2013-07-25

Acuity Brands Introduces New BR LED Lamps with Warm Illumination, Long Life and Energy Savings

Acuity Brands, Inc. expands the Acculamp® economy grade series to include BR LED lamps—BR20, BR30 and the voluminous BR40. All three BR LED lamps deliver the warm illumination traditionally associated with incandescent BR lamps, while using 83 percent less energy and delivering an expected service life of more than 45 years. Additionally, BR LED lamps resemble the physical look of incandescent bulbs. BR 40_product “New BR LED lamps provide an energy-efficient solution that maintains the warm light output from traditional sources,&rd...
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2013-07-23

Ledzworld Launches Industry First 1000 Lumen AR-111

Ledzworld Technology, an innovative technology company that supplies customized LED solutions for professional end-users, launches an industry first AR-111 with 1000 lumen.           The lamp features is single focus with the latest RGOT (Reduced Glare Optical Technology) that uses a diamond cut optical lens which is machined using high natural or synthetic diamond-tipped tool bits. RGOT achieves higher accuracy and precision that reduces glare and provides better control on the beam angle.      ...
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2013-07-15

Khatod Releases Its Newest Series of Ultra Narrow Punch Beam Lenses

Khatod aims to deliver its customers the best in LED lensing, products and technologies that far surpass the traditional ones. Continuous Innovation together with High Project Potential are essential key points allowing Khatod to be always on the leading edge of product innovation. Always in this spirit, Khatod is proud to introduce the newest series of Ultra Narrow Punch Beam Lenses able to perform an exceptional sharp and tight 3° Angle Beam. The Ultra Narrow Lenses from Khatod are TIR (Total Internal Reflection) high efficiency lenses designed f...
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2013-07-10

Philips Works with Disney to Launch Innovative Lighting Products for Children

Royal Philips yesterday announced a set of innovative lighting applications, inspiring and playful lighting products designed to bring the Disney magic to life for kids and families through lighting. Combining Philips’ expertise in lighting with Disney’s beloved characters, these lighting products enable the interaction between children and Disney stories and characters. The revolutionary connected lighting concept allows children and parents to connect e-books with their lighting to interactively create a magical lighting experience that makes reading more fun and...
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2013-07-10

Alliance Optotek Received the 2013 LEDinside Aurora Award for Best Street Light

Since its launch in the fourth quarter of 2008, the AOP 24W LED Street Light has been one of the best-selling products on the market for almost five years. The product has been developed by AOP to satisfy the demand for low energy consumption street lights. It won the LED inside Aurora Awards 2013 for best Street and Security Light at the LED forum in Guangzhou recently. Due to its perfect design and stable product quality, the product has been sold in many regions (including the bitter cold Hokkaido area and Brazil which is located at the equator) all ov...
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2013-07-10

GE’s Immersion™ RH30 LED Lighting Prompts Consumers in Grocery Store to Buy Goods

Grocery and convenience store owners now have an extra-appetizing lighting solution for open deck cases that delivers a quick payback without sacrificing performance: GE’s Immersion™ RH30 LED lighting system. GE’s new Immersion LED lighting system attracts customers by making food packages shine with crisp LED light. The refrigerated display lighting transforms horizontal cases housing fresh meat, packaged dairy and deli items, as well as service cases at butcher and seafood counters. GE's Immersion™ RH30 LED lighting system tr...
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2013-07-10

Acuity Brands Introduces 25W 2000 Lumen PAR38 LED Lamp Capable of Replacing 150W Halogen Bulbs

Acuity Brands, a North American market leader and one of the world's leading providers of lighting solutions for both indoor and outdoor applications, has extended the Acculamp specification grade series to involve a dimmable 25W 2000 lumen PAR38 LED lamp, which emits the highest light output of PAR38 LED lamps on the market to date. The PAR38 LED lamp is capable of replacing 150-watt halogen lamps; what's more, it can provide 83% energy savings when compared with traditional light sources. The Acculamp 2000 lumen PAR38 LED lamp is aesthetically co...
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2013-07-10

IWatt 8-Channel LED Backlight Driver Makes TV More Lifelike

IWatt Inc., a leading provider of digital-centric power management integrated circuits (ICs), yesterday debuted its new 8-channel LED backlight driver designed to deliver better screen performance and lower cost in next-generation 2D and 3D LCD TVs. The iW7019 gives designers a rich set of integrated features to improve picture quality and render a more lifelike viewer experience. These include both head and tail-mode pulse width modulation (PWM) dimming to reduce motion blur, and high-resolution, 12-bit local dimming to improve contrast ratio. The iW7019 also integrat...
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2013-07-09

