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Lighting Science Group Installs Energy Saving Fixtures for TXU Energy Parking Facility

Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: LSGC) (Lighting Science) announced today they completed a parking garage retrofit for TXU Energy, helping the company to reduce their energy costs.

26 Mar 2009

New Company is Developing Phosphor Products Engineered for Green-Friendly Solid State Lighting Industry

Sarnoff Corporation today announced the creation of Lightscape Materials Inc., the latest in a series of independent company spin-offs. Lightscape Materials has secured $3 Million in Series A funding from Wisepower Co. LTD and Foosung HDS Co. LTD to develop and market components for a breakthrough, green-friendly Light-Emitting Diode (LED) light bulb and a variety of other phosphor light products for new lighting applications.

25 Mar 2009

New Materials Boost Efficiency of Blue OLEDs by 25 Percent

Lighting consumes one-fifth of the electricity generated in the United States. Solid-state lighting offers tremendous potential to improve the situation - once major research challenges are overcome.

22 Mar 2009

Competitively Priced 3-in-1 LED Features Superior Lumens-Per-Watt Efficiency and Extended Operating Life

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced its first 3-Watt (3W) Moonstone™ tricolor red, green and blue (RGB) LEDs for use in a wide range of solid-state architectural and commercial lighting applications.

18 Mar 2009

Step Toward Ideally Efficient Semiconductor Optical Devices such as LEDs

Japanese Researchers have discovered the phenomenon that more than 50% of the spontaneous emission light generated in semiconductors with microscopic V-grooves is emitted into the air.

17 Mar 2009

California Micro Devices Announces LuxGuard, a Family of High Brightness LED Protection Devices

California Micro Devices (NASDAQ:CAMD) today announced the availability of the LuxGuard family of turnkey solutions for ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection and thermal management for high power, ultra high brightness LED (light emitting diode) lighting applications.

16 Mar 2009

New Tool to Enhance the Way Computer Chips, LEDs and Transistors are Built

By reversing a process that converts electrical signals into sounds heard out of a cell phone, researchers may have a new tool to enhance the way computer chips, LEDs and transistors are built. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have for the first time converted the highest frequency sounds into light by reversing a process that converts electrical signals to sound.

16 Mar 2009

Bookham Launches 600mW Pump Laser Module

Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ:BKHM), a manufacturer of optical components and modules for the telecom industry, has announced the launch of the industry's first ever cooled small form factor, Mini-DIL pump laser module.

14 Mar 2009

OLED Lighting Market to Reach $6 Billion by 2018

The OLED lighting market is setting the stage to take off in 2011, with OLED lighting revenues forecasted to surpass PMOLED displays in the 2013/2014 timeframe, reaching $6 billion by 2018, according to DisplaySearch's newly-released report, OLED Lighting in 2009 and Beyond: The Bright Future.

12 Mar 2009

Semi-Polar GaN Layer for Optoelectronic Devices

Now the technical team at Oxford Instruments-TDI, led by Dr. Alexander Usikov, has made significant progress in solving this problem, and is working closely with a leading LED manufacturer to fabricate these semi-polar GaN layer for optoelectronic devices. This would increase radiative recombination efficiency and device performance.

10 Mar 2009

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