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Business News | Osram | Nov 14, 2019
Osram Recommends Current Takeover Offer from ams
Osram Recommends Current Takeover Offer from ams Osram has concluded a comprehensive business combination agreement with ams and recommends its shareholders accept the current takeover offer. "After intensive negotiations, we have agreed on many decisive framework conditions for the future of Osram and our employees," said Olaf Berlien, CEO of OSRAM Licht AG. "The most important thing is that the employees at German locations are protected from merger-related layoffs until the end of 2022.” In addition, the strong Osram brand is to be reflected in the company name of the new group. The sensor specialist ams explicitly supports the photonics strategy of Osram. Read more »
Featured | Materials | Encapsulants | Epoxy | Nov 05, 2019
Epoxy Features Very Low Coefficient of Thermal Expansion
Epoxy Features Very Low Coefficient of Thermal Expansion Master Bond EP30LTE-2 has been developed for joining dissimilar substrates exposed to thermally or mechanically induced stresses. It can be used for sealing, coating and encapsulating, especially for small to medium sized castings where a very low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) is required. Read more »
Featured | Manufacturing | Electromechanics | Connectors | Nov 04, 2019
New BJB LED Connector for Linear LED Modules: Book 21 Compliant
New BJB LED Connector for Linear LED Modules: Book 21 Compliant Lampholders were standard in older, traditional lighting systems. Modern LED fixtures that utilize non-replaceable LEDs create several assembly and field-replacement disadvantages. Zhaga Book 21 addresses these shortcomings by standardizing linear 'socketable' LED modules. In accordance with Book 21, BJB has developed the new LED connector 47.303; a two-part fixing and electrical connection system, which enables LED modules to be installed and subsequently replaced as easily as conventional light sources. Incorporating the BJB 47.303 series results in reduced assembly costs and dramatically faster retrofit or replacement times. Read more »
Components | Electronics | Controls | Nov 04, 2019
Cezos Introduced New Magnet Switch for Inside Cabinet LED Lighting
Cezos Introduced New Magnet Switch for Inside Cabinet LED Lighting Cezos is delighted to present their new magnet switch, L475T, which is a specialized controller designed to drive a LED light inside cabinets etc. Due to a 3-axes MEMS magnetometer sensor it can extremely precise detect minimal changes in the magnetic field. Therefore, the distance to the magnet can be wider than with traditional sensors (e.g. mechanical). The calibration algorithm detects the best axis when the door is opened for the first time, so the mounting direction is not relevant. The soft adjustment of the light protects the eyes. If the door will not be closed, the light turns off automatically after 15 minutes. Read more »
Components | LEDs | White LEDs | CoB LEDs | Oct 31, 2019
Lumileds Boosts Intensity of CoBs for Spotlights and Downlights
Lumileds Boosts Intensity of CoBs for Spotlights and Downlights Lumileds today introduced three lines of CoBs: the LUXEON CX Plus CoB (Gen 2), LUXEON CX Plus CoB – High Density and LUXEON CX Plus CoB – High Density (Below BBL), drop-in upgrades for Lumileds and competing arrays. The second generation arrays feature industry leading performance and a 14% flux improvement vs. the previous generation. Delivered in a range of light emitting surfaces (LES) (4.5, 6, 12 and 14mm) and correlated color temperatures of 2700K to 5000K, the Gen 2 arrays provide excellent efficiency of above 140 lm/W at 3000 K 80 CRI or 122 lm/W at 3000 K 90 CRI. Read more »
Featured | LEDs | AC LEDs | White LEDs | Indoor Applications | Automotive | Outdoor Applications | Oct 30, 2019
EzyLED™ Now Stocked at Digi-Key
EzyLED™ Now Stocked at Digi-Key American Bright, a global LED lighting solutions manufacturer, announced a series of EzyLED 3030. American Bright's EzyLED™ is a proprietary LED device with a built-in IC. This patented design drastically reduces the need for additional circuitry and other on-board components making it the ideal solution for tight fitting applications. The smart EzyLED 3030 comes with a constant current regulator with built-in bias voltage rectification circuit and uses conventional 12V/24V AC/DC sources. The EzyLED is also available in a T-10 bulb. Request a free sample today! Read more »
Featured | LEDs | IR-LEDs | Sensors | Health | Oct 30, 2019
Measuring the Oxygen Content of Blood with LEDs