Hubbell Lighting Develops New Kemlux III LED Series for Lighting Hostile Environments

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, yesterday launched an extremely durable industrial LED fixtures—Hubbell Industrial Lighting's Kemlux III LED Series. The Kemlux III LED Series are designed for installation in severe locations and is available for new installation or as a retrofit to existing Kemlux III fixtures. "The most hostile industrial locations require toughest light fixtures—Hubbell is the most idea for lighting the most challenging environments, while maximizing energy savings," said Scott Muse,...
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2013-07-05

Panasonic Develops Thermosetting Moulded Plastics to Improve Reflectivity of LED Light

When reflective material is used for LCD backlighting, because the brightness of the LED and the temperature gradually increases, it will cause yellowing phenomenon, which will led to light reflectivity recession. Panasonic launched a kind of thermosetting molded plastic FULL BRIGHT (Model: CE6000W) for LED white reflector cup, which can increase the reflectivity of light. Currently Panasonic has begun the production of samples. This thermosetting moulded plastic is expected to be put into mass production in the second half of 2013. Under the high temperatures...
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2013-07-02

Dialight Releases Its New LED Conveyor Light

Dialight, the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, yesterday announced a new style LED Conveyor Light. The fixture is designed specifically for using in severe environments like mining applications, where maintenance of thousands of light fittings installed on kilometres of conveyors and walkways across vast sites is an expensive and ongoing burden. With a five-year warranty, The CE certificated Dialight LED Conveyor Light is L70 rated for over 100,000 hours longevity offering minimal lumens. This rating far exceeds many other similar LED solut...
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2013-07-02

LG Chem Announces Flexible OLED Panels Making of Plastic Films

The OLED Light Division of LG Chem has stated that it has completed the development of its new plastic film type flexible OLED panels. The panels are manufactured through new processes and technologies using plastic films which enable the panels to be lighter and truly flexible. The truly flexible characteristics will enable unprecedented luminary designs and even wall paper lighting, as well as new lighting applications for automotive and airplane industry. Technologically, transparent polyimide substrate enables the panel to emit light towards bottom side; a new subs...
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2013-07-01

Acuity Brands Introduces New LED Flush Mount Luminaire From Lithonia Lighting

Acuity Brands, Inc. introduces the 7-inch LED Versi Lite™ flush mount luminaire from Lithonia Lighting®. The LED Versi Lite luminaire offers an 84 percent reduction of power consumption compared to 60-watt incandescent flush mount options and is designed for applications such as hallways and corridors, utility closets, bathrooms and work areas. The LED Versi Lite flush mount luminaire delivers an expected service life of 50,000 hours and produces 660 lumens with a high color-rendering index (CRI) of 85. It is available in a wide range of color t...
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2013-06-28

FLEDA TECH. Announce High Wattage Chip-on-board UV LED Solutions

FLEDA TECH. - located in TAIWAN, focusing on the chip-on-board technology of LED package with Copper-base and supplying the high wattage, high quality and high reliability LED lighting products. The unique surface technology for the Copper-base, enhance the reflective of light and the light efficacy of white LED can reach to 120lm/W, and decrease light decay by the surface damage and have 30,000hrs long life. Now the 6W-320W Chip-on-board type of LED products are available. At present, UV LED are the new issues at LED industry. FLEDA TEC...
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2013-06-21

Troy Lighting Showcases New RLM Fixtures at Dallas International Lighting Market

Collection is Made in the USA and draws inspiration from factory shades of the early 20th century  Troy Lighting is proud to showcase a number of pieces from its RLM collection at the summer Dallas International Lighting Market taking place from June 20-23, 2013. Inspired by factory shades of the early 20th century, these nostalgic fixtures (combined with updated lamping technology) are destined to be “classics” for home and commercial environments.
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2013-06-21

The Cooling Solutions for Edison Opto’s EdiLex Zhaga LED Modules

The combination of Edison Opto’s SLM module with MechaTronix’s ModuLED Passive Cooler  offers high lumen and perfect cooling performance     In order to enable the interchangeability of LED light sources made by different manufacturers, Zhaga, which is an industry-wide cooperation between companies, has defined interfaces for a variety of application-specific light engines. Although the LED engines which comply with the Zhaga standards all have the same shape and can be mounted in the same way, that doesn’t mean they all perfor...
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2013-06-18

