2011-03-03
Fairchild Semiconductor will showcase more than 20 innovative solutions for energy-efficient electronics applications at the electronica China 2011 show, in the Shanghai New International Expo Center, between 15 – 17 March. The company will conduct both static and active demonstrations on LED lighting, automotive, power supplies and motion control. Besides, Robin Zhang, chief technical marketing manager, Technical Application and Support Centre at Fairchild Semiconductor will present, 'Fairchild's mWSaver™ Technology Offers Best-in-Class...
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2011-03-03
Currently, the State of Arkansas is requesting bids for the supply of LED lamps used in poultry houses as part of the Advanced Lighting Technology for Poultry Growers program. The project requires approximately 34,500 LED lamps, divided equally into PAR-38 (max. 10W, min. 600 lm), PAR-30 (max. 10W, min. 400 lm) and R-30 (max. 10W, min. 400 lm) types. And bids will be opened on Tuesday March 15 at 1.30 pm Central Time. ...
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2011-03-02
Reportedly, Rochester public utilities has made a plan to expand its LED street light program to including another 400 plus city lights.
This is one of three neighborhoods in Rochester where RPU has tested the new LED street lights. These LED's have been up for three to four months. And almost all the residents we talked to appreciate the change.
RPU says not only do they look much different than typical street lights, the light itself is different.
According to RPU's Tony Benson , "a little whiter light. Lot of people say it's a cl...
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2011-03-02
The sailors and Marines of The US Navy have engaged in TechSolutions program, in which they are encouraged to submit their ideas for technology innovations.
According to the Inhabitat site report, the US Navy’s submarine fleet is getting an overhaul of its internal lighting system — from fluorescent lighting to more energy efficient LED lighting. Therefore, the TechSolutions program is proven to be an illuminating exercise.
The idea came from a sailor’s recommendation: “One crew member complained that the lights produced a noisy hum. As a r...
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2011-03-01
After last eighteen months evaluated by the Indian Railways, MIC Electronics Ltd, a Hyderabad based LED manufacturer, has successfully been the only company in the country which has been accorded by the Research, Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO) of the Ministry of Railways for the Energy Efficient LED based Luminaires to be fitted in the Air Conditioned Coaches of the Indian Railways. All Air Conditioned Coaches & Sleeper Coaches manufactured by Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai and Rail Coach Factory (RCF), Kapuralat...
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2011-03-01
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...
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2011-03-01
Albeo Technologies has acquired three patents covering thermal and integrated chip technology from USPTO.
Jeff Bisberg, Albeo's CEO, said that "We are pleased that the USPTO has recognized our intellectual property by granting these patents. The Albeo team is innovating with the objective of replacing high performance fluorescent and HID with LED technology. The implementation of the patented ideas deliver higher value LED lighting solutions that reduce maintenance and energy costs."
Currently, the company is develop...
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2011-03-01
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...
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2011-03-01
MSi Solid State Lighting is proud to announce the appointment of Luke Classen as Regional Sales Manager for the Northeast United States. Classen will be headquartered in the company’s Chicago, Illinois offices. .
About the company
Considered the world leader in solid-state lighting technology for miner's cap-lights for the past decade, MSI has provided hundreds of thousands of LED mine lighting products to the gold and platinum mines throughout the world. Today, MSi is leveraging their LED expertise, and in collaboration with the leading opti...
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2011-02-28
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....
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2011-02-28
Recently, Rutland village has benefited a lot from LEDs. Market Overton Parish Council in Rutland reported the savings after LED bulbs were installed, replacing the usual sodium system. According to Deputy chairman, Andrew Stewart , the parish council's average monthly energy bill had gone down from about £80 to about £15 since the changes. Maintenance costs are also expected to be around 90% cheaper than in previous years. What’s more, 80% of their street lamps have been fitted with time switches to turn the lights off between the hours of m...
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2011-02-28
It’s reported that Fremont City Council has made a contract with Novato-based Republic Intelligent Transportation Services Inc. to install LED lights along Stevenson Boulevard, as part of the city's LED Street Light Retrofit on Stevenson Boulevard Project. And the contract between City of Fremont and Republic ITS will be $172,874. The project will replace all existing HPS street light heads with LED ones from Murietta Drive adjacent to the Interstate 880 interchange to Mission Boulevard. The project encompasses a 3.1-mile stretch of...
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2011-02-28
Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) has selected Cooper Lighting's Streetworks™ OVH LED Luminaire for a large-scale upgrade of 972 of the Islands' existing 200-watt High Pressure Sodium street lights street lights. Receiving stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to fund the project, the new lighting system will consume 103-watts per fixture and is estimated to provide energy savings of 56% compared to the older system. The Virgin Islands WAPA engineers hoped to achieve a model for energy sa...
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2011-02-25
Sharp's new 10W Mini Zeni series radiates with even more efficiency, whilst retaining very good light quality (CRI values of up to 87) and a long service life with its compact and cost-effective design.
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2011-02-25
Ledzworld Technology, an innovative R&D and manufacturing company of high-end LED retro-fit lamps for professional users, launches its new LED retrofit MR16 , a low power-consumption 6.5W LED lamp that produces an industry- leading high output of 450 Lumen. The lamp has an efficacy of >70 Lumen/W at a colour temperature of 3000K.
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2011-02-25
To support commercial greenhouses production, GE and The Government of Canada recently announced they are each investing $1.3 million, for a research project with Les Serres St-Laurent (Savoura) and McGill University, to develop innovative LED lighting technology, which will enable Canadian greenhouse growers to become more profitable and competitive in the global marketplace....
