2014年4月9日星期三

they continue to enable new applications

Luminus says the SST-90 combines the benefits of high power and efficiency, enabling lighting fixture OEMs to replace bulbs and LED arrays with a single PhlatLight LED. For LED customers, this results in simplified designs, lower costs and faster time-to-market.Dave Sciabica, head of the Lighting Business Group at Luminus Devices notes that the SST-90 is a surface mount package in a form factor that OEMs are familiar with and use regularly. With the introduction of the SST-90, they continue to enable new applications that benefit from a highly efficient, high-brightness single light source.

The light emitting surface of the SST-90 is a single, monolithic die that is nine square millimeters in size. The SST-90 produces 1,000 lumens with 10 watts input (at 6,500K) and 2,250 lumens at its maximum rated drive current. PhlatLight LEDs are mercury-free and highly reliable and have a lifetime of 60,000 hours with lumen maintenance of greater than 70 percent. The SST-90 is ideally suited for general lighting applications, including architectural, retail and residential lighting as well as wide area street and parking lot lighting.

Luminus says the CST-90 white PhlatLight LED enables lighting fixture OEMs to replace bulbs and LED arrays with a single large, LED, resulting in simplified designs, lower costs and faster time-to-market. The PhlatLight CST-90 comes in a connectorized chip-on-board package with standard mounting features that make it easy to integrate and is simple to service and upgrade even after the fixture has been installed.Sciabica notes the CST-90 white PhlatLight LED offers excellent system flexibility, reliability and efficiency. With the introduction of the CST-90, Luminus is redefining solid-state lighting system design conventions by offering fixture designers a single light source alternative to common LED arrays.

The company has been a worldwide supplier of dependable

The injection molding system used by Elma allows quick and cost-effective modification of their LED and lightpipe products. Therefore, a wide range of sizes, colors, brightness, and options are available, even in small quantities. Standard color options include blue, red, and green. Customized colors are also available such as orange, amber and white. Most led high bay light designs are available in surface-mount or through-hole styles.The company has been a worldwide supplier of dependable, high performance products for over 35 years. Elma operates three facilities in the continental United States plus has locations in Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Israel.

Veeco Instruments has to restructure its MOCVD systems business, as the downturn continues to take its toll on the wider semiconductor industry. At Veeco Q4 earnings call, John Peeler, CEO of the company, has announced its MOCVD systems operation in New Jersey would be hit by the latest move. He said their MOCVD systems business would go to a fully outsourced model by the end of the year. He also outlined a number of wider measures to cut costs, including a 26% reduction in workforce. Veeco will employ less than 1000 employees by the end of 2009.

Demand for MOCVD and other epitaxy equipment, predominantly for HB LED and multi-junction solar cell fabrication, remained strong through the closing months of 2008, however. Korean LED maker LG Innotek ordered four of Veeco's K465 MOCVD tools, while another multi-system order was received from an unspecified maker of multi-junction solar cells. Of $110 million sales in the final quarter of 2008, LED and solar applications accounted for $37.6 million.Total equipment sales for LED and solar applications, which includes thermal sources for CIGS deposition, reached $166 million in 2008, representing 43% of overall Veeco sales and replacing data storage as Veeco's single biggest application market.Orders for LED and solar cell equipment also jumped 69% sequentially to $44 million in the last three months of 2008, helped substantially by the led high bay light. And although some LED manufacturers, particularly those in Taiwan, have delayed delivery of MOCVD equipment in recent weeks, Peeler does not believe that this will lead to substantial order cancellations.

2014年4月8日星期二

the increased demand for point to point indication

The company says its new ORCA product family is an expansion of its high power LEDs designed for use on standard printed circuit boards (PCBs) for LED indication. The new ORCA series replaces the Bivar MAKO product family and enhances its capabilities with greater luminous intensity, higher power efficiency and additional lens configurations while maintaining its industry standard 7.6 mm square package form factor.The new led high bay light series of Super Flux LEDs provides increased luminous intensity with higher current capability and greater power efficiency. The ORCA family is available in the standard colors of red, green, blue, yellow, and white and also includes three bi-color combinations and RGB. The red and yellow ORCAs are compatible with SAE and ECE color requirements making them ideal for automotive applications.

