The Cree XT-E LED matches the widely-used XP-E LED in footprint and price while offering double the efficacy based on the company's newest SSL-centric silicon-carbide manufacturing platform. Cree has announced the XLamp XT-E LED family ...
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Audi has released a snippet of an advertisement that will run during Sunday’s Super Bowl game. It highlights the company’s distinct LED headlights. Audi has released a portion of its latest advertisement that demonstrates the ...
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The Michigan-based supplier of LED-based outdoor lighting will use the funds to build its sales and manufacturing infrastructure. Relume Technologies, an Oxford, Michigan-based manufacturer of LED products and smart-grid control systems for ...
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Electric utility Pepco provided free installation of the 174 Osram LED retrofit kits that have brought uniform SSL to historic bronze poles and cast-iron post-top lights that line the Mall from 3rd to 15 streets. A Monday, January 30 ...
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A two year study of LED-lighting on Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive in New York City reveals that SSL offers marginally lower lifecycle costs than the incumbent HPS lighting. A new US Department of Energy (DOE) report details the results of a ...
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Taiwan-based LED chipmakers Genesis Photonics and Formosa Epitaxy indicate that capacity utilization rates in first-quarter 2012 should be able to reach around 70-80%. In addition, shipments of TV backlights in the first quarter will ...
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The US DOE has published a report that estimates the broad deployment of LED lighting could reduce energy consumption by nearly half by 2030, assuming roadmap targets for performance and price can be met. The US Department of Energy (DOE) ...
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Both Gamma Scientific and Instrument Systems have introduced low-cost CCD array spectrometers, Instrument Systems has introduced a production source and measure unit for use in production spectral light testing of LEDs and wafers, and ...
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Sany Heavy Industry Co. (600031), headed by China’s richest man, and a partner will pay 360 million euros ($475 million) for concrete-pump maker Putzmeister Holding GmbH to add technology and expand overseas. The Chinese ...
The Solar Gen2 solar-powered LED-based street light is competitive with grid-based street lights and delivers 98% power-conversion efficiency from the photovoltaic cells to battery. At the recent CES show in Las Vegas, Philips Lighting and ...
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LED North America has turned the headquarters building for Outpost Solar in Pulaski, TN, into an all-LED facility. LED North America, an incubator facility for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak ...
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Philips' acquisition of Indal WRTL is complete, revenues have fallen for LED producers in Taiwan, High Tech Lights has moved, Dialight has doubled its LED-lighting revenues, Albermarle has formed a new metal-organics business unit, and ...
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The US Department of Energy has released a report describing the changes in the installed lighting market in the US over the last decade by technology and sector. The report indicates a 29% increase in average energy efficiency and a 14% ...
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Cree’s LED-component revenue fell in the last quarter compared with the previous year, and the company is delaying its conversion to 150-mm wafer manufacturing in order to increase its factory utilization rate. LED lighting ...
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Prototype LEDs fabricated from GaN-based layers grown on 150-mm-diameter silicon substrates are similar in performance to standard production devices grown on sapphire. Osram Opto Semiconductors has reported a set of R&D results from LEDs ...
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