Reportedly, Giant Olympic rings and the Paralympic Agitos, the swirling symbol of the Paralympics, will shine from Tower Bridge throughout the London 2012 Games. It is to be funded through a deal between the Mayor, City of London and London 2012 sustainability partners GE and EDF. The funding package has been made possible through sponsorship recognition for GE and EDF during the Games. Planning permission is being sought from Southwark Council and Tower Hamlets Council. Plans include the use of energy efficient LED technology to cut the energy cons...

According to Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor from Kuala Lumpur, the government can reduce costs by up to 50 per cent with LED bulbs for road lighting. Currently, a pilot project on this had been started in partnership with Royal Philips Electronics involving the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Federal Highway and the Middle-Ring Road 2 (MRR2), entailing a total lenght of 63.1 kilometres. He said that "Lighting of highways in the country is costing the government RM26 million annually currently." He also added that he woul...

According to the Institute of Energy Economics (IEE) of Japan, a foundation supervised by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, if LED lights replace all the fluorescent and incandescent lights used in the country, 92.2 billion kilowatts of electricity -- worth the output of 13 nuclear reactors -- would be saved, that is, the annual domestic power consumption would be slashed by 9 percent. A group of researchers led by Yoshiaki Shibata at the institute conducted the calculation. According to their survey, among an estimated 1.6 billion lights being used in Japan...

NexPhase Lighting, Inc., a subsidiary of Onteco Corporation, announced that UL 1598 and UL 8750 testing has been completed by Intertek for it's generation II NexSense troffer product and it will issue a compliance report shortly.   According to Jon Cooper, President of NexPhase, "We have worked closely with Intertek on this UL 1598 and UL 8750 testing and we are excited that we have passed all required independent testing for our generation II NexSense Troffer product. These Underwriter Laboratory compliance and safety tests are essential to...

Samsung LED is reported to obtain the Energy Star certification which is an international yardstick of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States as to the purchase of lighting equipment. According to the company, it is the first of its kind in Korea, acquired ISO 17025 for LM79 (illumination) and LM80 (LED) from the Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme. ISO 17025 is a qualification with which the tests required for Energy Star can be carried out independently. With the certification, it can significantly avoid complicated proc...

The city of Tulsa is installing new energy saving LED traffic signals to be a greener community. Reportedly, earlier this year, city workers have replaced more than a thousand traffic lights in the downtown area. The city's been gradually converting all signals to LED's since 2004. Throughout the years they've seen 70 to 90 percent in energy savings. In addition, the city of Broken Arrow is also in the process of converting to LED technology. Officials say it's saving the city $3,700 dollars a month. There are plans to put energy efficient lighting in...

Cree recently has introduces a new seven 1200V Z-Rec™ silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky diodes to advance the adoption of silicon carbide power devices into mainstream power applications. Cree Z-Rec diodes feature zero reverse recovery, resulting in up to a 50% reduction in switching losses versus comparable silicon diodes. They also exhibit consistent switching performance across their entire temperature range. When used in conjunction with Cree’s recently-introduced 1200V SiC power MOSFETs, these SiC Schottky diodes enable the implementation of all-Si...

Recently, Amersfoort-Netherlands based AkzoNobel , plans to enlarge its production capacity for its key products: trimethyl gallium (TMG) and trimethyl indium (TMI) to meet continued strong global demand for its High Purity MetalOrganics (HPMO) product range, which manufactures semiconductor-grade indium-, gallium-, aluminum-, zinc- and magnesium-based metalorganics used as key precursor materials in the production of LEDs, solar cells and other semiconductor devices.   In June 2010 AkzoNobel doubled its TMG production capacity at its facilities in LaPor...

Panasonic has supported its 1,652 solar panels and a new full-color, dual-sided LED video board at the famed Northern California Infineon Raceway for energy conservation. Manufactured by Panasonic’s Sanyo division, the high-efficiency solar panels will cover 41-percent of the raceway’s energy usage. And Panasonic has also provided the raceway with a low-energy LED video board. Easily visible from Highway 37, the new board measures 5.77’ high by 17.32’ wide, and uses 57,600 LEDs to create messages brighter than the older technology. It consumes...

VIZIO has announced to step into LED Lighting market with a collection of new, high performance, energy saving, LED bulb in Q4. The company partners with Epistar and Seoul Semiconductor for the new line of products. Donald Leo, Vice President, of SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR noted that they are looking forward to VIZIO's entrance into the market with their soon-to-launch High Efficiency LED light bulbs.   And Dr. B.J. Lee, Chairman of Epistar said that "VIZIO'S expansion into the LED Lighting market stands to cha...

