings. The series also now offers a new OSQ™ 28L Outdoor Area and Flood LED luminaire option, delivering up to 28,285 lumens and enabling the replacement of HID fixtures up to 1000W. The result is better light for more applications, including open parking, walkway and common area within commercial, residential, healthcare, campus and municipal environments.

Alpha Assembly Solutions, the world leader in the production of electronic soldering and bonding materials, plan to showcase their vast LED materials portfolio and will present a technical paper at the upcoming Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (GILE) taking place June 9th – 12th in China.

GlacialTech, the diversified LED technology provider, announces a new LED Flood Light Knock Down Kit for 80W to 100W LEDs. The Igloo SS80 is sold as either a thermally efficient heatsink or Semi-Knocked Down Kit (SKD) package including heatsink, mounting bracket, reflector, and a waterproof glass cover or CoB Lens.

MaxLite continues to expand its award-winning portfolio of ENEGY STAR certified LED lamps with the 3-Way Omnidirectional A-Lamp.

RAB Lighting extends its line of popular ALED area lights with the addition of new high lumen output models. The 360-Watt ALED delivers over 37,000 lumens and replaces 1000 Watt metal halide fixtures using 67% less energy. The 260-Watt version has an ultra-high efficacy rating of 108 lumens per Watt and offers an even more energy efficient option when a full 1000W equivalent is not necessary. These high output fixtures are ideal for a wide variety of applications including high mast lighting for recreation fields, tennis courts and large parking lots.

Fairchild (NASDAQ: FCS), a leading global supplier of high-performance semiconductor solutions, introduced the newFL77944, the first solution in its LED Direct AC Drive family of solid-state LED lighting solutions that manufacturers can use to easily scale power and create smart and scalable LED-based lighting products that can be smaller, have higher performance and a longer system lifetime compared to products using the switch mode power supply (SMPS) approach. 

Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic, analog and mixed-signal semiconductor markets, today announced the AL1676. This universal AC-input LED driver is designed to meet or exceed worldwide power-factor regulations for non-dimmable retrofit LED bulbs and tube lighting, providing a design that also delivers high efficiency and a low BOM cost. Options for the integrated MOSFET allow for 300V to 650V drain voltages and 1A to 4A drain currents in order to suit most 3W to 18W bulb requirements.

Universal Display Corporation (Nasdaq: OLED), enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED® technology and materials, today announced that it will showcase the Company’s latest advances at the Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week 2016 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition being held from May 22-27 in San Francisco, California. At Booth #604 in the Moscone Convention Center, the Company will exhibit its phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED) Color Board from May 24-26. The Color Board demonstrates a selection of UDC’s high-performing, energy-efficient commercial and developmental red, yellow, green, light blue and blue UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent material systems.

Ahead of InfoComm 2016, Sony has today announced the launch of its CLEDIS™ display technology, a new large-scale canvas solution that builds on Sony’s self-emitting display capabilities, but with ultrafine LEDs as the light source, to deliver a single high-resolution image at an unprecedented scale. The solution has been designed to redefine the landscape for large-scale display and visual entertainment by delivering a totally new visual experience not possible today with even the highest-end conventional LED array.

EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS, a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry, presents four new ceramic high reflective packaged high power automotive LEDs with a Golden Lead Frame in four different colors White, PC-Amber, Red and Super Red, according to their preferred exterior applications.

RayVio Corp., an advanced health and hygiene company, today announced that it has launched a new series of ultraviolet (UV) LEDs with the highest power output available from a small surface mount device (SMD) footprint. RayVio’s leading technology enables the UV disinfection of water and environments by fostering a new generation of powerful and portable health and hygiene devices.

SUSS MicroTec, a global supplier of equipment and process solutions for the semiconductor industry and related markets, has launched the LI Series - a new Surface Laser Imaging platform as pre- announced on May 4, 2016.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) extends its industry-leading street lighting portfolio, delivering more performance and efficiency breakthroughs with the next generation of its new Cree® XSP HO Series. Leveraging the innovations from the existing Cree XSP Series LED street light platform, the new XSP HO Series features an increased level of lumens and up to 25 percent more LPW over the standard XSP Series. Now available in new packages up to 18,523 lumens and 116 LPW, the new XSP HO Series is ideal for any roadway, enabling better light for new applications ranging from collector roads to highways.

Barberán will demonstrate Phoseon's LED curing solutions with optimized coatings from Sherwin-Williams at the upcoming Xylexpo exhibition for woodworking (Hall 1 - Stand G02 G10 M01). Phoseon's FireJet™ FJ200 light sources are utilized for the full cure LED clear coating, and the FireEdge™ FE200 light sources will be used for the top coat finish in-line on Barberán's Jetmaster digital printing and finishing line.

Thomas Research Products has introduced a series of low wattage LED drivers designed for use in outdoor fixtures. These models include phase dimming control and are hazardous location rated. Thomas Research Products manufactures SSL power and control solutions.

Lumileds launches its second generation LUXEON CoB Compact Range LEDs, which feature an efficacy and output boost of up to 16% over its previous generation arrays. The new product line reinforces Lumileds leading position in chip on board technology by enabling the most cost effective solid state PAR, GU-10 and MR-16 lamps for retail, hospitality and home lighting applications.

Embedded systems display specialist Intelligent Display Solutions (IDS) launched a new series of OLED display panels at this year's H/WExpo, the hardware developers’ conference

Luminis, an established innovator and manufacturer of specification grade, interior and exterior lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, retail, recreational and urban environments, today announced the launch of its new LumiSTIK product family. Consisting of a range of columns, bollards, pendants and wall mounted luminaires, LumiSTIK products are suited to site lighting applications where public space enhancement is the goal.