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LEDs Magazine Newsletter (14 October 2009)
[2009-10-15]
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LEDs Newsletter | October 14, 2009

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Next week, our email newsletter takes a break as our staff travel to San Diego to attend LEDs 2009.
Headline News
 Epistar and Lynk Labs sign equity investment & licensing agreement
Epistar, Taiwan’s largest LED chip maker, and Lynk Labs, the industry’s leading AC LED technology company, have entered into a strategic equity investment and licensing agreement to grow the AC LED market.
Dark-Sky says boo to blue light
The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) has put the red light on blue light, writes Brian Owen. A statement from the IDA says that the rapidly expanding use of bluish-white outdoor lighting threatens visibility at night and jeopardizes the nocturnal environment worldwide.
Zumtobel and Fraunhofer form Ledon OLEDs
The Zumtobel Group is teaming up with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to establish a joint venture for the development and production of OLED light modules.
Osram Sylvania LED lamp appears with rogue Lighting Facts label
Another LED lamp maker appears to have circumvented the correct procedure for obtaining a Lighting Facts label from the DOE.
Articles
High-efficiency lighting needs high-efficiency manufacturing
Modern LED manufacturing facilities benefit from sophisticated planning and design tools, and consideration of “reduce, re-use, and recycle” options, such as the conversion of existing semiconductor facilities. This enables projects to be completed faster, with minimized environmental impact, and with an improved bottom line, writes Don Carkner.
Fitted Target Efficacy metric promotes discussion
The FTE metric for outdoor luminaires was a major topic for discussion during a Webcast by the DOE’s Energy Star program, which is itself a target for the EPA, writes Brian Owen.
More Industry News
 Lemnis Lighting introduces dimmable 6W LED lamp
Newly introduced in the US, the 3000K Pharox60 has a color rendering index of 86 but produces only 336 lm.
Business Briefs: Cree, Micron, NCS Power, Indiana
Cree plans to add 275 manufacturing jobs in North Carolina this year, and Micron, NCS Power and Indianapolis will all benefit from stimulus funding.
Joint venture established for manufacture of glass lenses for LEDs
Essen, Germany-based Evonik Industries AG and Taipei, Taiwan-based Cristal Material Corporation have formed a new joint venture to manufacture high-quality glass lenses for next-generation LEDs, which will marketed under the Savosil™ brand.
Kyocera develops high-speed, high-resolution LED printhead
The SLH-Series LED printhead has achieved the world's fastest electrophotographic printing at 180m/min, and incorporates a newly developed high-intensity 1200dpi LED chip, that at 150 micro-watt (1mA drive current), produces four times more light than Kyocera's conventional models.
Application Stories
 Crown pub moves to LED lighting as part of Blue Sky overhaul
A pub in the UK has reduced its energy consumption by 30% following an overhaul by Blue Sky Energy Solutions, which involved a switch to LED lighting inside and out.
Highway service area in Germany receives LED Lighting
With the first highway service area equipped with brilliant modern LED lighting at the A24 in Walsleben the Federal Ministry of Traffic is setting international standards.
Kingsun LED street light retrofit project in Zhongshan
This high-power LED street light retrofit project builds on the one of main road . This Main Road have In Zhongshan City, Kingsun has replaced the original 250 HPS lights with high-power LED street lights over 40 kilometers. The road has 6 lanes and the original poles are 11 meters high and 33 meters apart.
Philips revitalizes historic Massachusetts church with LEDs
LED lighting systems with a color temperature of 4000K save energy but also require no maintenance on the difficult-to-reach church steeple.
Products
 Opto Diode introduces new 99-die LED
Opto Diode Corporation has introduced a new 99 Die LED array product line featuring excellent thermal conductivity, a 110-degree beam angle and a wide range of wavelengths from 405 nm to 870 nm.
Cree announces commercial availability of XLamp XP-G LED
Cree, Inc. has announced the commercial availability of the XLamp® XP-G LED, the industry’s brightest and most efficient lighting-class LED. The XP-G LED can produce up to 367 lumens when driven at 1A, at a typical efficacy of 111 lumens per watt.
Gigahertz-Optik unveils BTS256 LED spectrolightmeter
Gigahertz-Optik’s hand-held BTS256-LED is designed to measure luminous flux or illuminance, color data and spectral distribution of PC-board-mounted LEDs, discrete LEDs within a module, miniature lamps, endoscopes and any narrow-beam-emitting light source.
Osram Stack Dragon doubles IR LED power in a compact package
The new infrared Platinum Stack Dragon from Osram Opto Semiconductors provides high optical output from a small surface area, creating an ideal high-radiance solution for automotive, industrial and consumer applications where space is limited.









 

 

 

 
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