OSRAM unveiled a beautiful new OLED installation at the Qubique Berlin Tempelhof 2011 exhibition, which uses over 1,400 OSRAM round Orbeos panels. It was designed by Labme, OSRAM's new open source OLED lighting design platform. It is the largest OLED lighting installation ever produced, replacing Philip's Living Shapes OLED wall installation which had 1,152 Lumiblade panels. But the amount of panels is still small compared to Mitsubishi's 6-meter OLED GeoGlobe which uses 10,362 PMOLED displays. Anyway, here's a nice ...

Recently ,due to the slackened demand in LED industry, including Huga Optotech, Everlight have asked their staffs to carry out unpaid leave. According to Robert Yeh , chairman of Everlight, due to the high inventory level, the LED industry has entered an off season. Everlight staffers will take two to three days of unpaid leave in November and five days in December. The unpaid leave gives Everlight the flexibility to skip a layoff program. In the contrast, Epistar reported that it won’t follow the practice of Everlight. Neither did Chimei-Innolux have the...

OSRAM Oslon SSL LED in red, orange and yellow with new chip technology The latest Oslon SSL LEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors provide up to 20 percent more output than their predecessors and offer improved thermal stability, particularly in Hyperred (660 nm). Eenergy-efficient applications such as commercial horticulture are therefore much more efficient. Behind this boost in performance lie the latest developments in Indium-Gallium-Aluminum-Phosphide chip technology (InGaAlP). Powerful, efficient long-life light sources are enormously important ...

LEDforum 2011 Taipei is a two-day event organized by LEDinside and will be held on November 1st and 2nd at National Taiwan University Hospital International Conference Center. The agenda for the first day features the latest LED market trends in upstream component, manufacturing equipment and LED chips, while the agenda for the second day covers other important areas such as driver IC, package and lighting applications. Focused on the future direction of LED industry, LEDforum is an advanced conference to grasp new market trend and future opportunities.

Leedarson Lighting will be demonstrating a smart lighting solution with a wide-range of intelligent CFL and LED light bulbs CFL, LED lamps and fixtures, empowered by lighting technology from NXP and intelligent lighting platform from GreenWave Reality, at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair. The smart lighting solution enables consumers to control their lighting via remote control, smartphone applications or in-home sensors that detect changes in motion or lighting conditions, all without requiring any rewiring of the home.  The result is that consumers ...

Company Extends Market Leadership Supplying Large Diameter Sapphire Wafers to LED Industry Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today announced that it has shipped a total of 200,000 six-inch sapphire wafers to the LED manufacturing industry. Sapphire, the base material used for the majority of LEDs, is used in consumer products such as LED-based lighting, HDTVs, laptops, netbooks, smart phones and tablets, and automotive light...

Lately, Seoul Semiconductor has announced New Acriche 2 featuring long life time, low energy consumption and design convenience. According to the company,its 4W, 8W, 12W and 16W module launch which will provide bulb replacement LED solution replacing not only 40W, 60W and 100W incandescent bulb but also MR16 halogen lamp and down light. The newly introduced ‘Acrich 2’ has been increased more than 90% in power efficiency by improving the power factor up to 97% comparing to previous version of ‘Acrich’ of Seoul Semiconductor, and the THD ...

Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently provided Halo 4-inch and 6-inch LED recessed downlights to Florida International University’s (FIU) Solar Decathlon team. The energy-efficient products are included in FIU’s Perform[D]ance House design concept featured in this year’s Solar Decathlon in West Potomac Park, Washington, DC.   Tasked with designing and building an innovative and efficient solar home, the team quickly settle...

Designed for Unparalleled Performance and Lowest System Cost Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of high-voltage XLamp® XT-E and XM-L LEDs. These new LEDs can enable the use of more efficient, smaller drivers to lower cost for compact lighting applications such as candelabras and retrofit lamps. “The XLamp XM-L High-Voltage LED eliminates the trade-off between size and efficacy, allowing us to take advantage of the efficacy of high-voltage drivers,” said Ken Chakrav...

Because of the affordable price and environment friendly feature, Chinese multi-colour lights are popular with Indian customers in this Diwali. Sources have shown that the demand for fancy Chinese lights has increased manifold in the past few years. In contrast, the demands for candles had reduced but these are still in the market. But the earthen lamps had almost vanished. According to Dheeraj, owner of shop at Ram Narain Bazaar, "The demand for Chinese lights had increased amazingly. Last year, we almost ran out of stock. This year, the demands is expected to re...

