Malaysian Companies Makes Strong Pitch At Frankfurt's Prestigious Lighting Show

Two Malaysian companies, which made a strong pitch at the recent Light and Building Trade Fair here, are confident that light emitting diodes (LEDs) is the answer to the world's requirement for energy savings lighting products. The 100 per cent export-oriented Penang-based company believes the market has been revolutionised by the proliferating use of LEDs. The fair is the world's largest trade show for lighting and building technology, showcased products that include lighting, electrical engineering, house and building automation and software.

Building A High Power LED That Remains Efficient: Study

At low power, commonly used LEDs are very efficient. However, when these same LEDs receive enough power to light a room, they lose a significant amount of efficiency, a term referred to as the “green gap” because the efficiency loss is most pronounced with green LEDs. According to a new online report published in Nano Letters, two engineers from the University of Michigan have modeled nanostructures with less width than a DNA strand capable of improving the efficiency of LEDs.

Silicone Materials Expand LED Lighting Design

Dow Corning introduced four optical silicone materials for LED lighting applications this week at the Light+Building show in Frankfurt, Germany. As LEDs continue to replace conventional light sources, lighting makers want to expand the variety of LED lamp and luminaire designs and speed up manufacturing. They are especially concerned with designing and manufacturing more cost-effective, efficient, and reliable products. Another major concern is designing lighting that appeals to consumers, not industrial users. One way to help in those efforts is developing materials that can be used in a wider range of designs, such as Dow Corning's optical moldable materials.

Dakota Digital LEDs For Your Impala

As you know, LEDs on most cars are starting to come standard, so it was only a matter of time before someone stepped up and provided LEDs for older vehicles. Fortunately for us, Dakota Digital had the foresight to invest into the Impala market and produce an LED line for most of the classic Impalas. If you don't know who Dakota Digital is, they are known in the aftermarket world for custom digital gauges and retro kits. When people hear about LED lights they assume that they are replacing the whole housing but the reality is Dakota Digital's LED lighting systems are engineered to utilize your existing wiring harness, taillight lens and assembly. The LED modules are included for both left and right rear brake lights. Dakota Digital taillights include the LED brake/taillight modules, wiring and moisture-resistant crimp-on connectors.

Go slow on LEDs while astronomers study impacts, costs

LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting has become more popular for its lower energy use and longevity — low-pressure sodium lights favored by astronomers last only four years vs. up to a decade for LEDs. And the city’s streetlight poles were not built to hold heavier low-pressure sodium and are starting to fail in high winds. But cost isn’t everything. Astronomers are worried that Flagstaff will see its low-glare lighting standards eroded by LEDs — the city even installed some LED streetlights on a test basis in 2012, to the surprise of local astronomers.

Spring Energy Fix: Lower Your Bills with LED Light Bulbs

Spring is here at last, bringing relief from a seemingly endless winter and the painfully high energy bills that went along with it. Not needing to turn on the heat due to warmer weather is a surefire way to bring down your energy costs. Another simple fix you might want to try this spring is upgrading your light bulbs. It’s probably one of the easiest things you can do to make your home more energy efficient, and reduce your utility bill each month for years to come. Your savings could add up to more than $100 a year—and really, it’s as easy as screwing in a light bulb.

Philips' New Clear LED Bulbs Look Just Like Incandescents

Despite being more energy-efficient and longer lasting, consumers keep finding excuses for wanting to stick with ancient incandescent lightbulbs. But with clear glass and a special LED lens that looks like a traditional filament, Philips' latest LED bulbs might finally convince those afraid of change. Not only do they look like incandescent bulbs before they're even turned on, the new clear LED bulbs also cast a warm 40-watt glow. So hidden behind a lampshade, since they're sized and shaped to be used anywhere, it's all but impossible to tell these use highly-efficient LEDs as their light source.

Soraa brings GaN-on-GaN LEDs to AR111 lamps

Soraa now offers an LED-based AR111 lamp family that delivers CRI Ra and R9 of 95 and has added MR16 lamps at 4000K and 5000K CCTs for applications such as jewelry retail lighting. Expanding beyond its MR16 base, Soraa has announced the LED AR111 retrofit lamp family based on the company's gallium-nitride-on-gallium-nitride (GaN-on-GaN) LEDs that deliver uniform energy across the human visual spectrum and a CRI of 95. The lamps debut at this week's EuroShop retail-oriented trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany. Meanwhile, the company also added to its Vivid 2 MR16 lamp family with 4000K- and 5000K-CCT lamps intended to displace ceramic metal halide (CMH) and halogen lighting in gemstone and other high-end retail settings.

