Recently, Researchers from Dresden's University of Technology (TU Dresden) have made a breakthrough on a highly efficient white top-emitting OLED design that feature "outstanding" color quality, and is compatible with flexible OLEDs. In this new design a refractive index matched microlens film was laminated to the top-emitting OLED to form direct optical contact. It has a CRI of 93, CIE coordinates of (0.472, 0.430) and an emission from 410 to 750 nm that almost spans the complete visible spectrum (380 to 780 nm). The efficiency is up to 30 lm/W...

The OLG Karlsruhe and the Landgericht Mannheim has confirmed that 10 of the claims against DOMINANT are not valid. As a result of the proceedings, the Federal Patent Court of Germany have also nullified 4 OSRAM intellectual property rights and the European Patent Office has revoked one. Osram has been ordered to pay court fees. Following the ruling, Higher Regional Court Karlsruhe only considered two OSRAM patents have been infringed. Dominant has filed oppositions against the validity of these patents and is pending. We remain confident in nullify...

Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced that they entered into a patent license agreement with Cooper Industries. The license provides Cooper with full access to the Philips’ LED-related patented technologies that Philips makes available to the lighting industry through its LED Luminaire and Retrofit Bulb licensing program. “We are very pleased that Cooper has joined our licensing program. We believe having such an open and accessible license program is greatly assisting in accelerating the adoption of LED lighting and fostering the growth of...

Reportedly, Phillips’ LED lighting has been installed in Phoenix Children's Hospital, to create an escape for the hospital's patients and families and a distraction from the medical ailments surrounding them. The lighting design of the project was led by Dallas-based Scott Oldner Lighting Design using innovative interior and exterior LED lighting from Philips Color Kinetics. The lighting solution from Philips Color Kinetics was used to outline the building's distinctive architectural fins, while creating a visual canvas to display artistic animat...

It’s reported that LUXEON A has started mass production and has been submitted for an Innovation Award at Lightfair 2011. As the second hot tested and specified LUXEON LED from Philips Lumileds this year, it has also delivers on the promise of Freedom From Binning. Advanced manufacturing control allows the company to so accurately target a specific correlated color temperature that each LUXEON A LED falls within one 3 step MacAdam ellipse space at actual operating conditions. According to Steve Barlow, Sr. VP of Sales and Marketin...

Jenoptik´s business unit Optoelectronic Systems, which experts in manufacturing optoelectronic systems and polymer optical components, has joined force with LEIDS GmbH & Co. KG to present innovative LED illumination solutions at the  tradeshow transport logistic 2011 for the first time. The two companies have agreed to sign a development and cooperation agreement in the field of LED industrial lighting which runs for 5 years. Under the cooperation, they mainly targets at the common development and production of components, modules and highly efficient...

Reportedly, Philips’ SpeedStar LED road lighting luminaire has received the 2011 red dot design award under the product design category. Designed as a carbon-neutral lighting solution, SpeedStar LED road lighting luminaire enables the creation of more livable urban environment. with an easy replaceable compact flat LED engine, it’s capable of providing the flexibility of a modular system, resulting in bright, functional road lighting. Additionally, it instills an easy-to-upgrade LEDGINE, which can be connected to lighting regulation systems for fu...

Reportedly, to celebrate London 2012 Olympic Games, Tower Bridge wil be decorated with a new state-of-the-art lighting system following a deal that includes Olympic sponsors, GE and EDF. A new LED-based lighting system will replace the current flood lighting system under a deal between City Hall, the City of London Corporation, EDF and GE. As part of the deal EDF, who are the sustainability partners of London 2012 and a Tier One sponsor, will become the lighting electricity supplier for the Bridge and has agreed to match every unit of electricity suppl...

Aluwave is a rapidly growing provider of customised LED-modules and systems that can include all necessary components such as LED-module, driver, optics and thermal solution. We offer short time to market and have working experience from several demanding industries. Aluwave develops and delivers LED-modules and systems primarily within the segments for General, Street- Technical and Vehicle lighting. The solutions are based on superior products and extensive knowhow within thermal management. The foundation of Aluwave is based on the expertise in thermal management ...

It’s reported that Octa Light, which is a privately-held company owned by major investors Monbat PLC (50.5% shareholding) and Octagon International (49.5%), held an official opening ceremony for the first high-power LED assembly line in Bulgaria in mid February. The new facility includes a 4000 sq.m build area, laboratories, clean rooms and lighting-fixture manufacturing areas. It also launched its first packaged LED named Bullstar. The first Bullstar LEDs offer full color-binning according to the ANSI standard, including cool white (6500K, 5700 K), n...

Philips Lumileds is announced to make a LED lighting industry breakthrough on “Freedom From Binning”, which will relieve luminaire manufacturers’ and lighting designers’ concerns over white light consistency and uniformity and will simplify the design process for LED solutions. With Philips Lumileds “ Freedom From Binning” vision, white LUXEON emitters will be uniform and consistent that there will be no color bin selections. Buyers of the new LEDs, initially released at CCTs of 2700K and 3000K with others to follow, w...

New Mask Aligner Delivers Highest-in-Class Throughput and Yield EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer-bonding and lithography equipment for the advanced semiconductor and packaging, MEMS, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and emerging nanotechnology markets, announced the latest addition to its portfolio of products created to optimize the manufacture of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB-LEDs), compound semiconductors and power electronics.  The new EVG620HBL fully automated mask alignment system builds on EVG's field-proven mask aligner...

AIXTRON SE announced a new order for MOCVD reactors from existing customer, the Institute of Semiconductors Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS). The order comprises one AIX 200/4 in the 3x2-inch wafer configuration and one AIX 2600G3 IC in the 8x3-inch wafer configuration.   The Beijing, PR China based institute placed the order during the third quarter of 2010 and following delivery in the second quarter of 2011, the systems will be used for production of electronic devices and red LEDs. The local AIXTRON support team will commission ...

Manchester based MHA Lighting, which specialises in innovative lighting solutions, has win contract to transform the design of the car park fittings at the Manchester Airport Car Parks. It’s said that MHA Lighting replaces the two thousand 80w bulbs across the two car parks with 30 and 40 Watt LED units in a move which will halve carbon emissions and cut energy bills by an estimated 60%.  ...

The manufacturer of bedside Smart Terminals for hospitals JAOtech will release the world’s first large screen ultra-thin medical LED TV with built-in computer applied for healthcare applications such as patient entertainment and clinical access. The 40” model is ultra thin at just 1.6” thick, and is designed for the medical environment with an IP rated waterproof screen tested against hospital cleaning agents. The fan-less embedded computer uses the latest Intel Atom processor technology providing low noise and power consumption coupled with high reliabi...

It’s reported that Philips Ledalite has developed a new product Jump™ - a high performance direct luminaire with LEDs or fluorescent light sources. Philips Ledalite's unique LEDLOGIQ™ design approach features MesoOptics® holographic nanotechnology, which makes spaces more visually comfortable by optimally blending light and color, controlling high angle glare and creating a precise batwing distribution, while concealing the light source. It also integrates Philips Ledalite daylight harvesting sensors and Airwave wireless, battery-free, s...

Allegro MicroSystems Europe has designed a new family of constant-current LED driver ICs, the A6261/62/64 devices, suitable for internal and external illumination applications in the automotive market.