The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY) is proud to announce its versatile speaker line up and also notify attendees that event registration for “LEDucation 8” is officially open. As the premier lighting event ...
Tags: LED Technology, Lighting
Driven by surging demand from the lighting, tablet and cellphone backlighting segments, global revenue for gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) rose 10.6% from $11.2bn in 2012 to $12.4bn in 2013, but this could mark the last ...
Tags: GaN LED, LED Market
Researchers associated with Taiwan National Central University and Epistar Corp are developing a method to transfer indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to ceramic aluminium nitride (AlN) substrates for high-voltage ...
Tags: InGaN LED, Ceramic Substrate
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
University of Notre Dame (UND) is developing gallium nitride (GaN) quantum dots in aluminium nitride (AlN) as a route to deep ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jai Verma et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v104, p021105, 2014]. ...
Tags: UV Light Emission, LEDs
This year marks the 10th Annual Luminaire Design Competition for students enrolled in Designing with Light (DES 136 B) at the University of California, Davis. The competition gives students the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art ...
Tags: LED module, LEDs
Driven by surging demand from the lighting, tablet and mobile backlighting segments, global revenues for GaN LED climbed 10.6% in 2013, but this could mark the last hurrah for the era of double-digit dollar growth for the market, according ...
Tags: LED Revenues, Lighting
A monument to Thomas Edison, one of the inventors of the incandescent lamp, is to be lit with LEDs when it reopens after two years of renovations this summer. The 14-foot-tall glass replica incandescent lamp which sits atop the 118-foot ...
Fractals—patterns defined by their scale-invariance that makes them look the same on large scales as they do on small scales—are found in nature everywhere from snowflakes to broccoli to the beating of the heart. In a new study, ...
The retail sector has not yet taken up LED lighting in any significant amount, according to the latest research from BRE. BRE undertook a survey of retail lighting in the Watford area in 2011. It looked at shopping centres and retail ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, Lights=
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report that documents early challenges and lessons learned in the development of the SSL market. Entitled Solid-State Lighting: Early Lessons Learned on the Way to Market, it ...
Tags: led, energy, fluorescent lamps, CFLs
Streamlight is just one of the brands you know and you trust. You know you might pay a little more, but you get a lot better quality with their products. Well it would seem, but that was until I saw the reviews on Amazon. I can’t ...
Tags: Streamlight, Flashlight
Momentive Performance Materials Quartz Inc (MPM) has increased and expanded its manufacturing capacity of tantalum carbide coatings (TaC) in response to the growing demand for silicon carbide (SiC) power devices and the increased need for ...
Tokyo-based Nikkiso Co Ltd,which is developing and commercializing deep ultraviolet(UV)light-emitting diodes,says that it is establishing a new factory in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture.The firm aims to start production in mid-2014 and install ...
Tags: DUV LEDs, LED Production Plant, led
Philips’ lighting division achieved total sales of €8,442 million in 2013, with LEDs accounting for 34 per cent of overall lighting sales in the final quarter. Releasing its Q4 results, the Dutch manufacturing giant revealed ...
Tags: Philips, LED, Lighting division, Lumileds and Automotive