Measuring the Oxygen Content of Blood with LEDs Pulse oximetry is a non-invasive method for determining haemoglobin (Hb) saturation through oxygen in the blood and heart frequency. It uses the fact that oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor haemoglobin absorb red and infrared light differently. In order to measure the oxygen content reliably, LEDs with high performance, constant quality and low scattering are needed as light sources. With the WL-SMTW and WL-SITW series, Würth Elektronik has suitable red and infrared LEDs in its portfolio. In addition, there is a matching light sensor available: The phototransistor WL-STTW can reliably detect both red and infrared light. Read more »
Tools | Measurement | PowerAnalyzer | Engineering | Manufacturing | Research | Oct 30, 2019
Vitrek's New Ultra High Accuracy Power Analyzer Sets New Standard for Price/Performance
Vitrek's New Ultra High Accuracy Power Analyzer Sets New Standard for Price/Performance Vitrek, the leader in high-voltage test and measurement equipment, introduces the PA920 Series Ultra High Accuracy Power Analyzer. The PA920 sets the new standard for accuracy (0.024% of reading) in the graphical power analyzer market. It integrates an ultra-high accuracy, wideband waveform digitizer with advanced computational capability, a large high-resolution display and a full-color touchscreen user interface. Read more »
Business | Company News | Partnerships | Smart Cities | Services | Oct 29, 2019
Tridonic and NMB-Minebea-GmbH Sign Partnership Agreement
Tridonic and NMB-Minebea-GmbH Sign Partnership Agreement Tridonic, a world-leading supplier of lighting technology, and NMB-Minebea-GmbH, which is part of the MinebeaMitsumi group, the major producer of machinery components and electronics devices, have signed a contract to form a strategic partnership. The partnership aims to develop intelligent outdoor lighting solutions for Smart Cities. Read more »
Components | High Power LEDs | White LEDs | Human Centric Lighting | Melanopic Ratio | Oct 28, 2019
Luminus Salud™ LEDs Suppress Melatonin and Deliver Warm, Comfortable Illumination
Luminus Salud™ LEDs Suppress Melatonin and Deliver Warm, Comfortable Illumination Luminus Devices expands its illumination portfolio today with the introduction of the Salud line of 3030 mid-power LEDs. Salud LEDs are the first with datasheet specified melanopic ratios (MRs) in addition to CRI, R9, CCT, and Flux. By enhancing the spectrum with cyan for melatonin suppression and enriching the 660 nm emission for natural skin tones and excellent red-rendering, Luminus Salud LEDs can deliver warmer, more comfortable light that keeps people healthy, alert, and productive. Read more »
Technologies | Light Generation | Light Extraction | LEDs | Flip-Chip LED | SSL-Research | Oct 25, 2019
Chinese Researchers Propose Method to Overcome Low Efficiency of High-Power Flip-Chip LEDs
Chinese Researchers Propose Method to Overcome Low Efficiency of High-Power Flip-Chip LEDs Chinese scientists from different research centers recently published a co-authored paper on "Highly Efficient GaN-based High-Power Flip-Chip LEDs" in Optics Express Vol. 27, Issue 12, pp. A669-A692 (2019)under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement. High-power flip-chip light-emitting diodes (FCLEDs) suffer from low efficiencies because of poor p-type reflective ohmic contact and severe current crowding, they propose an improvement by using an Ag film. Read more »
Components | LED Modules | Linear Modules | Quantum Dots | Indoor Applications | Oct 25, 2019
Opulent Americas - Linear LED Module Built with Osram Osconiq S 3030 QD
Opulent Americas - Linear LED Module Built with Osram Osconiq S 3030 QD Opulent Americas, a fully integrated global manufacturer for the lighting, automotive, and medical industries, is excited to announce the product line addition of linear LED modules built with the new Osram Osconiq S 3030 Quantum Dot LED. The Osconiq S 3030 QD was specially developed to enable customers to design luminaires with high efficacy and excellent color rendering for area lighting and downlight applications. Read more »
Components | LED Modules | Daylight White | Zhaga Compliant | Indoor Applications | Oct 24, 2019
Xicato's New Daylight 5600 K LED Source Is Here
Xicato's New Daylight 5600 K LED Source Is Here Xicato, the leading provider of smart building wireless controls and highest quality light sources, today announced the general availability of Daylight 5600 K CCT. As one of the best approximations of sunlight indoors, it delivers rich, accurate colors with high gamut, CRI 95+ and R9 of 90+, with a consistency and reliability that has set Xicato lights apart. Read more »
Resources | Standardization | CIE | Measurement | Oct 23, 2019
