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Zhaga | Book 25 | Smart Lighting | Sep 01, 2022
First Zhaga-NFC Programmable Devices Earn Certification
First Zhaga-NFC Programmable Devices Earn Certification The Zhaga specification Book 24 defines the programming of NFC-programmable luminaire components. Zhaga has also developed a corresponding Zhaga-NFC certification program for programmable luminaire components such as LED drivers. Tridonic is the first company that has earned Zhaga-NFC certification for a number of their LED drivers. Read more »
Cree LED | SSL | Featured | Sep 01, 2022
New XLamp® XP-G3 LEDs in 1800K CCT Alternative for HPS Lamps
New XLamp® XP-G3 LEDs in 1800K CCT Alternative for HPS Lamps Cree LED’s new XLamp® XP-G3 LEDs in 1800K CCT replicate the warm yellow glow of High Pressure Sodium lamps and are a viable lighting alternative to HPS with upside performance benefits of better system cost, higher CRI, higher LPW and positive environmental impact. Read more »
Alanod | Reflectors | Horticulture | Aug 31, 2022
Advanced Reflector Technologies Ensure Optimum Lighting in Greenhouses
Advanced Reflector Technologies Ensure Optimum Lighting in Greenhouses Plants require plenty of light to expedite growth and produce higher yields. The reflective surfaces MIRO and MIRO-SILVER GL from Alanod ensure that greenhouse lighting is concentrated and delivered precisely where it is most needed. In addition, the surfaces are specially designed to protect against harmful influences such as moisture in greenhouses. Read more »
Lumileds | Business | Aug 30, 2022
Lumileds Announces Agreement with Requisite Lenders on the Terms of a Comprehensive Financial Restructuring to Accelerate Long-Term Growth
Lumileds Announces Agreement with Requisite Lenders on the Terms of a Comprehensive Financial Restructuring to Accelerate Long-Term Growth Lumileds Holding B.V. (“Lumileds” or the “Company”), a global leader in innovative lighting solutions, announced that it has entered into a restructuring support agreement (the “RSA” or the “Agreement”) with its lenders holding a significant majority of the loans outstanding under its prepetition first lien debt facility on the terms of a comprehensive financial restructuring that would significantly de-leverage and strengthen its balance sheet by over $1.3 billion, accelerate Lumileds’ growth, and enable further investment in innovation to pursue additional strategic opportunities through the injection of up to $275 million of liquidity. Read more »
Lumileds | SSL | Aug 25, 2022
LUXEON HL1Z Outperforms Seemingly Brighter Competitors, and the Proof is in the Application
LUXEON HL1Z Outperforms Seemingly Brighter Competitors, and the Proof is in the Application Data sheets have long been the go to source for LED specifications and are broadly used to narrow options and ultimately select an LED for a particular application. Too often, however, factors not accounted for in the data sheet significantly affect the LED’s performance in the application and, in some cases, relying on data sheet specifications alone will lead to the wrong conclusion. LUXEON HL1Z, Lumileds newest high power LED offers the perfect example. Read more »
Nichia | Horticulture | Aug 24, 2022
Nichia Expands the Hortisolis LED Portfolio
Nichia Expands the Hortisolis LED Portfolio Nichia, the world’s largest LED manufacturer and inventor of high-brightness blue and white LEDs, is pleased to announce additions to the Hortisolis* portfolio dedicated to plant growth. Read more »
microLEDs | Trends | Aug 16, 2022
MicroLED Devices with Integrated Micro-lenses
MicroLED Devices with Integrated Micro-lenses MICLEDI Microdisplays, a leading developer of microLED displays for Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, announced today the industry’s first microLED devices with integrated micro-lenses for pixel level beam shaping, manufactured in the company’s proprietary 300mm manufacturing flow. Read more »
Signify | A-class LED Tube | SSL | Aug 13, 2022
A New A-class LED Tube: An Innovative Solution for Rising Energy Prices
A New A-class LED Tube: An Innovative Solution for Rising Energy Prices Signify has expanded its Ultra Efficient product lineup with its most energy-efficient LED tube to date. Thanks to its high efficacy, the Philips MASTER LEDtube UE can help customers tackle the global energy crisis, mounting pressure to lower carbon footprints, and stricter EU regulation. Read more »
Lumenpulse | Appointments | Aug 13, 2022
Lumenpulse Brand Appoints Peter Timotheatos as President
Lumenpulse Brand Appoints Peter Timotheatos as President August 10th marks a very exciting milestone for Lumenpulse; they are pleased to announce the details of an internal reorganisation, with the appointment of Peter Timotheatos as President of Lumenpulse, effective immediately. He will continue to report to François-Xavier Souvay, Founder, President, and CEO of LMPG (formerly known as Lumenpulse Group). Read more »
Tridonic | LED Drivers | Smart Lighting | Aug 04, 2022
Tridonic LED Drivers Receive Zhaga Book 24 Certification
Tridonic LED Drivers Receive Zhaga Book 24 Certification There are currently many different programming methods used to configure the operating features of LED drivers in luminaires. With Book 24, the Zhaga Consortium has standardised a wireless, digital programming approach using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. Tridonic has developed LED drivers that are now the first devices to be certified by Zhaga in accordance with Book 24 (also known as Zhaga NFC programming). Using NFC to program lighting components makes on-site commissioning much easier. Read more »
CIE Report | Spectroradiomentry | Instrument Systems | Business | Jul 28, 2022
New CIE Report on Spectroradiometry
New CIE Report on Spectroradiometry Under the scientific direction of Instrument Systems, the Technical Committee TC2-80 of the CIE has prepared a new technical report on the spectroradiometric measurement of optical radiation sources. Read more »
