UV & IR Applications

LEDINTRO | UV | Feb 06, 2026
LEDINTRO Introduces Breakthrough Harmless 230nm UV LED Air Sterilization Ball
LEDINTRO Introduces Breakthrough Harmless 230nm UV LED Air Sterilization Ball Ultraviolet radiation has long been recognized as an effective method for inactivating airborne and surface-borne microorganisms. However, the widespread use of conventional UV-C sources has been constrained by safety concerns, as prolonged human exposure to traditional germicidal wavelengths is not permissible. In response to these limitations, increasing attention has been directed toward far-UVC radiation, a narrow ultraviolet spectral region that offers a fundamentally different balance between antimicrobial efficacy and human safety. Read more »
Violumas | UV | Nov 18, 2025
The Collimation Challenge: Focused Intensity with Ultra Narrow Beam UV LEDs
The Collimation Challenge: Focused Intensity with Ultra Narrow Beam UV LEDs Violumas is excited to announce the addition of UVA and UVB wavelengths to its VioBeam-1X1 series portfolio. Featuring 10° fused silica optics combined with a high-power UV LED, the product series now includes 405nm, 395nm, 385nm, 375nm, 365nm, 340nm, and 325nm wavelengths. These new LEDs are offered alongside the previously released 255nm, 265nm, 275nm, 295nm, and 310nm wavelengths. Read more »
Luminus Devices | UV | Curing Module | Nov 14, 2025
Luminus Introduces LCM-64X and LCM-32X UV LED Curing Modules
Luminus Introduces LCM-64X and LCM-32X UV LED Curing Modules Luminus, a leader in advanced photonics technology, today announced the availability of the LCM-64X-UV and LCM-32X-UV, a family of UV LED modules designed to deliver exceptional performance for high-speed industrial line curing applications. Available now for sampling with full production readiness targeted for Q1 2026, the LCM modules represent Luminus' first modular UV LED curing solution and mark a significant expansion of the company's comprehensive UV product portfolio. Read more »
ams OSRAM | UV | Aug 21, 2025
Peak Value: ams OSRAM Doubles UV-C LED Efficiency
Peak Value: ams OSRAM Doubles UV-C LED Efficiency Battling germs with UV-C radiation: disinfection with light is gaining global importance — in hospitals, offices, kitchens, and bathrooms. Even tap water can be disinfected using UV-C radiation. ams OSRAM has now achieved a technological breakthrough in this field within the scope of the evaluation of a new UV-C LED. The LED delivers over 10 percent efficiency at 200 milliwatts power, a wavelength of 265 nanometers, and a lifespan exceeding 20,000 hours. With these specifications, it can replace conventional mercury discharge lamps in the future. The LED’s efficiency has been validated by Germany’s National Metrology Institute Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB). Read more »
LUAN-UV | UV | Apr 17, 2025
Advanced UV Optoelectronics: Revolutionizing Large-Scale Water Disinfection with Deep Ultraviolet LED Technology
Advanced UV Optoelectronics: Revolutionizing Large-Scale Water Disinfection with Deep Ultraviolet LED Technology As the world grapples with escalating pressures on water resource management and public health security, traditional water treatment technologies are facing significant hurdles—including inefficiencies, high energy consumption, and risks of chemical residue. Data highlights the stakes: waterborne illnesses cost the global economy billions of dollars annually, underscoring the urgency for safer, more effective solutions. Conventional mercury-based UV lamps, long relied upon for disinfection, compound these issues with drawbacks like excessive energy use, short operational lifespans, and environmental hazards from mercury contamination—failings that increasingly clash with modern sustainability goals. Read more »
Toyoda Gosei | UV-C | UV | May 02, 2024
Toyoda Gosei Develops UV-C LED with World-Class Light Output
Toyoda Gosei Develops UV-C LED with World-Class Light Output Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has developed deep ultraviolet (UV-C) LEDs with light output that is among the highest in the world. UV-C is used in disinfection as it destroys viral and bacterial DNA structures and inhibits their replication. As an alternative light source for mercury lamps used for disinfection, improved performance of UV-C LEDs has been expected. Sample sales of Toyoda Gosei’s high performance LEDs started internationally in April 2024, to promote their wider use for disinfecting water, air and surface. Read more »
