Lemnis Lighting has made a price war with two new LED bulbs priced at $4.95 and $6.95 for general lighting, expecting to get more consumers to adopt the switch. Despite of the low price, the bulbs do have some limitations when compared to their less energy efficient counterparts. The Pharox Blu line is available in 200-lumen and 350-lumen versions, but both give off less light than a 40-watt incandescent, which offers 450 lumens. These bulbs consume less than 5 watts and 8 watts, respectively, but probably won’t offer enough light for general conditions. Additionally, ...

Taiwan Lextar Electronics has won a contract order from Shenzhen-headquartered panel maker CSOT, for LED backlights used in LED-backlit LCD TVs. Lextar stressed that it has worked hard to diversify customers for a while, in order to reduce business overdependence on its parent company for sustainable development. In the meanwhile, the company has also built business links with several Korean and Chinese panel makers, as well as a few consumer electronic device brands abroad. In addition, the company stated that it will continue to explore segments for lightin...

First-of-its-class product line delivers exceptional savings backed by optimal performance Finelite Inc., a leader in high performance commercial building lighting systems, unveiled a new, industry-leading 10-year warranty for its High Performance Recessed LED (HPR-LED) luminaire collection. At twice the industry standard for lifetime operating hours, this warranty also doubles the standard coverage terms for optimal performance over the extended lifetime of the luminaire. "This customer-friendly 10-year warranty demonstrates our absolute confidence in the robust...

SmartWatt Energy has supported Barbagallo’s Express Mart, a convenience store and gas station in East Syracuse, NY for its LED gas station canopy lighting retrofit through the National Grid Small Business Program. SmartWatt Energy conducted a complimentary energy analysis of all outdoor lighting, then proposed a plan to replace Barbagallo’s existing exterior gas station canopy lighting with LED lighting. Barbagallo can save more than $2,000 per year after the LED retrofit. And it has also received a $4,854 rebate and interest-free financing for...

San Francisco based LED company Elemental LED, has launched its new Reignbow LED Color Selector, to expand the uses for color-changing LED lights. The Reignbow LED Color Selector is a dual-slide dimmer and color picker. The slider on the left allows the user to dim RGB LED lights; the dimmer on the right allows the user to choose one color of light to display. The Reignbow fits into any standard light switch wall outlet. It is different from other LED color controllers in that instead of allowing the user to choose a color-changing pattern for RG...

Beaverton, Oregon’s Highland Chevron gas station and ExtraMile food market recently underwent extensive eco-renovations, including the installation of energy-efficient interior and exterior LED lighting by Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE). The addition of Cree LED fixtures supports Highland Chevron’s mission of becoming a zero-energy establishment. Rebuilt from the ground up, the Highland Chevron store is fully lit with Cree LED luminaires under the exterior canopy and inside the convenience store—delivering energy savings estimated at nearly 70 pe...

"LED CHINA 2012" exhibition start at 2005, it is the first Industrial Chain purchase platform which gather LED lighting. LED display. LED ad light source. LED packaging. LED chip and led equipment together; After 7 years international promotion and brand build-up, "LED CHINA 2012" have develop into the most important grand gathering of LED industry.   The eighth period "LED CHINA 2012" will hole on Feb. 20-23st, 2012 at China import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Area B (Guangzhou. China) again. It...

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce its attendance at the world's largest LED event - LED China 2012 from February 20 to 23, 2012. GlacialLight invites all interested parties to visit their booth (#N410 in Hall 9.3) to test products, ask questions, and procure GlacialLight's most advanced LED lighting solutions offerings. Date: February 20-23, 2012 Venue: Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou, China Booth #: N410 in Hall 9.3 “LED CHINA has evolved into one of the mos...

Next-Generation LED Module Family Supports 230 Volt Input To support the growing global demand for the Cree LMH2 module, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), announces the module is now available to lighting manufacturers based in Europe and Asia. The barrier-breaking LMH2 is designed to speed time-to-market and is the only LED module delivering 80 lumens-per-watt system efficacy combined with CRI greater than 90. The modules feature Cree TrueWhite® Technology, a revolutionary way to generate white light with LEDs. “Cree modules let us quickly...

SWITCH Lighting(TM) is showing their SWITCH60 bulb displayed at two distinct exhibitions. According to the company, it is showing the SWITCH60 at the Pratt Gallery's "Bright Future: New Designs in Glass" exhibition on from February 10th to May 5th. The "Bright Future" exhibit features innovative designs in tableware, sculpture, and lighting that demonstrate new possibilities within the world of glass. Additionally, starting on February 17th, the SWITCH60 will also be on display at the Chicago Architecture Foundation&#...

Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, announced that Kaistar Lighting (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. has agreed to invest $25 million in the company. Bridgelux will use the equity investment to further accelerate research, development, and production of LED chip and packaging technology for general illumination applications.   “The market for solid state lighting is expected to grow from $3 billion in 2011 to more than $25 billion in 2015,” said Bill Watkins, Bridgelux’s Chief Executive Officer. &ldq...

Designed to exceed ENERGY STAR® Performance Standards and to Retail for Under $29.00 Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEXS) announced that its new Array® LED BR30 replacement light bulb, which will be available commercially in March 2012, incorporates a new enhanced dimming circuit and patented 2nd generation Selective Heat Sink Technology™, allowing for significant reductions in material cost and weight. The BR30 will produce the same light output as a 65 watt incandescent bulb while consuming less than ten watts, and has been designe...

Panasonic’s LED Clear Light Bulb (LDAHV4L27CG) and HD Integrated Camera (AW-HE120) are received two Gold Awards, the highest honor in the iF Product Design Award at the recent iF Design Awards 2012 presented by iF International Forum Design based in Hannover, Germany. This year there were a total of 4,322 entries from 48 counties in all award categories, and 1,218 products were selected by the panel of judges. Among these, 100 products were recognized with the prestigious Gold Awards. The Gold-winning LED Clear Light Bulb provides...

Recently, sources from the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) have informed that Taiwan Lextar is second to none of its LED industrial peers in Taiwan in terms of patent application volume. Date back to 2011, the company has forwarded 173 patent applications to the office, soaring 381% from 2010. Of the applications 115 were related to inventions. The application amount indicated that each of the company’s 160 employees filed at least one patent, on average, according to the company’s chairman and general man...

Lately, SemiLEDs has made a breakthrough on its latest ultraviolet LED chips which are capable of emitting radiation at a wavelength of 390-420 nm with 40% external quantum efficiencies (EQEs). The EQE is an LED’s ability to convert electrons into photons. The devices have been tested at 350 mA  and up to an output power of 500 mW and a typical 3.3V forward voltage. The exact output power depends on the wavelength. The present SemiLEDs UV LED products are available in wavelengths ranging from 365nm-420nm, in chip sizes of 1.07 mm x 1.07 mm an...

Verticle, Inc. is to start mass production of a hexagonal-shaped "Honeycomb" LED chip. The chip will be showcased and available for sale at LED China 2012 between 20 and 23 Feb 2012 in Guangzhou. According to Mike (M.C.) Yoo, Verticle's CEO," This vertically structured LED chip features significant benefits that include higher light extraction and amore uniform beam profile than conventional square or rectangular LED chips based on sapphire or silicon substrates." Firstly, Honeycomb delivers an improvement in diode performance when...

Noribachi has streamlined its LED pricing, resulting in reductions of up to 31 percent across the LED product line. With the new price, the company expects that it will bolster both interest and investment in LED lighting. The company says cost has “everything” to do with how quickly energy-efficient technologies get adopted. Earlier, Noribachi launched LED Prix 2.0 an upgrade to its LED customization technology. The upgrade includes advancements in the thermal management of Noribachi’s custom retrofit bulbs and DLC certification for Noribac...

According to TCL Corporation’s company filing, the company has posted a 14.68 percent year-on-year increase in LED TV sales in January to 1.34 million units, of which sales of LED backlit TVs surged 161.88 percent to 804,700 units, or 61 percent of the total. TCL sold 197,800 Internet TVs and 102,300 3D TVs in January, up 14.99 percent and 7.76 percent year-on-year. Exports of LED TVs in January rose 96.02 percent year-on-year, or 260,300 units, to 510,300 units. The company will focus on Internet TVs, next-generation smart TVs and 3D TVs...

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, announced today that it has entered into a new contract with its largest customer for large-diameter sapphire wafers. The amount of the contract is $20 million, and it represents a baseline level of shipments that will be made from June through December 2012. The previous contract expired at the end of December. “We are pleased that we will continue as a key supplier to our valued six-inch wafer customer in ...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of optoelectronic semiconductors announced today that Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc., has been selected as OSRAM’s preferred global partner. The appointment is effective immediately in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA), Japan and Asia. As one of the world’s largest distributors of electronic components and embedded systems, Avnet Electronics Marketing’s team of illumination-focused light emitting diode (LED) and ...