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2011-02-25
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...
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2011-02-25
According to Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, it has made a partnership with Oxford Instruments PLC, a U.K.-based high-tech tool systems company, to set up a research center for LED, which will focus on wafer-level packaging processes and integrated micro-structure technologies for high-brightness LEDs.
ITRI President Shyu Jyuo-min pointed out that “With Taiwan’s most advanced Microelectromechanical Systems Open lab, ITRI will provide the best research and development capability in the field of LED packaging.”...
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2011-02-25
It’s said that the Future Lighting Europe conference will be held on 5th-6th April 2011 at Radisson Blu Hotel, Amsterdam. Rogier van der Heide, Vice President of Philips Design and Chief Design Officer of Philips Lighting will present at the conference and show his opinion on LED innovations. He will lead a session discussing the challenges faced by the lighting industry and provides his view on the LED technologies in the future, as well as the importance of the Open innovation approach. Besides, he will share his insight into the stan...
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2011-02-25
Recently, LK Technology which comes from South Korean has set up a LED lighting assembly plant in Kaunas. And it prepares to manufacture in April and market not only to Lithuania and the Baltic States but also to Western Europe.
According to Deputy Director of LK Development Rasa Incerauskaite, the Lithuanian plant will produce the latest generation LED lighting systems, indoor and outdoor ligthting equipment, lamps, as well as collaborate with such South Korean companies as Samsung.
Plus, another South Korean company, LK Green Energy, opened a simi...
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2011-02-25
Reportedly, Black and McDonald has spent $3,199,500 on the replacement of 2,500 high-pressure sodium lights with LED lights across the Nova Scotia province in Canada.
Amherst-based LED Roadway Lighting (LRL) will produce and deliver the LED luminaires. And Bill Estabrooks, the Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Minister, has supplied the funding for the project.
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2011-02-24
Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co Ltd., organiser of the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition to be held 9 - 12 June 2011, has announced that among international trade fairs focusing only on the lighting industry, the show is now the world's largest lighting event in terms of exhibition size.
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2011-02-24
AIXTRON SE has announced that its Close Coupled Showerhead® MOCVD Platform, a CRIUS® CCS reactor in the 6x2-inch (3x3-inch or 1x6-inch) wafer configuration, has been ordered by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
The Hong Kong based institute placed the order during the third quarter of 2010 and following delivery in the first quarter of 2011, the systems will be used for As/P/Sb based materials grown on Silicon substrates for electronics and photonics research applications. AIXTRON´s local...
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2011-02-24
At present, the City of Salem, Massachusetts has got an LED makeover with lighting manufacturer OSRAM SYLVANIA. Mark Corcoran, OSRAM SYLVANIA vice president of Industrial Commercial Sales and Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll from the City of Salem, Massachusetts flipped the switch on over 350 existing street lighting fixtures newly equipped with OSRAM SYLVANIAD6 Area Lighting LED Retrofit Kit at an unveiling event in the city's historic downtown area....
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2011-02-24
Once Innovations acquired U.S. Patents for their AgriShift® PL poultry light as well as PAR30 and GU10 general illumination lamps. Besides, the company was also granted U.S. Patents on two of their reusable packaging designs. About Once Innovations Founded in 2008, Once Innovations is a privately held corporation that manufactures highly differentiated LED lighting. The ONCE technology research, marketing, and product development campus is located in Plymouth, MN United States of America....
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2011-02-23
First Open Market 3D-capable Timing Controller plus LED Backlighting Solution on Display
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor technology aimed at building a smart, secure, connected world, today announced participation at the 2011 International IC-China Conference and Exhibition (IIC China) in Shenzhen, China, February 24-26. Microsemi will have technical experts and sales team members onsite demonstrating LED backlight, motor control and Power over Ethernet (PoE) solutions. IIC China is the country’s la...
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2011-02-23
Nanjing City Mayor Ji Jianye on his Taiwan visit,announced that the city has developed a long-term cooperation on eco-friendly energy and lighting technologies with Taiwan`s Lite-On Group to address the city`s needs for the products for public-work projects set in mainland China`s 12th Five-Year Development Plan. As part of the cooperation, Nanjing, has contracted the group to supply LED streetlights to replace traditional lights....
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2011-02-23
It’s reported that Oxley Developments has supplied a dual-mode LED DC Combi Lights for the Foxhound British army patrol vehicle. The lights can be operated in normal and blackout/emergency modes and are an alternative to traditional filament lighting. Foxhound is the British Army name for Ocelot, the Light Protected Patrol Vehicle (LPPV) designed and developed by Force Protection Europe. And Force Protection Europe has won a contract to supply 200 of the British-designed vehicles to the Ministry of Defence. Oxley’s LED DC Comb...
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2011-02-23
For indoor and outdoor applications, FormoLight Technologies, one of the major Taiwan-based display manufacturers, has developed a high-performance LED video display with superior qualities. An LED solution developed by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors ensures brilliant colors and sharp contrasts: particularly compact Multi CHIPLEDs produce impressive high-quality images.
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2011-02-23
Taiwan LED chip maker Ubilux has placed an order from Aixtron for two CRIUS II deposition systems in the 55x2-inch configuration to expand the company’s production capacity for GaN-based HB LEDs. It’s said that Ubilux placed this order in the fourth quarter of 2010 and the systems will be delivered in the first quarter of 2011....
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