OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is Continental's Supplier of the Year 2012. Each year Continental's Automotive Group identifies its best partners from more than 900 strategic suppliers and presents a total of 13 performance awards in five categories, namely electronics, electro-mechanics, mechanics, investment and engineering services, and division-specific solutions. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors impressed the jury in the Electronics category (IVA Interfaces, Voltage Regulators, and Analog ICs & Opto). With the award, the high-tech company was praised as a...

Sentry Electric is pleased to introduce the SDAS-LED Downtown luminaire, an architectural arm-mounted street and area light. With its symmetrical proportions and gently arching crown, the Downtown provides contemporary inspiration for boulevards and public spaces. SDAS-LED 165x165 2 What makes the Downtown luminaire unique is its combination of refractive borosilicate glass optics in combination with the most advanced, high lumen output LED modules. A truly groundbreaking development in the evolution of solid state technology, the downward facing LEDs have ...

1000Bulbs.com proudly announce that it is the premiere online distributor of new MR16 lamps from Soraa, a California-based lighting company on the cutting edge of LED technology. What sets eco-friendly Soraa apart from all other lighting companies is its patented GaN on GaN technology, which produces a cleaner and brighter light while also cutting power consumption by 80% compared to a standard halogen lamp. A Soraa lamp puts out more light with one LED chip than competing lamps do with four chips. These lamps are so powerful; they create a laser line like sharpness th...

Philips reports second-quarter comparable sales growth of 3% to EUR 5.7 billion; operational results improve by 30% to EUR 530 million Comparable sales in growth geographies up 12%, driven by China EBITA was EUR 603 million, or 10.7% of sales, and included a EUR 78 million past-service pension cost gain in the US EBITA excluding restructuring and acquisition-related charges and other gains increased to EUR 530 million, or 9.4% of sales Net income of EUR 317 million, compared to EUR 102 million in Q2 2012 Inventories as a percentage ...

It has been reported that the Paris Metro will become the first transport network to use LED 100% in all of its stations. A 4 year, 11 million Euro deal has been published that will see 250,000 lights replaced at 302 metro and 66 suburban stations. The operators are currently working towards cutting energy consumption of the whole network by 15%, and changing the lighting will contribute significantly to this, with energy needed to light up the stations set to reduce by over 50%. The London Underground, Sydney CityRail and Brussels Metro are keeping an eye on the projec...

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.      ...

With the development of the times, people require more for fashionable apparel. Beautiful and colorful clothes are very nice in the light, but in low light places where it cannot show its style. However, the advent of LED fashion clothing will enable you to shine anywhere. This LED Fashion Clothing is designed by Hussein Chalayan, Swarovski's designer, who uses 15000 units of LED to develop this "brilliant" clothing. The LED fashion clothing not only has a stylish design, also it added the application of Swarovski crystals so that it can emit beau...

Canon Marketing Japan (Canon MJ) started selling LED bulbs from July 17, 2013. The company intended to exclusively sell in Japan the LED bulbs, which was sold in the United States by venture business headquartered in Silicon Valley. The products adopted the same housing shape of incandescent bulb E26 (Edison screw base standards), with the high diffusion, dimmable options and liquid-cooled heat dissipation technology.            Canon MJ first listed through website three LED bulbs, which respectively are 60W retrofit (810lm...

Mighty Bright, designer and manufacturer of innovative LED lighting products, is pleased to announce the LUX Bar LED Task Light has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Energy Star certification. The Energy Star brand is widely recognized by American consumers and businesses as a mark of environmental protection, exceptional performance, and financial responsibility. Energy-efficient and versatile, the LUX Bar LED Task Light exemplifies these standards, casting 400 lumens of bright white light while consuming only 7.5 Watts o...

A surge in demand for Soraa’s full visible spectrum GaN on GaN™ LED MR16 lamps has led the company to appoint two new leaders to its sales organization—George Stringer and Nick Farraway. George joins the company as Senior Vice President of North America Sales and Nick joins as Senior Vice President of International Sales; both will report to Tom Caulfield, President and COO of Soraa. “The Soraa VIVID LED MR16 lamp is widely regarded as the best in the world in terms of brightness and color rendering—this has fuel...

