2011-07-13

Fairchild Semiconductor Offers Designers a Total Solution Portfolio for Low-, Mid- and High-Power LED Lighting Applications

Broad Portfolio Simplifies Supply Chain Complexity; Value-Added Solutions Achieve High-Efficiency System Performance With the increasing popularity of LED lighting applications, designers face challenges ranging from design complexity and the need for high system efficiency to limited PCB space and the management of multiple vendors to meet all of their design requirements. To address these challenges, Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, offers a broad portfolio of LED lighting ...
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2011-07-13

LumiGrow Receives Funding to Develop LED Horticultural Lighting Technology

LumiGrow, Inc.,the provider of LED lighting solutions for horticulture, has received an undisclosed sum in Series A financing from Clean Pacific Ventures, to accelerate the market expansion of energy-efficient LumiGrow® lighting solutions for commercial agriculture and horticultural research. Clean Pacific Ventures' General Partner and Chief Investment Officer Sean Schickedanz will join LumiGrow's Board of Directors. Generally, greenhouse growers supplement sunlight with high-intensity discharge  lighting to boost crop growth and extend grow...
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2011-07-12

ETC Selador Lights Paul Cocksedge Studio Exhibition in Milan

Creating a celebration of light, lighting designer Paul Cocksedge used 80 ETC Selador® Classic Ice™ LED fixtures in an exhibition space as part of the Salone del Mobile home furnishing exhibition in Milan, Italy. The project involved projecting light from the blue part of the color spectrum from concealed Selador fixtures onto an 82-foot-long, curved white wall extension of a lighting showroom in the heart of Milan’s design district. When visitors viewed the wall through a red light shade, a previously hidden video of a car appeared to the viewer. C...
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2011-07-12

Illumitex LEDs Designed for Horticulture Lighting Market

Illumitex recently has developed Surexi LEDs to accelerate plant growth while promoting maximum plant size and vitality. According to Illumitex ,the Surexi is the only LED on the market that includes a custom light spectra in a single LED package, eliminating the colour separation issues inherent in other horticulture LED lighting. Utilising Illumitex’s patented square light pattern and precision beam control, Surexi LEDs produce unrivalled edge-to-edge light uniformity while ensuring all plants receive the same amount of light – leading to more unifo...
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2011-07-12

USHIO to Showcase Two New UX4-LEDs Series Models at SEMICON West 2011

USHIO INC. has kicked off shipping the world's first 200-mm wafer full-field projection lithography tool "UX4-LEDs FFPL 200" for manufacturing High-Brightness LED chips. Additionally, the company has completed development of the laser lift-off system "UX4-LEDs LLO 150" for volume manufacturing of vertical-structure LED chips. These latest models of the UX4-LEDs are based on the same platform as USHIO's field-proven UX series, which has an installed base of more than 1,100 systems. They will be exhibited thro...
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2011-07-12

Kyocera Launches LED-UV Curing System for Printing Machines

Newly, Kyocera Corporation has developed the KVL-G3 Series LED-UV curing system, a key component in industrial printing machines. Combined with LED techology, the new product achieves a 70% reduction in power consumption compared to existing lamp-system products (metal halide). In addition, thanks to Kyocera's proprietary high-density packaging technologies, the company has succeeded in arranging LED chips on a high-density surface as opposed to in-line conventional products. With this development, Kyocera has enabled the fastest label printing capability...
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2011-07-12

RoseStreet Labs Develops World's First Silicon-based Long Wavelength LED Device

RoseStreet Labs, (RSL), has utilized low cost silicon wafer substrates to develop  the world's first long wavelength LED device. The RSL longer wavelength device is fabricated utilizing commercial scale deposition tools at RSL's Nitride Research Center in Phoenix, Arizona. In contrast to the more traditional sapphire or silicon carbide substrates typically utilized in LED fabrication, silicon substrates have a substantial cost advantage. Green or longer wavelength nitride based LEDs are very challenging to fabricate compared to UV and Blue ...
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2011-07-12