Last Friday, Everlight announced that it had defeated Nichia in an administrative suit that it believes will give it an edge in other patent proceedings against the Japanese company. According to Everlight, Taiwan's Supreme Administrative Court upheld a High Administrative Court verdict which ruled that a patent asserted by Nichia related to LED component production technology was invalid. The court agreed with Everlight’s contention that Nichia was not the inventor of the patent and that Everlight had the right to apply the technology covered by the pat...

Rubicon extends its integrated manufacturing efforts to include internally-processed powder   Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today announced that the company has begun the transition to on premise processing of aluminum oxide used for the production of sapphire wafers.    Using a customized in-house method, Rubicon converts raw aluminum oxide powder into a form usable in the company’s industry-leading crystal growth process...

Taiwan and mainland China have joined force to deepen cross-Taiwan Strait industrial cooperation on LED lighting, TFT-LCD, wireless cities, low-temperature logistics, and electric cars. The two sides have reached an agreement during a meeting between P.K. Chiang, chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation, and Chen Yunlin, chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits in Tianjin on Oct. 20....

Everlight is showing various LED components and LED lighting fixtures at eMEX Exhibition in Suzhou Exhibition Center, China, booth number 3J17 during Oct. 20th to 23th, 2011. This year Everlight represents variety energy saving LED components for mobile, automobile, signage, TFT backlight, infrared, sensor and lighting applications. In addition, the company also shows different lighting fixtures for lighting applications including outdoor area, commercial place, office, storage and home....

Targets to the potential LED market, Japanese major daily living product maker Irisohyama Inc. has announced to set up a plant to manufacture light bulbs using energy-saving LED utilizing an area in Tosu, Saga Prefecture that was vacated by a subsidiary of Panasonic Corp. The Sendai company will buy a former facility of Panasonic Factory Solutions Co. with an area of about 45,000 square meters that was closed in 2009 as part of a business restructuring. The company will use the new plant as a base for development and production of devices, including one to place e...

Come and meet the representing elites from Aixtron, Delta, Epistar, Everlight, GT Advanced Technologies, Henkel, KLA-Tencor, Merck,OSRAM, Philips Lumileds, Taiyo Nippon Sanso, ULVAC, Veeco and Yunfeng. Don't miss your opportunity to network and learn from this international gathering event. The second of LEDforum covers other important areas such as driver IC, package and lighting applications. Focused on the future direction of LED industry, LEDforum is an advanced conference to grasp new market trend and future opportunities.

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology maker, GlacialTech Inc., his excited to announce that their display at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair Autumn Edition will feature an exceptional line-up of high-quality and superbly designed LED lighting products for buyers and journalists to see first-hand. Interested parties are invited to visit GlacialLight Booth #5B-F34, Hall 5, from October 27-30, 2011, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to test products, ask questions, and procure GlacialLight's most advanced LED li...

Recently, Nexxus Lighting has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with American Electric Power Service Corporation (AEP Ohio) to offer in-store rebates of $10 to $15 on select ENERGY STAR® qualified Array® LED bulbs. Under the collaboration, AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power, will apply the in-store discounts to purchases made by residential consumers at participating retailers throughout its Ohio service area. The promotion will be in effect from October 26th, 2011 through December 31st, 2011, or until funding is depleted.&nbs...

Recently, as being concerned about Taiwan’s leading position may be replaced by South Korea and mainland China, LED specialists from Taiwan’s think tanks, academic institutions, trade organizations and private companies have urged the government to quickly pass laws to offer consumers subsidy for their procurements of LED lamps. South Korea unseated Taiwan in 2009 as the world’s No.2 LED supplier. According to Director General Y.J. Chan of Electronics and Optoelectronics Research Laboratories of the government-backed Industrial Technology R...

Ledzworld Technology, an innovative R&D and manufacturing company of high-end LED retro-fit lamps for professional users, unveils its Chameleon Driver Technology during the International Lighting Fair in Hong Kong (Oct 27-30, 2011) These intelligent drivers create the world’s first MR16 range that is truly compatible. The biggest challenge for manufacturers of retrofit LED lamps is the compatibility with thousands of existing combinations of dimmers and transformers. The Chameleon driver of Ledzworld is a technological break-through. Its arrival ...

