The amount of lights in the average British home has doubled in the last decade, despite homes now being smaller than ever. The number of lights in the home has leapt from just 15 light sources in 2004 to more than 30 today as people ...
At the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2014 (27-30 October), Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA (a vertically integrated manufacturer of solid-state light sources for lighting applications) has debuted its new Vero Decor Series Class ...
Tags: Bridgelux LEDs, LED Arrays
The US Patent Office has issued US Patent No. 8,859,310 to Versatilis LLC of Winooski, VT, USA (a technology and business development firm that focuses on novel materials and processes for electro-optical devices, as well as extending its ...
Tags: US Patent, Semiconductor
Japanese scientists have developed an ultra-efficient flat light source that has the potential to be more efficient than the LED. In the Review of Scientific Instruments, scientists from Tohuko University in Japan describe the fabrication ...
Tags: Carbon Nanotube, LED
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 has been awarded to three scientists for their invention of blue LEDs. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura will share prize money of eight million kronor (0.7 million). In the early ...
Tags: Nobel Prize, LED Invention, Lighting
Sentry Electric, one of North America’s most experienced and knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor luminaires, announced that it has further enhanced its social media presence by creating a YouTube channel. Along with Sentry’s ...
Tags: Sentry Electric, YouTube Channel, Lighting
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has announced new psychophysical research proving that whiteness and color ...
Tags: Whiteness, Color Rendering, Electronics
DOE has published a new report forecasting the energy savings of LED white-light sources compared with conventional white-light sources. The sixth iteration of the Energy Savings Forecast of Solid-State Lighting in General Illumination ...
AFX, an industry leader in energy-efficient decorative lighting solutions has won the 2014 Lighting for Tomorrow award in the Decorative Lighting category with their Cortez LED Pendant. Equipped with a 30W 3000K LED module, the stylish ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LED, LED Pendant
Supported by favorable government policies China’s LED industry initiated a new round of financing during the first half of 2014, according to a Chinese-language report by Consumption Daily. Innovative technology and new products ...
Tags: LED Industry, LED market
Intematix Corporation, a leading manufacturer of phosphor solutions for LED lighting, has collaborated with SABIC's Innovative Plastics business to create the ChromaLit Linear - a state of the art LED offering developed for the lighting ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LED, LED energy source
Lextar Electronics Corp of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan (a vertically integrated manufacturer of high-brightness LED epitaxy, chips and packages, as well as smart lighting products) and LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of ...
Tags: Cree, Taiwanese LED Maker Lextar, Electrical
Which product ranges are selling well for manufacturers and why are specifiers buying them? Francis Pearce speaks with a selection of lighting manufacturers to get an idea of what's really going on in the lighting industry "Electric ...
The global LED materials market will grow from $5.01bn in 2013 to $11.71bn in 2018, according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan. As LEDs are rapidly taking the place of older, less durable and energy-efficient lighting technologies ...
Tags: LED market, LED Bulb, LED
Ushio Inc of Tokyo, Japan (which manufactures light sources including lamps, lasers and LEDs) says that its subsidiary Ushio Opto Semiconductors Inc (established in July) has agreed to acquire the LED, red, violet and part of the infrared ...