DOWA | IR | Feb 21, 2024
DOWA Announced SWIR LEDs with the World's Highest Efficiency
DOWA Announced SWIR LEDs with the World's Highest Efficiency DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD., a subsidiary of DOWA HOLDINGS CO., LTD. has successfully developed and released a high-efficiency Short-Wavelength-Infrared (hereinafter SWIR) LED chip series which has the world’s highest efficiency in the peak wavelength range of 1,200 to 1,900 nm. Read more »
UV LED | Nichia | UV | Dec 11, 2023
Nichia Will Launch UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs
Nichia Will Launch UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs Nichia, the world’s largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, is scheduled to launch two new UV LEDs in March 2024: UV-B LED with a peak wavelength of 308nm and UV-A LED with a peak wavelength of 330nm. Read more »
IR | Bolb | Jul 04, 2023
Bolb’s 295nm UV-B LEDs Cross the 10% WPE Threshold to the Benefit of People, Animals, and Horticulture
Bolb’s 295nm UV-B LEDs Cross the 10% WPE Threshold to the Benefit of People, Animals, and Horticulture UV-B light, specifically targeted to 295nm, plays an essential role in human, animal, and plant health. Now, thanks to advances from Bolb, UV-B LED wall plug efficiency has surpassed 10%. At this level of performance, UV-B application efficiency is far better than what can be achieved with mercury lamps. Bolb’s LEDs offer additional advantages such as purer spectrum, much longer lifetime in frequent use, simpler digital programming, and control, and they contain no toxic and environmentally harmful mercury. Read more »
IR Sensor | Vishay | IR | Jul 03, 2023
IR Sensor Modules Provide Robust Operation in Direct Sunlight
IR Sensor Modules Provide Robust Operation in Direct Sunlight Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today introduced two new fixed-gain infrared (IR) sensor modules designed to lower costs and increase stability for outdoor sensor applications. Offering typical irradiance of 1.3 mW/m² in compact Minimold packages, the surface-mount TSSP93038DF1PZA and leaded TSSP93038SS1ZA provide robust operation in direct sunlight, while still providing enough sensitivity for light barrier applications. Read more »
UV | Optics | Apr 28, 2023
New Highly Efficient UV Optics for the UV-C Range from Asahi Rubber
New Highly Efficient UV Optics for the UV-C Range from Asahi Rubber The Japanese optics manufacturer Asahi Rubber recently introduced new UV optics especially for the UV-C range (280 nm). The silicone lenses named AL-10M-DUV280 (for LEDs of a size of 3.5 x 3.5 mm) and AL-20M-DUV280 (for LEDs of a size of 6.8 x 6.8 mm) were measured with the UV-C LEDs of the type NCSU334B from Nichia and subjected to an endurance test of 15000 hours, whereby hardly any loss of brightness and no damage could be detected. This underlines the high quality of the optics, whose light transmission is 90%. Read more »
IR | ams OSRAM | Apr 06, 2023
New Photodiode Improves Performance in Visible and IR Light Applications
New Photodiode Improves Performance in Visible and IR Light Applications Premstaetten, Austria and Munich Germany (April 6, 2023) -- ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in optical solutions, has launched the TOPLED® D5140, SFH 2202, a photodiode that offers improved performance compared to existing standard photodiodes, including higher sensitivity to visible light in the green part of the spectrum, and increased linearity. Read more »
Silanna | Nano-Structures | UV | Sep 30, 2022
Silanna UV Makes Ultraviolet LED Manufacturing Breakthrough With Nanostructures
Silanna UV Makes Ultraviolet LED Manufacturing Breakthrough With Nanostructures A major breakthrough in UV-C LED technology from Silanna UV offers huge advantages for applications as diverse as disinfection, water quality monitoring, gas sensing, liquid chromatography, and chemical and biological analysis. The new manufacturing approach promises to make deep ultraviolet and far ultraviolet LEDs easier to make, more efficient at shorter wavelengths, and more reliable. With the renewed focus on air, water and surface disinfection following the Covid-19 pandemic, these next-generation UV LEDs are already attracting interest. Read more »
