Cree has signed a license agreement with Nippon Steel Corporation on silicon carbide (SiC) materials. According to the agreement, Nippon Steel Corporation, and affiliates including Nippon Steel Materials Co., Ltd., have been given the right to manufacture and sell silicon carbide materials for electronic device applications. For Cree, it will receive certain financial considerations from Nippon Steel over the lifetime. It was also granted rights to Nippon Steel’s relevant SiC-related patents.   Other terms of the agreement were not disclosed. No t...

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...

Washington University in St. Louis has made a LED retrofit with the help of City Lighting Products. The university is projected to save its Danforth Campus upwards of 75 percent in lighting energy costs and provide a substantial savings in labor and maintenance costs compared to their old exterior lighting. Washington University aims to replace 400 existing 175-watt metal halide and high-pressure sodium vapor fixtures with 55-watt LED retrofit kits. Ed Barry, Director of Utility Operations for Washington University introduced that, "After City Lighting ...

LED manufacturer LEDTOLITE of France has chosen Bridgelux's LED Array light sources for its innovative double downlight design for the Dior Fragrance booth in the magnificent "Galeries Lafayette" in Paris, France. Delivering both warm and cool white light from the same fixture, the Spotlight Zephyr integrates two aluminum sphere, adjustable spot lights, offering both 24 and 50 degree beam angles. Moreover, the downlight offers a warm white (3000K) spot and a cool white (5600K) spot allowing lighting designers to highlight the rich colors of t...

There is a new colour-changing remote controlled LED bulb with 16 colour combinations and 4 separate lighting effects, which you can control the ambience of your room with the click of a button – from chilled-out phasing glow to at-home strobe disco without even leaving the comfort of your armchair. Besides, due to its powerful 6 watt glow – standard LED bulbs clock in at 4.5 watts – it’s bright enough for use as an overhead light. with a life expectancy of over 50,000hours, you can be pretty sure your bulb won’t croak it in the middle of a mood-en...

The Mall of America is giving its two parking ramps a lighting makeover this year that will cost about $3 million, saving the mall about $500,000 a year. The LED conversion is believed to be the largest in the US, which will replace 5,400 metal halide and high-pressure sodium fixtures. It will reduce energy consumption in the ramps by two-thirds, saving enough electricity to power more than 11,000 homes for a year. In addition, it will be replaced by white light from the LEDs and the MOA grant tie a $500,000 conservation grant to the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co. in Ben...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has launched new controller IC named the GreenChip SSL4101T for Solid State LED lighting power supplies. The GreenChip SSL4101T operates in Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of less than 20%, a high Power Factor (PF) of .99, and high efficiency of 94 percent. GreenChip technology lies at the heart of NXP's cost-effective, highly-efficient power and lighting ICs. The newly announced GreenChip SSL4101T offers a professional-grade solution with levels of efficiency of up to 94 percent. Moreover, The GreenChip SS...

Time & Place of Award Presentation and Display Time: July 6 -9, 2011 Venue: Shanghai New International Expo Centre Consultation Units Shanghai Science and Technology Committee World Expo (Group) Co., Ltd Organizers National Semiconductor Lighting Project Industrialization Base Shanghai Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Lighting Shanghai Institute of Quality Supervision, Inspection Technology LED Industry Salon in China Sponsors Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Lighting ...

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...

Recently, Everlight has announced its sales revenue of first quarter. Its pretax profits is NT$538 million, or NT$1.28 per share, more than double the earnings of NT$262 million posted a quarter earlier. Thanks to the decline in LED prices helping to boost downstream packagers’ gross profit rates generally, the gross profit rate improved to 25% from 20%. The firm expects a double-digit revenue growth, with the gross profit rate to keep trending upward to between 25% and 28%. However, its sales revenue for the first quarter declined 4.28% from a quarter earlier t...

Magnalight has introduced EPL-JH16C-1MLED-100 Explosion Proof LED Light. The 16-inch diameter LED light head on this unit produces 10,000 lumens of light in a wide flood pattern and draws only 150 watts. This light can be operated with 120VAC to 277 VAC. The ladder and rail bracket is constructed of non-sparking aluminum and can be adjusted from 26 inches to 43 inches in length to allow mounting to a wide variety of railings, scaffoldings or ladders. The LED light head can be adjusted through 90 degrees of tilt.  It can also pass through most sta...

