The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced to recall more than a half-million LED light bulbs of various brands on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Eight instances of the bulbs associated with visible smoke or fire have been reported. ...
After receiving 68 reports of LEDs overheating, including some that produced fire or smoke, the Lighting Science Group has recalled 554,000 lightbulbs sold under the brand names Definity, EcoSmart, Sylvania, and Westinghouse. Included in ...
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Pall Corp of Port Washington, NY, USA has introduced its Gaskleen High-Bright purifiers to remove molecular contaminants from ammonia used in the manufacture of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB-LEDs). According to the firm, the ...
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Taiwan-based LED packaging house Everlight Electronics has begun to tap the China market for its own-brand LED lighting products through setting up a marketing subsidiary in Shanghai in February 2013, eastern China, according to the ...
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Taiwan-based LED firms are optimistic about the commercialization of LED light bulbs in the US market, as Cree, an US-based LED firm, recently introduced a warm white 40W retrofit LED light bulb with a retail price of US$9.97/unit. In ...
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The 11.8m Euro pan-European project NEWLED (‘Nanostructured Efficient White LEDs based on short-period superlattices and quantum dots’) is aiming to develop a new generation of 50-60% energy-efficient white light-emitting LED ...
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While many people will now be familiar with the words 'energy-efficiency', 'cost-effectiveness' and 'return on investment' being batted back and forth when it comes to discussing the pros and cons of LED lighting, there may be other added ...
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Seven O-S-D product categories and device groups reached record-high sales in 2012 compared to 14 new records being set in 2011, according to data shown in the 2013 edition of IC Insights’ O-S-D Report, A Market Analysis and Forecast ...
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While the British weather still errs on the undecided as to what season we are approaching, the optimists among us can start to get excited that the sun is indeed putting his hat on and coming out to play rather soon. Therefore, what ...
North Lanarkshire Council in Scotland is taking the plunge by investing in a retrofit project of its street lighting in order to help the council slash more than £228,000 annually from its electricity bill. MacLean Electrical Group ...
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At the SEMICON China show in Shanghai next week (19-21 March), Shanghai-based dielectric and through-silicon via (TSV) etch tool supplier Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc (AMEC) is making its solid-state lighting (SSL) market debut ...
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NanoMarkets issued a new white paper on LED phosphors, "LED Lighting Driving Demand for New Phosphors," that covers the shifting use of phosphors, which modulate the light emitted by LEDs, from LCD backlighting to solid-state lighting. ...
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With increasing awareness of global climate change and the importance of energy conservation, more and more countries have launched LED lighting projects and subsidy policies. As a result, even though the growth of the LED market in 2012 ...
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Thomas Edison invented the first incandescent light bulb 130 years ago, which greatly contributed to the advancement of civilization. However, that technology is antiquated, economically inefficient to operate, and fragile. Fluorescent ...
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The way the world is lit up could be revolutionized by a new European-wide research project being led by the University of Dundee. The 11.8 million Euros NEWLED project aims to develop a new generation of white light-emitting LED lights, ...
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