2012-07-23

MOCVD Orders are Placed Just to Maintain Capacity not Add

MOCVD orders are placed just to maintain capacity, not add, and high utilization rates are only at the top LED makers including Epistar, ForEpi, and Genesis Photonics , according to Maxim Group LLC. Based on analyzing MOCVD utilization and revenues at LED makers in Taiwan, Maxim pointed out that, the next uptick in MOCVD spending is likely to “fall far short” of the peak seen in 2010-2011. The analysts expect H2 2012 MOCVD orders at about 130 tools. Higher MOCVD utilization rates are not the norm across all LED makers, but r...
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2012-07-20

Intematix Prepares to Conduct a Registered IPO

LED phosphor supplier Intematix has intended to conduct a registered initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock. The IPO is expected to commence after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) completes the review process initiated by Intematix’s confidential submission on July 13, 2012 of its draft registration statement, subject to market and other conditions. Phosphors help control LED luminous efficacy and color to bring the technology on a level with traditional lighting. Phosphors used in LED lighting applications will see a market incre...
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2012-07-20

Oslon LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors offer greater flexibility with uniform solder pad design

LEDs are not all the same. This is evidenced not only by the performance data and the dimensions but also by the solder pads and the processing options. Osram Opto Semiconductors has now developed a concept for uniform solder pads based on the Oslon family, making it easier for customers to use LEDs from different manufacturers (second source) and reducing the costs of storage and processes modification. Second source is the term given to the possibility of using different suppliers for a product in a particular project or for a product series. It should be possible for the p...
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2012-07-19

Cooper Lighting’s LED Product Honored With A 2012 Best of NeoCon® Award

The io® Tile Gen II luminaires receive a Gold award in the Decorative Lighting category. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, has been honored with a Best of NeoCon® Gold award for its family of io® Tile Gen II LED luminaires. Earning top honors in the Decorative Lighting category of the 23rd Annual Best of NeoCon awards competition, these LED products add unique lighting colors to modern indoor spaces, offering architects and designers an...
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2012-07-18

Albeo Technologies Expands LED Manufacturing Space and Increases Staffs

Albeo Technologies has enlarged its manufacturing space by 15,000 square feet and increased its staff by 30 percent.  Its facility at 2108 55th St. in Boulder, Colorado now spans 35,000 square feet and the company headcount has grown to 65.  The company's new employees include high level engineers, sales and marketing staff. CEO Jeff Bisberg said that,"Our growth and expansion is being driven by rapid customer adoption of our LED lighting products. We are excited to be supporting the local economy by providing quality jobs in a wide range of areas a...
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2012-07-17

Avnet Sets up Lighting Lab for LED Test

Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, Avnet Inc.’s business region and a distributor of LED components for use in general lighting applications, has set up a lighting lab in Chandler, Ariz., to enable its customers to test and measure a wide range of LED applications. The Avnet Light Lab is a 900-square-foot facility designed to measure the key optical, electrical and thermal characteristics of high-power LEDs, modules and luminaires, and its services are offered to qualified Avnet customers. All photometric, radiometric and colormetric testing is conducted in...
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2012-07-16

Smart Vision Lights Choose Luminus’ LEDs Displace Lasers for Illumination Sources Production

The machine vision lighting maker Smart Vision Lights of Muskegon, MI, USA has chosen Big Chip LED technology from Luminus Devices Inc, for its new product line of illumination sources. Luminus’ SST-90 LED is at the heart of Smart Vision Lights’ SP30 Series LED structured light pattern projector for the machine vision industry. “We selected the Luminus SST-90 for the large die footprint and high lumen output,” says Smart Vision Lights’ design engineer Matt Pinter. “The SST-90 gives us better uniformity ...
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2012-07-16