BenQ Introduces New L-Series LED TV in Middle East

BenQ has introduced its new L-Series LED TV to the Middle East with several new features. The new TV comes in a simple yet elegant design with its high-gloss, crystal black display. It is power-packed with a Reflection Defense Panel that reduces reflections caused by other light sources in the room and Senseye – a BenQ-exclusive lifelike digital image enhancement technology that delivers 28 independent color calibrations. The L-Series LED TV also provides 27.3% more contrast in comparison to other TVs. In particular,it has the Smart On/Off featu...
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2011-07-12

ARC Energy Ships Its 100th CHES Furnace for LED Sapphire Crystal

Advanced RenewableEnergy Company (ARC Energy), specializing in innovative c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting, has announced to ship its 100th CHES Furnace,which is highly automated “c-axis” growth furnaces that are used to produce sapphire boules. Cores from these crystals are turned into LED wafers, and finally into the High Brightness and Ultra-High Brightness LED chips that are used in LED backlighting, general lighting, and automotive and signage applications. Besides, ARC Energy...
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2011-07-11

LED Lighting Spruces up Korea Biggest Media Façades in the World

The Galleria Centercity shopping mall in Cheonan of Korea has been a new landscape with more than 22,000 LED lighting. This huge building is visible from afar as one reaches the end of the journey to Cheonan, located 80 km from Seoul. The vast 12,600 m2 media façade is huge. Dynamic light shows produced by more than 22,000 LED lighting points wrap the structure in a shimmering skin that stands out impressively against its urban setting. The high-power LED spotlights developed by luminaire manufacturer Zumtobel are designed to merge almost imperceptibly in...
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2011-07-11

Electro Scientific Industries to Participate in Semicon West 2011

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a supplier of innovative laser-based manufacturing solutions for the microtechnology industry, will show off  its new and expanded suite of LED manufacturing systems and applications at Semicon West 2011 be held in San Francisco on July 12-14. According to Nick Konidaris, president and CEO of ESI, "ESI has long been recognized as a pioneer and innovator of breakthrough technologies for laser-based LED manufacturing processes. In working closely with our LED customers, ESI has developed revolutionary systems t...
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2011-07-11

Samsung Releases its First Samsung SyncMaster SA Series 3D LED Monitor

Samsung Electronics Philippines Corp., has released Samsung SyncMaster SA950 3D LED monitor,featuring real-life 3D pictures,elegance of nature , Eco Motion Sensor and a “zero-bright spot” guarantee serves. According to the company, it is capable of showing real-life 3D pictures by adopting 3D HyperReal Engine, the reaction is particularly fast, enabling the monitor to produce vivid 3D images without dizziness. The new product is equipped with Ultra Clear Panel, which enhances color contrast for sharper images. Secondly, the new LED monitor is...
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2011-07-08

Lunera Lighting Launches New 6800 SERIES

Lunera® Lighting, Inc. has developed the third generation of its popular eight-foot long 6800 SERIES. In contrast to previous generations, the new suspended linear luminaire is 21 percent brighter, and is now available in three color temperatures of 3500K, 4000K and 5000K with a strong light output performance of 3,700 to 4,000 lumens for office, school, hospital, retail, and other commercial applications. Using a mere 85 watts of energy, the fully dimmable, blade-like fixture dramatically fills a space with bright, quality light. The 6800 SERIES can be join...
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2011-07-08

Thermal Technology Receives 40-uint Order for K1 Sapphire Crystal Growers

Thermal Technology, a leading manufacturer of crystal growth equipment and high temperature furnace systems, announced that it signed a 40-unit order for its Model K1 sapphire crystal grower with a customer in Taiwan.  This is Thermal Technology’s largest single order to date, and signifies the company’s credibility and growing presence in the sapphire crystal LED market.     "This new sales order signals continued industry confidence in Thermal Technology’s high-productivity tool for sapphire crystal growth,” says Matt ...
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2011-07-08

SETI Makes a Milestone on the Lifetime of 280nm UV LEDs

Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (SETi) has made a milestone to overcome the short lifetime of 280nm UVLEDs with of over 10,000 hours on its UVTOP275 LEDs. The lifetime demonstration has been performed on a statistically valid group of LEDs from several batches which are representative of UVTOP275 products; the LEDs were packaged in TO-39 metal-glass packages with flat windows and emit at a wavelength of 280nm ±5nm at an average power of 0.8mW after burn-in. Lifetime analysis was performed to SETi standard procedure; driven with a current...
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2011-07-08