Samsung introduces flip-chip mid-and high-power LEDs and COB module

Delivering on a new LED architecture first disclosed at the February Strategies in Light (SIL) conference in Santa Clara, California, Samsung has announced the LM131A mid-power LED family and the LH141A high-power LED family based on a flip-chip device architecture. The company also announced a new flip chip on module (FCOM) product that utilizes the new LEDs and that is designed for use in downlight applications. Meanwhile, the company also recently announced a large solid-state lighting (SSL) module family designed for planar lighting applications.

LG bets on an OLED lamp

Several companies offer smartphone-controlled LED light bulbs these days, but LG Electronics is trying to advance the state of lighting with another approach, too: an OLED table lamp. The Korean company, which already has a strong home-appliances business, unveiled its OLED Table Lamp on Monday at the Light+Building 2014 trade show in Frankfurt. Instead of using conventional light-emitting diodes (LEDs), its light source is the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology that can be formed into a sheet. The table lamp, like the company's new LED bulb, the Smart Lamp, has an LG app for iOS and Android that lets you control the bulb over Bluetooth. The app can adjust the lights to set modes for movies or reading, or dim gradually at night and turn on with an alarm.

Kota Kinabalu installs LED lights and builds solar lit bus stops

The state capital is moving towards becoming more energy efficient by switching to light emitting diodes (LEDs) for its street lights. The city had so far installed 360 LED lights at the recently opened bicycle and pedestrian lane at the scenic Likas Bay area, said mayor Datuk Abidin Madingkir. Another 76 street lights had also been installed at the city’s central business district and 30 more at other parts here, said Abidin at an Earth Hour gathering at the Tanjung Aru beach late Saturday.

Toshiba Launches Ultra-Small Chip Scale Package White LEDs for Lighting Applications

Toshiba Corporation announced the launch of ultra-small chip scale package white LEDs for lighting applications that can reduce the mounting area by 90% compared to conventional 3.0 x 1.4 mm package products. [1] The new TL1WK series will start sample shipment from April.
The new products utilize gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) process technology and a new process technology that fabricates the elements of a packaged LED on an 8-inch silicon wafer. The LEDs are the industry’s smallest in sub-watt class (1/4-1/2W) white LEDs[2], with a package size of just 0.65 x 0.65mm, but they achieve a luminous efficacy of 130lm/W[3] and superior heat dissipation. Using the new white LEDs makes it possible to achieve a narrow beam in small-size lighting equipments and can contribute to innovation in lighting design.
The new white LEDs will be showcased at “Light+Building”, a trade fair for lighting and architecture in Frankfurt, Germany from March 30 to April 4.

Abu Dhabi to build facilities for safe electric lamp disposal

Abu Dhabi will soon build facilities to ensure the safe disposal and recycling of all types of electric lamps. It is an important move as some types of electric lamps contain mercury that pollutes groundwater after being dumped in landfills. Tadweer, the Centre of Waste Management - Abu Dhabi, is working on the development of storage units and recycling facilities for electric lamps as part of the master plan for waste management in the emirate, a senior official told Gulf News.

Energy-efficient lighting: navigating the choice of halogen, CFLs and LEDs

In stores all over New Jersey, and probably across America, there is confusion in the lighting aisle. Some are wondering what happened to the 100-watt bulbs, and those who know are faced with far too many choices. For anyone who missed the news, 100-watt bulbs were phased out a little more than two years ago, and 75-watt bulbs were finished last year. In January, production and import of all 40- and 60-watt bulbs was called to an end in this nation.

LEDs Will Get Even More Efficient: Cree Passes 300 Lumens Per Watt

LED maker Cree announced that it had achieved a new record in terms of lighting efficiency, harvesting 303 lumens per watt from a white high power LED at room temperature.  This represents a 10% increase over last year’s record of 276 lumens per watt, also held by Cree. For comparison’s sake (though admittedly not a pefect example), the traditional 60 watt incandescent bulb (now essentially outlawed as a consequence of new lighting standards that took effect in January, and which utilized 95% of its energy to produce heat), typically yielded 750-1150 lumens, or between 12.5 and just over 19 lumens per watt.