Marvell and Daintree Networks will partner to help drive ZigBee-enabled, intelligent SSL products into the commercial sector, and Marvell also announced that it is supplying the driver IC for Samsung Electronics LED retrofit lamps. ...
Plessey's first silicon-based LEDs are relatively-low-output designs targeting the indicator and control-panel-backlight market, but the company says it will quickly deliver LEDs for general-lighting applications. Plessey has announced ...
High-efficacy LEDs will target applications such as LED-based fluorescent-tube retrofit lamps, directional applications such as downlights, and Edison-base retrofit lamps. Samsung has reached the 160-lm/W efficacy level in a 5000K CCT ...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Seoul, South Korea has begun producing a new lineup of middle power LED packages, which the firm says offer the industry’s highest efficacy level. Ideal for LED lighting applications, including LED ...
Tags: Samsung, LED package, LED tubes
The California Energy Commission has worked with research originating at the California Lighting Technology Center to publish an LED lamp quality specification that SSL manufacturers will have to follow for products to qualify for utility ...
Tags: California Energy Commission, LED lamp, quality specification
Ikon Semiconductor and Texas Instruments introduced new SSL driver ICs designed specifically for retrofit lamp applications at the Strategies in Light conference. Although socket saturation will come in LED-based retrofit lamps as we ...
Tags: LED Lamp Driver, LED Lamp, LED
As the LED lighting market continues to flourish, Verbatim is rapidly introducing new high performance products to take advantage of this anticipated growth. Verbatim’s expansion into the LED sector represents the future for the ...
New compared to previous models is the round form of the light emitting surface (LES) of the new product generation of Sharp's Mini ZENIGATA LEDs. Due to their circular LES, modules of type GW6BxxxxHED have qualities similar to a ...
Tags: New Product News, lighting industry news, Mini Zenigata LEDs
Strategies Unlimited and Soraa have announced an SSL plugfest to test dimmer and transformer compatibility with 12- or 120-VAC MR16 LED lamps that will take place on the show floor at the Strategies in Light conference. The exhibits at ...
Tags: LED, Lamp, LED lamps, LED lighting
Sharp Microelectronics Europe has announced some new Mini Zenigata COB LEDs with higher forward voltage, and SSL evaluation kits for recently announced Mega Zenigata LEDs. Sharp Microelectronics continues to expand its packaged LED ...
A non-dimmable, single-stage architecture seeks to minimize the bill of materials for LED A-lamps, thereby opening the market to greater SSL adoption. Power IC specialist iWatt has introduced a single-stage LED driver IC that is ...
Tags: LED A-lamps, SSL adoption, lighting
A group of lighting designers and manufacturers, researchers, and utilities have joined to ask the EPA to recognize that higher-CRI lamps can increase energy savings through broader usage even with a slightly reduced efficacy specification. ...
Tags: Lighting Coalition, EPA, High CRI Lamps
The Consumer Electronics Show just completed its Las Vegas run and SSL technology was showcased in products ranging from the latest TVs to retrofit lamps, and adaptive controls were prevalent as well. The annual Consumer Electronics Show ...
Tags: CES, LED, TVs, retrofit lamps
Cree has launched a Driver Compatibility Program to support its SSL modular light engine business that will give luminaire developers greater choice in form factor and flexibility for different electrical systems around the globe, while ...
Tags: Cree, SSL modular light engine, LED
Future Lighting Solutions has signed a global LED distribution deal with LG Innotek, PhotonStar has raised funds and signed a licensing deal, Nichia has received a favorable patent-infringement judgment, and Martin Professional has been ...
Tags: Future Lighting, LG Innotek, Nichia, Martin, Lighting