Intematix recently has received the San Francisco Business Times Cleantech & Sustainability Award in the Lighting category which recognizing Intematix for its contribution to the LED industry through advanced phosphor materials that improve the efficiency and quality of light. Earlier this year, Intematix launched the ChromaLit Collection — a family of patented remote phosphor shapes and sizes that separate the phosphor from the chip to improve efficacy, color quality and opens doors for LED lighting design.   The product collection, available in 2-D...

Nuventix, creator of SynJet® thermal management technology, has been named an Innovation Award Winner for phase II of GE's $200 million open innovation challenge, recognizing products and ideas that improve energy efficiency in the home. As a challenge winner, Nuventix has been offered the opportunity to develop a commercial relationship with GE including exploring investment opportunities, distribution partnership opportunities and development assistance with GE Global Research Centers. Nuventix was one of 15 companies selected from more than 5000 ideas submit...

CEA-Leti , a French research and technology organization, has set up a partnership with NEOLUX, a French LED lighting company on developing and manufacturing innovative LED modules and products for lighting. It’s a three-year project which is known as MODULED. According to the project, they will industrialize smart LED systems in France by simplifying functioning and assembly, reducing the mechanics and electronics of current LED systems, and incorporating the latest LED features. In addition, they also will establish processes to allow the f...

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., and Fremont, Calif. USA, Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, has signed a global distribution agreement with Intematix Corporation, a leading innovator of patented remote phosphor components for high-quality LED lighting.   Mark Zack, Digi-Key's vice president, semiconductors said, “Digi-Key is proud to welcome Intematix to our Solid State Lighting prod...

Facility Supports Increasing Demand for High Quality, Large Diameter Wafers to Support Increasing Volume Demands of LED Industry Worldwide Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today announced two critical milestones that enable its new state-of-the-art facility in Penang, Malaysia to move into volume production of six- and eight-inch polished sapphire wafers.   Rubicon’s new Malaysia facility recently completed qualific...

Reportedly, Researchers from IMRE, a research institute of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and the University of Michigan, US have turned out that the efficiency of fluorescent blue OLED devices can reach 9.4%, trumping the current theoretical limit for OLED external quantum efficiency (EQE) by nearly two-fold. This breakthrough has overcome the weakness of the blue emitters on short lifetime and poor colour quality, and it is likely to make OLED displays the next wave in consumer displays. By changing the thick...

Recently, LEDON OLED lighting has combined 9 LG Chem OLED panels and LEDON's own outcoupling and electrical contact system to design a new OLED module that is the brightest ever at 1001 lumens, which is considered to be the world's brightest OLED module. The color temperature is 4077K and the efficacy is over 30 lm/W. The total lamp size is 300x300² with a thickness of 5 mm. and it designed for professional lighting applications....

Despite LED lighting business is in deficit currently, Yeh, Chairman of Everlight, believes the company will make profits in 2 years. At present, the company is concentrating on ensuring distribution network, and it is expected to take 3-5 years to establish a basic distribution network .and it will be capable of setting up a foundation to compete on equally with Philips and Osram in 5 years....

The provider of UV LED solutions Phoseon Technology and Hapond Digital is about to display their products at the 22nd Malaysia International Sign, LED, NEON Technology & Equipment Exhibition, which is considered as one of the largest and well-known exhibition in Malaysia.. The Phoseon will show a wide variety of leading edge UV LED curing products used for curing inks, coatings, adhesives and other applications. It will also be presenting a paper on UV LED Technology at the show. Hapond's exhibit will display Phoseon's StarFire MA...

Due to slower-than-expected demand for LED backlights for LCD TVs and inferior cost efficiency relative to Taiwan’s manufacturers, South Korea’s top LED chipmakers are reported to decide to halt their expansion plans. Early last year, South Korean manufacturers intended to add a total of 600 MOCVD chambers. But they have stopped at only 150 to 200 MOCVDs. Samsung has set aside part of its backlight chips for lighting purposes to ease pressure on oversupply. As a result, Taiwan’s LED chipmakers including Epistar, Formosa Epitaxy an...

