For the second year in a row MSi LED lighting will shine brightly before this gathering of the world’s top lighting professionals. MSi Solid State lighting is proud to be an exhibitor at the Lightfair International (FFI) trade show May 15-19 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. This annual trade show attracts the world’s top engineering, architectural, design and lighting professionals who attend seminars and view exhibitions of the latest developments in technology and design for both commercial and residential lighting. “This ...

Recently, Lamina Ceramics has released new LED light engines that Smaller than a U.S. nickel and about as bright as a 20-watt light bulb, each BL-4000 light engine is a disk-like array containing 4-6 individual LEDs, depending upon color. The product was honored for Technical Innovation. BL-4000 arrays provide super bright and long-lived lighting. It widely uses for indoor and outdoor architectural applications. Another huge emerging market is DLP (digital light processing) and LCD televisions and multimedia projectors.Lamina Ceramics has solved that heat buil...

LEDnovation has launched its new ImproveLite™ A19 LED, offering 385- and 565-lumen versions at 3000K to take the place of 40- and 60-watt incandescent and halogen lamps in downlights and other semi-directional applications .   The ImproveLite A19 LED provides significantly improved quality of light and color over less-efficient compact fluorescent alternatives, all while featuring dimming to 15% and instant-on response. With a color rendering index (CRI) Ra above 90, a high saturation of deep red color rendering R9 and a 3000K color temperature (CCT...

LED intelligent lighting fixtures manufacturer NexPhase Lighting, a subsidiary of Onteco,  is reported to complete the first stage of installation and testing of LED 100 W high bay fixtures at the main distribution of City Furniture’s warehouse , which is located in Tamarac, Florida of City Furniture. It’s said that there are more than 1,000 traditional high wattage lighting fixtures to be replaced in the distribution warehouse of City Furniture. And NexPhase has replaced 80 T8 fluorescent fixtures with 12 LED 100 W high bay fixtures in the fir...

Kentucky Fried Chicken has adopted lower power, LED lighting for energy saving in its new fast food chain opened on Keystone Avenue. It is also providing preferred parking for hybrid vehicles. The restaurant will be Eco-friendly KFC.  

Sunovia Energy Technologies’ EvoLucia LED Cobra Head SCHX5 has received the award for Best Outdoor Street Light from the U.S. Department of Energy, the International Association of Lighting Designers and the Illuminating Engineering Society in the 2010 Next Generation Luminaires™ Solid State Lighting Design Competition. This recognition provides the highest lighting industry validation of EvoLucia's patent pending Aimed Optics™ technology. The DOE, IALD and IES evaluated five of EvoLucia's Aimed Optics &...

Cree has announced its CR family of architectural troffers commercial lighting, including the CR24™, CR14™ and CR22™. Powered by Cree TrueWhite® Technology, The Cree CR troffer family is capable of delivering an unprecedented combination of 90 CRI and up to 110 lumens per watt, far outperforming any other current lighting options. In addition, an innovative thermal management system enables the LEDs to consistently run cooler, providing significant boosts to lifetime, efficacy and color consistency. All fixtures feature step or 0-10V dim...

Two European companies including Germany’s Osram and Legrand are preparing for investment in Turkey. Martin Goetzeler , Chief Executive of Osram disclosed that Osram was thinking about investing LED technology in Turkey. Osram’s global revenue reached EUR 4.7 billion in 2010 and its sales in Turkey increased twofold in the last four years. In addition, it was the second fastest growing country last year and this year it targets a more than 6 percent growth. As for Legrand, it also considered investing a research, development and production facility t...

Recently, Seoul Semiconductor has launched the brand-new LED series named ‘Z4’ that in accordance with its 2011 business plan. The new model is a 1W LED light that is suitable for general lighting. It features competitive price as well as outstanding luminous efficiency (100lm/W) and luminous flux of 100ml. Z4 LED is against high temperature and highly competitive product in ‘cost/lm’. In addition, it has adopted a silicon lens for optical safety. Warm white and cool white is available. Samples of the Z4 series are available now, and it ...

It’s reported that Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a new method for manufacturing green-colored LEDs with greatly enhanced light output. Led by led by Christian Wetzel, professor of physics and the Wellfleet Constellation Professor of Future Chips at Rensselaer, the research team etched a nanoscale pattern at the interface between the LED's sapphire base and the layer of GaN that gives the LED its green color. It has received a good result. The new technique results in green LEDs with significant enhancements in light...

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...

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...

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...

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.  ...

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...

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...

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...

Reportedly, the National Gallery in London is about to install LED lighting in all galleries in the main Wilkins Building and in the Sainsbury Wing over the next two years, which will become the first institution in the world to use these lights in conjunction with a system that automatically adjusts external roof light blinds according to the amount and angle of sunlight. This ensures that only diffused light is present in the galleries through UV-filtered roof light glazing. The new LED lighting system will slowly augment the natural light as needed, as opposed to the ...