The UK's largest city will also get the country's largest deployment of LED street lights by 2016 aiming for 40% energy savings, while a project in Rhode Island may change the thinking in the US on lighting ownership, and North East ...
Tags: LED Street Light, Lights, Lighting
The 2014 grant opportunities include search for novel solutions in LED-based luminaires and lamps, SSL enabling materials and components, and system-level sensors and software. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced funding ...
Tags: LED-based luminaires, LED lamps
The UK-based semiconductor company says that it has doubled efficacy since shipping its first GaN-on-Si LEDs back in April, and that its roadmap includes eclipsing the efficacy advantage currently held by sapphire-based LEDs. Plessey has ...
Tags: MID-Power LED, LED Lighting
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has announced availability of its next-generation gallium nitride -on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) mid-power LEDs. The product family doubles the luminous efficacy of the firm’s first-generation MAGIC ...
Feit has already delivered a three-way 150W-equivalent LED lamp, through retailer Lowes, that utilizes the new Intematix optic, adding to lower-lumen packages announced earlier. Phosphor specialist Intematix has added to its ...
LED-based lighting will enable higher illuminance levels on iconic artwork in famed Rome cathedral while preserving the historically-significant work and utilizing 60% less energy. Osram's lighting business has announced that it will be ...
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A new methodology to design and manufacture optics for LED lighting was presented at the Bregenz, Austria LED professional Symposium and explained in detail in various workshops. LUXeXceL Group B.V., founded in 2009 and based in Goes, the ...
Tags: LED lighting, Luxexcel
Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, has been selected by the government of the city of Buenos Aires to renew its street lighting system with LED technology. Philips will replace the majority of the 125,000 existing street lights ...
The $99 ZigBee Light Link Development Kit can help SSL product development teams quickly get wireless-enabled LED lamps or luminaires to market that interoperate seamlessly with other ZigBee products. Texas Instruments (TI) has announced ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Zigbee Light Link
The Federal Trade Commision won a federal court ruling against Lights of America, while Intematix announces new green aluminate phosphor patents, and Veeco buys Synos to support OLED manufacturing. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ...
Tunable SSL can become a multibillion-Euro business and comprise as much as 7% of the lighting market, according to research by LightingEurope, the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (ZVEI), and A.T. Kearney. ...
The Providence VIP Club located in the Intermark development in Malaysia installed a dynamic OLED-based lighting scheme using 1680 Philips Lumiblade OLED tiles. SLT Asia has announced completion of the biggest OLED lighting project in ...
Tags: OLED Installation, Lighting
The US Department of Energy has published a new report that examines lifetime and reliability of SSL products and makes it clear that current standards fall short of providing an accepted way of defining system life. The solid-state ...
With the recent granting of four new patents, Albeo Technologies advances its strategy of LED fixture innovation. The new patents protect fundamental innovations in LED chip integration, fixture construction and electronic architecture that ...
Tags: LED Fixture Innovation
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 ...