Digi-Key Teams up with Cree, Molex and RECOM for All-In-One LED Lighting Kit

Reportedly, Digi-Key Corporation has teamed up with Cree, Molexand RECOM to offer an all-in-one, LED lighting solution based on the Cree XLamp platform. According to the company, the Digi-Key CXA2011 XLamp LED lighting kit combines the performance, ease-of-use, and reliability of the XLamp series of LED arrays into a simple, all-in-one solution that takes the mystery out of building LED light fixtures. Digi-Key encourages LED design by offering all the necessary components, including a heat sink, connectors, power supply, and LED array, in a ...
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2011-07-08

Gem Hsin's Topaz Series of 2W LED Desk Lamps Turning Heads USB Powered Desk Lamps with Three Brightness Levels

Just  as Computex Taipei 2011 was drawing to a close, Gem Hsin Electronics Co. Ltd., maker of LED lighting products, announced the USB LED Desk Lamp - TOPAZ series at the exhibition. The TOPAZ series of table lamps are specially created for desktop and notebook PCs with a power-saving design that consumes only 2 watts per hour and provides up to 500 lux of illumination on desktops. The elegant shape and distinctive use of USB power in the series quickly drew an enthusiastic response from consumers after the release of the product line. One of Japan&...
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2011-07-07

Lighting Science Group's Products Supports Four U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 Teams for the Competion

Lately, Four U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 teams have announced to rely on Lighting Science Group’s lighting solutions for their solar home prototypes competing in final testing and judgment this fall.   The four teams are Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Old Dominion University and Hampton University, and Middlebury College . According to the Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology team, "The nature...
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2011-07-07

Aixtron CRIUS II-L Sets a New Benchmark for MOCVD Reactor

Currently, with the introduction of the new CRIUS II-L, which Aixtron considered as  the world's largest capacity MOCVD reactor,the company sets a new benchmark for MOCVD reactor capacity, throughput and LED production cost. the new Aixtron CRIUS II-L is based on the already market proven CRIUS II platform which was introduced in 2010,and it’s now available with a 16x4 inch or 69x2 inch capacity. As with previous generations, the CRIUS II-L reactor is based on the Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) concept, which as a key...
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2011-07-07

LED Lights to Spruce up the Nebraska Neighborhood

Recently, some West Main Street residents in the Nebraska neighborhood will embrace a brighter future. The city's Board of Public Works was to consider carrying out a project of adding dozens of high-quality streetlights along the West Main Street corridor to improve light levels, energy efficiency and safety. According to Herb Berg, design coordinator with the city's streetlight engineering department, by replacing existing lights with 48 LED units, the city could benefit from a higher quality of light with only half the electricity required by older lights. ...
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2011-07-07

Safe Haven Self Storage Selected Xeleum for LED Lighting Conversion

Xeleum Lighting, LLC is selected by Safe Haven Self Storage for its LED based lighting in a 70,000 square foot facility in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. The initial conversion from the existing fluorescent and incandescent system will begin during the third quarter of 2011 at its 70,000 square foot facility in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. According to Kristian Pariseau, Safe Haven Director of Operations, “Once we saw the energy audit and ROI analysis, the decision to proceed with the conversion was obvious. Our LED lighting investment is repaid in energy savings in less ...
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2011-07-07

Panasonic to be the Sole Supplier of LED Lighting for the TOKYO SKYTREE

Reportedly, Panasonic has teamed up with TOBU TOWER SKYTREE Co., Ltd. to support LED lighting to brighten the world’s tallest free standing broadcast structure, the TOKYO SKYTREE(R), scheduled for completion in May 2012. Only LED lighting will be used to illuminate the TOKYO SKYTREE. And Panasonic will be the sole supplier of LED lighting. There are 1,995 LED lighting fixtures and a LED lighting display system to be installed in this 634-meter tower. Panasonic’s LED lighting not only offers excellent &ldqu...
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2011-07-06

Avago Technologies Releases three LEDs for Electronic Signage Applications

Avago Technologies has introduced three series of high-brightness oval through-hole LEDs,including HLMP-Lx75, HLMP-Hx74/75 and HLMP-Ax74/75 to set a new performance standard for electronic signage applications. The LEDs’ matched RGB radiation pattern is designed to maintain consistent light and uniform color mixing from all viewing angles. This combination enables sharper viewing quality with lower power consumption for full-color signage such as billboards, stadium video screens, building video walls, as well as for simpler roadway and commercial signage...
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2011-07-06

