Reportedly, Taiwan LED maker Epistar has acquired Apple’s order for LED backlights for use in iPad. Benefiting from increasing LED applications in TV, notebook PCs and lightings, Epistar confirmed that its production lines have been fully booked by contract orders till this June. This secures the firm strong growth momentum in sales and shipments in the first half of 2011.  ...

D3 LED, LLC (D3), the world’s leader in specialized LED digital display applications, announced the debut of the largest continuous surface digital LED screen to date in New York’s Times Square. The custom display, located at 1568 Broadway above the entrance to the Doubletree Hotel at West 47th Street, was designed and engineered by D3 for its client, TSQ Digital, and measures 100 feet wide by 50 feet high. It was designed to serve multiple advertisers, and is capable of exchanging data transmitted via cell phones and broadcasting HD video feeds,...

Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), has released the 2011 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting and design community. The SOURCE, the industries’ leading lighting education facility, is located at Cooper Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia, and offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and its applications. The SOURCE has been servicing the lighting industry for over nineteen years and to date, over 100,000 lighting and interior designers, a...

It’s reported that Daktronics Inc. will supply a LED video display to Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies. The LED video display has high-definition clarity and be much larger than the former video display at Citizens Bank Park. It will measure 76 feet high and 97 feet wide, totaling 7,372 square feet of digital space. The LED display will show video with up to 1512 lines of resolution, using Daktronics HD-15 technology. In addition, the display will provide wide-angle viewing for better visibility for more fans, increased contrast and ...

KLA-Tencor introduces broad portfolio of process control solutions designed to improve productivity of LED device fabs • New KLARITY LED offers automated defect analysis for LED yield enhancement and rapid time to results • New ICOS WI-2220 provides low cost of ownership to support LED industry cost per lumen goals KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced KLARITY® LED—an a...

Tool Designed to Enable Improved Substrate and MOCVD Process Control Yield KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced its new Candela  8620 substrate and epitaxy (epi) wafer inspection system. Designed for high brightness light emitting diode (HBLED) manufacturers, the Candela 8620 provides automated defect inspection for LED materials such as gallium nitride, sapphire, and silicon carbide—enabling enhan...

Reportedly, South Korea-based OCI Co. Ltd. has injected $33 million to order sapphire crystallization furnaces from GT Solar, marking OCI's entrance into the LED industry and GT Solar's first commercial sale of its sapphire crystallization furnaces in Korea. According to Tom Guiterrez, GT Solar's president and CEO, it’s the third order for their sapphire crystallization furnaces in the last two months from leading PV manufacturers that are entering the LED market. They worked closely with OCI several years ago when they launched the...

Colorado’s Oldest Volkswagen Dealership Achieves 18 Month Return on Investment from Energy Savings and Xcel Conservation Rebates with Qnuru’s LED Lighting Retrofit   Qnuru™, the Noribach Group’s smart energy digital lighting division, and SoGoGreen, a Colorado-based distributor of LED lighting products and services, today announced that Emich Volkswagen of Denver has installed Qnuru’s LED bulbs throughout its new and used car dealership. Emich VW, the oldest Volkswagen dealership in Colorado, is owned and operated ...

Rohm developed a new (2nd-generation) OLED lighting panel that uses a red phosphorescent material. The new material results in a more efficient device - about 25-30lm/W, up from about 11lm/W in their first-generation all-fluorescent device.   Lumiotec (which is partly owned by Rohm) will start producing these new panels in "volume" within a few days (Lumiotec reported earlier that it will make around 60,000 panels a year). The new panel's size is 145x145mm (the same size of Lumiotec's older panels) and will cost ¥30,000 (about $365) - which is cheape...

Carmanah has introduced the EG300-series solar LED outdoor streetlight which is designed to satisfy the specific roadway performance features required for customers in global sun-belt regions where core infrastructure development is underway, including regions such as Latin American and the Caribbean. The EG300 can deliver the light output equivalent to a 200-watt metal halide light and includes two product sizes which power up to two LED fixtures. These fixtures are available in standard IES distribution types, are dark-sky friendly.   The new light features a ...

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, due to a potential fire hazard, around 42,000 LED lamps which are made by Maine-based Eco-Story are being recalled voluntarily. When used with a Class II transformer, the lamp can overheat and cause a fire risk. Fortunately, no injuries have been reported, but there have been two reports of overheating. These lights were sold only to commercial clients between December 2007 and August 2010. The affected 12-volt lamps have the UL number E316865. Those who purchased the lamp should contact the manufacture...

SEMI and Yole Développement are partnering on a webinar series on HB-LED manufacturing on February 9, March 2, and March 23. See below for more information on these valuable opportunities to expand your business in the long term, transformational trend to solid state lighting and other HB-LED applications. The SEMI—Yole Développement 3-part webinar series on HB-LED manufacturing will take place on February 9, March 2, and March 23 at 10:00am Pacific (1:00pm Eastern). This seminar series will be among the most comprehensive overview...

Digicom Electronics, precision and quality contract manufacturing specialist, will highlight the collaborative process involved in producing a reconfigurable open architecture computer hardware (ROACH) system at Pacific Design & Manufacturing / MDM West 2011, in booth #3880. Digicom collaborated in the design, development, prototyping, sourcing, manufacture, and test, and produced the finished, fully compliant product. The system was developed for space science and research applications. Digicom Electronics' ROACH system collects high speed, digitized data a...

