Sharp's 15 and 25 W LED modules from the new Mega Zeni series radiate with an efficiency of up to 102 lm/W, a luminous flux of up to 2550 lm and are available with a CRI value of up to 83 (typical), respectively.   The new 15 and 25 W Mega Zeni models from Sharp are compact, lightweight, economical and extremely bright, whilst still providing a very high level of light quality. The new models produce a light output of up to 2550 lumen (depending on the module), a luminous flux of up to 102 lm/W and a long service life of 40,000 operating hours at a service temper...

Recently, Philips Lumileds has released its new SignalSure mid-power LEDs, expecting to be the most robust and reliable surface mount LED available to the automotive industry.   The modules have undergone a rigorous Multi Environment Overstress Testing (MEOST) regime that exceeds the testing required by today’s standards for automotive signalling LED sources. And it is available in red-orange and amber colours....

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced the introduction of the TurboDisc® MaxBright™ Gallium Nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Multi-Reactor System for production of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs). MaxBright has already been accepted by a leading LED manufacturer and Veeco is currently shipping MaxBright systems to additional top manufacturers in Korea, Taiwan and China.  

According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Livermore-based LED lighting company Bridgelux has raised nearly $21 million in a new round of funding. Bridgelux mainly makes LED lighting for commercial use. According to analysts cited by the company, the worldwide market for LED lighting will grow to as much as $25 billion by 2020....

To celebrate the Year of the Rabbit -- the fourth sign in the Chinese zodiac, Taipei is about to show a 360-degree giant rotating rabbit lantern made of LED at the 2011 Taipei International Lantern Festival, which will begin Friday. It will be held near the city's Civic Plaza and Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Feb. 11-20 this year....

Nexxus Lighting has added its top selling Array LED bulb SKU to the ENERGY STAR Qualified LED Light Bulbs list.   Joining its R30 products, the Array MR16 also was recently approved.  The MR16 uses just 3.3 watts to produce over 150 lumens at a 3000 degree Kelvin color temperature and a color rendering index of 84.  The Company’s R16 and GU10 units also are approved for inclusion by ENERGY STAR. It has submitted additional lamps from its Array line to ENERGY STAR, including most recently its PAR38 LED...

LAcarGUY Dealership Group Accelerates its Green Agenda Retrofitting Lexus Santa Monica with Qnuru Smart Energy LED Lights   Qnuru™, the Noribach Group’s smart energy digital lighting division, announced that LAcarGUY has retrofitted its Lexus Santa Monica dealership with Qnuru’s Vector line of high wattage LED retrofit bulbs. LAcarGUY, comprised of 10 award-winning dealerships and two state-of-the-art body shops, is the number one hybrid dealer in the world and widely acknowledged as the foremost leader in the green automobil...

Orb Optronix, industry leader in LED Characterization Services and Systems, will be discussing IES LM-79 and IES LM-80 measurement services in Booth 529 during the Strategies In Light trade show at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA on February 22, 23, 24, 2011. Orb Optronix co-founders Rand Lee and David Bajorins will join Sales and Marketing Director Rob Leonard on site at Booth 529 to discuss IES LM-79 and IES LM-80 measurement services and give live demonstrations of the company’s products. They will be exhi...

Rugged, Low-Profile RoHS-Compliant Fixture Now Certified for Class I, Div 2 and Class II, Div 2 Applications Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), an innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, announced that its SafeSite™ Series LED Wallpack Luminaire has achieved Class I, Division 2 certification for use in hazardous locations, including oil platforms, chemical facilities and other potentially explosive environments. Offering superior energy savings and long-life performance with dramatically less maintenance than traditional solutions for haz...

Furniture Industry is Next Big Market to Take Advantage of LED Lighting Installation Saving Energy and Money! MSi Solid State Lighting has announced it will work exclusively providing LED lighting for The Furniture First buying group, a purchasing cooperative made up of retail furniture dealers with locally owned businesses around the United States.  Florida based MSi is one of nation’s fastest growing LED lighting manufacturers lighting up retailers like Macy’s, Abercrombie & Fitch, 9 West and Francesca’s, plus furniture r...

