Taiwan-based makers have hiked quotes for high energy conversion rate solar-grade wafers to about US$1 per wafer due to tight supplies, according to industry sources. Prices for a high-efficiency solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer ...
Tags: Silicon Wafer, Lighting, Solar-grade
While the indoor location market is relatively nascent, companies are already aggressively addressing next-generation, high accuracy (sub-5m) technologies to ensure they are best placed to dominate the emerging multi-billion dollar retail ...
Tags: LED Light, Visible Light
Edinburgh Council is spending £2.15 million on upgrading 6,000 street lights across the city, primarily using LED and PLL - outdoor long life fluorescent - technology. The upgrade follows the Council's White Light Pilot Project ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Street Lighting
Hundreds of Spar stores throughout the UK are converting their fluorescent lighting to LED fittings. The owners and operators of 130 Spar franchises in Northern Ireland and Scotland are installing the Nualight Blaze LED fixtures into ...
Europe has become an area where special IC´s and electronic applications are being developed and produced, such as Sensors, MEMS, vision applications, specific IC’s, etcetera, in particular for semiconductor, automotive and ...
Tags: special IC´s, electronic applications, TOWA Europe GmbH
Radiant Zemax, a leading provider of light and color test and measurement systems, announces the release the ProMetric I2, the newest member of its ProMetric I family of imaging colorimeters. Designed to meet the speed and throughput ...
New solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the US reached a record 4.2GW during 2013. Since 2012, the US market has grown 15%, making it the leading solar market outside the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, according to Solarbuzz. Solar PV ...
Tags: New solar photovoltaic, US market
Nearly 1,000 American Electric Lighting® Autobahn LED luminaires from Acuity Brands, Inc. were installed by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to address safety and maintenance challenges on a 19-mile stretch of Highway 98. ...
Tags: Autobahn LED luminaires, Acuity Brands, American Electric Lighting
As global environmental pollution escalates, the new generation lighting technology LED has become a major focus. LED replacement trend has been initiated as LED lighting efficiency and lifetime improves significantly, and has evident ...
Tags: LED Replacement Wave, Lighting
Australian designer Andy Zhou, a fresh 2013 graduate of Bachelors of Industrial Design at Monash University has introduced a flexible OLED luminaire that can be programmed to flex and display various lighting patterns. Below is a detailed ...
Tags: related applications, Andy Zhou, OLED luminaires, flexible
Apple has added a new patent to its flexible patent arsenal in Korea, according to a Patently Apple report. The report uncovered a discreetly filed patent under engineer member names, and noted as Apples patent lawsuits with Korean ...
Tags: Apple related applications, foldable device patent, Patently Apple, Korea
Safety concerns about an unlit stretch of the M65 have led to a local campaign to get the motorway's defunct road lights switched back on. Following a fatal crash in November, near junction 8 of the motorway, the local newspaper The ...
Tags: motorway, lights, switch off, road safety
LED lighting application is gradually maturing. In order to continue lowering costs for LED lighting products, there is a growing trend of manufacturers adopting High Voltage (HV) LEDs to simplify the power supply design. A large chunk of ...
Tags: HV LEDs, LED Lighting
Gross production of LED chips by domestic Chinese companies (listed companies with mainly Chinese investment backgrounds) was US $8.49 million (NT $255 million), a YoY increase of 17%, according to LEDinside. Rapid increase of penetration ...
Tags: LED Chip, Commercial Lighting
North American lighting leader OSRAM SYLVANIA today announced the SYLVANIA A-line low cost line-up of LED replacements for 40 and 60-watt incandescent bulbs now meet the strict energy efficiency and performance criteria established by the ...