OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and MODA LIGHT transform campus restaurant with energy-efficient lighting technology Legends, a campus restaurant and ale house located at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, recently completed the installation of 70 MODA LIGHT ICAN 15 down lights throughout its dining facilities. The installation of these fixtures, illuminated with OSRAM Opto Semiconductors LEDs, will help Legends achieve approximately 82% in energy savings from the previously installed fixtures.

Luminus Devices has powered the new Strong Entertainment Lighting Solutions 650 and 900 spot lights, which features a total light output of 20,000 lumens and have a lifespan of 50,000 hours, to light the largest skyscrapers and towers in the world, antennas, amphitheaters and artwork displays.   The Solutions 650 utilizes a proprietary optics system giving the user a narrow 3 degree beam of light, with a reach of more than 1,500 feet.

GE has taken advantage of jet engine technology to produce 1,500 lumens LED bulbs which are half the size and weight of a 600-lumen LED downlight, and this without the thermal problems that come with high-power LEDs. Read on for more details. Because specializes in jet engines, GE has lots fluidics experts and technologies that allow it to study air flow and cooling. This helped it develop the cooling technology, using jet engine know-how, used in this prototype LED bulb:

Taiwan's outlying island of Kinmen has installed a new system of LED lamps for street lighting as part of the county's low carbon energy-saving efforts. As the county government was awarded a grant by the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Bureau of Energy to finance the plan, Sixty-nine automated LED lamps were installed on a section of the island's Huandao East Road, replacing the previous sodium and mercury street lamps.

Bayer MaterialScience has developed customized polycarbonates in initial series application, such as the automotive industry include LED lenses for low-beam and full-beam headlights and fiber optics for daytime running lights in the front headlamps of the new Audi A8.

Recently, ViewSonic has announced that all of its PC display products will feature LED technology by early 2011. According to Jeff Volpe, vice president and general manager, "Consumers are rapidly transitioning to LED display products because they allow for lower energy costs while delivering brilliant picture quality. ViewSonic is leading the way towards a greener, more cost efficient future by delivering an array of green LED products for our customers to choose from."

Designer Danilo Fedeli has created a range of LED showers as part of the Light series. Come in various shapes, ranging from oval to square and rectangular, the shower heads features a cascading effect along with the tropical rain effect, using color therapy to help you rejuvenate yourself after a particularly gruelling day at work.

There is a LED Piano Light which is inspired by the player piano. Designed to take advantage of the LED light's low-temperature characteristic, Piano Light's surface can be touched without causing burns.   Therefore this new light allows users to tickle the "ivories" of the light as if they were playing a grand concert. Not only is it fun to play with, but it also provides sufficient illumination for reading.

In 2002, right after 9/11, eight-year-old Veronica Granite from New Jersey began a petition drive to illuminate her hometown bridge with red, white and blue lights. She had recently seen tricolor lighting atop the Empire State Building during a visit to Liberty State Park and thought the Bayonne Bridge should be similarly decorated in patriotic lights. Bayonne Bridge Lit with Patriotic LED Lights custom designed by LEDtronics, Inc.

Skin cancer may be treated with light in the near future. A US study has show that a newly designed LED-powered device may be used in the treatment of skin cancer.

Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp and Panasonic Corp are said to commercialize their straight tube LED lamps to replace fluorescent lamps within 2010. Toshiba Lighting & Technology plans to launch two types of straight tube LED lamps, whose brightnesses are equivalent to those of 20W and 40W fluorescent lamps, respectively, within 2010.   Also,Panasonic  intends to commercialize its straight tube LED lamps within 2010.

Albeo Technologies has supplied 7000 lumen T8LED Troffers to Butte College's student center, helping the college to deliver the highest light levels with quality illumination and an appealing look.

Eulitha AG, a Swiss based nanolithography company, has developed a proprietary photolithography technology for low-cost and high-throughput fabrication of photonic nanostructures. This solves a major ongoing problem faced in the fabrication of high-resolution photonic structures since standard photolithography equipment either lacks the required resolution or its cost is prohibitively high.

Astronics Corporation has launched its new cutting edge line of LED Landing and Taxi lights, which are capable of increasing life and reducing power consumption.