InfiniLED Signs Agreement with Tyndall to Advance MicroLED Technology

InfiniLED, backed by ScienceWorks Ventures plc and a Tyndall National Institute (UCC) spin-out, has signed an access agreement with Tyndall National Institute, Cork (Tyndall). Under the agreement, InfiniLED’s engineers will work within the institute’s ISO 9001 Certified Compound Semiconductor cleanrooms to fabricate μLED (MicroLED) technology. In MicroLEDs, a parabolic structure is etched on the back of the LED wafer to focus the light generated into a collimated beam - the core differentiator of the μLED technology. The...
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2012-07-12

Win a year’s free electricity* with “Go Green & Win” light bulbs

Making the switch to energy-efficient lighting is now even more attractive with Philips Lighting and Meridian Energy’s “Go Green & Win” promotion, which will see 10 lucky Kiwis win their electricity bill paid for 12 months.* For a chance to win, consumers need to purchase a Philips Tornado 15W, 20W or 24W Energy Saver bulb in distinctive competition packaging. If the purchased bulb turns green when inserted into a light fitting and switched on, the consumer will win a year’s free electricity* with Meridian Energy,** New Zealand’s lar...
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2012-07-12

GlacialLight LED Lights Uganda and Germany

Taiwan Glacial Tech Inc. has supplied its LED brand “GlacialLight” to Sheraton Kampala Hotel of Uganda and shopping malls in Germany. Developed by Glacial Tech, ”GlacialLight,” are eco-friendly, featuring energy efficiency, zero ultraviolet (UV) and infrared rays, no mercury, longer life than traditional lamps. According to its brand manager Y.R. Qiu, brightness, thermal dissipation and material cost are prioritized concerns in developing LED lighting, while Glacial Tech has combined skills in thermal-dissipation, power supply, and ...
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2012-07-11

Cree's New XLamp® XP-G2 LEDs Deliver 20 Percent Efficiency Increase in the XP Footprint

Leverages SC³ Technology Platform to Drive Performance Up and System Cost Down Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces the XLamp® XP-G2 LED to deliver luminaire manufacturers up to 20 percent more lumens per watt and 2.5 times the lumens-per-dollar over the original XP-G LED. The brighter, more efficient XP-G2 LED provides customers an immediate boost in performance and enables manufacturers to use fewer LEDs to get the same brightness at lower cost or increase brightness levels using the same LED count and power.   Characterized...
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2012-07-11

Veeco to Participate in Nitrides Growth Symposium

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that it will be exhibiting and presenting at the International Symposium on Growth of III-Nitrides (ISGN4) on Wednesday, July 16-19, 2012 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The symposium is part of a biannual series focusing on the growth of III-Nitride materials, nanostructures and device structures. Alex Gurary, Ph.D., Veeco’s Senior Director, MOCVD Hardware Test, will present “Reactants injector temperature effect on III-Nitrides materials deposition in the high speed vertical rotating disc MOCVD...
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2012-07-11

Osram Opto Semiconductors Mini Midled Offers High Radiant Intensity

Mini Midled from Osram Opto Semiconductors provides the highest radiant intensity of its size class The infrared Mini Midled from Osram Opto Semiconductors is only 0.9 millimeters high but this tiny device produces a narrow and intense beam of infrared light. With its radiant intensity of 60 milliwatts per steradian (mW/sr) at 100 milliamperes (mA) it easily outperforms other comparable devices. This low-profile surface-mountable emitter is ideal particularly for proximity sensors in devices where space is limited and for light barriers. In many sensor applications it i...
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2012-07-10

Chongqing Silian Partnerships with Soitec to Jointly Develop GN Template Wafers for LED Production

Chongqing Silian Optoelectronics Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Silian) has cooperated with Soitec (Euronext) to jointly develop gallium nitride (GaN) template wafers using hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE). And the partner companies plan to begin sampling GaN template wafers in 2012. The companies' joint development agreement aims at validating the manufacturability and enabling the commercialization of GaN template wafers using Silian's sapphire substrates and Soitec's unique HVPE technology. Chantal Arena, vice president and general ma...
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2012-07-06