It’s reported that Acuity Brands’s Holophane Washington Postlite Series was chosen by City of Vancouver to revitalize an upscale neighborhood. In February 2009Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson launched an initiative to become the world’s greenest city by 2020. For this outdoor lighting project supporting the mayor’s initiative LED luminaires were the only types considered and objectives focused on lighting quality, sustainability and energy-efficiency. After a competitive selection process, Acuity Brands’s product was considered as ...

Lunera® Lighting has introduced 1200 Series Grid Lay-in Fixture,　which provides high quality and affordable commercial lighting. Lunera’s approach to design is from the work plane up, ensuring a fixture fits the needs of a space. The 1200 Series provides high lumens per watt output enabling over 30 foot-candles of quality light at the work plane in typical installations. The fixtures can be placed with 10ft x10ft spacing on 10ft ceilings offering the possibility of fewer fixtures per installation, while bathing the area in warm LED light and further lowering soluti...

The Fremont, Calif.-based company, Intematix has developed a component, ChromaLit product line, to improve LED lighting efficiency and give light fixture manufacturers more flexibility in adjusting light qualities. According to Intematix, the ChromaLit product line, which offers a separate phosphor component can converts the blue light of LED light sources into white light. In addition, a separate phosphor component is up to 30 percent more energy efficient and manufacturers can swap in various phosphor components on the same LED light source to create products with...

The summit aim to strengthen the Lighting Science Group’s manufacturing supply chain, lead by key Lighting Science Group executives, the company’s first annual LED summit was held in Satellite Beach, Florida last week. And about 80 lighting vendors from around the world attended this summit....

IXYS Corp. has introduced samples and evaluation boards of its inductor-based, 6-channel white LED driver, the LDS8763 which can be used for backlight LED lighting of medium-size LCD displays and large-area LED lighting panels for indoor and outdoor LED lighting fixtures. The LDS8763, an integrated DC/DC boost converter with an internal MOSFET switch as a synchronous rectifier for highest efficiency, can drive 72 WLEDs in six strings with up to 12 LEDs per string. It is available with factory-programmed LED current at 20mA, 25mA, or 30m...

Lately, a company called LVX has installed its first ceiling based optical communication systems to transmit data in government offices located in St. Cloud, Minnesota.   These lighting systems use special LED lights that have the capability of transferring data by oscillating their luminescence. Special modems attached to computers below the lights can pick up this light data, much like computers now pick up Wi-Fi using wireless network devices. But don’t expect offices to be lit up like raves. The oscillation of light is so fast that the human eye can’t r...

It’s said that city of Novato is in the process of conducting a streetlight test to get public feedback in its selection of energy-efficient fixtures. Four LED fixtures have been installed between Rowland Boulevard and Adele Drive, and four induction fixtures were installed between Arthur Drive and Yukon Way. All lights being considered would reduce monthly energy costs by about 40 percent and reduce routine maintenance costs three to four times that of the current fixtures.

J. P. Sercel Associates Inc. (JPSA), a leading designer, and supplier of laser micro machining systems, announced that it will be exhibiting at Photonics West 2011in San Francisco, CA from January 25 – 27, 2011.  JPSA will be exhibiting at booth #5309 in the North Hall of the Moscone Center.

Lately, QD Vision has demonstrated the world’s highest resolution quantum dot-based active matrix display under a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research Program (SBIR) for the U.S. Army. With QD Vision’s QLED technology, the portable micro-display imaging system featured SVGA resolution (800 x 600 pixel count) and a 15.6 mm diagonal.

North American LED lights manufacturer, Phoster Industries, has successfully replaced  436 350-500 watt incandescent light fixtures in the lobby with 52 watt PAR 64 LED lighting retrofit kits at Place Ville Marie, Montreal.

The Buffalo Bisons are going to install the largest high definition LED video screen in all of minor league baseball. Made by Daktronics, Inc., the new video board will measure 80’ x 33’ and will come with a price tag of $2.5 million. It will be completed before the start of the 2011 season. The new green lighting system will cost about $750,00- upfront. It's estimated that the new lights will save the city about $565,000 in utility costs over the next 25 years.

Recently, RSI Visual systems, Inc. has completed a visual system upgrade of the state-of-the art RSI Raster xT Image Generator integrated with the new Christie Matrix SIM LED illuminated simulation projection system for Sabre Updates, Inc. on the B747-200 Full Flight Simulator, located at the Kalitta Air Training Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The RSI solution is the first to utilize LED Illumination projectors and receive qualification approval by the FAA for complete unrestricted training.

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEXS) announced the official launch of its new Array™ MR16-HO (High Output)LED replacement lamp. The lamp is a direct replacement for halogen MR16 down lighting and track lighting applications. With third-party testing as validation, the new Array™ MR16-HO delivers industry leading performance in lumen output and center beam candle power (CBCP) along with high color rendering index (CRI) and excellent dimming ability for both magnetic and electronic transformer dimming systems.

StreetlightIntelligence Inc. (TSX-V:SLQ, "SLQ"), of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a leading developer of adaptive street light control and monitoring technology, and National Semiconductor Corp.

A power control IC company iWatt, Inc., has launched two primary-side-regulated, leading- and trailing-edge-dimmable, AC/DC Digital PWM Controllers which are available in 100V/230VAC offline LED lighting applications. Both LED driver ICs are pin compatible with the previous-generation iW3610, but offer wider dimmer compatibility and introduce new hot-plug support, where the user can swap the LED engine without recycling the input power for the LED driver.

According to Acuity Brands’ Lithonia Lighting, its Product Development Manager William Ballweg will present at the upcoming Solid State Lighting Design (“SSL Design”) 2011 Summit in Los Angeles, CA and the Strategies in Light® conference in Santa Clara, CA.  

RGB LED technology also provides cost and energy savings for multicolor LED indicator applications