With the advent of LED lighting units suitable for outdoor lighting, ewo, the Bolzano-based, international manufacturer of high quality lighting systems asked Plasma Studio to develop a new type of street light for this radically new technology. Starting from the conceptual diagram of the street lamp as a combination of vertical shaft and horizontal light-emitting beam and looking at birds and flowers for reference, Plasma developed Tagliente as a fluid transition between the vertical and horizontal directions. Challenging the omnipresent and generic status of street lamps, th...

Acuity Brands, has added the Lithonia Lighting® ACLED and the TLED, a general purpose LED recessed troffer  to its indoor LED ambient lighting portfolio . According to the company, the ACLED is an indoor ambient lighting fixture featuring a classic yet contemporary architectural style, advanced LEDs and flexible controls. It is available in a 2’x2’ configuration and features 3300 delivered lumens at 41 input watts. The TLED is a high-performance LED fixture for general-purpose illumination, featuring nLight enabled controls, to...

Adding Colours to Bangkok’s Landmark The Siam Discovery Center is one of Bangkok’s first shopping malls. Recently, the Center has new looks, thanks to Signex LED architectural lighting. At the core of the lighting fixtures are OSRAM Opto Semiconductor’s Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs which help illuminate the multi-dimensional bubble-like structures at the front of the building, attracting shoppers and tourists from afar. “When we were asked to create a lively illumination design for the Siam Discovery Center, we immediately picked...

Philips EnduraLED / AmbientLED 12.5 watt is announced to receive ENERGY STAR certification.   The Philips AmbientLED lasts 25 times longer and uses 80 percent less energy than the 60-watt incandescent bulb it is designed to replace. It features 806 lumens, 2700K, a CRI of 80 and a six year warranty.  Ed Crawford, General Manager of Lamps for Philips Lighting North America, said that “This LED bulb represents an important milestone for the lighting industry and for LED adoption, as it will give utilities the confidence to supp...

Because of the continuing rapid demands of LED production in Taiwan and China, Johnson Matthey, the designer and manufacturer of hydrogen purifiers, has shipped its purifiers to new and expanding fabs for LED production.  It’s said that Johnson Matthey's state-of-the-art PSH Series bulk hydrogen purifiers can provide 99.9999999% pure hydrogen for wafer fabrication. And the HP Series purifier product line is the most popular and provides the purest hydrogen.  According to Stuart Bestrom, Sales Manager for Johnson Matthey’s Gas Pur...

Verbatim will reveal the world’s first commercially available, organic LED (OLED) lighting panels that are colour tunable, white tone tunable and dimmable during the Fuori Salone show in Milan from April 12-17.      Verbatim will be located at Design Library srl, Via Savona 11, 20144 Milan. The company’s OLED display will be created by lighting designer Satoshi Uchihara, who has designed World Heritage Site installations, such as Kinkakuji, in Kyoto, Japan. The display will incorporate one of the world’s largest OL...

C&K Components, a leading international supplier of tact switches, toggle, rocker and pushbutton switches, and smart card interconnect devices, announces the availability of RAFI’s E-Box, a low-profile housing for control components.  The newly designed E-Box permits convenient and quick assembly and is suitable for installing actuators of the RAFIX 22 FS Series.  In addition, the E-Box can be used wherever single control component units are required at detached or remote locations. The modular system consists of bottom and top parts, contact mo...

New XLamp® ML-B LED Optimized for Lighting Applications Requiring Exceptionally Smooth Light Distribution Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of the XLamp® ML-B LED. Designed for quarter-watt operation, the XLamp ML-B LED brings lighting-class performance to distributed lighting applications where the light source is visible, such as panel lights and LED-based fluorescent tube replacements. Lighting manufacturers have tried to achieve a uniform lighting appearance by pl...

Indian Western Railways will replace the destination signboards on outstation trains with LED boards to provide train number, next stop and station name. The system will be supported by Global Positioning System. Initially the LED boards will be installed in 600 coaches at Rs. 8 crore and later used in all trains. According to railway sources, it is the first time when WR is going install these boards. It will be GPS-enabled and in future passengers will able to see railway information inside the trains. Besides, this system is remote-controlled and programmable....

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has released its 8.4-inch, SVGA and XGA color TFT-LCD modules featuring white LED, a long backlight life for industrial use. According to the company, the new product can offer super high brightness and a wide operational temperature range, allowing it to be used in severe, outdoor environments....