New CIE Technical Report: Optical Measurement of LED Modules and Light Engines
New CIE Technical Report: Optical Measurement of LED Modules and Light Engines LED modules and light engines represent a wide range of very different products with unique physical properties. Thus, they can neither be treated as single LED packages (where measurements refer to a specific junction temperature of a single LED or the average of a single die, multiple-junction LED) nor as complete lamps or luminaires (where measurements refer to the ambient temperature). Read more »
Resources | White Papers | Test Equipment
WHITE PAPER - Measuring Color Uniformity
WHITE PAPER - Measuring Color Uniformity The color uniformity of light generated by LED luminaires plays a major role in many lighting applications. This makes it an important parameter to measure in both the R&D stage and during the quality assurance process. MKS Instruments has stayed abreast of this challenge by developing a new feature for its FluxGage photometrical system: the color uniformity measurement function. It allows quick evaluation of optical assemblies for color mixing and beam shaping. This whitepaper presents this novel feature of the system. Read more »
Technologies | Human Centric Lighting | Color Perception | Health + Environment | Research | Oct 18, 2019
Study Reveals How Age Affects Perception of White LED Light
Study Reveals How Age Affects Perception of White LED Light Although LEDs are increasingly used in low-energy lighting and displays, consumers sometimes find their light harsh or unpleasant. Findings from a new study point to the need to take age-related perception differences into account when designing white LED lighting that is more pleasing to the eye. Read more »
Components | Electronics | Driver Modules | Constant-Voltage | Indoor Applications | Oct 17, 2019
GlacialPower - New GP-CVP040N Series LED Constant Voltage Driver with TRIAC Dimming
GlacialPower - New GP-CVP040N Series LED Constant Voltage Driver with TRIAC Dimming GlacialPower, the power division of the LED technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc, announces the new GP-CVP040N series LED constant voltage driver. It is available in 12 V DC and 24 V DC output rated power of 40.8 W. The driver supports TRIAC dimming function, and appropriates for LED strips application in places such as restaurants, jewelry shop, home and theater. Read more »
Business | Company News | Investment | Acquisition | Oct 16, 2019
Signify to Acquire Cooper Lighting Solutions to Strengthen Position in North America
Signify to Acquire Cooper Lighting Solutions to Strengthen Position in North America Signify, the world leader in lighting, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Eaton to acquire Cooper Lighting Solutions for USD 1.4 billion (approx. EUR 1,270 million) in cash. Closing is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and is expected to take place in the first quarter of 2020. Read more »
Components | LEDs | CoB LEDs | White LEDs | Indoor Applications | Oct 15, 2019
Xicato Announces Availability of XOB with 14.5mm LES
Xicato Announces Availability of XOB with 14.5mm LES Xicato, the leading provider of smart building wireless controls and highest quality light sources, today announced the immediate availability of the XOB high-density light source in 14.5mm LES with nearly 5,000 lumens output. The benchmark light quality of XOB series with an R9 of 50 at 90CRI and an R9 of 90 at 95CRI provide the best options for strong color rendering in industry standard sizes for easy adoption. Read more »
Tools | Measurement | Spectroradiometer | Power Meter | Oct 14, 2019
High Precision Wavelength and Power Measurement; Sub-Nanometer Resolution and Accuracy
High Precision Wavelength and Power Measurement; Sub-Nanometer Resolution and Accuracy Gamma Scientific announces the release of the Wavemon™ wavelength and power meter. The unit delivers accurate, real-time wavelength data combined with power measurement at a fraction of the cost of traditional spectrometers. Using proprietary optical filtering techniques and onboard calibration data, the Wavemon is able to resolve wavelength with accuracies to +/- 0.25 nm and +/- 0.01 nm repeatability and irradiance absolute accuracy of +/- 1%. Read more »
Resources | Standardization | CIE | Non-Visual Lighting Effects | HCL | Oct 10, 2019
CIE Position Statement on Non-Visual Effects of Light - 2nd Edition
