Plessey is retrofitting its manufacturing facility with LED modules designed using the company's GaN-on-Silicon MaGIC LEDs. The retrofit involves replacing aging fluorescent tubes and compact fluorescent bulbs in existing fixtures to use ...
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In an internal memo, GE announced it will be discontinuing production of certain traditional lighting products including HID, incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps and other interactive or sensor embedded lighting products as of Jan. 1, ...
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The compact LGS 1000 goniophotometer system by Instrument Systems guarantees precise determination of the spatial radiation characteristics of Solid State Lighting (SSL) products as well as lamps and luminaires. In addition, energy ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that, in third-quarter 2014 China’s Suzhou Nanojoin Photonics Co Ltd ordered multiple TurboDisc MaxBright M metal-organic chemical vapor ...
The US Department of Energy concluded that all 38 models of PAR38 lamps tested surpass halogen lamps in terms of energy efficiency. Subjective testing of some models by IES members determined that single emitters performed best. The US ...
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In applications such as operating rooms, high-CRI SSL products render colors naturally for more accurate procedures, and the new Osram product also supports color tuning. Osram Opto Semiconductors has announced the Osram Ostar Medical LED ...
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Philips Lumileds Luxeon T/TX LEDs combined with an Intematix remote-phosphor optic deliver light source efficacy of 203 lm/W in an SSL module developed by the duo as a technology demonstration. Intematix has announced that one of its ...
Products with digital dimming technology and communications with switches and sensors with no new wires are realizable with the new Dialog Semiconductor SmarteXite family of Ledotron-compatible ICs. Dialog Semiconductor has announced the ...
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Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara say that they have discovered how to formulate LED phosphors for better efficiency, while Cree has announced a licensing agreement with NNCrystal covering remote phosphor IP. A ...
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The GaN-on-GaN LED specialist asserts that its LEDs don't radiate significant UV energy and that its MR16 retrofit lamps using the LEDs are being used in enclosed fixtures rated for 25,000 hours of use. Everyone seems to agree that ...
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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Combining an LED circuit board and an optical package, the FastFlex LED module enables rapid development of luminaires for high-output SSL products targeted at industrial or outdoor usage. Philips Lighting has announced the Gen2 FastFlex ...
The new Luxeon Q family is based on the company's flip-chip die announced back in February that, combined with new light extraction and conversion features, delivers high efficacy especially at high drive currents. Philips Lumileds has ...
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LED-based 60W-equivalent EnduraLED and AmbientLED lamps are recalled due to a lead wire in the housing that can potentially cause electrical shock danger to users. Philips Lighting and the Unites States Consumer Product Safety Commission ...
As early as 2011, the Municipal Solid-State Streetlighting Consortium (MSSLC) of US Department of Energy (DOE) has conducted a trial on nine SSL streetlights in Kansas City. Recently, DOE released a Gateway report in support of the result ...
Tags: LED Streetlights, HPS