Philips Lumileds has announced a 10–20% upgrade in flux output in the new Luxeon TX addition to the company's flagship high-efficacy LED targeted at the breadth of directional and omnidirectional SSL applications. Philips Lumileds ...
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The latest documents to be leaked via whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and GCHQ have tapped the communications networks of popular internet companies. "Top secret" documents published in the ...
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TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd and Xiamen Topstar Co., Ltd. will announce their strategic cooperation at the 2013 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition). Inaugurating the cooperation, a series of lighting products were ...
Tags: Package-Free Pod, Lighting
The Phosphor-on-Die LEDs are based on TSMC's LED flip-chip manufacturing platform and enable more dense packing of emitters in compact light sources such as MR16 lamps. TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd (NYSE: TSM) has announced the ...
In an effort to provide customers further flexibility and capabilities for managing their forklift fleet and operators, Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the world's largest material handling companies, has announced its Crown InfoLink ...
DOE's interactive solid-state lighting workshops create a crossroad for academia, industry, and government leaders to connect, share updates and diverse perspectives, and participate in shaping the future of lighting. Mark your calendars ...
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The global solid-state lighting (SSL) market is expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.7% from 2013 to $56.79bn in 2018, according to a new market research report 'Solid State Lighting Market by Types (LED, OLED, and ...
Tags: SSL LEDs, Electrical, Electronics, lighting
The $99 ZigBee Light Link Development Kit can help SSL product development teams quickly get wireless-enabled LED lamps or luminaires to market that interoperate seamlessly with other ZigBee products. Texas Instruments (TI) has announced ...
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The LMH2 product line allows SSL makers to deliver a broad range of lumen packages in the same luminaire housing and now offer products that dim from 2700K to 1800K to mimic halogen incandescent performance. Cree has announced what the ...
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The historic city of canals, piazzas, and bridges now saves over 80% in energy usage with SSL retrofits installed in the existing fixtures that also match the warm color temperature and light distribution of the legacy lighting. Venice, ...
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Control and dimming is an essential feature of many LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) systems. However, there has been a shortage of standards to ensure compatibility between dimmable LED light engines (LLEs) and phase-cut dimming ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently published its latest Solid State Lighting (SSL) Manufacturing R&D Roadmap for 2013. The Roadmap complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan that guides the Core and Product Development R&D ...
Cree announced a 7% gain in efficacy for its XP-G2 LED family while the company's lighting side achieved Energy Star compliance with retrofit lamps and won a Home Depot supplier award. Cree has now announced that its XLamp XP-G2 LEDs, ...
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The Zhaga Consortium has formally added requirements that LED light engines with integrated control gear support the NEMA SSL 7A-2013 dimming specification and also noted that socketable modules must meet new UL safety standards. The ...
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Opsira presented its Robogonio at the LED professional Symposium + Expo 2013 in Bregenz, Austria, demonstrating how the robot-goniometer can simplify luminous intensity distribution measurements. Luminous intensity distribution describes ...
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