LED chipmaker Epistar Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan and Intermolecular Inc of San Jose, CA, USA have signed a multi-year extension of their existing collaborative development program (CDP) and royalty-bearing IP licensing agreement of April 2013 ...
Tags: Intermolecular Epistar LEDs, LED
Ford Motor Company says that its completely redesigned 2015-model Ford F-150, which debuted at the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit (for sale in late 2014), is the world's first pickup truck on the market to feature a ...
Tags: Osram, Automotive LED lighting, LED, Headlamp, LED Forward Lighting
The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released Report 20.2, which is part of a series of investigations on LED PAR38 lamps. Report 20.2 focuses on dimming, flicker, and power quality characteristics evaluated with a single ...
Tags: certification, Lights, Lighting
Citing a source from Panasonic invested company Idemitsu Kosan, the report noted lower profitability in the OLED sector was the main reason behind Panasonic’s withdrawal from the OLED market. OLED related businesses will be dissolved ...
Tags: LED products, OLED Business, Panasonic
At the Light + Building 2014 tradefair in Frankfurt, Germany (30 March - 4 April), Lextar Electronics Corp of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan – founded in 2008 as a subsidiary of display panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) – has debuted ...
Lextar Electronics will debut a package-free "white chip" LED technology that features substrate-free flip chip and phosphor molding process, and can be fabricated by current SMT equipment. The white chip is a chip scale die without ...
Philips has announced that it has entered into a joint venture in Saudi Arabia, buying 51 per cent of General Lighting Company (GLC), a major lighting company in Saudi, for $235 million. Philips’ current lighting activities in the ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LED lighting, energy efficient lighting
The European Patent Office (EPO) has revealed that Philips filed the third largest number of patent applications in Europe in 2013. According to the organisation, Philips filed 1,839 patent applications, up 59 per cent compared to 2012 ...
Tags: lighting, LED products, Philips, patent
The battle is on to create an LED light source that replicates the dimming characteristics of halogen. Ben Cronin asks if Lucent's Ambience WarmDim comes close It would be an understatement to say there are parts of the?lighting market ...
Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has launched the LUXEON 3535 HV mid-power LED, which allows lighting manufacturers to design-in high-voltage drivers that are diminutive in size compared to standard drivers, enabling simplified design ...
Tags: mid-power LED, compact fixtures
26th February, the four days International LED exhibition, LED China 2014 was closed in Pazhou Pavilion. During the event, many LED companies showed their ultra huge LED display and their powerful strength to visitors. Most domestic leading ...
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As sleep disorders and energy costs rise, Uopia launches a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for a new kind of LED nightlight. What makes their nightlight different is that it feels and looks like a warm incandescent bulb while providing ...
February 24, 2014 Eaton’s Glenn Siegel (right) receives the Brand Leader award from Builder magazine, presented by Ed Kraft. The Halo product line has been recognized with this honor for 16 consecutive years. Power management ...
Tags: Lighting, Power management, LED, Brand Familiarity
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has introduced a range of LED components for use in advanced mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. The LEDs include two reflector-integrated flash LED packages - the 3432 1.8t ...
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has launched what it claims are the first high correlated color temperature ...
Tags: MR16 LED Lamps, LEDs