KHATOD Introduces PIXEL Systems

The great success met by PIXEL at the latest L+B  and LFI Exhibitions confirms that our process for providing optical solutions is  just what the customers  expect from KHATOD: cutting-edge technology  and total usability  perfectly merged in one product . This is one of Khatod’s must. No design can be considered completed if this condition is not fully satisfied. The latest evolution in LED Technology has resulted in new High Brightness LEDs which allow a huge variety of new and innovative applications in Lighting. As any...
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2012-07-06

Newsun Develops AC POWER LED without Driver

Chinese firm Newsun has announced to develop a real AC POWER LED after seven years of research and development in collaboration with Professor Edson Products. According to Newsun, there is no need for a transformer to change the power from AC to DC. What's more it doesn't need an LED driver. Not needing either a transformer or driver means that the light source only needs a tiny space. The LED operates at 85 lumens/Watt and has a CRI of 82 at a relatively low temperature. Lamps employing the LED have a very long life because in most cases, ...
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2012-07-05

mLED Receives £378,000 for Equity Funding

Scotland-based Braveheart Investment Group plc has injected £378,000 in mLED Ltd of Glasgow, UK. The latest equity funding round comes from Braveheart's established network of private clients, the Scottish Enterprise Co-Investment Fund and members of both mLED’s board and technical advisory council. mLED’s proprietary microLED platform technology was developed over a 10 year period at the Institute of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde, where over £7m was invested in research leading to the core patent. The firm was sp...
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2012-07-04

ARC Energy Improves CHES Sapphire LED for 5% Brighter

According to a white paper entitled “LED Manufacturing Study on CHES™ Sapphire,” ARC Energy has released results of a study showing that sapphire grown from its proprietary CHES technology yield 5% greater LED brightness than the industry standard. The study purposefully included sapphire material exhibiting a wide range of etch pit distortion (EPD) levels to determine whether or not EPD affects LED manufacturing. The study took sapphire through the complete LED chip manufacturing process and concluded that all material passed LED s...
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2012-07-03

Edwards Announces New Vacuum Pump for LED and Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing

New iXH645H dry vacuum pump requires minimal maintenance and maximizes uptime in harsh manufacturing environments Edwards (NASDAQ: EVAC), a leading manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products and abatement systems and a leading provider of related value-added services, today introduced the new iXH645H dry pump. The new pump has been optimized for MOCVD processes used in LED manufacturing, as well as for compound semiconductor manufacturing using III-V materials in gate stacks. The iXH645H delivers very high gas flow capability and is able to operate c...
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2012-07-02

EVERLIGHT Announces New 3020S PLCC LED Series

The new 3020S PLCC LED series has two over drive capabilities, 30mA and 60mA which will cater to this growing demand for higher brightness PLCC packages can be over driven. The market has recently been consumed with demand for low power PLCC LEDs. Traditionally, light bar applications have been utilizing small 20mA PLCC packages that enable high lumen density and uniformity to emulate the appearance of fluorescent tubes. As the market improves so does the required specifications for fixtures in that market. Light tube manufacturers are searching for PLC...
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2012-06-29

Mitsui Supports FOREPI to Tap Mainland China’s LCD TV Market

Recently, Formosa Epitaxy Inc. (FOREPI) will ship LED devices to LCD TVs and lighting supplied by mainland Chinese manufacturers via its Japanese shareholder Mitsui & Co., Ltd in the third quarter, according to FOREPI’s Chairman F.R. Chien. And the orders will keep the company’s production lines busy throughout the first quarter in 2013. Chien pointed out that in the second half of 2012, the mainland’s economic stimulus packages and subsidization project for rural consumers of LCD TVs would give a boost to the mainland market f...
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2012-06-29

SR-2818&SR;-1009XX full touch RGBW remote controller

1.Brief introduction SR-2818 RGBW remote controller is full touch remote controller which has 8 different zones. It can get Red/ Green/ Blue/ White color directly. The remote controller can save up to 8 colors or 8 modes into corresponding buttons (1-8 buttons) for each zone. You can choose any color through color wheel. There is a USB port to charge internal battery....
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2012-06-29