AIXTRON | Business | Jul 28, 2022
AIXTRON – Financial News
AIXTRON – Financial News AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIXA, ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6), a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, recorded its highest quarterly order intake since 2011 in the second quarter of 2022. The order intake was driven by broad based demand from nearly all addressed end markets. Along with the underlying strong demand, AIXTRON equipment for energy efficient power electronics on the basis of Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) ensure an excellent order situation for AIXTRON supporting the year-on-year improvement of both revenue and profit in the second quarter. Read more »
LiFi | Trends | 6G | Jul 28, 2022
6G LiFi Technology
6G LiFi Technology Light-based technology, for making telecommunications more accessible in remote and rural areas, is to be developed in a collaboration between the University of Strathclyde and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany. Read more »
Current | Appointments | Jul 27, 2022
Current Names Jason Scott Fokens as New VP, General Counsel
Current Names Jason Scott Fokens as New VP, General Counsel Current announced that Jason Scott Fokens has been named VP, General Counsel. Jason brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in legal, patent and intellectual property to this role. Most recently he served as Head of Legal and Assistant Corporate Secretary at GOJO Industries. Read more »
Zhaga | Book 24 | Book25 | Smart Lighting | Jul 20, 2022
New Zhaga Specifications Solve the Smart Luminaire Data Management Problem
New Zhaga Specifications Solve the Smart Luminaire Data Management Problem If you’ve ever paid for something by hovering your debit card or phone above a card reader, then you’ve used Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. While mobile payments may be the best-known use of this technology, it is by no means the only. In fact, this extremely short-range wireless communication standard can be found in everything from tablets to speakers, wearables, and gaming consoles. NFC is also regularly used for quickly pairing devices, managing access to public transportation, and to support a number of home automation devices. Read more »
OSRAM Digital Systems | Horticulture | Featured | Jul 18, 2022
More Growth with the LED System Solutions from OSRAM DS
More Growth with the LED System Solutions from OSRAM DS With the powerful lighting systems and components from OSRAM DS, the switch from HPS to effective LED systems is now possible. For the food production of the future, we have optimal system solutions ready for various horticulture concepts. Read more »
LightingEurope | Sustainability | Business | Jul 12, 2022
How the EU’s Many Sustainability Initiatives Will Impact the Lighting Industry
How the EU’s Many Sustainability Initiatives Will Impact the Lighting Industry If you think the lighting industry is subject to a lot of regulation now, to paraphrase a classic rock song, ‘you ain’t seen nothing yet’. In March of this year, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a comprehensive new legislative package called the Sustainable Products Initiative (SPI). Part of the Commission’s flagship Green Deal, the SPI essentially aims to ensure that only the most sustainable products are sold in Europe. Read more »
Trends | Lighting Psychology | Jul 12, 2022
How Scientist Tested the Effect of Multicolor Lighting on Improving People’s Psychological State
How Scientist Tested the Effect of Multicolor Lighting on Improving People’s Psychological State As missions for deep space exploration and space habitats are put on the agenda, astronauts need to withstand being tested by multiple stressors in confined and isolated conditions during such long flights, especially because in deep space exploration, problems such as signal delays make astronauts feel the anxiety of being far away from Earth and the psychological fear of deep space. Read more »
Cree LED | Color LEDs | Featured | Jul 12, 2022
Best in Color: The Industry’s Broadest Line of Color LEDs
Best in Color: The Industry’s Broadest Line of Color LEDs XLamp Element G LEDs are the latest instance of Cree LED’s long-standing history of leading breakthrough technologies. The J Series JE 2835 Color LEDs feature industry-leading performance across a broad portfolio of 14 colors in the industry-standard 2835 package. The XLamp® XM-L® Gen 2 LEDs are multi-color RGBW LEDs that deliver the combination of high lumen output and great color mixing in a small 5.0 x 5.0 mm package. Read more »
Ferdinand Braun Institut | UV | Micro-LEDs | Trends | Jul 12, 2022
UV micro-LEDs for Sensing, Production and Communication
UV micro-LEDs for Sensing, Production and Communication Researchers at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) in Berlin have successfully produced the first prototypes of micro-LEDs that emit in the ultraviolet spectral range (UVB). The micro-LEDs with 310 nanometers (nm) emission wavelength feature a small size of the emitting area with diameters down to 1.5 micrometers (µm). This is hundreds to thousands of times smaller than conventional UV LEDs. The micro-LEDs can be closely packed with pitches down to 2 µm to form a two-dimensional array on a chip, resulting in high-resolution UVB emitting areas. Read more »
DOE | L-Prize | Business | Jul 12, 2022
DOE Launches Prototype Phase of L-Prize Lighting Competition
DOE Launches Prototype Phase of L-Prize Lighting Competition The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched the second, “Prototype” phase of its three-phase Lighting Prize (L-Prize®) competition, a DOE American-Made Challenge designed to spur groundbreaking innovation, stimulate American manufacturing, and give rise to the next generation of lighting in commercial buildings. Read more »
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