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| Osram opens OLED pilot-production facility in Germany 31 Aug |
| Citing an initial investment of 20 million Euros, Osram announced that it has opened a pilot-production line for the manufacture of organic LEDs in Regensburg, Germany. |
| Veeco opens tech center in Taiwan, Epistar qualifies Veeco’s MOCVD tool 31 Aug |
| Veeco Instruments opened its Taiwan Technology Center in Hsinchu, close to several customers including Epistar, an HB LED manufacturer that recently qualified Veeco’s MaxBright multi-reactor MOCVD system for high-volume production. |
| Taiwan Trade Centre organizes LED lighting showcase for UK 30 Aug |
| An event hosted in a London gallery will showcase LED lighting products from Taiwan, focusing on how the products combine with modern art, decoration, and everyday life. |
| LSG and Dixon Technologies to offer low-cost LED lamp in India 30 Aug |
| To be priced at less than $15, the Definity 60W-equivalent replacement lamp will be jointly manufactured by Lighting Science Group and electronics manufacturer Dixon Technologies, first targeting the LED lighting market in India beginning year-end 2011. |
| Street lighting market is $327 million and growing, says Strategies Unlimited 25 Aug |
| The market for street lights is growing and dynamic, fueled by quality luminaires and a city’s ability to reduce operating costs. But all is not rosy in the street lighting market worldwide, as is documented in a new report from Strategies Unlimited. |
| Osram files LED IP complaint against Samsung and LG in Korea, Samsung responds 23 Aug |
| The LED-centric patent fight between Osram and Korea-based LG and Samsung escalates with new complaints and counter moves. |
| LED Industry News: Rubicon, Relume, Aurora Lighting, DLP 23 Aug |
| Rubicon Technology has the capability to produce 8-inch sapphire wafers at all its facilities; Fourteen Relume outdoor products were recognized by IDA; Aurora Lighting purchased an integrated sphere from Pro-Lite and startup DLP raised over $1 million. |
| Angel investor secures $1 million funding for startup DLP 23 Aug |
| Angel investor Braveheart Investment Group secured over $1 million in new funding for Design LED Products, a provider of LCD backlights. |
| Osram IPO threatened by economic woes and LED slowdown 23 Aug |
| Siemens has planned to take its lighting subsidiary Osram public in a fall IPO, but bad news in financial markets and slower than expected LED sales could change those plans. |
| Commentary: Cree acquires Ruud Lighting and BetaLED subsidiary 19 Aug |
| The acquisition of a strong LED lighting company is intended to help Cree drive the market adoption of LEDs. LEDs Magazine discussed the deal with Cree’s CEO, Chuck Swoboda.
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| Cree acquires lighting manufacturer Ruud and BetaLED subsidary 17 Aug |
| Cree has acquired Ruud Lighting, including its specialist LED brand BetaLED, for $525 million and plans to operate the acquisition as a subsidiary of Cree Lighting. |
| Food displays in 800 Co-op stores get Nualight LED lighting 16 Aug |
| Nualight has signed a multi-million dollar deal to install LED lighting in the refrigerators and freezers of 800 Co-operative food stores in the UK. |
| Acuity Brands buys lighting-control specialist Horizon Control 16 Aug |
| Acuity will add to its long list of lighting brands with the cash acquisition of Horizon Control, a company that has focused on PC-based lighting-control systems. |
| LED Industry News: Lumenpulse, Labsphere, Stellarnet, Illumitex, and more 16 Aug |
| Lumenpulse has completed a new round of equity financing, Labsphere is collaborating with a Chinese test center, and Stellarnet is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Plus news from Illumitex, Mouser and Digi-key. |
| Bruker introduces dimensional metrology tool for PSS wafer production 15 Aug |
| The new Dimension Edge PSS atomic force microscope from Bruker Corporation delivers precise 3D profile information to control advanced patterned sapphire substrate processes for LED manufacturing. |
| Outdoor Lighting: De Pere tests LEDs on bridge, BetaLED lights airport 15 Aug |
| Port Columbus airport and the city of Pittsburg, CA install BetaLED SSL products, while the city of De Pere, WI tests LED lights from four vendors on the Claude Allouez Bridge. |
| DOE announces $12 million in 8th round funding of SSL R&D programs 12 Aug |
| With particular emphasis on meeting performance and cost targets of products for year 2020, two US DOE funding opportunities contain projects across the SSL spectrum – from LED substrate development to novel luminaire design to large-area OLEDs. |
| Translucent offers alternative path to GaN-on-silicon 11 Aug |