School officials aim to improve safety while reducing energy costs at Chippewa Middle School. Officials at Okemos Public Schools in Okemos, Michigan, needed to update the parking lot at Chippewa Middle School with goals of improving safety and traffic flow in the lot, reducing energy usage, and upgrading the performance of the outdoor lighting system. With input from middle school staff, a renovation plan was devised and Okemos Public Schools selected LED lighting from Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), for the parking lot upgr...

AIXTRON SE announced a new order for a CVD reactor from existing customer SemiSouth Laboratories of Starkville, MS, USA. The order is for an AIX 2800G4 WW deposition system in the 10x100 mm and the 6x150 mm configuration which will be used for the production of power silicon carbide (SiC) Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET) and Schottky Barrier Diode microelectronic devices. SemiSouth placed the order in the fourth quarter of 2010 and the system will be delivered in the second quarter of 2011. The local AIXTRON support team will commi...

Gross Margin 25%  EPS NT$3.65 Lextar Electronics ("Lextar" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 3698)  announced its audited results for 2010. For the year of 2010 ended December 31, 2010, Lextar posted unconsolidated revenue of NT$8,058 million, with a YoY growth of 297%. Gross profit was NT$ 1,996 million, net profit NT$1,231 million, the basic EPS NT$3.65 per common share, and ROE reached 24%. Fiscal 2010 Result Highlights Lextar reported the following unconsolidated results for the full year 2010: Revenue of NT$8,0...

Based on SGS, an international certificate organization, and according to the PAS2050 standard verification, Everlight Electronics has finished a world first Carbon Footprint Declaration for LED products Global Warming has influenced our environment deeply. How to control the emission of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) has been a serious problem for every country in the world. In order to give our customers excellent eco LED products, Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. [TSE:2393] take the leads in the world's first 3rd party verified Carbon Footprint Declaration ...

New Executive Brings Decades of Lighting Industry Experience to LED Leader Eco-story, a leader in LED lighting solutions, announced that it has hired Jim Simunaci to serve as Vice President of Sales.  Beginning this month, Jim is charged with channel partner strategies and developing relationships with companies and distributors who could benefit from Eco-story’s high-quality LED lighting solutions.  His focus will be on national accounts in the retail, restaurant and hospitality industries. “It’s a great honor be joined by such a...

Helieon by Bridgelux and Molex Allows Upgrades as LED Technology Advances   Continuing its “Greening the Capitol” initiative, the United States Senate has renovated the largest hearing room of the Hart Senate Office Building using high performance, energy efficient LED lighting from Nila Inc.  The renovation program included the replacement of traditional incandescent lighting technology with Nila’s NH LED lighting system for enhanced video recording applications, as well as a custom down light installation using the Helieon®...

iWatt has expanded its family of digital LED driver ICs with its first power-factor-corrected (PFC) AC/DC Digital PWM Controller targeting 120V/230VAC offline commercial and industrial LED lighting applications.   Like its iW3602 and iW3612 siblings, the new iW3614 (3W – 15W) is designed for LED drivers used in space-constrained incandescent replacement lamps, offers hot-plug support and flicker-free compatibility with existing wall dimmers, and incorporates features to assure power efficiency, durability, and reduced size and component costs. ...

According to Veeco,  Shanghai Epilight Technology Co., Ltd has ordered Veeco TurboDisc® K465i™ MOCVD systems during the fourth quarter of 2010 for its new LED fab at Hefei, China for HB-LED manufacturing.

Lumen Dynamics introduces the new OmniCure® LED Light Meter which measures power and irradiance from a UV LED light source, directly at the cure site. The OmniCure® Light Meter is calibrated at 10nm intervals from 320nm up to 700nm which allows the ability to select the specific wavelength from a UV LED light source to obtain accurate measurements which are traceable to NIST. This latest invention is an illustration of OmniCure®’s ingenuity and ability to continue offering a high level of process control that customers count on. “Wit...

LEDinside has recently visited Kunshan Lutek Industrial Co., Ltd., a company specializing in LED lighting products. In the interview, Mr. Fang, the vice president of Lutek, explains their efforts and achievements in Chinese and global market, and represents his trend forecast of LED market. Vice president Fang, Lutek Cooperation Vice president Fang indicates, Lutek Cooperation, engaged in high power LED street lights with single polycrystal and heat-dissipation casing, has independent thermal emission technology, thus establishing the strong position i...