Ferdinand Braun Institut | UV | Micro-LEDs | Trends | Jul 12, 2022
UV micro-LEDs for Sensing, Production and Communication
UV micro-LEDs for Sensing, Production and Communication Researchers at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) in Berlin have successfully produced the first prototypes of micro-LEDs that emit in the ultraviolet spectral range (UVB). The micro-LEDs with 310 nanometers (nm) emission wavelength feature a small size of the emitting area with diameters down to 1.5 micrometers (µm). This is hundreds to thousands of times smaller than conventional UV LEDs. The micro-LEDs can be closely packed with pitches down to 2 µm to form a two-dimensional array on a chip, resulting in high-resolution UVB emitting areas. Read more »
UV | Standardization | IES | IUVA | Apr 01, 2022
The Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Ultraviolet Association Release a New American National Standard for Measuring Ultraviolet LEDs
The Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Ultraviolet Association Release a New American National Standard for Measuring Ultraviolet LEDs The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES, est. 1906), in partnership with the International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA, est. 1999), has published its first in a series of American National Standards for the measurement of ultraviolet product emissions. Since its discovery in 1877, germicidal ultraviolet disinfection has been deployed globally to reduce the rate of transmission of tuberculosis and other airborne pathogens in indoor spaces, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Read more »
UV | Violeds | Omicron | Sterilization | Mar 01, 2022
Violeds Sterilizes Omicron Variant As Well
Violeds Sterilizes Omicron Variant As Well Seoul Viosys, a company specializing in optical semiconductors, announced an experimental result confirming that its Violeds technology sterilizes 99.99% Omicron Variant (SARS-CoV-2 Variant: B.1.1529) in one second, which has been spreading around the world. Read more »
Edison Opto | UV | Featured | Nov 26, 2021
Edison Opto UVA + White & UVC Series Customize Design Solution
Edison Opto offers customized UVA + White and UVC solutions for continuous disinfection to reduce bacteria and airborne viruses. In the wake of the global outbreak of COVID-19, the people’s need for anti-epidemic, sterilization, and anti-virus products has escalated, ranging from portable sterilization equipment, home appliances sterilization, and public health sterilization. Read more »
UV | Ushio | Covid | Corona | Disinfection | Jul 29, 2021
Research Confirms Ushio’s Technology Is Effective Against a Variant of SARS-CoV-2
Hiroshima University and Ushio Inc. have been conducting a joint research project (Study on the disinfection (*1) and viral inactivation effects of 222 nm UV-C light using Care222). As part of this study, a group of researchers, including Professor Hiroki Ohge of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Hiroshima University Hospital, and Professor Takemasa Sakaguchi of the Virology Section of the Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences at Hiroshima University, evaluated the effect of irradiating a SARS-CoV-2 variant (*2) with Ushio's Care222 filtered Far UV-C light disinfection technology. The research showed that Care222 technology is equally effective in inactivating a SARS-CoV-2 variant as in inactivating the original SARS-CoV-2 strain. Read more »
Instrument Systems | IR | Fingerprint | Sensor | Jun 28, 2021
Enabling Optical Fingerprint Sensors with IR Wavelength at 1380 nm
Instrument Systems has developed a modular high-end IR test solution that meets the requirements of optical under-display fingerprint sensors with wavelengths above 1100 nm. As the IR radiation at 1380 nm is verified to avoid burn-in phenomena, the requested test equipment needs to be a high-end solution: high-resolution and calibrated for precise measurement of radiometric quantities, pulse measurement in the µs range and with temperature control. Read more »
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