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Shenzhen Project Replaces Over 10,000 Lights with Cree XLamp LEDs

Oct 13, 2011 In order to spread the "LED lighting revolution" in China, the nation recently completed its largest highway lighting project yet. Upgrading almost 75 miles of roadway with LED fixtures, The Shenzhen highway project replaced over 10,000 street lights to now feature over a million Cree XLamp® XP-G and XP-E High Efficiency White (HEW) LEDs.

Intematix Phosphor Blend Accomplishes Near Perfect Light Quality for LEDs

Oct 13, 2011 Inematix achieved 98 CRI milestone for light quality drives LED adoption in retail, hospitality, residential and museum applications.

Abe Mathalon Becomes CEO of Greenway Design Group, Inc.

Oct 13, 2011 Greenway Design Group, Inc. announced appointment of Abe Mathalon as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Greenway Design Group, Inc. Mathalon will assume responsibility for all of the corporation's development and growth activities including investor relations.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Enhanced its LED Light Site

Oct 13, 2011 OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, a global LED component manufacturer, recently added new tools and resources to its LED Light Site to help keep customers updated on the latest general lighting solutions, while providing continued LED education through video demonstrations and technical papers.

BMC Software Lights up a Village in India

Oct 13, 2011 BMC Software, has launched an unique initiative to "gain by saving" by replacing lighting fixtures in its Pune office facilities with higher efficiency LED Lights from Hanul Technologies resulting in over 65 percent savings in power. These savings will be donated to a remote village outside of Sakur India to light the streets and homes and bring "New Life After Dusk" to the villagers.

austriamicrosystems Announced New Photo-Flash LED Driver Family

Oct 13, 2011 austriamicrosystems, a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs has announced its new AS364X family of LED flash drivers for mobile phones, cameras and other portable devices. The high level of integration and 4 MHz operation of the DC-DC boost converter enable the industry's smallest device sizes, yet still maintains the highest accuracy to ensure the best picture and video quality. The new driver family supports output currents from 320 mA up to 2 A providing optimal solutions for entry-level cell phones to high-end smartphones, tablets, DSCs and VCRs.

Subject Cree Continues to Lead LED Industry with Even Brighter Lighting-Class LEDs

Oct 12, 2011 Cree just announced new levels of performance for its highly efficient XLamp XP-G LEDs, now delivering up to 140 lumens per watt. By leveraging the popular XP-G LED form factor, these increases in brightness and efficacy can shorten the LED fixture design cycle and improve customer time to market, with drop-in-ready performance enhancements.

Mouser Brings OSRAM Opto Semiconductor’s DURIS™ E 3 LEDs to Market

Oct 12, 2011 Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced the immediate availability of OSRAM Opto Semiconductor’s DURIS™ E 3 LEDs, a compact light source in a cost effective PLCC package.

Universal Display Awarded U.S. Department Of Energy SBIR Phase II Contract For White OLED Lighting

Oct 12, 2011 Universal Display Corporation, enabling energy-efficient OLED displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED ® technology and materials, has announced in the official press release that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the company a $999,963 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant. The goal of the program is to demonstrate further gains in the performance of large-area, phosphorescent organic light emitting device (PHOLED) lighting panels through enhanced thermal management techniques. This new program builds on the achievements demonstrated by Universal Display during the previous Phase I program.

Research Highlights: Scalable Printing Process for OLEDs from the University of Michigan

Oct 12, 2011 Dan Rogers from Plastic Electronics reports on the exciting research led by OLED expert Stephen Forrest, vice president for research at the University of Michigan's materials science and engineering department. The research group has developed a printing process for depositing OLED materials.

According to the report the Organic Vapour Jet Deposition process could simplify the manufacturing of OLEDs for displays and lighting, which could also reduce costs.

Cooper Lighting Revealed the Next Generation LED LightBAR System

Oct 12, 2011 Cooper Lighting has upgraded its outdoor LED LightBAR(TM) technology. The next generation LightBAR(TM) technology features the company's patented AccuLED Optics(TM), which sets the industry benchmark for reliable photometric performance, scalability and energy efficiency. The LightBAR is available in two versions (7 LEDs and 21 LEDs), three standard color options (3000K, 4000K and 6000K correlated color temperatures (CCT)), and offered in 13 different optical distributions, providing versatility for every outdoor need, including street lighting, area/site, floodlighting, wall mount, parking garage, canopy and pathway solutions.