Lighting Science Group has appointed its Chief Executive Officer, James "Jim" Haworth, to its board of directors and to serve as chairman of the board.    Prior to joining Lighting Science Group, Haworth served as a senior executive with Philips Professional Luminaires North America, as vice president of marketing and strategy. For the past three years, Haworth was responsible for all upstream marketing functions of Philips' lighting business .Prior to joining Philips, Haworth served as president and CEO of JJI Lighting Group, which ...

According to Taiwan's Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), due to a high-growth market demand worldwide, Taiwan's LED industry revenues are likely to reach $6.8 billion in 2012 from this year's projected $5.2 billion revenues, surging by 32 percent. This is double than last year's first-ever $3.4 billion turnover. Both government and private sector incentives in many countries to boost the use of LED lighting has driven the high-growth market demand, analyzed by PIDA. Taiwan ranks second among the world's largest...

The Boerne-based company GreenStar Products Inc. is moving its headquarters and U.S. manufacturing facility to San Antonio as one of CPS Energy's “new energy economy” partners. It's in the second phase of investment, and money is coming from places like Venezuela and Mexico. The company has divided the world into four markets — the United States/Canada, Latin America, India and Europe — and plans to sell to nearly every corner of the globe. It already manufactures in India as well. The company was founded after a meeting in M...

Recently, the automotive supplier of electronics and lighting, Hella has developed a partnership with Hubbell Lighting to develop and market a non-automotive application of its LED lighting technology in North America. According to their cooperation, the two companies is defined as a traditional cross-branding relationship in which Hella designs, develops and manufactures the light module or "engine", while Hubbell Lighting markets and distributes the lighting fixture into municipal markets. The commercial LED light engine is designed for installation into ex...

AquaLite in China has placed a new order from Aixtron for 55x2-inch CRIUS II reactor which will be dedicated to the growth of materials for high brightness LEDs and high Voltage (HV) LED production. The system was ordered in the first quarter of 2011 and the local Aixtron support team will install and commission the new reactor in the second quarter of 2011 at the dedicated AquaLite power chip LED facility within its mainland China production plant. it’s said that with state of the art epitaxial crystal growth and chip process technology, AquaLite&rs...

Reportedly, the Italian Association for Electronic Suppliers has given the 2011 Assodel Award for the Best LED Vendor to Seoul Semiconductor. The South Korea Company was honored to receive the best prize in the LED sector at the awards on June 17. The Assodel Award is one of the electronics industry's highest honors and achievements in Italy based on the votes of industry experts including developers, manufacturers and buyers....

It’s said that TfL (Transport for London) has completed UK-first installation of LED lightings in the Upper Thames Street westbound tunnel to improve visibility for cyclists and motorists to boost safety. According to Dana Skelley, director of roads at TfL and chair of the UK Lighting Board, the lights will cut CO2 emissions by more than 60%, compared with conventional systems. In addition, the installation is also good for maintenance costs. Projections show the cost of lighting the tunnel could fall from around £50,000 each year to less than &pou...

Reportedly, Philips has supplied its LED products to the Co-operative Group’s new flagship store in The Strand, London. Philips has installed its PowerBalance direct/indirect LED luminaire which allows passage of light across the ceiling and downwards into the facility. With Philips’s luminaire, the company can consumes 25% less energy compared to other traditional fluorescent luminaires. Philips has also provides Affinium LDM422 VISION PLUS canopy LED module for its refrigerated multi-deck display cabinets. The luminaire incorporates a...

Recently, Taiwan`s major LED munafacturers including Chairman Y.F. Yeh of Everlight, Chairman B.J. Lee of Epistar and Delta Electronics executives have show their views for the LED lighting industry at the Photonics Festival Taiwan 2011. According to Epistar`s Lee , the efficiency of LED lamps previously forecast to be achieved in 2015 will be reached in 2012, based on buyers from the world come to mostly purchase LED lamps at this show . For Everlight`s Yeh, he believes that the March 11 catastrophe reminds people of the importance of nuclear power ...

Currently, LG Electronics has launched five new models of LED-backlit LCD televisions in Japan, two featuring the company’s proprietary “Nano Lighting Technology”; and three “Cinema 3D” models based on its FPR (film-type patterned retarder) passive 3D technology. With  the moniker “Nano Full LED”, the LG LZ9600 series offers an ultra-slim design with a thickness of just 8.8mm which gives the HDTVs a sleek and minimalistic appearance. Two screen sizes are available: the 47-inch LG 47LZ9600 and the 55-i...