Nanoco Group plc (AIM: NANO), announces that it has signed a joint development agreement with one of the world's largest lighting companies which is already a major producer of LED lights. The objective of the development agreement is to incorporate Nanoco's cadmium-free quantum dots (CFQDTM) into the lighting company's LEDs to create LED lighting with superior performance characteristics. LED lighting has many advantages over traditional lighting - including long service life, reduced power consumption, compact size and shock resistance - but i...

Start to look into LED lighting and quickly it becomes obvious that one type of LED will not suit all situations. After a while, you get sophisticated enough to take colour-rendering index (CRI) and colour temperature into account, and even then you are only about halfway down the check list. A little colour science There is no scientific definition of white light because, like beauty, white is in the eye of the beholder. However, everybody agrees that daylight is white, or at least a type of white, and daylight comes from the sun - a ball of gas with a surface temp...

Bridgelux, the trailblazer of white LEDs grown on 200 mm silicon, has recently made tremendous progress in improving device efficacy. 1.5 mm by 1.5 mm cool-white LEDs produced in the labs of the Californian outfit can now deliver 160 lm/W at 350 mA, a gain of 25 lm/W compared to the company’s best devices reported this March. What’s more, warm-white LEDs of the same size show an even bigger improvement at the same drive current – efficacy is now 125 lm/W, compared to 85 lm/W five months ago. “The performance levels that we have announced are t...

SEMI has released its China LED Fab Industry Report, summarising China's rapidly growing LED industry. It discusses .capital and equipment spending, fab capacity and sales rankings of Chinese LED manufacturers. Subsidies for China fab projects are included, along with new LED fab projects, names of China's sapphire wafer suppliers, and company profiles of China's top LED manufacturers.  China has developed a government support infrastructure for LED manufacturing and consumption. China is the world's leading consumer of solid stat...

Reportedly, Sharp has developed a square ceiling light LED ceiling light,which is considered as the most efficient in the industry. Combining direct illumination with the kind of highly efficient LEDs used in LCD televisions,the new product  is 1.6 times more energy efficient than previous LED ceiling lights. And it’s designed to be uesd in small, medium, and large sized rooms. According to the company, this LED ceiling light features it’s the top performer in terms of energy efficiency. The model for small-sized rooms has a luminous efficiency of 81...

SmartWatt Energy recently completed a LED lighting retrofit at Americold’s temperature-controlled storage facility in Russellville AR. The project generates higher-quality lighting while reducing overall lighting-related energy consumption by 690,000 kilowatt-hours—this is equivalent to removing more than 95 cars from Arkansas roadways. Not only has Americold generated better lighting with significant, ongoing cost savings, but these upgrades to its lighting system are also eligible for incentive payments from Entergy Arkansas Inc’s Large Commercial &a...

Exit signs with emergency lights that were manufactured by Best Lighting Products, which has a location in the Etna Corporate Park, have been recalled, according to the Associated Press. A local Best Lighting representative referred all inquires regarding the recall of the LHQM LED Exit Signs with Emergency Lights to Lithonia Lighting, the distributor. The nationwide recall was prompted by fixtures that can malfunction and fail to illuminate during a power failure, the AP reported. As a result, there could be inadequate lighting to guide people out of a bui...

Bridgelux expects to begin making LED chips on silicon wafers in about two years, a technology transition which promises to slash LED lighting costs. The company today announced it has met performance targets for the new process which it projects could lower the cost of end-user lighting products by roughly 20 percent to 30 percent. Bridgelux manufactures LED light sources, or chips, which are fitted into lamps and fixtures made by lighting companies. LEDs are more energy efficient and last longer than other lighting technologies, but the higher cost remains a barrier to...

After being tabled at the July 5 regular meeting, the Little Elm Town Council on Tuesday approved Town Engineer Jason Laumer's request for additional funding to replace existing metal halide street light with LED street lights along Eldorado Parkway from Little Elm Parkway to Farm-to-Market Road 423. The item passed by a 3-2 vote. The item was a change order to the street lighting of $38,265 for the Streetscape and Gateways Improvements project. Laumer provided answers to questions from the council from the meeting in July. Questions put forth included wh...

Elemental LED recently added a second regular contributor to its company blog. Michael Gutman began blogging twice per week at the start of August 2011 for Elemental LED on topics that focus on San Francisco Bay Area green businesses and sustainability news and progress. Gutman's recent blog topics have included how green energy accreditations have impacted some Bay Area companies, and a green organization profile about The Ecology Center in Berkeley. Upcoming topics include environmental news about San Francisco, Oakland and California job creation. The...

