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LED professional Newsletter (LpN)
May 15, 2012 - Regular News
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Greetings!
Welcome! I hope this newsletter finds you well.
Besides all the news from the past two weeks, we've also included the symposium program and the schedule for Wednesday, Sept. 26th.
Yours Sincerely,
Siegfried Luger
CEO, Luger Research e.U.
Publisher, LED professional
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 From metal sheet forming to optoelectronic systems: Luminaire manufacturing began soon after the production release of incandescent bulbs and since then has been linked to the peculiarities of the used light source. Read more »
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Technology & Product News
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 With its interface specifications, Zhaga makes it possible to develop interchangeable LED light sources. Menno Treffers, Secretary General of Zhaga, summarises the most important benefits as follows: Read more »
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As the LED market faces the challenges of softening demand, reduced government subsidies and rapidly declining pricing, manufacturers must investigate new techniques to improve cost structure. Most of the LEDs currently produced use a Gallium Nitride (GaN)-on-sapphire manufacturing process. The Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service (GaAs) viewpoint, "Compound Semiconductor Industry Review February 2012: Optoelectronics, Materials and Equipment," provides ... Read more »
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 GT Advanced Technologies will host a LED manufacturing symposium in Shanghai, China, May 9-10, 2012. The event will bring together a wide range of manufacturers from the LED value chain throughout Asia, from sapphire crystal growers to epi-wafer and LED device producers, to discuss the metrics that matter most in producing high yielding and high quality LEDs. Particular focus will be on the role that high quality sapphire material plays in driving downstream yield improvements and costs ... Read more »
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 Bridgelux, a leading developer and promoter of LED lighting technologies and solutions, and Toshiba Corporation, a world-leading semiconductor manufacturer, today announced that Bridgelux and Toshiba have achieved the industry's top class 8" GaN on Silicon LED chip emitting 614mW, <3.1V@350mA with 1.1mm square chip, just months after they have engaged in a joint collaborative agreement this year. Bridgelux and Toshiba will further accelerate their development efforts for LED chips, which have ... Read more »
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 NGK Insulators has announced it has developed gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that double luminous efficiency of a LED light source compared to conventional materials. Created with original liquid phase epitaxial growth technology, NGK's GaN wafer has low defect density and colorless transparency over the whole wafer surface. Read more »
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 Intematix Corporation, a leading innovator of patented phosphors and phosphor components for high-quality LED lighting, today announced the availability of ChromaLit™ Contour. Lighting manufacturers can implement ChromaLit Contour to produce 60, 75 and 100 watt-equivalent omni-directional light in an LED system. Intematix also offers A Lamp reference designs for these systems. Read more »
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 Adding to the performance and popularity of Everlight's 6.4W and 8W Chip-on-Board (COB) LED series, one of the highest CRI and highest efficiency COBs on the market, Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. announces the brand new and smaller C52 COB LED series which is perfectly suitable for directional and decorative applications such as MR lamps and P35 bulbs at LIGHTFAIR International 2012 in Las Vegas/USA. Read more »
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 The new Mini Zenigata arrays of type GW5BxxxK05 provide a luminous flux between 1150 and 1550 lm (typical) with a light output of up to 99 lm/W in standard operation. The new generation of the 15 W modules is specified for a forward voltage of 39 V with a constant current of 400 mA. However, you can also operate the 15 W arrays with increased constant current of up to 440 mA to achieve a luminous flux of up to 1,650 lm. The 48 dies of the Mini Zeni of type GW5BxRxxK05 are divided electronically ... Read more »
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 With the introduction of Airglow One, the Bremen-based company GT BiomeScilt managed its successful breakthrough in the development of energy-efficient LED light modules. Now for the first time, no additional driver is needed to operate the compact, patented LED modules in the Airglow One series. This results in the greatest possible design scope in the production and design of luminaires, together with clearly reduced costs. "Luminaire manufacturers will benefit greatly from this driverless ... Read more »
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 Cree, Inc. expands the recently launched 2000 and 3000 lumen LMH2 module family and delivers lighting manufacturers a new dome lens and universal driver with dimming options. The new lens enables up to a five percent increase in system efficacy compared to the standard lens and delivers an unrivalled hemispheric light pattern. Cree LMH2 modules enable true 50 watt and 70 watt ceramic metal halide LED replacements and support an expansive range of lighting applications, including downlights, ... Read more »