Panasonic to Produce Solar-Powered LED Light

Awareness of disaster preparedness after the catastrophe in Japan, Panasonic has paved the way for the introduction of a portable solar-powered LED light on Aug. 26 and plans to produce 100,000 units a month. According the company, Solar panels are embedded on the back of the body with two AA batteries in store. The light wii last up to 60 hours on a full charge of about 15 hours under clear skies. In addition, it can also be used as a power backup, capable of supplying electricity to cellular phones and notebook computers via a USB cable. The two rechargeable batterie...
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2011-07-06

ILEX Architectural Lighting Launches New Website and Online Gallery

ILEX Architectural Lighting, a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting solutions for both the hospitality and commercial markets, is pleased to announce the official launch of its newly redesigned website. ILEX modified the design and functionality on ILEXLight.com to enhance the user experience and engage the visitor with a full offering of product details, specifications and recommended companion products / offerings.   "This enhanced website is one of a series of significant steps we have taken to improve the access and visibility of our industry...
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2011-07-06

Samsung Showcases LED Featured Refrigerator

Samsung Electronics has shown off a two-door refrigerator designed by world-widely acknowledged Italian master designer of jewelry, Massimo Zucchi. According to the company,  the new refrigerator features LED lights on the surface of the two doors and strengthens energy efficiency with its "Smart Eco-system", which consumes less power. The elegant Jewel Light delivers soft sparkles as beautiful a gem stone when you open the door and you can see the real beauty of sparkle as you see from the jewels with gleaming light. With Dual LED Lighting illumina...
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2011-07-06

Lumex and element14 Announce New Strategic Partnership to Enhance LED and LCD Product Portfolio Across Asia Pacific

Lumex and element14 announce a strategic partnership created to enhance LED and LCD product portfolios across Asia Pacific. The new partnership strengthens the global distribution agreement between two industry leaders. Lumex is a global leader in optoelectronics, offering the broadest range of high efficiency, high performance LEDs and LCDs in the industry.  element14 (formerly Farnell) is the industry’s first fusion of commerce and community supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals worldwide. The strategic partnership allows electronic d...
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2011-07-05

Philips Supports Germany's 'Green Hospital Program'

Currently, Royal Philips Electronics is supporting the 'Green Hospital Program' at Asklepios Clinics and its partner companies,according to German hospital operator Asklepios Kliniken GmbH. The 'Green Hospital Program' is based on three core areas: Responsibility for the environment, preventative medicine, ecological use of energy in new constructions and the renovation of clinics. It’s said that lighting costs have comprised a quarter of all energy consumption expenses in a hospital, but many hospitals are still fitted with outdated lighting s...
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2011-07-05

2012 Volkswagen Beetle Featured Hella Lighting

As as a major supplier of automotive lighting, Hella has installed all-new 2012 Volkswagen Beetle features front and rear exterior lighting, including headlamps, fog lamps, front side markers, tail lamps, rear reflex reflectors, and a center high mounted stop lamp (CHMSL). The headlamps were designed by Hella's engineering team in the Czech Republic.Hella will be providing halogen and HID versions of the headlamp for the American and European markets. Hella's system also uses LED technology to generate the daytime running lamp and position-light functions...
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2011-07-05

LED Lights Helps Covent Garden Market Reduce Cost

Currently, lighting costs have tumbled  84% in areas of Covent Garden Market where new LED lights have been installed by two small London companies including Ecopower Inc. and Stein Industries Inc. in April. The EcoStein LED Lighting System from Ecopower Inc.has been installed on the second floor of Covent Garden and will be extended to retail areas of the first floor. And Stein Industries Inc.has partnered it to produce the system. The EcoStein system has an automatic "daylight harvesting" system that uses sensors to raise or lower light...
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Tokushima, Japan - 6 March 2024: Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, has started mass production of the new UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs in its popular 434 Series packa... READ MORE

New XLamp® S Line LEDs enhance growth, last longer, lower energy costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Whether you are interested... READ MORE