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Products | Test Equipments
Instrument Systems Announces New Products for 2012
Instrument Systems launches new products for LED measurement and testing. The CAS 120 is a new series of the proven CCD Array Spectrometers, specifically developed for price-sensitive applications in spectral light measurement, such as LED production testing. The new own current source for LED testing is the LSM 350 4-quadrant source, developed to meet the requirements for production testing of LEDs and LED wafers.
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Products | Raw Materials
Soitec and Sumitomo Electric Announce Major Milestone in Strategic Joint Development of Engineered GaN Substrates
Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., a leading worldwide provider of compound semiconductor materials, have reached a major milestone in their strategic joint development program started in December 2010 by demonstrating four- and six-inch engineered gallium nitride (GaN) substrates and launching pilot production lines to enable wider market ...
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Technology | Reports
DOE Report Characterizes 2010 US Lighting Market
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a report detailing the characteristics of the U.S. lighting market by technology and sector, which helps chart progress made toward the goal of transitioning to more efficient white-light source technologies. The 2010 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization provides comprehensive and detailed estimates of the national inventory of installed lamps as well as their performance characteristics, associated energy use, and lumen production. It focuses ...
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Products | LED Optics
LEDiL Announces Availability of Lenses Qualified for Use with Cree's New XB-D LEDs
LEDiL announces the availability of 40 lenses qualified for use with Cree’s new XLamp® XB-D LED, which boasts the industry’s smallest lighting-class footprint of 2.45 mm x 2.45 mm. The wide-range of lens styles offered by LEDiL provides multiple design choices and beam patterns in the quest to drive higher performance and reduced system cost. Use of secondary optics characterized for a specific LED and engineered to provide usable light only where needed helps to reduce the number of LEDs ...
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News-Spot Business | Company News
e:lumix Technology AG Expands Production Facilities with Fab in Augsburg / Germany
The innovative manufacturer and service provider in the area of LED semiconductor technology, e:lumix Technologie AG, announces the expansion of the Augsburg, Germany location to the Headquarters of Technology with their project “Augsburg – FAB6.1”.
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Technology | Light Generation White Paper
Success in Research: First Gallium-Nitride LED Chips on Silicon in Pilot Stage
Researchers at Osram Opto Semiconductors have succeeded in manufacturing highperformance prototypes of blue and white LEDs, in which the light-emitting gallium-nitride layers are grown on silicon wafers with a diameter of 150 millimeters. The silicon replaces the sapphire commonly used until now without a loss in quality. Already in the pilot stage, the new LED chips are to be tested under practical conditions, meaning that the first LEDs on silicon from Osram Opto Semiconductors could hit the ...
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Removing Impurities from QDs Made by Cation-Exchange Techniques May Lead to Affordable QD-Products
Luminescence of CdSe/CuS nanocrystals prepared by cation-exchange. On the left are crystals prior to purification, on the right are the same nanocrystals after impurities have been removed (courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
To the lengthy list of serendipitous discoveries – gravity, penicillin, the New World – add this: Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered why a promising technique for making quantum dots and nanorods has so far been a disappointment. Better still, they’ve also discovered how to correct the problem. Read more »
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- Success in Research: First Gallium-Nitride LED Chips on Silicon in Pilot Stage
- DOE Releases Consortium Report on LED Street Lights
- Independent Study Demonstrating that Pink Sapphire Produces Highest Transmission Colorless Epi-Wafers
- New LED Driver Design from Power Integrations Maximizes Efficiency of Compact B10, GU10, E17 and A19 Bulbs
- Cree Study Shows LED Lighting is Best Bet for Energy Efficiency
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- Anderson & Associates, LLC and BRB, USA Merge | Feb 03, 2012
- Birmingham Science Park Aston Enters into a Partnership Agreement to Create a Europe-Leading Test Centre for Lighting Products | Jan 26, 2012
- Deco Lighting Announces Game Changing New LED Product Line which will Deflate LED Luminaire Prices | Jan 26, 2012
- Asheville Boasts First Large-Scale LED Street Light Deployment in North Carolina | Jan 25, 2012
- NVLAP Accreditation Granted to Labsphere, Inc. | Jan 25, 2012
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Products | White High Voltage LEDs | Feb 03, 2012
Philips Lumileds Introduces New and Improved LUXEON H for Space Constrained Bulbs Like the GU10 and Candelabra Bulbs
Philips Lumileds introduced its next generation high-voltage LED, LUXEON H today. With significant performance enhancements, LUXEON H enables the broadest range of retrofit bulbs and space constrained applications while providing the light output, efficacy, and quality of light required to meet ENERGY STAR specifications.
