At the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara (1-3 March), SoraaLaser of Goleta, CA, USA (which is commercializing visible laser light sources for display, automotive and specialty applications) is presenting its light source ...
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The 2013 winners in the outdoor category of the Next Generation LuminairesTM Solid-State Lighting Design Competition were announced at the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, CA. Sponsored by DOE, the Illuminating Engineering ...
While SSL experts regularly project the demise of the lightbulb form, the popularity of stories focused on LED-based lamps with our readers make it clear that today it remains a very hot topic, outpacing even packaged LED stories. As 2013 ...
GE Lighting supplied Iberia LED fixtures to the ecotourism-centric Chinese island, while Leicester, UK, Melbourne, FL, and Long Beach, CA move forward with interesting projects. Gulangyu Island in China's Xiamen district hopes to reduce ...
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Looking back at the first three months of this year, lighting giant Philips has recorded earning results that show a 38 per cent boost in LED sales for the period when compared to the first quarter of last year. The energy-efficient bulbs ...
Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has just announced the winners of the fifth annual Next Generation Luminaires™ (NGL) 2012 Outdoor Lighting Competition. The competition includes 120 outdoor lighting entries from 42 ...
Tags: LED outdoor, lighting, LED street lights
The US DOE, the IES, and the IALD used LEDucation 7 as a stage to announce that 28 products were recognized as winners in the 2013 Next Generation Luminaires indoor SSL design competition with three of those luminaires also selected as Best ...
SEMI's HB-LED Standards Committee has approved its first standard, specifying sapphire wafers used in making high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) devices. Sapphire wafers are used in producing HB-LED devices for multiple ...
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Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity. According to the SEMI LED/Opto Fab Forecast, spending on LED fab manufacturing ...
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Ikon Semiconductor and Texas Instruments introduced new SSL driver ICs designed specifically for retrofit lamp applications at the Strategies in Light conference. Although socket saturation will come in LED-based retrofit lamps as we ...
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Further demonstrating the extent to which domestic and commercial property-owners are recognising the benefits of energy-saving, cost-efficient LED lights, general lighting has - for the very first time - become the primary market for ...
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Cree has achieved an industry-best efficacy record of 276 lumens per watt for a white power LED. The figure, exceeds the LED manufacturer’s previous industry record of 254 lm/W, and was reached at a correlated colour temperature of ...
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Highlighting the Plenary session at the Strategies in Light conference, Ella Shum and Vrinda Bhandarkar of Strategies Unlimited reported on the 2012 market for packaged LEDs and SSL products. For the first time in 2012, general lighting ...
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At the Strategies in Light conference, a US Department of Energy representative said that later this year manufacturers can get Lighting Facts Label recognition for all members of a product family, while only fully testing one product. In ...
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Philips Lumileds has reentered the market for blue LED die at SIL and also announced an expansion of the Luxeon S family of multi-emitter packaged LEDs at the Strategies in Light conference. Philips Lumileds has announced the ...
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