Philips has released its first quarter results for 2011, and LED-based sales played a important role with 27 per cent compared to the first quarter in 2010 - representing 14 per cent of total lighting sales. LED components accounted for 7 per cent of the lighting division’s total revenues of €7.6 billion - approximately €530 million - over the period, which represents an increase of approximately 50 per cent compared with the previous year. Philips sales of LED-based lamps and luminaires accounted for approximately €600 million in revenues over the pas...

The Foley City Council is thinking about making a trial program for a system to use LEDs to replace florescent and incandescent lights. The council is scheduled to vote this program on May 4. According the official, the system will start by installing the lights in a few locations in city buildings and officials will decide if the savings are worth the costs of converting other structures to the new lighting. He said an LED light will pay for itself in energy savings in about four years.  ...

Aixtron’s latest Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD platform system, the CRIUS II, has supported the Chi Mei Group for mass production, outperforming expectations as to process stability, uniformity, and throughput. Chi Mei has installed the 55x2-inch wafer configuration CCS CRIUS II and became the first customer in Taiwan to receive this new system. The CRIUS II can easily be tuned to the optimum performance and can further be converted from 2- to 4-, 6-inch or larger wafer size production. Compared to the CRIUS, the CRIUS ...

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) has introduced the ADP8866 LED charge pump backlight driver with independent control of nine LED current sinks, programmable LED blinking sequences and low operating current drain. Independent LED control allows the convenient control of backlighting LEDs and status indicator LEDs with one part. Programmable fade on/off and blinking sequences allow complex LED effects to be generated automatically, saving processor bandwidth and power. A built-in charge pump automatically adjusts its gain to efficiently power the LEDs under...

Newly, Philips Lumileds has launched its latest illumination grade LED LUXEON A which reduces the engineering effort required for new solutions and delivers Freedom From Binning. LUXEON A shares the LUXEON Rebel ES platform and footprint and incorporates a 2 square millimeter thin film flip chip and Lumiramic phosphor technology to deliver the highest quality of light at 2700K and 3000K with very high efficacy and light output. All LUXEON A LEDs are hot-tested and specified at a junction temperature of 85°C that represents real-world o...

Lighting Science Group plans to sell its first in a series of high quality, affordable, LED products on Amazon.com, America's largest online retailer.  The company's new 40 watt equivalent A19 omnidirectional is at the price of $21.98, 8.5 watt LED bulb is 75% more efficient than the typical incandescent bulb it replaces and can last up to 23 years.   Compare with GE's omnidirectional Energy Smart A19 40 watt equivalent bulb, the company's omnidirectional 40 watt equivalent LED bulb is more efficient, and retails for approximately half the...

Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHI) and Trilux GmbH announced that they have entered into a license agreement allowing Trilux to access Philips’ patent portfolio as made available in the Philips LED Luminaire licensing program. “We are very pleased that Trilux has joined our licensing program. Philips believes that sharing its LED lighting solutions through licensing will accelerate the adoption of LED lighting and foster the growth of the LED industry”, said Arian Duijvestijn, General Manager Lighting at Philips Intellectual Property...

Acuity Brands, Inc. has recently announced to enter LED lamp technology and business collaboration agreement with Neonlite Electronic & Lighting (HK), Ltd. Their collaboration mainly targets to the United States and Canadian lighting markets and bases on a broad portfolio of high LED lamps targeted at commercial and institutional applications for a variety of vertical markets, such as retail, hospitality and education.  ...

AUDI's a 22-meter Trazzi tower is decorated with LEDs featuring 16 million different colors. Designed by Italian architect Luca Trazzi, the tower was constructed during the Milan LED light festival of 2010.The structure was build with solar cells that absorb sunlight by day in order to power up the 16 million variations of LED light that could be emitted by night.  ...

It’s reported that Chinese company ShineOn has raised $51.5 million in two rounds from investors such as Mayfield Fund and IDG-Accel Capital, specializes in packaging. Currently, ShineOn focuses mostly on components for LEDs for TVs and monitors and will move over time to mass-produce components for general lighting.  ...