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Products | LED Driver ICs | Feb 03, 2012
LED Driver Controller from Diodes Incorporated Handles More Demanding Lighting Applications
Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today announced the ZXLD1371 LED driver controller. By extending input voltage operation from 60V down to as low as 5.0V, the ZXLD1371 has been designed to handle as broad a range of applications as possible, including those subject to the greatest variance in input voltage, such as automotive lighting and 12V ...
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Technology | Reports | Feb 01, 2012
Energy Savings Potential of Solid-State Lighting in General Illumination Applications
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has developed a comprehensive strategy to accelerate the development and market introduction of energy-efficient solid-state lighting for general illumination. The energy savings potential of this technology is significant, and the U.S. will benefit by focusing our resources and maintaining our global leadership in this technology. The latest report forecasts the energy savings potentiol due to LED technology.
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Business | Company News | Feb 01, 2012
Aluwave Starts Own LED Module Production
By the first week of January, Aluwave introduced its own production of LED modules in its new facilities in Mölndal, Sweden. Today, the production is up and running and several deliveries have already been supplied to customers.
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Products | LED Displays & Video Walls | Jan 31, 2012
3rd Generation LEDs Make Barco Video Walls More than 33 Percent Brighter
Barco, a global market leader in professional visualization solutions, is introducing a new generation of LEDs in its liquid-cooled LED video walls. This 3rd generation boosts brightness levels by no less than 33%, making Barco video wall cubes the brightest on the market today. Additionally, when operating at today's standard brightness levels, the new LEDs consume 33% less power, thus significantly reducing the video wall's ecological footprint.
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Products | LED Modules | Jan 31, 2012
Philips Lumileds Ânnounces LUXEON K for Retrofit and Downlight LED Lighting Applications
Philips Lumileds introduced LUXEON K today, its illumination grade array that charts a new direction for downlights and retrofit bulbs so that solutions can come to market more quickly and at a price that drives market adoption. LUXEON K arrays provide thousands of lumens of light output and will be available in three different CCTs with a typical CRI of 85, and with five configurations of 4-24 emitters per array, in early Q2 of this year.
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Products | LED Modules | Jan 31, 2012
LED Engin's New Connector Boards Enable Faster, Easier Assembly of Solid State Lighting Fixtures
LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, announces a family of metal-core printed circuit boards (MCPCBs) with integral connectors that eliminate soldering during the assembly of LED fixtures. The poke-home connectors, which accept 18-24 AWG wires, offer quick, solderless assembly of fixtures and can eliminate the need for OEMs to use sub-contractors because the work can be taken in-house.
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Products | LED Driver ICs | Jan 26, 2012
NXP Extends LED Driver ICs for Compact, Non-Dimmable Lamps
NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced the availability of several new LED driver ICs in its SSL2108x family for compact, non-dimmable retrofit lamps, following the success of the SSL21081. With the addition of the SSL21082, SSL21083 and SSL21084, NXP now provides a single platform for lamp designers developing for 100V – 120V and 230V mains voltages, as well as all power ranges up to 25 W. Based on GreenChip™ technology, the SSL2108x family has been optimized for non-isolated topologies with ...
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Products | White High Power LEDs | Jan 26, 2012
Philips Lumileds Introduces LUXEON M for Outdoor and Industrial LED Lighting Solutions
Philips Lumileds introduced LUXEON M today, an illumination grade LED designed specifically to simplify solution design, reduce costs, and provide the optic control and quality of light required by outdoor lighting applications as well as high-bay and low-bay lighting solutions.
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Products | Test Equipments | Jan 25, 2012
Gamma Scientific Introduces New Spectrometer for Quick and Easy LED Testing
Gamma Scientific, a pioneer in light measurement instrumentation since 1961, has developed a low-cost spectrometer to provide quick and accurate testing for LEDs. The RadOMA Lite is a high-performance, linear CCD array spectrometer designed to test LED intensity and total flux. Gamma Scientific will be showcasing the RadOMA Lite and their complete line of LED test and measurement solutions in booths 501 and 600 at the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, CA from February 7-9, ...
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