South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has begun mass producing a new mid-power LED package, the LM301B (with samples available now), featuring what is claimed to be the industry’s highest luminous efficacy of 220 lumens per watt. ...
LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has has introduced the LUXEON SunPlus Series, its first line of purpose-built LEDs that provide the exact wavelengths of light required for horticulture applications. Based on the rapidly expanding ...
Building on the new commitments to the Global Lighting Challenge announced in early June during the Clean Energy Ministerial, the US Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing funding for nine research and development projects that will ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has unveiled new Quantum Colors conversion technology – developed in part in the SSL4EU and Hi-Q-LED projects funded by the European Union (EU) and the German Ministry of Education ...
Tags: Backlighting LEDs, Osram
The new Quantum Colors conversion technology from Osram Opto Semiconductors will set new standards in LED backlighting for TV displays as it offers much better coverage of the color space, significant cost savings compared with conventional ...
Tags: Osram, LED TV Backlight
Dwindling profits in the LED package market has made market competitions far more ferocious, and has even affected phosphor, a key LED material. Whether it is the highly mature yellow powder or the maturing green and red phosphor, ...
Tags: Bree Optronics, LED phosphor, Chinese Market
In general, LED Manufacturers performed quite well over the past eight months in 2015. But competition among LED manufacturers intensified through price wars, patent disputes and fighting over distribution channel were overwhelming. A ...
Intematix brought legal action in the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Korean Intellectual Property Office on September 7, 2012 to invalidate the patent, but on April 30, 2013, the Tribunal dismissed the claim and ruled that the ...
Tags: Intellectual Property Tribunal, patent, patent infringement litigation
The maturing of the LED lighting application market has not only seen LED manufacturers aggressively increasing LED luminosity, but also gradually placing more and more attention on the importance in color rendering performance for LED ...
Tags: LED Color Rendering, Lighting
A violet LED combined with red, green, and blue phosphors yields a lamp that Verbatim says will render fine details and color nuances in objects better than other white-LED approaches. Verbatim has introduced the VxRGB Vivid Vision MR16 ...
Last year, Panasonic's VT50-series plasma TVs were the favorite TV sets among many of our testers and editors, thanks to excellent picture quality, deep, inky blacks, and very accurate colors. They also had the typical plasma ...
In the patent lawsuit in Korea at the Seoul Central District Court which Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (“MCC”) filed against a US company, Intematix Corporation (“Intematix”) and a Korean distributor, GVP, claiming ...
Tags: Red Phosphor, LED, lighting equipment
Mitsubishi Chemical plans to seek for Chinese companies, to contract for its production of LED Phosphor in 2013. And the output of fluorescent powder is expected to be twice as current. The Japanese company holds 50%-80% global market ...
Tags: Mitsubishi Chemical, LED Phosphor, fluorescent powder, red phosphor
The patent was allowed in August and officially issued September 25. Intematix's U.S.Patent No.8,274,215,entitled"Nitride-based Red Phosphors"is the 18th U.S.patent issued to Intematix in the area of LED phosphors and the 71st U.S Patent ...
Tags: Lights, Patent, Lighting, Red Phosphors
Intematix expects issuance of the patent by the end of the year. Intematix's patent application number 12/632,550,entitled"Nitride-based Red Phosphors"is expected to be the 18th U.S.patent issued to Intematix in the area of LED phosphors ...