"For China LED industry, LED upstream technology is monopolized by the international giants, midstream is almost so, now the most important thing is that whether the downstream can design better products with more reasonable prices or not", Rongqing Liang, director of Lighting Research Institute of Fudan University, expressed in view of the current development trend of Chinese LED industry. Foreign Enterprises have Advantages in Upstream and Midstream Rongqing Liang introduced that LED industry consists of upstream, midstream and downstream. LED...

Robust, accurate and powerful PIP functionality puts Calibre UK ahead of the curve for scaling and switching of LED displays. Calibre UK has further strengthened its LEDView530 scaler/switcher with the addition of new firmware for user selectable and variable picture-in-picture (PIP) flexibility. “The new PIP function of the LEDView530 scaler/switcher adds the functionality of expensive windowing solutions available from other manufacturers in the market today, but at an affordable price,” explains Tim Brooksbank, Chairman at Calibre UK. ...

General lighting is an industry with the same great market capacity as smart phone, and it is in the process of rapid growth. In view of general lighting market structure, energy-saving lamps accounting for almost the same proportion with incandescent lamps, about 40%, but the application of incandescent is downward, as the further implementation of global ban on the sale of incandescent lamps, the proportion of energy-saving lamps and LED lighting devices will increase. LED lighting takes up 2% -3% of the all lighting products installed. However, according to the global data in ...

Since installing the ROAM™ outdoor lighting monitoring and control system from Acuity Brands Inc., the Plymouth School District in Plymouth, Mass. has significantly reduced maintenance time and energy costs. The ROAM system allows maintenance staff to easily customize outdoor lighting needs for eight individual elementary, middle and high school campuses. The ROAM system helps the District proactively identify potential outages and lighting issues before or immediately after they occur. By knowing that the lights are operating properly at the glance of the s...

A computer can conduct smooth network broadband connection under the condition that it is irradiated LED light, in the absence of network cable and built-in wireless port. The mystery of completing web browsing, video playback, and many other network functions lies in LED lights on the roof. According to experts, China Unicom network signal is transmitted to the computer through LED light. The maximum transfer rate measured in this way can reach 2 MW per second. In fact, technological breakthroughs have emerged in endlessly since the advent of LED concept. LED ligh...

The total revenue of Taiwanese listed LED manufacturers plunged to NTD 10.6 billion in June 2013, as the LED market was affected by declining demand for backlight application and stocktaking, according to LEDinside, a research subsidiary of industry research organization TrendForce. Revenue of listed LED chip manufacturers reached NTD 3.97 billion, while LED package manufacturers revenue grew to NTD6.63 billion.

According to South Korean industry news, Kingsun will hold Korea business launching ceremony on the 18th in Seoul. Kingsun founded in 1994, with China's largest lighting R & D center and production base of 300,000 square meters, mainly produces LED lights, tunnel lights and security lights. Kingsun has more than 800,000 businesses in the global LED lighting field, and recently it accelerated the pace to enter the global market. It is reported that Kingsun has signed a $ 10 million LED lighting installation contract with E-Land Group. In addition, in order...

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...

The collaboration between a graphic designer and an interior designer in Hungary has led to the design of a lamp that projects star constellations on the ceiling while still providing functional light, which called the Starry Light Lamp. The Starry Light Lamps by Anagraphic are the brainchild of Anna Farkas and Miklὀs Batisz and are all manufactured by hand in different workshops in Budapest, Hungary. The lamp has holes punched into its dome shaped shade, which correspond to the constellations visible in the night sky of the northern hemisphere, complete with outlines th...

Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc., a leader in advanced LED lighting technology, and GB Energie (GBE) LED, a minority, women-owned business committed to sourcing sustainable energy solutions worldwide, yesterday announced an exclusive marketing agreement to drive LED adoption across multiple markets. The two companies will go-to-market together as 'RVLT & GBE-LED.' According to the agreement, GBE-LED will serve as Revolution Lighting's strategic marketing, bidding and sales teaming partner. RVLT & GBE-LED will targe...