NACTUS Optical System New Products for Optical Solutions for LED Lighting

NACTUS is a lighting module made of different optics  NACTUS is the first and unique Optical System using different optics with different geometries, combined and set together in the SAME SYSTEM. The core optics forming NACTUS are basically 6.  By acting on the optics while each module is injected, it is virtually possible to customize any application. NACTUS is a lighting module made of different optics, that can be used as a real single lens. The concept is simple: NACTUS maximizes the lighting beam through its optics, so creating a lighting beam of a certain power and fully configurable for the final application considered.
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2013-06-18

Dow Corning’s New Dispensable Thermal Pads Raise Performance, Lower System Costs for LED Lighting Applications

Source: Courtesy of Dow Corning   Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation,today introduced to the Asian market new Dow Corning® Dispensable Thermal Pads, an innovative newtechnology developed for more cost-effectivethermal management in LED lighting applications. The new silicone materials now enable LED lamp and luminaire manufacturers to quickly and precisely print a layer of thermally conductive silicone compound in controllable thicknesses on complex substrate shapes, while ensuring excellent thermal management...
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2013-06-18

Marl International Launches Brightest and Most Efficient Ever LED Devices

Marl International announced that it will be offering the second generation of Citizen Chip-on-Board (COB) LED die, which are its brightest and most efficient ever production LEDs. The new LEDs are up to 33% brighter and up to 38% more efficient than the first generation Citizen COB LED die.   Marl International is offering new generation Citizen LEDs in a range of five types with light outputs from 100 lumens to 20,190 lumens, to replace a variety of light sources from a 10W incandescent bulb to a 300W mercury floodlight. The LED die can deliv...
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2013-06-18

DuPont Circuit & Packaging Materials Brings New Production Capability Online for CooLam®

Taiwan-based Expansion to Boost Supply of Advanced Thermal Substrates for LED Lighting   DuPont Circuit & Packaging Materials, part of DuPont Electronics & Communications, announced today that it has increased its ability to produce and supply DuPont™ CooLam® thermal substrate products by more than seven times its previous level, to better serve its customers in the fast-growing global Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting market.  DuPont™ CooLam® thermal substrates are designed to dissipate heat in LED lighting appli...
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2013-06-17

New Lumex Flip Chip LEDs - Up to 15% Brighter, 5x Stronger, and 25% Cooler than Alternative Technologies

Lumex announces the global launch of its TitanBrite Wireless Bonded LED featuring “flip chips” that are up to 15% brighter than any others in the market. In addition to the standard 3W and 6W LEDs, Lumex’s TitanBrite Wireless Bonded LED is also available in 9W, ensuring Lumex’s wireless bonded LED is the brightest light source in the industry. Lumex’s TitanBrite Wireless Bonded LED offers several key performance benefits over traditional LEDs including enhanced durability, superior light performance and enhanced heat di...
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2013-06-11

SemiLEDs Broadens Vertical UV-LED Portfolio with Mid- and High-Power Offerings

Sets the standard for breadth of offerings in UV LEDs for industrial and specialty applications  SemiLEDs Corporation (NASDAQ: LEDS), the world leader in vertical UV-LED technology solutions, today announced the release of two new product families, the 10-watt high-power N9 series, and the 0.17 to 0.50-watt mid-power P50N series. Both product families take advantage of SemiLEDs unique patented vertical LED structure that delivers superior performance in directional industrial applications, such as printing, coating and curing, and specialty applications including signage and medical or cosmetic uses.  The N9 series, housed on a 9 x 9mm ceramic package, is offered in wavelengths from 385 to 420nm in 5nm bins. Drive currents up to 1,000mA delivers typical output of 5,000mW of optical power at the nominal 350mA drive rate at 30V . The lambertian output distribution is highly compatible with secondary optics to allow precise control of the high-intensity UV light. Compared to the standard 1000-4000 hour life of the incumbent UV lamp technologies, vertical UV-LED systems ......
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2013-06-11

Marl LEDs look the part for a handheld industrial instrument design

A quest for a very professional appearance allied with compact size led Instrument Installations Ltd to specify Marl 512 Series LEDs in its handheld actuator demonstration product range for use during client visit and training room demonstrations of Rotork actuators.  Appearance is increasingly as important in industrial instrumentation as it is in consumer electronics – especially during the critical sales phase, according to Chris Hill, Managing Director of Instrument Installations. He said, “The unit is intended to professionally demonstrate the key features of the actuators in formal client presentations in the field and at the training facility. It not only had to look great, but also has to be very easy and intuitive for the sales force to use, ensuring a really slick demonstration. .......
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2013-06-10

Mouser Stocking LUXEON M LEDs from Philips Lumileds Delivering High Flux Density & High Efficacy with Freedom from Binning™

