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| Energy Star Luminaires specification requires comments 15 Jun |
| Comments for the proposed Energy Star specifications for Luminaires are due later this month. |
| NIST develops CQS alternative to CRI for color quality specs
15 Jun |
| The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed the Color Quality Scale (CQS) that it believes will offer a superior indication of color quality compared to CRI specifications. |
| Intel executive to join stealth-mode LED lighting player Soraa 14 Jun |
| Eric Kim will join LED pioneers Shuji Nakamura and Stephen DenBaars at Khosla Ventures backed, GaN specialist Soraa. |
| Epistar expands with Huga investment and Win Semiconductor partnership 09 Jun |
| Epistar, already the largest LED chip manufacturer in Taiwan will take a stake in the second largest manufacturer Huga, and GaAs foundry Win Semiconductor will invest as well. |
| GE retrofit LED lamp wins Energy Saving Trust approval 08 Jun |
| A 4-watt, GU10 lamp from GE has become the first LED retrofit to be accredited by the Recommended scheme run by the UK's Energy Saving Trust. |
| Controls will compound the advantages of LEDs in street lighting 08 Jun |
| LED street lights designed for a long service life can be operated at reduced power levels and still deliver the needed light output, plus controls can dim or extinguish lights as appropriate. |
| Everlight, LG, and Amtran form LED packaging joint venture 08 Jun |
| A new packaging company will target the LED-backlit TV market, with operations based in JiangSu Province, China. |
| Langenegg municipality goes green with help of Ledon Lighting 07 Jun |
| Ledon supplies Langenegg with retrofit LED lamps at cost to help the municipality provide its citizens with the e5 Energy Box |
| DOE recommends new approach to LED luminaire lifetime ratings 07 Jun |
| Recognizing that catastrophic failure of electronics in an LED luminaire is a concern, the DOE recommends a new way to account for such failures in addition to the widely used L and B specifications. |
| Philips announces new Luxeon Rebel LEDs with narrowed bin distribution 02 Jun |
| New 2700K and 3000K white LEDs leverage Lumiramic phosphor technology and 80% of the emitter production falls within a 3 MacAdam ellipse area in the ANSI bin space. |
| Osram announces key changes in LED and lighting management positions 01 Jun |
| Tom Shottes takes over a new solid state lighting program at Osram Sylvania and Don Klase is now the head of Osram Opto Semiconductors Inc. |
| Ringdale and Sojitz partner on LED luminaires for the Japanese market 01 Jun |
| Sojitz Systems will manufacture and sell Ringdale's ActiveLED luminaires for applications including street lighting, building exteriors, warehouses, offices and retail spaces. |
| EPA will host Energy Star lighting Webinar on June 8 01 Jun |
| Web event presented by the US Environmental Protection Agency will examine the Energy Star Luminaires v1.0 specification. |
| Optiled and Sichuan Province partner on LED lighting manufacturing 28 May |
| Optiled LED lighting manufacturing plant will help Dujiangyan city of Sichuan Province in China recover economically from a devastating earthquake two years ago. |
| Strategies in Light China announced for May 2011 27 May |
| Pennwell has announced that Strategies in Light China will take place next year, joining events staged in the USA, Japan and Europe. |
| DOE announces funding opportunities, Caliper round 10 25 May |
| DOE is offering round 7 funding for solid-state lighting projects, and has released results for round 10 of its Caliper program. Plus news of upcoming events. |
| Novaled and Universal Display advance OLED lighting technology 24 May |
| Novaled announces a new top-emitting white OLED, while Universal Display receives $4 million from the DOE to build pilot OLED production line. |
| Cleantech reports lighting controls energy savings 24 May |
| Research reveals that lighting control schemes can reduce commercial building energy consumption 35% – 55 %, and technologies such as LED lighting could add to the savings. |
| Traxon and AGC Glass Europe agree to develop LEDs in glass 20 May |
| AGC’s Glassiled safety glass with embedded LEDs will be combined with LED color-mixing and control systems from Traxon. |
| Sharp to expand production of blue LED chips 19 May |
| Sharp will start production of blue LED chips at a second facility in Japan during 2010, boosting its production capacity to five billion units a year. |
| Greenlite runs a red light at Lightfair 17 May |
| A fake Lighting Facts label on an LED lamp displayed at Lightfair was caught by the DOE. |
| Lightfair announces Innovation Award winners 13 May |
| Bridgelux and Molex won the Most Innovative Product of the Year award, while Traxon and NXP also won prestigious awards for their LED-related products. |
| DOE releases more details on street lighting consortium plan 12 May |
| The DOE and PNNL held a webcast to discuss the initial steps and long-term goals for the newly formed DOE Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium. |
| EPA releases draft Energy Star requirements for Luminaires 11 May |
| EPA has unveiled its long-awaited Luminaires specification, which will eventually replace the existing Residential Light Fixtures (V4.2) and Solid State Lighting Luminaires (V1.1) specifications. |
| Cree LED luminaire breaks 100 lm/W barrier for indoor lighting 10 May |
| A new LED troffer is claimed to be the first indoor fixture to break the 100 lm/W barrier. Cree has also introduced a 5-year warranty on its fixtures, and introduced new directional lamps. |
| Philips Lumileds addresses LED array lifetime performance 06 May |
| A new white paper explains how luminaire manufacturers can analyze the true lifetime of their products. |
| Intematix stakes claim with a warm-white LED priced below 1 cent per lumen 04 May |
| Advancements in LED chips, phosphor and ceramic package deliver an aggregate efficiency gain that allows Intematix to break the 1-cent per lumen barrier for warm white LEDs and potentially open more applications to SSL. |
| Renaissance will demonstrate efficient liquid-phosphor approach to SSL 04 May |
| A tint-less liquid phosphor promises to deliver greater luminaire efficiency with a goal of exceeding 100 lm/W. |
| Live from Lightfair; coverage of next week's tradeshow 04 May |
| Osram Opto Semiconductors is covering Lightfair Intrenational via a Virtual Tradeshow website, while LEDs Magazine will publish its own Lightfair Daily. |