ORCA series lens geometries include dome, oval and flat to provide viewing angles of 30 degrees, 45 degrees, 80 degrees and wide 160 degrees. The operational life of the ORCA series is up to 100,000 hours when operated within specified limits. The 7.6 mm package is designed to withstand high levels of shock and vibration that would otherwise damage traditional LED packages and filament-based light sources.  Like all Bivar LEDs, the ORCA series of Super Flux LEDs is fully RoHS compliant.Bivar has established an industry-leading position as an innovator in optoelectronics and assembly hardware. Bivar’s LED and light pipe products meet the increased demand for point to point indication and address a growing range of industrial markets and applications. The company’s corporate headquarters are located in Southern California, with manufacturing in California, China and Taiwan. Bivar is widely supported by a highly qualified network of authorized representatives and distributors.

It’s known that Samsung and LG have launched their newest LED-backlit models at a price of under NT$60,000 per unit, in a bid to fuel consumer demand with such low prices. This is expected to create huge business potential for the upstream LED suppliers, like Epistar, in the near future. Institutional investors indicated that prices drops are gradually boosting popularity of LED-backlit LCD TVs worldwide. In comparison, an LED-backlit led high bay light TV generally uses over 1,000 LED chips, 10 times the amount for either a mobile phone or notebook PC. Based on the product’s 2% penetration rate in the global LCD TV market, there will be approximately 3 billion LED chips in demand this year.

2014年4月4日星期五

light bulb that would result in lower efficiency

Sunon LED indoor lighting cooling technology has a unique, patent blocking ring design. At the module’s ventilator inlet, a blocking ring that can control airflow and increase the speed of airflow is added. On the one hand, it can quickly bring hot air out, prevent hot air from flowing back to the light bulb to produce high temperature, and considerably increase cooling efficiency.Built on a patented loop design, the fan rotates clockwise to clean the led high bay light dust on the bulb at the moment it starts up. This is to avoid any dust - drawn into the fan during rotation - being blown into the cooling module and light bulb that would result in lower efficiency. After rotating clockwise for a few seconds, the fan automatically rotates counter-clockwise for cooling. This leading technology not only increases light bulb cooling efficiency; it also demonstrates Sunon’s outstanding achievement in prolonging the LED light bulb’s overall service life.

Sunon has devoted considerable amount of research time and effort to sound quality engineering. The firm also emphasizes the balance of sound quality and silence design, and thus Sunon fan products can be applied to digital families. Quality sound products like low-noise MagLev Motor Fan and Super Silence Fan all received high recognition from customers and are applied widely.LEDs are forecast for growth this year, given that almost all other components will suffer revenue contractions in 2009. Although a 2.9% increase is only a moderate rise by the standards of the semiconductor industry, any revenue growth at all this year will be a remarkable accomplishment. Several major semiconductor categories are expected to suffer revenue declines for the year.

LED market is expected to be a rare bright spot—no pun intended—in what is forecast to be an otherwise dismal year for the semiconductor industry in 2009, according to a recent report.Alfa–Zeta is a distribution company with 20 years’ experience in a number of markets. Marcin Krysiński, President of Alfa–Zeta, said this expansion of their product range fits very well into their development strategy, which is based on offering their customers state of the led high bay light products. IST’s portfolio of intellectual property guarantees rapid and long-lasting development of new products, as well as high quality technical support. They strongly believe that this co-operation will bring a new quality to our market.All three companies are leading suppliers of LED lighting solutions and have selected IST because of their innovative iDrive LED drivers and low carbon DL white LED lighting range.

2014年4月3日星期四

The new LED lights also offer better color

Swoboda says Cree introduced the first lighting class LEDs two years ago, then, “It took two years to get a reasonable number of their products into the market so you could go out and buy them.” Now, he says, the led high bay light advantages over both incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lighting are starting to pay off. He points out Incandescent bulbs are not at all efficient, they generate 95 percent heat and only 5 percent light, which is better than a gas lamp, but not efficient. A 12-watt LED is equivalent to a 65 watt incandescent bulb—an 85 percent energy savings.

On average in the United States, running a 65-watt light for 50,000 hours would cost $325 in electricity alone. Because the Cree LR6 LED uses only 12 watts, running the light for 50,000 hours will cost only $60 under the same scenario. And you would be changing incandescent bulbs in that period, because 50,000 hours is 50 times the life of a typical incandescent and five times that of a fluorescent lamp.The new LED lights also offer better color and half the energy use of fluorescent lighting, not to mention being much more environmentally friendly than fluorescents, which contain mercury. Swoboda admits it may take a while for consumers to adopt more expensive LED lighting, but larger government and business users see the value.

