As Japan closed its last nuclear reactor a few days ago, the country’s electricity shortage is estimated to surge to 13% this summer. And industry executives estimated the power shortage may run up to 20% if the summer heat rises higher than expected. But it brings new opportunities to Taiwan Delta Electronics Inc., Lextar Electronics Corp. Since the March 11 earthquakes of 2011, Japanese market for the energy-saving lamps has been thriving. LED lamps in Japan’s market is estimated to spike 69% to 373.8 billion yen (US$4.6 billion at US$1:80 yen) this yea...

Philips will be showcasing the company's next generation LED lighting solutions at Booth # 208, Lightfair International. Offerings from Philips Color Kinetics, Philips Lamps, Philips Lightolier, Philips Lumec, Philips Lumileds, Philips Lumiblade OLED, Philips Teletrol and Philips Wide-Lite will be showcased, demonstrating the latest LED systems for architectural, outdoor, retail, and consumer applications. Highlights include: A breakthrough dimmable 100-watt LED equivalent lamp using just 23 watts to deliver nearly 1700 lumens that will b...

Agreement covers Rambus’ patented innovations for edge-lit lighting solutions Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, and Rambus Inc., one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, announced they have signed a licensing agreement for the use of Rambus' patented lighting innovations. Cooper will focus on creating LED-based lighting fixtures for commercial, industrial and utility markets.  "As a leading provider of innovative, hi...

Industry Leaders Integrate LED Products and Controls for Maximum Energy Efficiency The growing demand for energy-efficient LED lighting solutions combined with increasingly stringent energy and building codes require an advanced level of lighting and control integration.  Cree, Inc. announces a first-of-its-kind agreement with Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. to embed Lutron EcoSystem® technology on a chip in Cree® luminaires to accelerate LED adoption and increase energy efficiency for building designers, contractors and owners.   The combina...

•    Ohio-based GE scientists, engineers and product designers worked to leapfrog the competition and go beyond industry expectations for a 75-watt incandescent replacement being introduced first •    New 27-watt GE Energy Smart® LED bulb results from collaboration with ecomaginationSM Challenge winner Nuventix, creator of LED cooling technologies for energy-efficient lighting   GE Lighting (NYSE: GE) this week will illuminate a light-emitting diode replacement for the 100-watt incandescent light bulb—develo...

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) at a meeting on May 2 approved the solar lightening project besides five more development initiatives, involving a total of Taka 875 crore. Under the ‘Solar Street Lighting Program in City Corporation’ project, the Power Division will introduce solar energy-driven LED technology covering one thousand kilometers of streets of Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet and Rangpur city corporations. The project would be implemented during January 2012-December 2015 pe...

Recently, researchers from Japan and California have jointly made a breakthrough on blue and green LEDs to reduce efficiency droop. According to the research team, they designed low droop and high efficacy LEDs by altering the direction of the crystal structure within semiconductor films. Droop refers to significant drop in efficiency at extreme currents. It is one of the major factors that retard the growth of the solid-state lighting market. Household bulbs generate white light due to the mix of wavelengths with the hue produced from blue and green LEDs. These valuab...

Pacific Light Technologies working from the Portland State University Business Accelerator, has landed a $3 million venture capital round led by local investor groups. The company has closed $2 million of the Series A round led by the Oregon Angel Fund and Portland-based venture capital firm Pivotal Investments. CEO Ron Nelson, who also contributed to the round, said another $1 million has been committed and should close by the end of July. The 13-person company is developing a technology which will allow manufacturers of long-lasting LED lights to provide be...

New Luminaire Collection features intelligent design, innovative technology and customization Steve Grossman, CEO of Cathode Lighting Systems, in Gaithersburg, MD is pleased to introduce a non-traditional, specialty architectural brand – VoksLyte.  Promising intelligent luminaire design for the discriminating palette, VoksLyte’s mission is to produce the highest quality most thoughtfully designed nontraditional fixtures available, utilizing the latest solid-state technology or the most appropriate traditional light sources. “VoksLyte was crea...

Recently, NGK Insulators Ltd has made a breakthrough on LED Luminous Efficiency with a gallium nitride (GaN) wafer. The company claims that the new GaN wafer can realize twice as high a luminous efficiency as existing LED light sources (200lm/W). According to the company, it realized a transparent and colorless wafer with a low defect density by using its own liquid phase growth method for a single-crystal growth process. Generally, existing LED devices have an internal quantum efficiency of 30-40% (with a current of 200mA). However, under the help of a resea...

