Lighting Innovation - Dialog Semiconductor Introduces New smarteXite Technology Platform for Intelligent LED Lighting

Arno Grabher-Meyer and Siegfried Luger, both from LED professional, talked with Stefan Zudrell-Koch, Business Development Manager at Dialog Semiconductor, about their new technology platform.

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

Zhaga Publishes Book 7 and Book 8 Interface Specifications for LED Light Engines

Two more interface specifications for LED light engines have been published by the Zhaga Consortium. Zhaga is an international organization that is enabling the interchangeability of LED light sources made by different manufacturers. The interface specifications, designated Book 7 and Book 8, can now be downloaded from the Zhaga website.

Introducing the Extremely New LUXEON TX

For more information about LUXEON  TX, please visit the website at www.philipslumileds.com/LUXEONTX 

Cree's New XLamp CXA Family Members with a 68% Brighter LED Array Now Available from MSC

The two new Cree XLamp LED arrays for applications that require a very high light yield are characterized by a particularly long service life and low power consumption and can be purchased immediately at MSC. Read more »

Design LED Products to Launch Revolutionary Flexible LED Light Tile at Lux Live

Design LED Products is using Lux Live 2013 as the launch pad for its revolutionary flexible LED light tile technology, offering designers the opportunity to use light in new and unconventional ways. The highly efficient tiles can be designed to be modular and scalable and are ideal for uniform backlighting applications and directional lighting applications requiring low profile, curved or irregular shapes. Read more »

Intematix Announces Remote Phosphor LED Lighting Module Delivering 203 Lumens per Watt

Intematix Corporation, a leading manufacturer of phosphor solutions and Philips Lumileds, a leading LED supplier, today announced a remote phosphor-based LED lighting module with 203 lumens per watt efficacy. It is believed that this module represents the highest level of efficacy among LED-based light sources commercially available for production in the market today. Read more »

Mechatronix Launches ModuLED Xtra and IceLED Xtra

"The whole idea of developing the ModuLED Xtra and IceLED Xtra LED coolers was to create a limited number of products which fitted with all the newest LED modules and COB's which came on the market in the last year" according Ken Yang, Chief Designer at MechaTronix. Read more »

GlacialPower Announces Two New Wattage Drivers For 9 V-57 V Indoor LED Lighting

GlacialPower, a division of Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce two new GlacialPower LED drivers for constant voltage (CV) and constant current (CC) LED lights - GP-RS26P and GP-RS35P - available in several options ranging from 9 V DC to 57 V DC. The drivers are also available with a 3 in 1 dimming (1-10V/PWM/Resistor) function. Read more »

ILT Introduces New ILT950 / ILT950UV Portable Spectroradiometer Systems

New ILT950UV / improved ILT950 is now equipped with a higher pixel CCD array for improved performance including nearly 50% more sensitivity and higher S/N ratio increased from 200:1 to 300:1 with larger quantum well depth. This most cost-effective, fully integrated, CCD-based spectroradiometer family is available with ISO17025 accredited calibration. Read more »

Extended Driver Warranties from Harvard Engineering When Xicato LED Modules are Used

Xicato, a leading developer of superior light quality from LED modules, announced today that Harvard Engineering will now offer extended 5 year warranties on its LED drivers used with Xicato based luminaries that are thermally validated by Xicato. Luminaire Thermal Validation is a complimentary program offered to Xicato's customers. Validated luminaires already receive the industry's only 5 year color consistency and lumen maintenance warranty from Xicato and backed by Munich Re. This system ... Read more »

Saelig Announces Availability of Portable Lab-Grade Precision Spectrometer

Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced the GL Spectis 5.0 Touch - a state-of-the-art portable instrument for obtaining light measurement data ranging from NIR to UV with laboratory accuracy. Each GL Spectis 5.0 Touch Spectrometer is individually calibrated to deliver precise, accurate, and quick results, making it ideal for measurements of light sources such as LEDs, LED assemblies, halogen and fluorescent lamps, photobiological safety lamps, and LCD displays, using a range of available optical ... Read more »