CIE Position Statement on Non-Visual Effects of Light - 2nd Edition On October 3rd, CIE released their new position statement on non-visual effects of light, entitled "Recommending Proper Light at the Proper Time" 2nd edition. As non-visual effects are becoming more attention nowadays, confusion and uncertainties on this topic are still high in the lighting community. Much research has been done but even more research is necessary. CIE has recognized this relevant topic and already initiated an independent workshop of leading scientists in the field of quantifying light for non-visual effects in Manchester in 2013 (CIE TN 003:2015 (CIE 2015)). The CIE issued an international standard, CIE S 026:2018 (2018), that defines a system for metrology of optical radiation for light-induced responses that can be elicited by ipRGCs (ipRGC-influenced light (IIL) responses). Read more »
Tools | Measurement | Imaging Spectrometer | Oct 10, 2019
ULTRIS Q20 - The New Hyperspectral Video Camera with Ecellent Data Quality, Flexibility and Speed
ULTRIS Q20 - The New Hyperspectral Video Camera with Ecellent Data Quality, Flexibility and Speed Cubert's new ULTRIS camera was developed based on the light field technology. The camera features an Ultra-HD CMOS sensor with 20 MP, which makes ULTRIS the imaging spectrometer with the world-wide highest resolution. During image acquisition the object is recorded with a multitude of images, each with its own optical bandpass filter with different center wavelength. Read more »
Components | LEDs | White LEDs | Human Centric Lighting | Indoor Applications | Oct 09, 2019
Bridgelux Delivers New Lighting Solutions, Naturally
Bridgelux Delivers New Lighting Solutions, Naturally Enabling LED industry transformation for over 15 years, Bridgelux today reinforced its focus and commitment to the lighting market with the commercial availability of Thrive™ surface mount device (SMD) 2835 and V Series™ chip-on-board (COB) parts. Thrive white point options are designed to closely match the spectra of natural light by reducing blue spikes and cyan valleys, and providing full spectrum, human centric LED lighting solutions. Read more »
Flicker | Spectral Light Meters | Tools | EcoDesign Directive | Measurement | Oct 08, 2019
BTS256-EF Measures New Flicker Metrics for Compliance with Ecodesign Directive
BTS256-EF Measures New Flicker Metrics for Compliance with Ecodesign Directive The European Commission´s proposed regulation of lighting under the Ecodesign Directive will establish mandatory product performance and quality requirements on all lighting products. This new EU directive will include strict requirements for flicker and stroboscopic effect, collectively referred to as temporal light artefacts (TLA). Simple measures such as flicker index and modulation depth will not be adequate as they do not distinguish the possible TLA effects and do not account for the effect of frequency-dependent sensitivity or the wave shape of light output. The BTS256-EF spectral light and flicker meter measures the specific metrics required by the regulation, PstLM and SVM. Read more »
Event News | GZ Int. Lighting Exhibition | Oct 08, 2019
Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2019: Visitor Numbers Grow and a Packed Event Program Proves a Hit
Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2019: Visitor Numbers Grow and a Packed Event Program Proves a Hit Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition once again welcomed the world's lighting industry to South China's bustling metropolis. Concurrently held with Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology, the shows received 172,856 visitors from 133 countries and regions during the four-day trade fairs. Held from 9 ‒ 12 June at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, a total of 2,626 exhibitors from 22 countries and regions showcased the latest lighting and LED products, technology and solutions over 195,000 sqm of exhibition space. Read more »
Components | Electronics | Driver Modules | Indoor Applications | Oct 07, 2019
EPtronics Announces LD96W-TL High Power LED Driver for Phase Dimming Applications
EPtronics Announces LD96W-TL High Power LED Driver for Phase Dimming Applications EPtronics, Inc. (EPtronics) has announced a new addition to its high power Class 2 LED driver offerings: the latest generation LD Series LD96W-TL driver with high performance constant current output. This dimmable LED optimized driver provides the perfect solution for new and retrofit applications requiring high power output in a single unit, removing the need to divide light engines across multiple lower wattage drivers. Designed to operate with TRIAC and ELV phase dimming input, the EPtronics line of -TL phase dimmable drivers includes 6W, 9W, 12W, 16W, 20W, 25W, 40W, and now this 96W model. Read more »
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