Cree recently announced two major government installations including an entire wing of the Pentagon. This isn’t something coming, it’s beginning now, Swoboda says, “with real products installed in real applications today. Anywhere you see a traditional light source, there is an opportunity for LED replacement. We should see the first LED automotive headlamps in a the next year or two. Manufacturers are already using them as accent lights and most interior lights are already LEDs. There’s also a big trend to use led high bay light in notebook computer screens. Apple Computer, for instance, recently said it will use LED backlighting exclusively as part of its green initiative.

2014年4月2日星期三

The order for LEDs used in signboards is also increasing

In addition, the company expects the new LED lights to continue working without failure for many years to come. DARPA's support was instrumental in accelerating this technology to allow them to help the Fleet reduce its maintenance woes and fuel costs while improving the sailor's visibility.Develops, manufactures and markets lighting systems for wide-ranging uses in both the general commercial and the pool and spa lighting markets. Energy Focus led high bay light systems offer energy savings, heat dissipation and maintenance cost benefits over conventional lighting for multiple applications. The Company's headquarters are located at 32000 Aurora Rd., Solon, Ohio. The Company has additional offices in California, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Lumens decided to keep its manufacturing line during year-end and a new year. Even on the Christmas day, it didn’t stop the manufacturing line. To meet the order, the company decided to operate the manufacturing line even during the lunatic New Year day, a traditional holiday in Korea. As the order reduced in the fourth quarter, its output has been slightly lowered. But, as panel makers focused on the LED BLUs as new products for the next year, the order has increased in December.Also, the order for LEDs used in keypads and camera flash of mobile phones which will be released in the first quarter of the next year. To meet the order, they have to run the manufacturing line without holidays. The order for LEDs used in signboards is also increasing.

Seoul Semiconductors run its manufacturing line on the next day of the Christmas day. The order has slightly reduced in December, compared with that of October and November. But, it still runs two shifts. Even during the holidays on New Year’s day and lunatic New Year’s day, it will run the manufacturing line.This year, it is likely to make a 15 year high by surpassing last year’s record of KRW 250.2 billion. In the upcoming year, the led high bay light market will be open with an explosive increase of demand. Also, the LED market for notebook BLUs will show a different atmosphere. Vice President Jung Dae-young at Seoul Semiconductors noted.

2014年4月1日星期二

the polarization of light for improved lighting technologies

The firm claims that over the next 10 years, savings of more than $1.8 trillion will eliminate the need to burn almost a billion barrels of oil in power plants that would otherwise produce 10 gigatons in the carbon dioxide emissions.Professor Jong Kyu Kim pointed out that such enormous savings will result from replacing 80 percent of traditional led high bay light with LEDs over the next 10 years. And besides replacement, there are also new capabilities possible in this lighting revolution—such as controlling the spectrum and spatial emission pattern, the polarization of the light and temporal modulation.

RPI's Smart Lighting Engineering Resource Center recently received $18.5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Together with Boston University and the University of New Mexico, the Smart Resource Center will, over the next five years, develop novel optical materials, new device technologies, and applications of smart lighting technologies.Kim and Schubert claim that the LED is to lighting technology, what the transistor was to the vacuum tube. Namely, transistors began as a simple replacement technology for vacuum tubes, but evolved into a revolution in IC. Likewise, they claim that the LED will begin as simple replacements, but will evolve into integrated lighting systems with functions as diverse as transistors have provided for ICs.

Simple replacement results in a 20-time savings in energy over of incandescent bulbs and a five-time savings when compared to compact fluorescent bulbs. Beyond replacements, however, LEDs promise to enable new applications that RPI's Smart Lighting Engineering Resource Center is concentrating on developing. The three top candidates being developed by RPI are: control of the light spectrum for medical applications, control of temporal modulation for wireless optical networking, and control of the polarization of led high bay light for improved lighting technologies.Spectrum control will enable lighting to change color during the day to positively influence the mood of workers, as well as cure some medical problems that are caused today by poor lighting conditions, according to RPI.