‘Being on the fringe’ can mean being on the cutting edge of creativity – out where the new happens. Entertainment-technology company ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) loves the fringe. It’s the sweet spot of innovation. This year ETC will not only help light up the stages of the Hollywood Fringe Festival with ETC equipment but also present their own show -- the “Layers of Light” Selador® LED lighting presentation. Open to the public but of extra interest to production people throughout the entertainment industry, this l...

It’s said that Lattice Power Corp. has joined force with ShineOn Inc.to demonstrate the world's first high-brightness LED product based on GaN-on-Si technology. Combining the LP1000 chip which is a thin-film vertical structure device built entirely on Lattice Power's proprietary GaN-on-Silicon technology and ShineOn's MOZ3535, a compact ceramic packaging platform with low thermal impedance and superior optical performance, the GaN-on-Si based high-brightness LED device can take 350–1000mA current input and deliver more than 100-lume...

Recently, LED Source® has designed a new lighting energy audit mobile application, Lampinator™ for iPhones and iPads. The Lampinator™ app sheds new light on the benefits and cost savings gained by switching to LED technology. With the Lampinator™ they are presented with a polished, easy-to-understand report right on the spot. The report is a snapshot comparison that provides information on a location’s current lighting energy and maintenance costs, along with the savings an LED lighting retrofit could offer. LED Source® speciali...

It’s said that the provider of analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, Micrel ,has released its new linear White LED (WLED) Drivers, MIC4801/MIC4802, designed to eliminate noise, minimize component count and simplify numerous designs. The new drivers are single channel, constant-current sink LED drivers designed for architectural, landscape, and general LED lighting products. They do not require an inductor.The high efficiency WLED drivers are designed to drive a single LED up to 600mA and 800mA respectively and based o...

California-based Switch Lighting has launched its first true 100-watt equivalent LED bulb, named the Switch100. With its innovative self-cooling environment, which uses a nontoxic liquid to move heat away from the LEDs inside the bulb, the bulb is capable of achieving 100-watt brightness . When the liquid near the LED chip gets warm, it will flow out towards the edge of the dome and be replaced by cooler liquid from the edge. The hot liquid will then cool at the edge, before it moves again into the center to replace the new hot liquid. The Switch100 is also dimmabl...

LG Electronics India has rolled out world's slimmest LED monitors, 3D cinema monitor and IPS monitor. Claimed to the world slimmest LED monitor, LG E 90 monitor has just 7.2mm-thick. The monitor boasts of a slim design and comes with energy saving features. The LG cinema 3D monitor is free from flicker and crosstalk ,therefore viewers can watch 3D content for longer. Cinema 3D has a Light Boost feature, a thin film covering the screen that delivers twice as bright as the conventional 3D. LG cinema 3D monitors also offer flexible viewing positions. ...

It’s reported that Taiwan`s LED-lamp makers have benefited from the increasing consumption of LED lamps due to Japan catastrophe on March 11. According to Delta Electronics CEO Yancey Hai, the company`s LED-lamp shipments to Japan has a great increase after the disastrous earthquake. Delta has recently won orders from other Japanese buyers than Hitachi, which has been Delta`s foremost contract buyer in Japan. For Genesis Photonics, the company has landed contracts to supply LED-lighting equipment to a leading steelmaker in Japan, which is equippi...

Currently, GE Lighting has appointed leadership for Europe, Middle East and Africa for the company's new commercial organization - Luminaire Solutions. Diederik will be leading a new team, which will focus on the best in class solutions for the core market segments: Indoor Commercial LED Luminaires, Indoor Core Luminaires and Outdoor Lighting. Simon Fisher will lead Indoor Commercial LED Luminaires as General Manager for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. He will head both project and indoor product and lighting design teams w...

Reportedly, US President Obama will visit LED lighting manufacturing headquarters of Cree on June 13th. The President will tour Cree's manufacturing facilities, deliver remarks and meet with the Jobs Council to discuss initiatives and policies to spur economic growth, promote job creation and accelerate hiring across the nation....

Lextar debuts its new Chip Array COB technology and high efficiency (up to 150 lm/W) LED packaging products. Both was presented in the 2011 Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition held from the ninth to twelfth of this month.   COB (Chip on Board): Lextar exhibits a series of LED components including COB and LED package. In terms of COB, the newly developed Chip Array COB technology employs exclusive mechanical design and unique material for improved cost.    With a 15-20% more efficient COB the Chip Array COB feature...