Casio America is about to exhibit its LASER & LED HYBRID light engine during the 2011 Digital Signage Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the North Hall 2, Booth #2231.   To replace the mercury lamp contained in traditional data projectors, the LASER & LED HYBRID light engine can produce up to 3,000 lumens, bringing vividness and color range to a variety of digital signage applications. Additionally,Casio’s LASER & LED HYBRID light engine combines blue laser light and a fluorescent element to generate...

Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, has made a breakthrough on its new high-volume AlN template manufacturing tool by producing what is said to be the world’s first 300mm (12-inch) diameter AlN-on-silicon template for GaN. It claims that its process is the first that is capable of direct insertion into existing LED and power device production processes that grow GaN and related alloys such as InGaN and AlGaN. The new AlN template tool was designed and constructed by chief engineer Dr Bob Metzger, and it was incorporates many of the features...

It’s reported that people at MiniWiz have created a useful little solar Bulb Lamp which will make use of the old plastic bottles. There are 0.18W solar module cells that can give you some light .Take any plastic bottle and attach the fixture to the mouthpiece, and you will have up to 6 hours of illumination. Because of a solar panel, it needs to be in the sun to charge up, and is best used for mood or garden light. It comes in a variety of colors....

OSRAM SYLVANIA has teamed up with Lowe's to introduce SYLVANIA LED Recessed Downlight Kit. The kit includes a six-inch LED recessed downlight with white trim and a medium base socket adapter. The sleek design complements most ceilings with its flush mounting style and aesthetic appeal.   Available in 3000K color temperature, the 11-watt version delivers 625 lumens of light, comparable to a standard 65-watt incandescent BR30 light bulb.  Moreover, the light can be quickly and easily installed into most standard six-inch can fixtur...

Digi-Key Corporation is announced to promote its sales with Cree-based printed circuit board (PCB) LED development kits. These kits, also known as star boards, are designed to simplify LED ease-of-use. PCB development kits, when combined with thermal heat sinks, can shorten time-to-market by forming the foundation for LED designs. PCB configurations are available for Cree XLamp XR-E, XR-C, XP-G, XP-E, XP-C, MX-6, and MC-E LEDs.  ...

At Strategies In Light 2011 in Santa Clara, California, Tyco Electronics (TE) has showcased the solderless LED socket, Type LS, designed for use with the new Philips Lumileds LUXEON™ S LED. The new product offers a solderless termination that complements this newly-released lighting-class LED by Philips Lumileds. ...

German design firm Benwirth Licht created a new modular OLED/LED lamp called Cluster+. The lamp uses both LEDs and OLEDs (OSRAM's ORBEOS panels, in fact) to create unique designs. The idea is that you can arrange the lamp in whatever design you want, and so use it as a chandelier, desk lamp, wall lamp and any other arrangement you can think of. The basic building block is a square that contains either one circular ORBEOS OLED panel or four LEDs. The square block is about 5 square inches in size (and less than 1/8 of an inch thick).  ...

Dual Red/IR LED Unit Provides Visibility with NVGs and ANVIS in a Single Unit for New Installations or as an Easy Retrofit for Existing Fixtures Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), the leading innovator of LED lighting systems and technologies, unveiled its new Vigilant™ Series L-810 RTO Infrared Series Dual Red/Infrared LED L-810 Obstruction Light, the first and only L-810 product on the market featuring red and IR LEDs in a single unit. The Vigilant IR Series leverages Dialight’s superior optics technology to ensure vi...

Levitech BV announced that it sold and delivered its Levitor® 4300 Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) system to a leading Asian LED maker for annealing their GaN devices.   “The Levitor was selected for its ability to provide uniform fast heating of (transparent) sapphire LED wafers., The considerable reduction of power consumption of the LED devices was a strong motivator to work with the patented annealing technology of Levitech”, commented Nobuyuki Ura, Director of Levitech Japan. “Levitor’s unique capability to process 2&rdqu...