Philips has updated its Ambilight color-illumination system for TVs by integrating it with Hue wireless LED lightbulbs, spreading content-themed light effects around the room. The update – which comes with a new Ambilight+Hue app for iOS and Android, compatible with Ambilight TVs from 2011 onward – arrives alongside the Philips Elevation TV, a new ultra-slim 60-inch LCD TV with Ambilight “4-sided XL” for all-round colors. Ambilight uses multi-color LEDs around the frame of the TV to project light around the set, onto the walls b...

In view of the perspective of semiconductor lighting application, people are unanimously optimistic about the development of LED industry in middle and long term, the penetration of LED in lighting market will continue to rise, it is likely to exceed 50% in 2016, even it may be more than 70 % after 2020 with further growth. Energy conservation and technology economy will become two important drivers of this trend. Currently, higher cost is still the obstruction for large-scale promotion of semiconductor lighting products, but the prices of LED has been steadily falling, accord...

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,...

The main aims of the common project are to improve the efficiency and service life of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). In addition, production costs have to be minimised to ensure that OLEDs can be successful in the general lighting mass market. In the past years, the participating companies have achieved innovative advantages that are intended to be expanded as a part of the funded project. The OLYMP project aims to make OLED attractive for the mass-market general lighting sector.   With OLYMP (Organic Light emitting sYstems based on energy ...

Samsung Electronics America, a display market leader and award-winning technology innovator, has showcased its 2013 lineup of LED Smart TVs for the hospitality industry at HITEC 2013, the world's largest hospitality technology show. Samsung showcased a variety of LED TVs and software solutions for the hospitality market, including the new 890 Series LED TVs, which feature its LYNC™ SINC content management system, at the Minneapolis Convention Center. “Hotels are striving to keep up with the increasing demands of today’s tech-savv...

According to the latest “2013 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report” published by the LEDinside research department of TrendForce global market research institute, the price declines of 2-inch and 4-inch sapphire substrate have slowed down in 1Q13, while there are even some signs on certain low market prices slightly rebound. 

Soraa has recently released the first GaN on GaN LED in a 50W halogen equivalent MR16 lamp with several new features.This LED has a gallium nitride substrate, triangular shaped chip, simplified epitaxial structure and an original silicon-based wafer level packaging. Soraa GaN on GaN LED packaged in a silicon-based wafer level packaging Source: Yole Développement Soraa used the GaN characteristics like the optical transparency and the high electrical and thermal conductivity to create a unique vertical structure for these LEDs. The layers depos...

Not long ago, Tridonic announced that it is preparing to introduce a new line of LED drivers, and it will end the magnetics business supporting legacy light sources at the end of 2013. As the pace of the transition to LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) is hastening, many companies with a long lighting history are affected, Tridonic is no exception. To some extent, the decision that Tridonic refocuses on LED and intends to end its legacy business is in preparation of changes caused by the legislation to regulate low-efficiency magnetic products beginning in 2017 formula...

TurboDisc MaxBright® MHP™ GaN MOCVD Multi-Reactor System Veeco  MOCVDs are crucial to LED chip production. The quality, efficiency, and yield of epitaxial wafers may affect the cost and output of the LED epitaxial wafer plant. Veeco’s MaxBright MHP, the new GaN MOCVD Multi-Reactor System, is considered a highly efficient device.  Compared with the original MaxBright, the MaxBright MHP showed a 20% improvement of the LED chip wavelength uniformity. Thermal management and process compatibility are also improved so that each reaction process will improve the uniformity. The company has greatly enhanced the yield of 2-inch and 4-inch wafers by using the FlowFlange technology, thus they received the MOCVD with the Best Yield award.

Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in LED manufacturing. The latest manufacturing, materials and production developments will be showcased at SEMICON West 2013, which is going to be held on July 9th to 11th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Generally over 620 companies will exhibit the latest innovations and solutions for advanced manufacturing. On this annual tradeshow, more than 200 exhibitors and nearly 20 hours of technical presentations will be focused on LED lighting mar...