On June 10, 2011,, Samsung LED Co., Ltd. (“Samsung LED”) filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Osram Korea Co., Ltd. (“Osram Korea”) and two other defendants at the Seoul Central District Court requesting an injunction from unauthorized use of Samsung LED’s valuable intellectual property and money damages. The defendants include Osram Korea and two companies that sell Osram’s products in Korea, Barun Electronics and Dabo Industrial System. The 8 patents-in-suit relate to LED chip and package technology used ...

Reportedly, the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Centre (ERC) led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,  has set up 21 key industrial partners including Osram Sylvania and Taiwan-based Epistar to help guide the centre’s leading-edge research programs and hasten the transition of important innovations from the lab bench to the marketplace. The ERC is led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It is dedicated to developing new LED technologies and applications for smarter, better-performing lighting devices and systems. At present, the ERC team i...

Philips has installed 1,000 Philips Fortimo LED SLM modules 2000lm 33W/830 in the ‘MAS’ (Museum aan de Stroom) in Antwerp, Belgium making the ‘MAS’ the first museum in the Benelux illuminating all its precious art with LED lighting. The Philips Fortimo LED SLM module 2000lm 33W/830 is the LED spot that was selected for this unique lighting project. It has a color temperature of 3000 K and a higher light output than a 100W halogen light source. The module is dimmable. Because of lower maintenance and energy costs than with h...

Seoul Semiconductor lately has supplied its Z-Power LED series for the landscape lighting of the Foro Romano, one of the most important archaeological sites in Rome. The company installed most lights on the floor as well as some on the Column of Trajan. John S. Bae vice president of Seoul Semiconductor, said, “The Z-Power series supplied for the Foro Romano Project was the best choice to keep lighting up the historic place of Rome with long life and low-power consumption.” He added, “Seoul Semiconductor’s LED lights have been able ...

Chinese company ShineOn has released its high performance LED products including a MOZ3535 1-3W, an SOWW3014 product and a series of CoB products with integrated chip arrays at the 16th annual Guangzhou International Lighting Conference. According to the company, the MOZ3535 1-3W product is based on ShineOn's proprietary ceramic packaging platform. The device delivers more than 200 lumens of light at a cost of only fifty cents and suits for indoor and outdoor illumination, flash lights. The SOW3014 product features an SMD package with built-in hea...

For decades, OSRAM’s former slogan – “Hell wie der lichte Tag– As bright as broad daylight" has been gracing the facade of buildings at Munich's Karlsplatz roundabout. Now the light manufacturer is also represented in the underground area of this bustling city-centre square, in the form of its subsidiary OSRAM Opto Semiconductors: the challenge was to implement the lighting concept in the entrance area of the newly redesigned station (for the S-Bahn suburban network and U-Bahn city metro). Schmidt-König, planning office for light...

Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced that they entered into a patent license agreement with Cooper Industries. The license provides Cooper with full access to the Philips’ LED-related patented technologies that Philips makes available to the lighting industry through its LED Luminaire and Retrofit Bulb licensing program. “We are very pleased that Cooper has joined our licensing program. We believe having such an open and accessible license program is greatly assisting in accelerating the adoption of LED lighting and fostering the growth of...

AIXTRON is selected for GaN-based blue LED by Taiyuan University of Technology, China. The order is for one AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) 3x2-inch configuration deposition system. The system will be delivered in the second quarter of 2011. One of AIXTRON´s local support teams in China will commission the new reactor in a new state of the art facility at the University. According to Dr. Jian Liang, Professor of Taiyuan University of Technology’s Material College State Laboratory, this will be their first AIXTR...

Britepointe announced the HyBeem E39 LED replacement lamp. Based 400 watt metal hailde and sodium vapor lamps, the HyBeem E39 used in high bay lighting fixtures. It achieves greater than 15,000 lumen output. The HyBeem E39 saves up to 80% energy when compared to a 400 watt metal halide high bay lamp and lasts six times as long before needing replacement. Installations typically achieve a two year or less payback on investment. The HyBeem E39 LED replacement lamp is manufactured in the USA. ...

OSRAM has filed legal actions against Samsung group companies and LG group companies in the US and Germany as well as against an LG group company in Japan. Based on its conviction that these companies, respectively, infringe fundamental patent rights, OSRAM will also file a suit against LG in China tomorrow. With this move OSRAM intends to enforce its patents on Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology.