| A commercially available “virtual” GaN substrate provides a silicon wafer with engineered epitaxial layers upon which gallium nitride-based LEDs can be fabricated. |
| SEMI report projects incredible LED fab growth in China 11 Aug |
| This 38-page report forecasts that GaN epiwafer production capacity in China will grow 300 percent from 2010 to 2012. |
| Color LEDs enable architectural, entertainment, and horticultural applications 10 Aug |
| Philips Lumileds adds a deep-red LED to its Luxeon family, while Lebelight Technology claims new brightness record in green LEDs. |
| LEDs may have reached "tipping point" with electrical contractors 10 Aug |
| A survey of 700 readers of Electrical Contractor magazine showed a majority of contractors believe LEDs are either now ready to replace incandescent and fluorescent lamps or will be ready by the Fall of 2012. |
| Bridgelux hits 160 lm/W in lab with LEDs produced using GaN on silicon 09 Aug |
| Using gallium nitride on 8-in silicon wafers, Bridgelux is achieving LED efficacy in the lab on par with LEDs produced on sapphire or silicon-carbide wafers. |
| Cree announces blue LED and remote-phosphor licensing program 09 Aug |
| Royal Blue XLamp XT-E LED targets remote-phosphor SSL applications, and Cree is offering licenses for its remote phosphor-technology for ready usage by lamp and luminaire vendors. |
| GNC stores upgraded with Lighting Science Group’s LED lamps 08 Aug |
| The largest retailer of health and wellness products in North America, GNC, has installed LED lamps from Lighting Science Group in stores throughout the US and Canada. |
| Lunera offers leasing options, rebate locator for commercial builders 08 Aug |
| Designed to reduce the initial cost of LED lighting systems, Lunera introduced a leasing program that allow positive cash flow in the first year, and a rebate locator on its website tracks down local rebates. |
| Opinion: the L Prize and the LED lamp market 06 Aug |
| The award of the L Prize to Philips for its 60W-replacement LED lamp leaves a few unaddressed issues, writes TIM WHITAKER. |
| CELMA and ELC publish new documents on LEDs and lighting 05 Aug |
| Organizations representing the European lighting industry have published papers discussing LED-based lighting, and the EC is looking for a name for its upcoming Green Paper on SSL. |
| LED modules bring new light to Boise YMCA aquatic center 05 Aug |
| Custom LED retrofits from SimplyLEDs and Bridgelux rejuvenated a Boise, Idaho aquatic center while reducing energy usage by 80 percent. |
| Retail shoppers respond to lighting with superior color rendering 04 Aug |
| A recent study by an independent researcher evaluating the attention-grabbing potential of retail displays determined a correlation between color-rendering ability and lure-ability. |
| DOE announces that Philips has won the 60W-replacement-lamp L Prize (Updated) 03 Aug |
| After an 18-month evaluation process including field and lab testing, the DOE has announced that Philips Lighting North America has won the 60W-replacement-lamp category in the L Prize competition that’s focused on the development of energy-efficient SSL. |
| Philips wins L Prize for 60W-replacement LED lamp
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| Philips Lighting North America has won the 60W-replacement LED lamp category of the US Department of Energy’s L Prize competition.
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| Outdoor Lighting: LED Roadway wins Edmonton project, Kingsun supplies Shenzhen (Updated) 02 Aug |
| LED Roadway Lighting will supply 2580 SSL street lights to Edmonton, Canada, Kingsun Optoelectronic completes LED highway lighting project in Shenzhen, China, and Las Vegas and UK SSL updates. |
| McKinsey releases lighting market report 02 Aug |
| Based on a worldwide survey of lighting professionals and consumers, as well as other input factors, McKinsey has developed a lighting market model that estimates the size of the global lighting market through to 2020, differentiated by application, geography, and light-source technology. |
| ilumisys and LEDdynamics partner on LED fluorescent tube replacements 02 Aug |
| LEDdynamics has licensed technology from ilumisys for LED fluorescent tube replacements. |
| Cree develops prototype LED lamp that delivers 152 lm/W 02 Aug |
| A proof-of-concept LED lamp produces 1330 lm while consuming 8.7W, and has a unique appearance. |
| Strong demand fuels expansions at Thermal Technology and EVG 01 Aug |
| Thermal Technology is tripling its manufacturing floor space to allow a ramp-up in production of sapphire-crystal growers, while EV Group is doubling its manufacturing area used to produce wafer bonders and lithography systems. |