Lately, the research and development team from Energy Focus, Inc. have received a $600,000 Phase 2 Small Business Technology Transfer ("STTR") program grant named as “Innovative Solid State Lighting Replacements for Industrial and Test Facility Locations," from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ("NASA"). Roger Buelow, Energy Focus CTO, was delighted to have received the Phase 2 notification grant, and commented that “The award is to replace existing test stand and parking lot fixtures with high per...

Power Integrations recently develops a new LinkSwitch™-PH LED Driver IC, DER-278. Power Integrations’ efficient, accurate, single-stage, primary-side-control technology, featured in LinkSwitch products, eliminates both the electrolytic capacitor and the also-unreliable optocoupler used in traditional isolated flyback designs. Designers using LinkSwitch-PH ICs for SSL products can expect the operational life of the driver to exceed the 35,000 hours required by the ENERGY STAR SLL (V1.1) specification.   Suitable for designs fro...

Reportedly, OSRAM SYLVANIA has scheduled the addition of a comprehensive portfolio of energy-efficient lighting fixtures for commercial and residential use.   As the latest expansion of the company's solid state lighting portfolio, the SYLVANIA fixture line contains LED modules, power supplies, controls, lighting services and the number one line of LED retrofits in North America. Featuring solid-state light sources and streamlined design, the introductory SYLVANIA fixture line includes luminaires for outdoor, hospitality and residential a...

FZLED announces expansion plans and new website   FZLED, a sub-division of the thermal and metal products manufacturer FZTech Inc., is announcing their plans to enter multiple international markets around the world and begin offering several lines of high-performance LED products to consumers. Receiving ISO-9001:2008 certification in November, 2010, FZLED is already turning heads with their innovative products like their newly released on/off switch dimming T8 LED Tube Lights. FZLED's newly designed website: //www.FZLED.com.tw is now...

Switch Lighting has recently developed the brightest warm light LED replacement bulb with its new technology named “City of Light”™ technology which creates a self-cooling environment inside, allowing maximum brightness with fewer LEDs. Switch Lighting is bringing to market the first true 75 watt equivalent warm white LED replacement bulb. Switch is strictly designing LED bulbs by Cradle to Cradle® principles. It can be used in any orientation to their 20,000 hour life(10-15 years). The Switch LED bulbs use 85% less energy than incandescent...

Recently, Sino American Silicon Products is reported to divide its semiconductor and LED departments into two independent companies  named as “Huanchiu Wafer “and “Sapphire Technology”  ,completely owned by the company, which will retain its core photovoltaic business.The base day for the split is set on October 1. And the two new companies will apply for listing their shares on the domestic bourse within one year. Opposite to the trend of merger in the local PV industry, the spin-off will transform the structure of Sino American into ...

Currently, the new-build Rohrdorf area of the Pielenhofen community near Regensburg is installing nine street lights with LED technology from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors to shed their light on the future development. The street lights to be deployed in Pielenhofen community are of the "Kassel" type, from the manufacturer Herkules: these are equipped with a kit for retrofit purposes and with Golden Dragon Plus LEDs from OSRAM; in stages, they will also replace the sodium vapour lamps in the community area.  As a pilot project, the mayor, Reinh...

Lately, Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and his Deputy Minister of State Martin Zeil have made a visit to Optogan´s LED plant in St. Petersburg. Optogan group introduced the recent developments in the field of LED lighting and reported on their development aims for the Russian and global market. According to the company, it has office locations, among others, in Landshut and St. Petersburg. The plant in Landshut produces high performance LED chips, conducts and directs the international business. St. Petersburg is responsible for the LED...

Taiwan Epistar has ordered Aixtron G5 HT reactors in a 14x4-inch configuration for high brightness LEDs. Aixtron G5 HT reactor is a further endorsement of G5´s very rapid time-to-production and excellent system-to-system reproducibility. Ming-Jiunn Jou, President of Epistar, was please with the new reactors and thought that it will form the backbone of their planned capacity expansion for their high brightness LED production program. It’s said that the systems are delivered in the first and second quarter of 2011. Aixtron´s local support tea...