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 Advanced Lighting Technologies, Inc. (ALT) today announced a high-efficiency and highly reliable LED lamp driver solution (LED driver) comprising no bulky, unreliable components such as capacitors, coils or EMI filters. ALT''s ultra reliable "AC LED Light Engine"consists of an LED array and ALT's novel driver, requiring no other parts except two AC power wires. ALT's driver is compatible with all dimmers, is over 90% efficient, has a power factor greater than 0.95, and the entire driver can be ... Read more »
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 What if every light bulb had an Internet IP address? Since NXP Semiconductors N.V. first raised the question at LIGHTFAIR International (LFI) nearly one year ago, interest in IPv6-enabled smart lighting has soared. The potential energy and cost savings - as well as the comfort, convenience and lifestyle benefits for the consumer - have mobilized a growing ecosystem of innovators in lighting, connectivity, energy management and home automation to enable and support wirelessly controlled ... Read more »
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 Microsemi Corporation, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today unveiled a new dimmable LED driver module optimized for worldwide residential, commercial and industrial light fixtures. The 30 watt (W) LXMG221W-0700030-D0™ LED driver enables start up times of 150 milliseconds (ms) or faster, closely emulating the "lights-on" performance of a typical incandescent lamp. This is important for home and business applications ... Read more »
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 Molex Incorporated continues to support lighting designers and manufacturers with a broad portfolio of interconnect solutions for the solid state lighting market. Over the years, Molex has utilized its extensive resources and expertise to develop products that help advance LED technology by providing vital electrical connections for multiple applications. These products, as well as several new, innovative LED interconnect solutions will be showcased at LIGHTFAIR International, Booth 5937, May 9 ... Read more »
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 Blueboo always adhere to the concept of scientific and technological innovation to be a leader of overall solutions of LED lighting industry. It is proved that Blueboo continues to design and develop new products by scientific research team to bring more benefits for our partners and customers. Look! 15W AR111 with Cree XPG lamp beads is another new lighting product from Blueboo. Read more »
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 The Light Fair convention kicks off in Las Vegas this week so there will be any number of related announcements coming soon. Lighting giant Philips is starting things off early with the announcement of their 100W-equivalent LED bulb, the AmbientLED 23W. The model produces 1700 lumens, putting it at a very respectable 73.9 lm/W. Read more »
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 GE Lighting (NYSE: GE) this week will illuminate a light-emitting diode replacement for the 100-watt incandescent light bulb-developed in its East Cleveland, Ohio LED lab-that packages 27-watts of input power in a standard "A-19" bulb shape. The GE Energy Smart® 27-watt LED bulb incorporates proprietary synthetic jet technology that was enabled by GE's collaboration with ecomaginationSM Challenge winner Nuventix, creator of LED cooling technologies for energy-efficient lighting. Read more »
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 Soraa, the world's leading developer of GaN on GaN (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) solid-state lighting technology, today announced the launch of its VIVID LED MR16 lamp. The new product is the first full spectrum LED MR16 lamp with color quality and rendering superior to both traditional halogen and competitor LED lamps. With a CRI of 95 and R9 > 90, the VIVID LED MR16 is the highest output LED MR16 lamp with the best color performance available on the market today. Read more »
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 The growing demand for energy-efficient LED lighting solutions combined with increasingly stringent energy and building codes require an advanced level of lighting and control integration. Cree announces a first-of-its-kind agreement with Lutron Electronics to embed Lutron EcoSystem® technology on a chip in Cree® luminaires to accelerate LED adoption and increase energy efficiency for building designers, contractors and owners. Read more »
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 Lumenpulse Inc. (www.lumenpulse.com), a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, announced the availability of Lumentalk™, a patent-pending technology that enables digital control of LED lighting over existing AC power lines, maximizing cost and energy savings. Read more »
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White Papers & General News
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 "LED Lighting Technologies - Winning Approaches" in Austria on September 25 - 27. LpS 2012 is Europe's foremost LED lighting technology meeting point for lighting experts in industry and research. Read more...
 The ninth annual euroLED event will be held on the 13-14 June 2012. With over 100 exhibitors and 1,550 delegates in 2011 and an increased demand for 2012 we are expanding the ...
 Taiwan is the leading manufacturing base of global LED industry. Benefited by the strong demands of LED backlights for large size panels and lighting applications in 2010, the ...  LIGHTING WORLD 2012 in Vietnam is an essential exhibition for the lighting professionals. It is the only trade show in Vietnam where all kinds of lighting devices, lighting fixtures, bulb, ...
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