OSRAM adds to its product portfolio of LED solutions for the airfield market

OSRAM expands its product portfolio with LED solutions for the entertainment, architainment and special effects lighting market. With Zelion H, the company presents a robust LED module for variable use in a number of different applications. Zelion H modules are particularly energy-efficient robust solutions for entertainment lighting. Source: OSRAM

Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched two collections of LED drivers, the 16-channel TC62D748 and TC62D749, which deliver constant currents between 1.5 and 90mA and offer high-speed serial data transfer rates up to 25MHz.   Both of them are designed for the control of LED modules and LED displays built around multiple LED strings.

A performance art group, Phase 7, has debuted their brand new interactive LED installation in Berlin, which brings LED lighting effects to the ground itself, which will interact with those who step on it. It's said that Phase 7 created something like this back in 2008. And this time, the performance group has unveiled the Onskebronn, which is Norwegian for 'wishing well.'

Korea-based LED lighting maker Seoul Display introduces its high quality LED light bulbs. Its LED light bulbs are designed to minimize the damages from the heat. The driver is optimized for LEDs to give the longest life span. The separation of the driver and the LED modules protects from heat building up.

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT), a UK-based equipment maker, has launched the PlasmaPro NGP1000 HB-LED plasma production tools, which satisfies to the need of throughput with batch sizes from 61 x 2" wafers up to 7 x 6" wafers, coupled with high-quality device performance and yield for HB-LED manufacturing.   OIPT's PlasmaPro NGP1000 HB-LED plasma tool

The research which are comprise of John Rogers from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), as well as scientists from China, Singapore and South Korea, Chemistry World reports, have jointly developed flexible sheets of LED devices, that can be safely inserted under the skin to produce glowing tattoos. In order to make the LED arrays flexible, the team selected to use a low cost, flexible, biocompatible polymer as a substrate. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) seemed like an obvious choice.

Dell has rolled out eight new LED displays designed for the multimedia maven.   Dell's new Studio LED monitors are available in22-inch (ST2220), 23-inch (ST2320) and 24-inch (ST2420) sizes, engineered to provide consumers with enhanced digital content consumption and creation, upping the ante by delivering cinematic quality pictures that make watching movies, playing games, and editing photos an eye-catching experience.  

Energy Smart Industry has announced its successful zero out of pocket LED lighting retrofit program, which has encouraged many buildings in United States to opt for retrofitting. The company completed retrofitting for Ocean Palms and helped the condominium association to bring down its energy bills by almost 29%.

Taiwan BenQ launched three new 24” LED backlight monitors including a 3D model, aiming at the models at the home, business and gaming markets in Australia. This 120 Hz monitor outputs two sets of images at 6Hz which are then synchronised using 3D glasses. Native resolution is 1,920 x 1,080 pixels resulting in most output files being supported. The monitor that comes with a solid stand that slides up and down on a pole allows the display screen to be easily adjusted to a suitable height.

London's Samuel Wilkinson has designed blown glass LED lamps, the Vessel Series 01-03 collection to accommodate the artistic LED bulb creations from Hulger. This Vessel Series 01-03 includes two lamps that can be used either as a pendant or hanging lamp plus a table light.

Bridgelux Recently has introduced a 5-year warranty on all of the company's integrated LED arrays and light sources sold worldwide. This 5-year warranty covers not only the Bridgelux LED Array product families, offering the industry's widest performance range from 240 to 4500 operational lumens, but also the award winning Helieon sustainable light module, co developed, marketed and sold by Bridgelux and Molex.

Underwent rigorous third party testing, Nexxus Lighting Array™ R30 finally became the first LED reflector lamp replacement that has qualified for the ENERGY STAR label.   The R30 utilizes the company's patented design and patent – pending thermal management system to deliver over 60 lumens per watt. The R30 uses only 8 watts to produce 500 lumens at a color rich 3000° Kelvin color temperature with a color rendering index of 84.

According to the report of CNA, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) invested NT$18 million (US$586,800) to install more than 500 intelligent LED street lamps in three major parking lots in Sanchong City, Taiwan County, with the aim of cutting electricity consumption by at least 70% to promote green power. According to MOEA officials, the intelligent system will adjust the intensity of the lights by detecting the level of usage, such as the presence of pedestrians or vehicles, and thus reduce electricity consumption.

‘LED Light for you’, the OSRAM Opto Semiconductors network that focuses on LEDs and their applications, now offers a new service in the form of an Optical Selection Tool. This is a database containing 350 different lens types from seven of the world’s largest lens manufacturers. It provides comprehensive information so the right lenses can be selected for each particular application.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, extends its lighting-class LED leadership into high-voltage LEDs with the commercial availability of new XLamp® MX-6S and MX-3S LEDs.