Introduction to LEDs’ Basics

By Scott Patterson Light bulbs are seemed everywhere, and there are more than 20 billion light bulbs around the world right now. On an average that for every one person, there would be three light bulbs. In the future, we can expect a replacement of all the current lightbulbs with those of LEDs. The reason for the occurrence of this replacement is due to the fact that LEDs’ efficacy is multiple times higher than those of incandescent light bulbs. LED is possible in reproduce the theoretical limit of the conversion from electricity to light set by physics. LEDinsid...
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2012-06-28

SemiLEDs Introduces New 'Enhanced Vertical' (EV) LED Product

SemiLEDs has introduced its new 'Enhanced Vertical' (EV) LED product series. The EV LEDs feature higher thermal endurance, ensuring better reliability at higher temperatures. In addition, they feature SemiLEDs' vertical chip structure on a patented metal alloy substrate, offering advantages in excellent optical output and high thermal conductivity. They are available for global sales and immediate sampling in blue, green and UV and chip sizes of 0.4mm x 0.4mm through 1.5mm x 1.5mm....
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2012-06-27

TDK and Toshiba Present Dynamic LED Fireworks Animation to Celebrate Independence Day

TDK Corporation has developed a partnership withToshiba, which will connect both companies' LED signs together at the One Times Square building in New York City, to present a dazzling LED animation featuring a fireworks presentation to celebrate Independence Day this July 4th.   The display will start running June 27 through July 8, 2012. This is the second collaboration with TDK and Toshiba since last Christmas. Connecting the TDK LED signboard with Toshiba's located above it will create an LED animation of 130 feet (39.66m). The co...
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2012-06-21

Seesmart Introduces New Exterior LED Products

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2012-06-19

The Latest LED Products of Edison Opto attracted customers' attention at Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2012

The world's biggest lighting exhibition—17th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2012 was held in the China Import and Export Fair Complex, Guangzhou, China from 9 to 12 June, 2012. This year, the organizer established an Asian LED exhibition area and attracted more than 1800 exhibitors to showcase their products. The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition offered a world class industry platform where visitors and exhibitors can gain a comprehensive overview of LED development in both the Asian and global lighting. Edison Opto, a Taiwane...
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2012-06-14

Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2012 Report II: Exhibition Space Increase Marked LED Market’s Climbing Maturity

Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2012 commenced on June 9-12, 2012 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex, Guangzhou, China. The exhibition consisted of not only Chinese companies such as Mulinsen, ChangFang, Honglitronic, and Refond Optoelectronics as well as global big names such as Philips, Osram, GE, Panasonic, Toshiba. Taiwanese LED companies gathered at Arena B – 10.2 and 11.2 while international top-tier firms showcased at Arena A – 3.1 and 4.1. Displays and TVs were exhibited at Arena B - 12.1 and 13.1. Fully pa...
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2012-06-14

Japanese Government to Calls for Halting Production and Sales of Incandescent Bulbs

According to The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japanese government has encouraged major electronics retailers and home appliance makers to voluntarily halt production and sales of incandescent bulbs to save power this summer. The government plans to submit a written request under the names of Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano and Environment Minister Goshi Hosono to an industry group, probably sometime this week. The industry side has indicated it will oblige. It is extremely rare for the government to ask retailers and manufacturers to refrain voluntarily from sell...
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2012-06-14

Khatod Unveils Latest LED Production

The request for high efficiency in Lighting along with the upmost necessity of energy conservation, have made the LED applications an ever-increasing requirement from the Lighting Industry. The most recent developments in LED Technology have produced new devices such as the COB LEDs – Chip On Board LEDs - which allow many diverse LED configurations never considered before. The high luminosity of the COB LEDs is achieved through a unique packaging in the tightest space, allowing to perform high intensities. It results that the selection of the mo...
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Tokushima, Japan - 6 March 2024: Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, has started mass production of the new UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs in its popular 434 Series packa... READ MORE

New XLamp® S Line LEDs enhance growth, last longer, lower energy costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Whether you are interested... READ MORE