ANC Sports Enterprises has completed the installation of two new Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision video screens at Penn State University’s Rec Hall, home of the Nittany Lion gymnastics, volleyball and wrestling teams. Previously, ANC installed LED systems at the University’s Beaver Stadium and the Bryce Jordan Center.

AIXTRON SE today announced a new order for a MOCVD reactor from Russian company Saturn Joint Stock Company (Saturn JSC). The order comprises one AIX 2800 G4-R 15x4-inch configuration deposition system including an automated wafer transfer system. The Krasnodar based company placed the order during the fourth quarter of 2010 and following delivery in the second quarter of 2011, the system will be used to produce Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) solar cell epitaxial materials for the Russian space market. The new reactor will be commissioned by the AIXTRON...

Helios Crew, Corporation Taiwan, today announced the release of a revolutionary new LED product, the S35.  The S35 is a packaged component LED, which integrates MEMS with semiconductor processing to produce a unique silicon packaging technology.   In conjunction with a high brightness SemiLEDs chip, this compact size, silicon sub-mount technology delivers incredible brightness along with superior reliability.  In addition, the S35 silicon has a thermal conductance which is more than 8 times higher than aluminum oxide ceramic packages, and at a cons...

Albeo Technologies has launched the C3-Series as the next generation of their flagship C-Series product family for general illumination applications. According to the company, building on the merits of the award winning C-Series, the new C3-Series offers the same superior patent-pending thermal design, long lifetime up to 100,000 hours, mercury-free construction, and maintenance-free operation. Customers purchasing the C3-Series will benefit from a 10% - 20% reduction in price depending on the configuration.  ...

LG is about to showcase its latest super narrow bezel LED based monitor the 47WV30 at ISE 2011 in Amsterdam. This 47 size LED monitor is according to LG the perfect solution to build-up you very own VIDEO WALL. This new Monitor features the LED BLU technology and comes with a 1366×768 resolution a 700cd/m2 brightness with a 1,300:1 contrast ratio. With a bezel size of just 4.2mm / 2.7mm (6.9 mm seam size) this monitor will offer seamless video quality with the least possible space between each monitors....

Tyco Electronics was reported to team up with Bridgelux to develop the Nevalo system, a set of plug-and-play components for assembling solid state lighting systems for retail establishments, hotels, public areas and other locations. Bridgelux will offer LEDs and LED modules adapted for street lighting and commercial establishments to Tyco for Nevalo.  ...

As part of a city-wide sustainability initiative, officials in Centennial, Colorado recently completed a project to upgrade each of the city’s traffic and pedestrian countdown signals from traditional incandescent units to Dialight’s high-efficiency, low-maintenance ITE-compliant LED traffic signals. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program (EECBG), not only improved visibility for drivers and pedestrians, but is expected to save the city $50,000-$60,000 a year in energy and maint...

New Bridgelux LED Arrays Double Light Output of Today’s Commercially Available LED Products New Portfolio Additions Deliver 3500 to 8000 Lumen Output Arrays Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced the expansion of its award-winning RS LED Array portfolio to include the industry’s highest performance LED products designed for very high lumen applications such as retail shop lighting, high-bay, roadway, exterior area and industrial lighting applications. Shatterin...

Shifting our environment greener by using more efficient product to save more energy has now become one of the policies globally. To use energy saving or solid state lighting (LED) fixtures, is one of the approaches to achieve this goal. However, due to output angle is a lot more different between tradition light source and LED one, therefore a proper optical solution, a secondary optics, is required to optmise and collimate the light which generated by LEDs to make the best use the energy; Ledlink Optics, Inc is one of the professional optical solution provider that offers co...

Panasonic has unveiled its "Everleds" series comprising of an E26 base LED light bulb with a light distribution angle of 300° and an LED ceiling lamp capable of adjusting light intensity, color and distribution.   The key feature of E26 base LED light bulb is that its light source (LED package) is arranged in a circular shape inside a globe (a semi-spherical cover) and two light reflectors with apertural areas are used. And for the new LED ceiling lamp,it features a function to adjust light distribution. It is equipped with two types of LED ...