Aixtron SE has signed a strategic alliance with Minsheng Financial Leasing (MSFL) , one of China’s main non-banking financial institutions on joint marketing of leasing MOCVD equipment to customers across China The Memorandum of Understanding are signed by Feng Wang, CPO, President of Finance Leases SBU MSFL, and Wolfgang Breme , CFO Aixtron, at a ceremony held at MSFL’s headquarters in Beijing. “This exciting strategic cooperation will enable LED manufacturers to draw upon the most appropriate financing opportunities ...

Dialight has recently added new 100 lumen per Watt with 170W DuroSite® LED High Bay luminaire which offers lumen outputs ranging from 8,000 to 17,000. It will be available for delivery in March.   Instant-on capability allows the units to be paired with an occupancy sensor and/or dimmable components for enhanced energy efficiency. The units operate on an integrated universal power supply at 100-277VAC, and are well-suited for easy changeout from conventional HID light sources, such as metal halide and high pressure sodium.   Each unit is backed by Dial...

Recently, LG Chem has completed the development of their first OLED lighting panel, and has planned to start mass production. The new panel called the "type 1" panel, or the LG-OLED-041 is a 100x100 mm square panel that features 4,000K, CRI>80, 45 lm/W and 10,000 hours lifetime (LT70) at 3,000 nits. The active emitting panel is 90x90 mm, and the whole panel is 2.44 mm thick (including the optical film and PCB. The OLED itself is 1.84 mm). Apart from that, the company is also developing the 2nd generation (or "type 2") panel which w...

Christchurch Airport is the first airport in New Zealand to convert to the latest smart and energy-efficient lighting technology in its terminal, in line with it being the first carbon neutral airport company in the Southern Hemisphere, and the second worldwide. Philips Lighting and Christchurch International Airport Ltd (CIAL) with assistance from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA), is replacing 1,700 light fittings in the terminal with LED technology, providing high quality inviting lighting that not only stacks up aesthetically, but also ...

New Lumenfacade Horizontal enables easy-to-conceal façade lighting Lumenpulse Inc. announced the release and immediate availability of Lumenfacade Horizontal, a linear, high-performance, LED projector with a slim, 2-inch profile. Developed for exterior floodlighting and wall grazing of tall structures, the Lumenfacade Horizontal’s low-profile design makes it easy to conceal and integrate into architectural facades. The unique design repositions the driver chamber to hide it from view, reducing the height of the luminaire while simultaneously concealing all wi...

Japanese Kyushu Sangyo University’s professor Taro Ochiai has developed LED traffic lights which can be seen by colour-blind drivers. Prof Ochiai starts to study LED application in 2003, when they first began to be used in traffic lights in preference to regular light bulbs. Sources has shown that colour-blindness affects around 8 per cent of males and 0.5 per cent of females, with most people with the condition experiencing problems differentiating between red and green. As a result , Colour-blind drivers reported that the LED signals were more difficult for the...

Newly, Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has announced the release of another AC-powered LED solution in its second-generation Acrich2 family at the Strategies in Light 2012 conference in Santa Clara, CA, USA. The new product features the removal of the AC/DC converter and consequently the optimized form factor. The company claims that this type of solution increases reliability by removing many of the components that cause early lifetime failure of other fluorescent replacement solutions. In particular, the design also provides more flexibility and space to work inside...

Ledzworld Technology, an innovative R&D and manufacturing company of high-end LED retro-fit lamps for professional users, launches the world’s first LED lamp with Solid State Cooling System™ (SSCS). Thanks to built-in solid state cooling technology, this 14W lamp is able to dissipate double the heat that a standard sized Par20 can usually handle. During the LFI lightng fair (9-11 May 2012) Ledzworld will demonstrate the technology in its Par20 featuring a whopping output of 800 Lumen (3000 CCT) and a system efficacy of >70 Lumen per Wat...

New Soraa LED MR16 Built on Breakthrough GaN on GaNTM Technology Is Superior to Halogen Soraa, the world’s leading developer of GaN on GaNTM – gallium nitride on gallium nitride – solid-state lighting technology, today announced the launch of its flagship product, the Soraa LED MR16 lamp. The new product is the first LED lamp to provide superior performance to a traditional halogen MR16. It is also the first LED lamp to provide halogen-equivalent brightness without requiring a mechanical fan and payback within months, not years. ...

GlacialLight, a division of experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce that its environmentally-friendly LED lighting products are being used in many applications around the world and providing users with energy-saving light of the highest quality. Porsche automobiles are synonymous with high performance and perfected engineering. Recently, a Porsche showroom in Florida, USA applied these principles to their lighting by installing highly efficient GlacialLight LED lights. The Porsche showroom replaced their outdated recessed halog...