The Italian American Chamber of Commerce Midwest Bestows Award to LED Light Pioneer PolyBrite International, Inc., developer of energy efficient Borealis® LED lamps and light systems, announced that Carl Scianna, President & CEO, was honored with the Midwest Lifetime Achievement Award by The Italian American Chamber of Commerce (IACC).  The award was presented at the 104th Gala and Awards Dinner held on October 1, 2011 in Chicago IL. The 2011 Lifetime Achievement award was presented to Mr. Scianna for his professional ac...

New York- based LED fixtures company EcoSense Lighting, received $13 million in venture capital financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. EcoSense disclosed the Series B funding in a filing today.The money will be spent on developing its LED products and hiring more engineers and salespeople.

Bridgelux has developed Micro SM4 LED component to cater for the requirements of the $1 billion 20-40W lamp replacement market. According to the company,the Micro SM4 dramatically reduces the component count, cost, complexity and size of the lighting system, enabling a cost-effective, high performance LED solution for diffuse and directional lighting, such as 20-40 watt incandescent, 20-35 watt halogen, B10-style (candelabra), and low wattage compact fluorescent lamp replacements. Using only 4.6 watts of power, the Bridgelux Micro SM4 will deliver between 330 and 5...

Cree has announced revenue of $269.0 million for its first quarter of fiscal 2012, ended September 25, 2011. This represents a 0.2% increase compared to revenue of $268.4 million reported for the first fiscal quarter last year and a 11% increase compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. GAAP net income for the first quarter of $12.8 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, decreased 78% year-over-year compared to GAAP net income of $58.0 million, or $0.53 per diluted share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2011. On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the first quarter of ...

Recently, Aixtron has received an order for one AIX 2600G3 IC system in a 12x4-inch wafer configuration and one VP2400HW with 6x4-inch wafer capacity from Nanjing Electronic Devices Institute (NEDI),which is s devoted to providing leading edge technologies on material growth, device design and manufacture in China. NEDI will use the systems to investigate power devices and LEDs. The new systems will be installed and commissioned by a local AIXTRON service support team alongside the company’s already existing AIXTRON MOCVD systems at t...

Despite of Nichia’s successive patent lawsuits, Everlight will ship its brand products to Japan as scheduled in 2012,according to Everlight’s chairman, Y.F. Ye. Back to early September, Nichia filed a charge against Everlight, alleging that its white LED lamps sold through Japanese retailer Chip On Stop also infringe its No. 4530944 patent. Following closely, Nichia has again claimed that Everlight’s white LED bulbs entering Japan through importer Tachibana Eletech of Japan infringes its No. 4530094 patent, and brought the charge before ...

Recently, Taiwan’s No.1 lamp maker, China Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd.,has annonuced to inject US$30 million to form a new company in Xiamen of mainland China to manufacture general lighting fixtures, LED lamps and lithium iron phosphate battery packs. The new company will turn out 200,000 systems of lighting fixture a month in the initial stage mainly for Taiwanese-invested factories and offices in Xiamen. According to China Electric, the new venture will generate revenue up to RMB50 million (US$7.8 million at US$1:RMB6.4) a month in the first operating...

Sponsored by the Zhongshan municipal government, the China Lighting Association, and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade's light industry council, The 10th China (Guzhen) International Lighting & LED Applications Fair is announced to take place from Oct 18 to 21 . The fairs is expecting more than 600 exhibitors, including 276 LED firms. The fairs are a crucial part of the township's efforts to develop further and grow into a global lighting hub in the foreseeable future, one official pointed out. Back to a year ago, the 9th ...

98 CRI milestone for light quality drives LED adoption in retail, hospitality, residential and museum applications Intematix Corporation, a leading innovator of patented phosphor materials and components for high-quality LED lighting, today announced that it has demonstrated a phosphor blend that provides a near perfect color rendering index (CRI) of 98 and R9 value of 99 when applied to a reference LED package. The results highlight Intematix's unique phosphor leadership in the LED lighting industry, as the phosphor blend combines three separate material famili...

The Minister of Economic Affairs of the German Federal State of Bavaria, Martin Zeil, opens the new Optogan production site. LED chips from the German city of Landshut form the core of the lighting technology of the 21st century. “Bavaria is gaining a shining example for future-oriented innovations“, declared the Minister of Economic Affairs of the German Federal State of Bavaria, Martin Zeil, in his opening speech. “I am delighted that Optogan has decided to use a site in Bavaria when expanding its operations in Germany. The site’s p...