Lighting Science Group has teamed up with Dixon Technologies to jointly tap into India LED lighting market. Dixon Technologies will play as Lighting Science Group’s exclusive distributor of its high performance LED bulbs, fixtures and infrastructure products in India's 1.8 billion dollar lighting market. With Dixon's established and extensive network in India, Lighting Science Group will help the subcontinent meet its rapidly growing energy and infrastructure demands. Dixon Technologies' distribution network features 11 branch offices, in ...

The City of Sarasota has placed a second order for an additional 245 LED lights, including the Aimed Optics™ LED fixtures produced by Sunovia's lighting division EvoLucia® Inc. EvoLucia is also supplying decorative post-top lanterns manufactured by Beacon Products. Early in May, Sarasota has chosen Sunovia Energy Technologies' award-winning LED energy-efficient lights to reduce their energy consumption and enhance the downtown and tourist areas for its city-wide energy savings project. The city will benefit from Sunovia's energy-saving...

Chinese-based LED maker SunSun Lighting Holdings Asia Ltd. is said to receive $10 million from the Beijing-based venture capital investor GSR Ventures to commercialize its energy-efficient products.   In February, the company has developed a 9-watt LED bulb to replace standard, 60-watt incandescent bulbs. Currently, it is building a manufacturing plant that will be able to produce 30 million LED bulbs a year. And its manufacturing facility in Changzhou produces more than 10 million bulbs a year. Sonny Wu, GSR’s founder and a managing director, s...

Cooper Lighting’s two products, the McGraw-Edison Ventus™ LED Area Luminaire and the Metalux OpticaHP High Performance Parabolic Series, have been chosen as 2010 Product of the Year winners in the Lighting category by Plant Engineering. The McGraw-Edison Ventus™ LED Area Luminaire took the Silver award, and the Metalux OpticaHP High Performance Parabolic Series took the Bronze award. Utilizing patent-pending modular LightBAR™ technology, the McGraw-Edison Ventus LED Area Luminaire is able to deliver applic...

Reportedly, The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded another $14.8 million in funding for development projects aimed at advancing solid-state lighting technologies. Major recipients of the new awards include Veeco, the India-headquartered manufacturing giant Moser Baer Technologies, Cree and Philips Lumileds. Veeco will receive $4 million and its project focuses on the introduction of an aluminum nitride layer into the LED epiwafer structure, to act as a buffer between the light-emitting layers of the device and a silicon substrate. Moser Baer will get $2....

LG Electronics has officially launched a new super-slim monitor called the Super LED. The marketing campaign that led to the official launch included a “SUPER” performance to publicise the technology of the SUPER LED Monitor. The Korean electronics manufacturer sponsored a performance by popular Korean pop duo group Norazo, known for their experimental and often innovative performances. The performance was live synched and broadcast on the world’s largest LED screen. The recording has just clocked over 1 million viewon YouTube. (www.youtu...

Panasonic Electric Works is to display its “ECOOL” high thermal conductive glass composite circuit board materials at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (June 9-11, 2011) and the LED Lighting Taiwan exposition (June 14-16, 2011). From the commencement of sales in April 2009, “ECOOL” has continuously expanded the sales for use in high thermal radiation circuit board applications including LED lighting and backlights. Now we intend to actively engage in global sales promotions of ECOOL products with the particular aim o...

A new EUROPE solar streetlight will be showcased by Spanish company Eurener, which based on LED technology and powered by the sun. The system features high-capacity light, long life and low power consumption. The new calculation system has been devised to adapt Eurener’s system in all variations (solar streetlights and bus shelters, lighting autonomous houses) to any geographical area in the world covering the specific needs of the user. The customer can get a customized installation of the product in terms of the specific terrain and weather conditions. ...

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, will join experts from industry and academia in presenting papers on the latest developments and the future trends in power electronics at The Power Conversion, Intelligent Motion (PCIM) Asia Conference to be held in Shanghai from June 21-23, 2011. PCIM Asia is widely recognized as the most important conference in China on power electronics. “A breadth of topics will be addressed at this year’s conference such as, power electronics compo...

Philips Lighting has launched Philips Fortimo LED Strip system, a new module and driver for OEMs to start tackling general lighting and explicit areas where fluorescent is central. The Philips Fortimo LED Strip system consists of LED pcb modules of 280mm (630Lm) convoyed by a programmable Xitanium 75w driver in T5 shaped linear housing, which is fully dimmable and compatible with DALI controls, such as the Philips ActiLume system....