Lunera Lighting Introduced the 6460 SERIES - The World's First Direct/Indirect LED Luminaire

Oct 12, 2011 Lunera(R) Lighting, Inc., a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, has introduced the 6460 SERIES, the world's first direct/indirect linear suspended LED luminaire. The 6460 SERIES distributes light 70% directly down to the workspace and 30% indirectly upward to the ceiling. The unique optical design eliminates hot spots and creates very uniform illumination of the ceiling. Designed for 16 foot center-on-center spacing, the 6460 SERIES can be joined into dramatic, continuous runs. The fixture serves a variety of commercial applications including; offices, classrooms, retail spaces, healthcare, and data centers.

OSRAM SYLVANIA Launched Omni-Directional and LED BR Lamps

Oct 12, 2011 With the 2012 incandescent phase-out on the horizon, OSRAM SYLVANIA has expanded its ULTRA LED collection with the launch of new ULTRA LED omni-directional and ULTRA LED BR lamps. These two new LED lights are available on Menards store shelves and on Menards.com.

Anolis and Robe Promote LED Lighting Solutions at the designblok11 in Prague

Oct 12, 2011 Anolis and Robe exhibited at the designblok11 in Prague, a dynamic high profile expo highlighting creative ideas and innovative concepts across all areas of the design world – from street furniture to fashion, interiors to theatre sets, architecture to furniture. LED lighting solutions are offering excellent opportunities for designers in a variety of areas and Anolis and Robe presentations were extremely popular.

Lithonia Lighting Receives "Lighting for Tomorrow" Award

Oct 11, 2011 Acuity Brands, Inc., a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting, controls and daylighting solutions, announced that its new Lithonia Lighting® OLAW23 LED Area/Wall Light was honored as a recipient of a Lighting for Tomorrow Award at the annual American Lighting Association (“ALA”) Conference. Sponsored by the ALA, the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (“CEE”) and the Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (“UL”), the Lighting for Tomorrow competition annually challenges manufacturers to continuously improve their LED luminaire designs and recognizes the best-designed, most energy-efficient LED luminaires for residential applications. With award criteria including color appearance and rendering, illuminance, efficiency, aesthetics and style, the Lithonia Lighting OLAW23 LED Area/Wall Light was judged against 52 luminaire products from 22 manufacturers. The Lithonia Lighting product was one of six winning LED luminaires.

LED Prototype from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Achieves Record Efficacy

Oct 11, 2011 A red high-power LED has set a new efficiency record in an OSRAM Opto Semiconductors R&D lab with an electro-optical efficiency of 61 percent. The 1 mm2 chip housed on a laboratory package emits at a wavelength of 609 nm (λ-dom) and has achieved a record value of 201 lm/W at an operating current of 40 mA. At a typical operating current of 350 mA, its luminous efficacy is still an impressive 168 lm/W, which means that even at this high wattage more than half of the electrical energy is converted into light.

Release of Omnipar Retrofit Marks New Focus for Evluma

Oct 11, 2011 Evluma announced today the release of its new LED dimmable retrofit for Commercial and Industrial HID and incandescent recessed can lights. The Omnipar is a has a 15W-50W adjustable output, is designed with a medium base, and functions as a direct screw-in LED retrofit. The light output and energy consumption can be manually adjusted by the customer during installation. The ultimate result is a change to a more flexible lighting solution.

New Decor Line of LED Arrays Announced by Bridgelux

Oct 11, 2011 Bridgelux Inc., an innovator in LED lighting, today launched its Decor line of high color rendering index (CRI) LED arrays. The Decor LED line combines Bridgelux's own "industry-leading ES and award-winning RS array technology" for the best performance in retail, hospitality, museum, and high-end architectural lighting applications.

LG Revealed World’s Greenest LCD TV With Vertical Single-Side LED Bulbs

Oct 11, 2011 It has been reported that over the weekend the new 47-inch LED-backlit LCD TV panel has been released by LG Display. According to LG the new TV panel has “the world’s lowest power consumption rate among large LCD panels”.

New 360° LED Beacon Light from Magnalight

Oct 11, 2011 Larson Electronics' Magnalight has announced the addition of an LED beacon light designed to provide 360° of superior signal generation. The new LEDB-4 LED Beacon provides a full 360 degrees of visibility with 18 integrated LEDs and a specially designed Fresnel lens. Designed to be permanently mounted, this unit includes the necessary mounting hardware to help make installation simple and fast.