Mouser Electronics, Inc. today announced it is stocking the new LUXEON® M LEDs from Philips Lumileds, delivering high flux density and high efficacy with Freedom From Binning™.
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2013-06-10

Mouser Electronics’ Lighting Applications Site Shines With Enhanced Features

        Mouser Electronics, Inc. today announced that its Lighting Applications site on Mouser.com covering the entire lighting ecosystem has been expanded to include featured products, a new application feature, and several of the latest lighting industry articles. The updated site helps design engineers find the latest lighting advancements, trends, and supporting product information in as few clicks as possible. A new featured products section has been added, including products from leading suppliers such as Philips Lumileds, Cree and OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. There is also a new featured application, the Instrument Cluster Backlight, with a block diagram and other supporting resources. The articles section has been updated as well to include the latest lighting articles by Philips Lumileds, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, and Mouser.
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2013-06-10

“The Future.Illuminated.” GE Lighting’s Debuts Innovative Commercial LED Products via Vertical Lighting Solutions at 2013 Guangzhou Lighting Fair

 Albeo ABHX-Series offers increased energy savings for high ceilings     Lumination EL Series creates visually striking possibilities for retail and office spaces.  GE Lighting today launched two commercial LED products - Albeo ABHX-series and Lumination EL series - in Asia at the 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. The Albeo ABHX series LED High Bay lighting fixture sets a new performance benchmark for areas with high ceilings while the Lumination EL series LED Luminaire represents an unconventional design which slashes energy costs at the same time. These two new products will be available in China, Australia and South East Asia in Q4 2013. These latest additions to GE’s extensive line of innovative and energy-efficient commercial lighting solutions will help to further fulfill business owners’ unique lighting needs.  “We stand at the precipice of a sea change in the lighting industry with the LED lighting market leading an unprecedented worldwide growth. Globally, the potential is huge in the LED lighting industry and the growth in Asia has been even more dramatic,” said Ms. Jane Lo, GM of Asia Product Management, GE Lighting Asia. “Given the innovative energy saving features and high degree of adaptability ......
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2013-06-08

TI Releases New LED Drivers for Retrofitting Light Bulb Design Simplify

Industry’s smallest and easy-to-use drivers reduce component count and solution size Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has introduced the industry’s smallest off-line, phase-dimmable, constant-current lighting controller and an easy-to-use lighting driver that simplify the retrofit of a variety of LED bulbs, including E14, GU10, A19, PAR20/30/38, MR16 and AR111. The TPS92075 controller and TPS92560 driver reduce component count and solution size while improving compatibility with legacy lighting controls. The TPS92075 is designed for phase-dim...
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2013-06-07

Hubbell Outdoor Lighting Releases LED Versions of Popular Roadway and Canopy Lighting Products

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced three new high-performance LED outdoor lighting solutions—Hubbell Outdoor Lighting’s LED ceiling/canopy/parking garage fixture (NRG4000) and two LED roadway luminaires (RM and RL). Making a good thing even better, the company has taken three of its popular selling products, hundreds of thousands sold to date, and dramatically increased the efficiency and performance of them by upgrading the light sources to LED. Made in the USA, the new NRG4000 LED Lumasquare® II is base...
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2013-06-06

Fairchild Semiconductor's 100V BoostPak Solution Provides Improved Reliability, Reduces System Costs in LED Applications

Integrated Solution Features MOSFET and Diode in One Package, Simplifying Board Assembly and Saving Space Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile semiconductor solutions, optimizes the MOSFET and diode selection process by introducing a family of 100 V BoostPak devices that combines a MOSFET and diode in one package to replace discrete solutions currently used in LED TV / monitor backlight, LED lighting and DC-DC converter applications. By integrating the MOSFET and diode into a single...
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2013-06-06

Lextar Developed Direct LED TV Backlight to Promote Its Overall Revenue in the Second Half of this Year

In view of the news that the panel manufacturers have lowered the predicated value of annual shipments, Lextar said that it has not heard of the news up to now that the backlighting customers intend to adjust orders, and Lextar has developed a direct LED TV backlighting and high definition 4K2K TV product technology, which is expected to be significantly fermented in the second half of this year. Lextar will remain stable growth in its LED backlight business in this year. In terms of the mobile devices, Lextar stated that the revenue of mobile phone and tablet backlighti...
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Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, is launching a white LED (Part No. NS2W806H-B2) designed for LCD backlighting. This product adds a new green chip in addition to the exist... READ MORE

Macroblock has successfully obtained ISO 26262 functional safety development process certification. This internationally authoritative certification underscores Macroblock’s commitment to adhering to the highest functional safety standards ... READ MORE