Acuity Brands, Inc., a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is pleased to announce that its acculamp™ AR111 LED Lamp has received TheLEDAward for Best Specialty Incandescent Replacement Lamp at the recently concluded “TheLEDShow” 2011 in Las Vegas. “TheLEDShow” has become an annual event showcasing the lighting industry’s technology progress and expanding selection of products with LED light sources. TheLEDAward was established to recognize participating LED manufacturers tha...

When Daybreak, a UK TV ‘breakfast show,’ was launched at the end of last year, it was with a flourish. Not only did the station spend a great deal of money enticing stars from other channels but they knew the set needed to look great.   The studio, on the south bank of London’s River Thames, has windows on three sides, facing iconic St Paul’s Cathedral. In the winter it’s dark out when Daybreak comes on air at 6:00am, but gradually it gets brighter (until full sunlight potentially streams through the windows) by the program’s end at ...

Recently, General Nutrition Centers (GNC) has adopted Science Group's  high-performance and ultra-efficient LED bulbs at its corporate owned locations across the country. It’s said that the ENERGY STAR® qualified LED bulbs now lighting GNC retail display shelves are approximately 80% more efficient than the halogen bulbs they replace, are fully dimmable and have approximately 50% more lumens than competing products. Asides from that , the stores will also save money on maintenance and cooling costs, since the company's bulbs will last 5...

Illumitex, Inc. announced today that it has signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement with Gerard Lighting Group Limited(ASX:GLG). In addition, GLG has invested $3 million into Illumitex for a small minority interest as part of the LED company’s latest round of private equity financing. Under the strategic agreement, effective immediately, GLG will become the exclusive general lighting integrator and distributor of Illumitex’s innovative LED products in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. “Gerard Lighting’s commitmen...

Sharp Corp announced new products of LED ceiling lights and LED light bulbs with enhanced efficiencies, etc Aug 5, 2011. The company will release the LED ceiling lights and E17-base small LED light bulbs Aug 27, 2011, and E26-base LED light bulbs Sept 23, 2011. Improved efficiencies of LED ceiling lights Sharp announced three types of LED ceiling lights, and their input powers and installed fluxes are 73W and 5,750lm (up to a 12-mat (19.44m2) room), 48W and 3,750lm (up to an eight-mat room) and 32W and 2,600lm (up to a six-mat room). The luminou...

Recently, Philips Lighting North America has won The Department of Energy’s L Prize for the 60-watt replacement bulb category of the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L Prize) competition. the Philips LED bulb was submitted in 2009, and successfully completed 18 months of demanding field, lab, and product testing to meet the rigorous requirements of the L Prize competition. Zia Eftekhar, CEO of Philips Lighting North America,believed that the L Prize challenge as an opportunity to innovate and develop an energy efficient alternative to a product tha...

Evluma announces plans to expand its product line beyond the popular 40W & 50W outdoor dusk-till-dawn Clearlight and intends to enter the indoor lighting market with a dimmable LED PAR 64 ceiling light designed. Prototypes of the PAR 64 LED lamp, plus a Clearlight horticultural lamp, a low pressure sodium equivalent lamp, and an acorn fixture LED Retrofit with multiple mounting options were demonstrated at The LED Show on July 27, 2011 in Las Vegas. Evluma anticipates the announcement of formal release dates for these new products in 2012. Testing and pilo...

Reportedly, Lebelight Technology Co. Ltd, a high power LED company from Xiaoyi, Shanxi of China has set up a new record on cutting-edge product 150 lm 1w LED on 12th, July 2011. 1w of its green lighting products needs only 350 mA of drive current to achieve 150-160 Luminous Flux, which has increased the world record by 70% and also reduced the cost in producing the same quantity of products. It’s said that this development is another world-famous breakthrough of Lebelight since its white lighting LEDs reached 98 lm on 3rd November 2010. It indicates that ...

Recently,Philips Automotive Lighting North America has launched two new versions of its Daytime Running Light -- LED DayLight 8 and 4. According to the company, its LED DayLight 8 and 4 are equipped with Philips LUXEON(R) Rebel LEDs and are SAE and DOT compliant. Moreover, these stylish, energy efficient solutions are the slimmest DRL modules on the market. Both of them give vehicles a distinctive appearance setting the driver apart from the crowd. Philips DRLs substantially increase the visibility of the car to other drivers and pedestria...

Research has found LEDs are comparable not only in brightness to the old incandescents, but much more efficient than even compact fluorescent lights. LEDs are also built to last 15 years, compared to five years for CFLs and one for incandescents. "The LEDs are costly now, but the price is dropping very rapidly. So we have a very bright and cool and thrifty future," Chu says. Supporters say saving $10 to $11 a year in energy costs more than makes up for the initial outlay. Analysts expect LEDs to drop to $20 a bulb within two years, which is about wh...

