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Panels with LED Backlights Reached 10.6 Million Units in Q1'09

LED backlights are growing rapidly in large-area (10"+) TFT LCD displays. Panels with LED backlights reached 10.6 million units in Q1'09, up 63% Q/Q and 780% Y/Y, according to the latest DisplaySearch Quarterly LED Backlight Panel Shipment + Forecast Report.

14 Jun 2009

Flexible Solar Strips Light Up Campus Bus Shelter

There won't be anymore waiting in the dark at this campus bus shelter. New flexible solar cell technology developed by a group of engineering researchers at McMaster University has been installed to power lighting for night-time transit users.

12 Jun 2009

New, Simpler White LED Shows Promise as a More Efficient and Stable Source of Pure White Light

Researchers are reporting the first use of a fundamentally new approach in the quest to snare the Holy Grail of the lighting industry: An LED (light-emitting diode) - those ultra-efficient, long-lived light sources - that emits pure white light.

10 Jun 2009

New Report Predicts New Opportunities Rapidly Emerging in Conductive Coatings Market

A new report from NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm that tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets, predicts that new opportunities are rapidly emerging in the conductive coatings market as the result of new applications and novel materials.

10 Jun 2009

Sofi Solar Filter Satisfies the Most Rigorous Requirements

Global growth in solar energy production has boosted demand for photovoltaic applications and massively increased the related requirements. In response to the needs of this market of the future, Optics Balzers has developed interference filters satisfying the most rigorous customer-specific requirements, for example for sun simulators.

10 Jun 2009

QD Vision Awarded Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Contract

QD Vision, developer of nanotechnology-based products for lighting and displays, today announced it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the U.S. Army as part of its Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD).

9 Jun 2009

New Lighting Technologies Key Player in Energy Efficiency

A study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers argues that new lighting technologies can be a key player in the portfolio of strategies needed to promote energy efficiency and to help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.

9 Jun 2009

High-Brightness, Surface Mount LEDs Provide Excellent Color Uniformity

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (TAEC) has expanded its lineup of compact, high-efficiency white light emitting diodes (LEDs) with three devices in PLCC-2 packages in daylight (or cool) white and two warm whites. These white LEDs are among the brightest white LEDs in Toshiba's current LED product line in this form factor.

8 Jun 2009

PSE Distributed More Than 10 Million CFL Bulbs to 1 Million Electric Customers

Puget Sound Energy announced today that the utility has now distributed more than 10 million free and discounted compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs to its more than 1 million electric customers in Western Washington since the residential lighting program launched in 2002.

8 Jun 2009

I2C Programmable XRP7620 Enables Full Color Control in RGBW and RGBA LEDs for Color Mixing Applications

Exar Corporation (NASDAQ:EXAR) today announced the XRP7620, a 4 channel, I2C controlled LED driver with independent software adjustable channel current control.

8 Jun 2009