Sunovia Energy Technologies, has been issued U.S. Patent No. 8,018,161 B2 relating to the wireless control and battery backed operation of LED lighting systems. And the company also plans to license this technology as well as integrate the proprietary controls into its utility and commercial product lines. According to the company, the issuance of patent no. 8,018,161 B2 provides additional protections for Sunovia's proprietary brand of EvoLucia Aimed Optics(TM) products, and fortifies the company's strategic initiatives to further advance the controls and mon...

Following Light+Building 2012, more than ten members will be exhibiting Zhaga-compliant LED products at Lightfair International  “Our specifications substantially change the LED lighting market by reducing the risks of developing LED lighting products”, Menno Treffers, Secretary General at Zhaga, gets to the heart of the matter – the future belongs to the interchangeability of LED light sources from different manufacturers. This was recently experienced by the 200,000 visitors who attended Light+Building. “The reactions to Zhaga w...

New Cree LMH2 Module Delivers Unparalleled Efficacy and Design Flexibility Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) expands the recently launched 2000 and 3000 lumen LMH2 module family and delivers lighting manufacturers a new dome lens and universal driver with dimming options. The new lens enables up to a five percent increase in system efficacy compared to the standard lens and delivers an unrivalled hemispheric light pattern. Cree LMH2 modules enable true 50 watt and 70 watt ceramic metal halide LED replacements and support an expansive range of lighting applications, i...

Breakthrough new technology enables digital control of LED lighting over existing AC power lines, and reduces installation costs by 30% Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, announced the availability of Lumentalk™, a patent-pending technology that enables digital control of LED lighting over existing AC power lines, maximizing cost and energy savings. Lumentalk will debut at Booth #6618 at Lightfair International 2012, May 9...

GE’s award-winning Energy Smart® Bright from the StartTM bulb is the nation’s first hybrid CFL light bulb to receive ENERGY STAR® qualification. This innovative hybrid bulb combines the best features of an incandescent, CFL and halogen bulb in one. The result is an instant-on technology that uses 75 percent less energy than an incandescent bulb and lasts eight times longer.   “The ENERGY STAR qualification is just one more validation of how truly special this light bulb is,” says Jeff Patton, general manager of con...

AIXTRON SE today announced that long-time customer Formosa Epitaxy Inc. (FOREPI) has placed a new order for several MOCVD systems. The order is made up of four CRIUS II-XL systems in a 19x4-inch wafer configuration as well as two G5 HT reactors in a 14x4-inch wafer configuration, which are to be used for the manufacturing of ultra-high brightness (UHB) GaN-based blue and white LEDs. FOREPI placed the order in the second quarter of 2012 and following their delivery between the third and fourth quarter of 2012, the systems will be installed ...

Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), the global leader in LED lighting technology, announced that the company became a fully registered, FPAL-certified oil & gas industry supplier on 19 April 2012. FPAL, a supplier management services solution provided by the Achilles Group, coordinates thorough evaluations of UK, Dutch and Irish oil & gas industry suppliers, enabling purchasing members to comply with EU Utilities Procurement Directives. “We’re extremely pleased to have achieved FPAL certification,” said Dave Richardson, Chief Executive ...

Explores How We See and Use Color in Commercial and Architectural Lighting Tivoli®, LLC announces the publication of a two new AIA Continuing Education courses entitled, “How We See Color” and “How We Use Color”.  The two part series features courses specifically designed to explain the mysteries of the human eye and how it adapts to its environment and what affect this has in your overall environment and lighting design.  The second part of the course presents recommendations and solutions on how to use color to achieve th...

New ground breaking 114LPW technology to be showcased at Lightfair 2012 Hubbell Outdoor Lighting Inc. is proud to announce that the award winning Roadway LED lighting system has now exceeded performance featuring  114LPW.  The Roadway RM LED retrofit series features a complete 3G rated retrofit luminaire suitable for replacing most 150w traditional ‘cobraheads’,  producing 7378 lumens at an industry-leading efficiency of 114.6 lumens per watt (LPW)! A retrofit kit is available that allows the use of the existing luminaire to further r...

Recently, Taiwan LED companies have taken an active part in latest international lighting fairs, such as the one in Hannover, Las Vegas, Guangzhou and Taipei. As a result, Taiwan’s industry executives are inspired to make bright forecast on the outlook for the LED lighting market. They estimated Taiwan’s LED-lighting suppliers would enjoy hefty sales at least this quarter and next thanks to brisk demands with the upcoming implementation of new electricity rates. According to Taiwan’s LED-lighting suppliers, they shipped two to three-fold more ...

Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (SETi) and Cascade Designs, Inc. of Seattle, have jointly developed UV LEDs for commercial, military and disaster relief/humanitarian applications. SETi’s germicidal UV LEDs will provide potable water to small groups from any source of fresh water anywhere. Germicidal UV LEDs are a new technology that offer an alternative to mercury lamps or chemical treatment and enables a compact, lightweight and mechanically robust disinfection solution that can stand up to the rigors of military and humanitarian use and, when po...

GE Lighting announced it is aligning its Lighting Solutions sales and applications solutions teams with its North America professional sales teams under a single structure and single leader. Jaime Irick, who has been leading GE Lighting Solutions-GE's LED and lighting fixtures business-will now be responsible for all sales activities of all lighting technologies in GE Lighting's commercial and industrial product portfolio as general manager for the new organization named North America Professional Solutions. Dan Jenkins will continue to lead GE Lighting&...

Acuity Brands Introduces Two New Products that Display Unique Characteristics of OLED Lighting Technology Canvis and Trilia debut at LIGHTFAIR 2012 in Acuity Brands booth #4108.    At LIGHTFAIR® International 2012 Tradeshow and Conference, Acuity Brands, Inc. is showcasing two new OLED luminaire designs, Canvis™ and Trilia™, which will be offered by Winona Lighting. Both of the new lighting series explore the advanced design and performance capabilities of OLED technology, featuring unique configurations a...

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that Hangzhou Silan Azure Co. Ltd., a leading LED manufacturer in China, has placed a multi-tool order for Veeco's TurboDisc® K465i™ Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems. The equipment will be used to expand Silan’s manufacturing capacity for blue and green high brightness light emitting diodes (HB LEDs).

Taiwan Delta Electronics has announced to boom its LED lighting production capacity by 150% in 2013 to cater for brisk demand. According to the company, its weekly shipments of LED lamps in April have risen three times from March and its production lines will be inundated with orders at least through July, mainly benefiting from Taiwan’s spectacular hikes of electricity rates enforced on May 15. In addition, Delta is in talks with several Japanese buyers over fresh orders for the lamps. The company’s executives expected more contracts from Japan this yea...

Recently, Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has announced to set up a joint venture with Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. (Toyoda Gosei), for GaN LED Business by the end of 2012. SDK is producing and selling a wide variety of LED chips, including aluminum-gallium-indium-phosphide (AlGaInP), gallium-arsenide (GaAs), gallium-phosphide (GaP), and GaN. It will split its business in gallium-nitride (GaN)-based blue LED chips, and transfer 70% of shares in the new company to Toyoda Gosei. The joint venture will be established in the area of GaN LED chips being pr...

O2Micro(R) International Limited was issued 20 claims under United States patent number 8,111,017 for its Circuits and Methods for LED Free Dimming(TM) control. Free Dimming is O2Micro's dimming technology built into a LED light source. It allows the end-user to toggle dimming control using a standard on/off wall switch....

Fairchild Semiconductor has filed new patent infringement claims against Power Integrations' LinkSwitch-PH LED power conversion products. The new lawsuit follows last week's jury verdict finding that Power Integrations' LinkSwitch-II and LinkSwitch-CV products infringe Fairchild patent claims. Fairchild is asserting three new patents that extend the company's primary side regulation technology, already found infringed by Power Integrations, to LED power conversion technology. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for...

CIVILIGHT Shenzhen Semiconductor Lighting Co., Ltd defended China patent on April 19, the 2nd day of 2012 ‘Light + Building’ Frankfurt trade fair, Frankfurt, Germany, Europe. CIVILIGHT has adhered its enterprise value, “To be a respected corporation, and enhance human lighting with technologies”, to be a responsible company with highly customers recommendation since its establishment. Independent research and development is always CIVILIGHT’s motivation. As a result, more than 200 national or international patents ha...

Cathode Lighting Systems Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD) is pleased to announce that in a nullity suit proceeding, initiated by Cathode Lighting Systems Inc., against German patent DE 10 2004 003 871 "Fluorescent Lamp" (by Feelux Co., Ltd. Korea), the German Federal Court of Patents in Munich decided on December 28, 2011 to revoke the Feelux patent in the scope of its main claim 1 and its subclaims 2, 3 and 6. The Feelux patent was revoked in a scope as requested by Cathode Lighting Systems Inc.  The court felt the subject of the main claim was...