Four different vendors are providing LED, or LEDs, for the city to test on the south side of the Claude Allouez Bridge. The energy-efficient lights cut energy usage in half and last two to four times longer than the traditional metal halide lamps. City workers could begin taking down the test LEDs as early as next week as the three-month trial comes to an end. But officials are taking notice of the advantages they provide and hope to replace the entire bridge with LED technology by 2012, assistant city engineer Karen Heyrman said. The traditional light fixtures on...

Ushio Lighting Inc launches an LED spotlight that general color rendering index(Ra) is as high as 97 on Aug 5,2011, in Japan. The spotlight named “Cool Spot LED” is aimed for facilities in hotels and halls. It has lower consumption and longer product life that compared with spotlight using halogen lamps. Ushio Lighting employed the "Natural Light LED" for the light source of the spotlight, which is a white LED made by combining a purple LED chip and red, green and blue fluorescent materials. Among 15 kinds of color rendering indexe...

Energy Focus has been awarded a $23 million Navy supply contract to provide LED fixtures and its proprietary IntelliTube LED lamps for use on the U.S. Navy fleet. "EFOI's advances in LED technology will allow the Navy to save 50-90% of their lighting energy cost," said Roger Buelow, Energy Focus CTO. The majority of the contract includes sales of fixtures using the company's new IntelliTube(TM) lamps, which are intelligent plug and play LED lamps to replace the existing linear fluorescent tube lamps used in most of the Navy's ...

Lunera is borrowing a page from California's fast-growing rooftop solar industry. On Thursday, it plans to unveil a lease-to-purchase program that lets commercial building owners retrofit their lighting for no money down. The lease is believed to be the first in the commercial lighting sector. Lunera offers a five-year lease-to-purchase agreement with fixed monthly payments. The tenant or building owner owns the lighting fixtures, which means they, not Lunera, reap the benefits of tax depreciation. Lunera sees a strong market for its lease in cities along the East and We...

Bridgelux Inc. has raised $60 million in a Series E round of venture capital funding. They would use the money to accelerate R&D in key areas including GaN-on-Silicon development and LED chip-on-board packaging. "Craton Equity Partners is a top growth-stage investor in clean tech, and we welcome their support as we work to expand the market for solid state solutions for general lighting - which we expect to triple this year to over $3 billion," said Bill Watkins, Bridgelux's CEO, in a statement issued by Craton....

Kyma’s  new n+ GaN substrate product line will boast a bulk resistivity specification of  < 0.02 Ω -cm, which is two orders of magnitude lower in resistivity than Kyma’s previously offered n-type GaN. What’s more, Kyma has successfully produced n+ bulk GaN wafers with measured carrier concentrations of up to 6 x 1018cm-3and corresponding bulk resistivities of < 0.005 Ω –cm.  The firm’s n-type GaN product is still being offered and, for distinction, is being relabelled as n- GaN (“nminus” GaN). I...

Lumenpulse Inc. , a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today released a customer case study focused on a project for the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Gilbert, AZ. Lumenpulse fixtures were used to illuminate a 60-foot high, metal tower over the soon-to-be main entrance of the facility, to create the ‘Lantern of Hope’. The center, due to officially open in September 2011, set a design goal of transforming the metal tower structure into ...

More than 100 new manufacturing jobs are one step closer to Bettendorf. That's as a developer plans to create an LED lighting plant. Doug Borgeson, BEM Lighthouse Development, decided to reverse the trend that companies went overseas. The company found Bettendorf by way of Finland and Florida. It plans a $10 million project to create nearly 140 jobs in Bettendorf. Jobs, which could have gone to China, will instead pay local employees nearly $17 an hour. The project comes at a time when Iowa is looking to grow manufacturing jobs. Replacing corn with constr...

Cree revealed a new LED light bulb that boasts the same output as a 75-watt incandescent bulb while consuming about one tenth of the electricity. The bulb produces 152 lumens, producing around 1,300 lumens using Cree’s new “TrueWhite” technology, exceeds the performance goals set by the U.S. Department of Energy’s L Prize competition. They could reduce energy usage in the United States by 16.5 percent. Cree did not indicate how much the new light bulb would cost. In general, LED lighting is still much too expensive for typical consumers ...

Korea, Japan, and China appear to have the solutions to see steady and positive proliferation of LED lighting products, key price points could trigger real commercial demand. “The rapid increase in the market for LEDs used in various applications such as notebook backlights and automobile headlights is spurring heavy capital investments by LED makers”, noted Robert Castellano, president of The Information Network. “LEDs are creating a niche market for conventional suppliers of semiconductor processing tools and a lucrative market for MOCVD suppl...