Certification bodies that must perform annual verification testing on Energy Star luminaires would be able to reuse test data from an LED or other light source that is used in multiple products in lamp or modular form. The EPA is now ...
Electron leakage causes efficiency drop, or what's known as droop, when LEDs are operated at higher drive currents according to a research group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. For more than a decade, the LED industry has sought to ...
Facebook turned on a key security feature by default on Wednesday that scrambles data sent by users to the company's servers, following similar moves in recent years by Web services such as Google and Twitter. Two years ago, the social ...
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Earnings trend underscores significant progress in corporate reorganization Revenue share of semiconductor-based products above 30 percent for the first time Osram raises earnings outlook slightly for current fiscal year Osram showed ...
Cree develops unique parking garage SSL products with a reflector and multiple lenses, while Acuity's Peerless brand introduces a new linear round LED fixture and GE Lighting goes away from a light guide for an entry-level planar fixture. ...
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Google has announced the company is in the process of migrating its SSL [Secure Sockets Layer] certificates from 1024-bit to 2048-bit levels of encryption. Google Identity Team's Tim Bray describes the decision as "part of our continuous ...
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Acuity has supplied LED streetlights to Chula Vista, CA while Ipswich, Australia retrofits streetlights, and Detroit installs SSL in airport parking garages; but citizens in Arlington, VA and Fairhope, AL aren't fully happy with LED ...
Sub-watt LEDs in 3014 and 3030 packages target general illumination and are based on the gallium-nitride-on-silicon technology developed by Toshiba and Bridgelux. Toshiba has announced two mid-power white LED families that are being ...
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The US Department of Energy has made slight revisions to the LED PAR38 L Prize competition including eased beam angle specs and requirements in the origin of components, and the agency announced a new OLED funding opportunity. The US ...
The 5630 mid-power LED now offers efficacy as high as 180 lm/W, and 1W operation in the 3030 LEDs promises to lower the cost of SSL products. Seoul Semiconductor has announced upgrades to its mid-power LED families both pushing efficacy ...
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In a trading update for first-half 201, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says it expects first-half performance to be ahead of market expectations, with revenue approaching £63m, EBITDA (earnings ...
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The maturing Bridgelux Vero COB LED family now features nominal efficacy up to 122 lm/W and Bridgelux offers the components in 2-and 3-step bins for SSL applications with tight color requirements. Bridgelux has announced that the Vero ...
Philips has reported second quarter sales growth of 3%, but much better results for LED and lighting, while Xicato has a new version of its remote-phosphor modules that render colors in a superior fashion. EpiLEDs buys new MOCVD reactors ...
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MaxLite has supplied LED canopy fixtures and wall packs to light two Allentown Parking Authority multi-deck garages, while also supplying SSL floodlights for a petrol station retrofit in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The Allentown Parking Authority ...
LED forecast plays down GaN-on-silicon impact 23 Jul 2013 Sapphire is set to remain the entrenched wafer technology for solid-state lighting, say analysts at Lux Research. Despite the transition of LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) ...