UC Santa Barbara: Optimizing Phosphors Using Simple Guidelines Improves Efficiency of Solid-State Lighting

This illustration demonstrates how bright blue LED light, shone through its complementary yellow phosphor, yields white light

DOE Publishes Report on Color Stability of LED Lighting Products

Chromaticity over time for a subset of the lamps. When intermediate points are shown, the color shift appears unpredictable (a). Δu'v' for the best and worst performing lamps (b). Baseline and final (25,000-hour) chromaticity coordinates for each lamp sample (c). Initial and final chromaticity of lamps tested by CALiPER in 2008-2010 (d)

Los Alamos National Laboratory Announces Dramatic Improvements in QD Technology

Postdoctoral researcher Young-Shin Park characterizing emission spectra of LEDs in the Los Alamos National Laboratory optical laboratory. Inset: The quantum dot device structure shown with a transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of a cross-section of a real device

3rd International LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS 2013) - Event Video

LUXEON Q: Industry Standard 3535 Footprint Delivering Market Leading High Flux

LUXEON Q delivers superior performance in a high-power emitter that serves as a direct drop-in replacement for products that use the standard 3535 surface mount package. LUXEON Q is the first high-power LED based on LUXEON Flip Chip die, Philips Lumileds high performance Chip Scale Package (CSP) device architecture. Read more » 

SemiLEDs M63 RGBW LED - Ideal for Color Changing Applications

SemiLEDs M63 RGBW LED- red, green, blue and white LEDs in a single package, ideal for color changing applications where a high output intense light source is required, such as entertainment, stage and architectural lighting. SemiLEDs will exhibit at booth No. 8.A193 in Hall 8 in Interlight Moscow 2013.

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Philips Lumileds Boosts Efficiency and Lumen Density of their COB LEDs to be the Most Efficient on the Market

Just months after its market introduction, Philips Lumileds announces its LUXEON CoB arrays now provide +10% greater performance, extending their lead as the most efficient LED arrays on the market today. Read more »

Cree Again Extends XLamp CXA Family with a 68% Brighter LED Array

Cree, Inc. introduces two new XLamp® LED Arrays to enable high-lumen applications ranging from wallpacks to canopy lighting with one CXA LED family. The new CXA3590 LED Array delivers up to 16,225 lumens at 85°C, 68 percent more lumens compared to Cree's previous brightest array. The CXA3590 LED Array is the ideal light source to replace 250-watt metal halide (MH) fixtures-using 40 percent less power and designed to last twice as long. Read more »

Luminus to Launch XNOVA Brand COB LEDs

Luminus Devices, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lightera Corporation, will be launching its XNOVA line of high performance LEDs for professional and general lighting at the Hong Kong Lighting Fair, October 27-30, 2013. Read more »

TSMC Solid State Lighting Unveils TRx-series Light Module for Package-free PoD Applications

TSMC Solid State Lighting pioneered the package-free LED module with Phosphor-on-Die (PoD) technology in 2012. Again leading the industry, TSMC Solid State Lighting today announces its release of its first package-free PoD LED product, the "TRx-series" modules. The product will be launched at the 2013 Hong Kong Lighting Fair Autumn Edition, where a demonstration will be made. Read more »

Toshiba Launches Next-Generation GaN-on-Si White LEDs

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the first devices in its second generation of LETERASTM white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) fabricated using a gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) process. The 1W TL1F2 LEDs offer a cost-competitive alternative to current LED packages, allowing manufacturers of general purpose and industrial LED lighting to drive down costs. Read more »

Tridonic Adds Rectangular Version to LUREON REP OLED Product Series

LUREON REP Rectangular is Tridonic's latest addition to its OLED product series for professional lighting applications. This extremely low-profile light module measures 200 mm x 50 mm, provides uniform glare-free white light and offers high system efficiency and excellent colour rendering. Read more »

Inventronics Launches Family of 90-305Vac Input 42W Adjustable Constant Current Independent LED Drivers

Inventronics has announced the release of a broad array of 42W Adjustable constant current independent drivers for indoor LED lighting applications. The LUC-042SxxxDSW(SSW) series include 14 different models with output currents ranging from 350 to 2100mA. Regardless of the output current, each model offers a full load efficiency of 87-90%. These products all operate over a 90-305Vac input range and provide excellent power factor correction (0.96 at 120V and 0.95 at 220V). This new series is ... Read more »

Green Creative's New A19 and BR30 High CRI Lamps Meet the California Quality Specification

Green Creative LLC, the commercial grade LED lighting manufacturer announces the launch of its brand new Titanium LED Crisp Series 3.0 A19 13W and BR30 13W High CRI lamps that meet the California Quality Specification set forth by the California Energy Commission. With the release of these new lamps, Green Creative becomes one of the first companies to bring to market multiple products that satisfy the California Quality Specification requirements. Read more »

Roal Electronics Extends Power Range of the Award Winning Ozon Series LED Drivers

ROAL Electronics is launching a new, higher power Intelligent LED Driver series. The Ozone 150 W Series combines smart technology, space and energy savings, and user-managed flexibility into a super compact 150 W package. Read more »

Mean Well Extends Its PCD/PLD Series to Higher Wattages

After the launch of PCD/PLD-16/25 series, Mean Well further introduced higher wattage models of 40W/60W economical constant current LED power supplies with PFC function - the PCD/PLD-40/60 series. Among these, PCD-40/60 series are AC phase-cut dimming power supplies and are compatible with leading edge or trailing edge TRIAC dimmers and fulfill the AC dimming requirement in the LED lighting market. Featuring with 180~295VAC input range, PCD/PLD-40/60 provide 350~2400mA constant current single ... Read more »

Tridonic's TALEXXengine STARK NEW DLE - High Efficiency in a Compact Design

The new generation of TALEXXengine STARK NEW DLE light engines from Tridonic not only offers a boost in efficiency from 77 lm/W to 140 lm/W but the LED downlight module in the system has an exceptionally low profile of only 20 mm. An enlarged light emission surface with a diameter of 65 mm leads to lower luminance and makes it easier to reduce the glare from downlights. Lower UGR values (UGR = unified glare rating) can therefore be achieved and the quality of light improved as a result. Read more »