Office Depot was reported to support its new line of Realspace® LED lamps for Global Green’s 8th Annual Pre-Oscar Party held at the Avalon Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles. It’s said that　the theme for this year’s event is “Greener Cities for a Cooler Planet” and will benefit Global Green’s initiatives to promote smart solutions to climate change. To showcase one of the smart solutions ,Office Depot prepare to launch its new line of Realspace® LED lamps.  ...

dilatoriness GmbH has launched a new LED driver ,the MCC16, which is designed for interior applications. According to the company, the MCC16 has combined with DMX, TCP/IP or DALI interfaces and has a capability of separately controlling up to 16 LED modules. With these ground-breaking characteristics, it can be used not only in workplace lighting, accent lighting for hotels and bars but also flexible area lighting for conference and seminar rooms, demanding individual lighting concepts based on LEDs....

Philips Lumileds is announced to make a LED lighting industry breakthrough on “Freedom From Binning”, which will relieve luminaire manufacturers’ and lighting designers’ concerns over white light consistency and uniformity and will simplify the design process for LED solutions. With Philips Lumileds “ Freedom From Binning” vision, white LUXEON emitters will be uniform and consistent that there will be no color bin selections. Buyers of the new LEDs, initially released at CCTs of 2700K and 3000K with others to follow, w...

Enables Customers to Address High-Output Halogen Retrofits Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces a new lighting-class LED designed for high-output, small form-factor directional lighting applications. The XLamp MT-G LEDs are optimized for 35W-50W halogen MR16 retrofit bulbs and other accent, track, display and down lighting used in retail stores, residential settings, museums, art galleries, hospitality and landscapes and are the first commercial LEDs to deliver sufficient light output for these applications. The mult...

New Mask Aligner Delivers Highest-in-Class Throughput and Yield EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer-bonding and lithography equipment for the advanced semiconductor and packaging, MEMS, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and emerging nanotechnology markets, announced the latest addition to its portfolio of products created to optimize the manufacture of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB-LEDs), compound semiconductors and power electronics.  The new EVG620HBL fully automated mask alignment system builds on EVG's field-proven mask aligner...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ Multi CHIPLED LEDs are used in the video display screens in the conference hall of Jinan Municipal Government in Shandong Province of China. The LEDs are selected for their high brightness, high contrast and advanced structure. Housed in black package that is impervious to ambient lighting with its close pitch design, the LEDs enable homogeneous video display and high colour fidelity. Having the blackest LED package on the market and together with diffused resin, the Multi CHIPLED enables better contrast, thus th...

Internationally renowned NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre has been acknowledged of being one of its ‘Greenest Facilities’ and has recently installed a light solution system from Lutron Electronics. The Administrative and Maintenance facility catering to Propellants is using innovative light control strategies to dramatically reduce energy consumption and maximizes the use of available daylight. Lutron is thrilled to enable NASA achieve net zero energy use in their greenest facility to-date with light control strategies that can save up to 60% of lighting ...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces commercial availability of the LBR-30™ LED lamp, aimed at replacing energy-wasting incandescent lamps commonly used in tracks, commercial and residential recessed downlights. Powered by Cree TrueWhite® Technology, the lamp delivers beautiful, warm-white light with unrivaled color accuracy and efficiency. “We were highly impressed with the installation of LBR-30 lamps in our Pittsburgh, Pa. LEED Gold designed location,” said Andrew Dunmire, AIA, LEED AP, vi...

Nine innovative products are honored for technical advancement. Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), announces that nine of its Cooper Lighting and Cooper Controls products have been recognized by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Committee as providing “an advancement in the art and science of lighting.”  The accepted products are part of the 2010 IES Progress Report, which presents significant developments and improvements in the lighting industry over the past year.  The accepted prod...

Lately, no big event can be imagined without LED production, especially without something new, creative and record breaking. Just like the 2011 Asian winter games in Kazachstan which on 30th of January took place in Astana, the capital of Kazachstan. New arena in Astana was illuminated by the ceiling LED screen which was designed, manufactured, installed and launched by Lithuanian company RGGLED. This project is unique in Europe as well as in Asia by its measures - ceiling LED screen was 8500 sq. m big. “I evaluate Astana arena project as an extreme suc...

According to PowerSecure International, its new family of LED-based street lights is in a good demand with utilities and municipalities.   Over the last several months, over 30 electric utilities and municipalities have purchased PowerSecure’s new area light “SecureLiteTM”. Furthermore, it recently has introduced two new LED-based street lights to the marketplace, including replacements for traditional 250 and 400 watt HID street lighting, “PowerLitesTM” to meet the demand of customers....