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FlexRad | MetroSpecs | SSL | Featured | Sep 01, 2022
FlexRad Accelerates Fixture Development
FlexRad Accelerates Fixture Development MetroSpec’s design team starts with this premise: Enable the customer to win business profitably and we will benefit together. Their partnered efforts work toward a well-designed light source approach that enables consolidated inventory while maintaining the versatility for custom requests. 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 »
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 »
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 »
Nichia | Neozoon | Awards | Featured | Business | Jul 12, 2022
Neozoon Powered by Optisolis Wins Design Plus Award 2022
Neozoon Powered by Optisolis Wins Design Plus Award 2022 This year, Neozoon powered by Optisolis wins the Light + Building Design Plus Award in the “Exhibitors” category. Neozoon designed the mobile light according to the cradle-to-cradle principle and integrated NICHIA's Optisolis full-spectrum LEDs as the light source. Read more »
Instrument Systems | VCSEL | Testing | Featured | Automotive | Jun 15, 2022
VCSEL Testing in Production Lines
VCSEL Testing in Production Lines Quality control of VCSELs and EELs in production lines requires the full optical characterization of a device-under-test (DUT) within milliseconds. For this, the combination of an integrating sphere (ISP series) and a high-resolution array spectroradiometer of our CAS series is the ideal system for fast and reliable tests of semiconductor laser diodes, determining key characteristics like the centroid wavelength and the radiant power. Read more »
OSRAM Digital Systems | LED Drivers | Smart Lighting | Featured | Jun 13, 2022
More Lighting Power for Horticulture
More Lighting Power for Horticulture Thanks to our unique expertise and system competence (LED chips, modules, drivers and light management systems) OSRAM DS is a perfect partner for standard as well as customized lighting concepts in indoor farming, offering a comprehensive portfolio with switchable, dimmable and controllable solutions for your horticulture concept. Read more »
Cree LED | Color LEDs | Element G LEDs | XLamp | Featured | SSL | Jun 02, 2022
Always the Best Performance: XLamp® Element G LEDs for Color Mixing
Always the Best Performance: XLamp® Element G LEDs for Color Mixing Cree LED, an SGH company, offers one of the broadest portfolios of application-optimized LED chips and components, leading the industry in performance and reliability. Our team delivers best-in-class technology and breakthrough solutions for applications in High Power and Mid-Power General Lighting, Specialty Lighting and Video Screens. Read more »
Automotive | LUXEON HL 1Z | LEDs | Featured | May 31, 2022
Tiny Source Ensures Precise Bream Control and Color Quality
Tiny Source Ensures Precise Bream Control and Color Quality Lumileds newest high-power CSP LED is LUXEON HL1Z, an un-domed, single-sided, emitter that delivers high efficacy – 137lm/W or more – from a very small package just 1.4mm square. The top emission prevents “cross-talk” and contributes to the superior color over angle performance and color consistency. Read more »
COB LEDs | Luminus | SSL | Featured | May 30, 2022
Luminus Gen 4 High Density COBs Leverage Robusto™ Technology
Luminus Gen 4 High Density COBs Leverage Robusto™ Technology Luminus Devices introduces the next generation for high lumen density, white COB arrays featuring the latest enhancement to improve maximum operating temperature, Robusto technology. High lumen density parts are used in narrow beam applications where Center Beam Candle Power (CBCP) is the key metric. Read more »
LED Modules | MetroSpecs | SSL | Featured | May 30, 2022
Powerful and Versatile: Multi-Directional LED Solutions
Powerful and Versatile: Multi-Directional LED Solutions FlexRad®, a novel, high performing, cut-to-size, LED light circuit technology, has been in volume production at MetroSpec Technology® for 14 years and is installed in hundreds of thousands of locations. FlexRad includes a variety of technologies that allows fixture manufacturers to fill almost any shape with light. Read more »
Outdoor Applications | OSRAM | SSL | Featured | May 04, 2022
Economical and Enduring: New Solutions for Outdoor Lighting
Economical and Enduring: New Solutions for Outdoor Lighting Areas and sports facility lighting with conventional technology is always linked to high power consumption. Our new PrevaLED Brick HP HE LED module and OT 2DIM P7 High Power drivers combine optimal performance in reliability and lifetime, with maximum energy efficiency. Read more »
Lighting Module | Edison Opto | Featured | SSL | May 02, 2022
Edison Opto provides Design and Manufacture Custom Modules Services
Edison Opto provides Design and Manufacture Custom Modules Services We Edison Opto provides design and manufactures advanced module customization services. In addition, we offer LDMS integration technical services. All our modules have high efficiency, Premium CRI90+, and a long-life span of over 100,000 Hrs LM80. We can provide professional and complex design and customized services for any application, performance requirements in AC and DC, and any shape. We can help customers simplify processes, save production costs, and expand their capabilities to new fields and more diverse projects without adding equipment or labor, and quickly gain a place in the market. Read more »
White LEDs | Cree LED | Featured | SSL | May 02, 2022
XLamp® XD16 Premium White LEDs: Improved Optical Performance
XLamp® XD16 Premium White LEDs: Improved Optical Performance XLamp® XD16 is Cree LED’s newest Extreme Density LED, delivering up to 5½ times higher lumen density than Cree LED’s previous generation of high-power LEDs. The ceramic based XD16 LED package addresses challenges with luminaire manufacturing, thermal design, optical design and reliability that have been experienced with competing small form factor LEDs. Read more »
SSL | High-Lumen Output | White LEDs | Featured | May 01, 2022
LUXEON HL2Z: High Flux, Tight Beam Control, Lower Sys Costs
LUXEON HL2Z: High Flux, Tight Beam Control, Lower Sys Costs Lumileds has introduced LUXEON HL2Z, an un-domed, CSP, single-sided, high-power LED that significantly reduces system costs while delivering high flux density, high luminance and precise beam control. It delivers more than 315 lumens and more than 160 lumens per Watt from a compact 2.3mm square package that is just 0.36mm high. Read more »
Webinar | Optronic | Measurement | White LEDs | Featured
WEBINAR: What is the Color of White?
WEBINAR: What is the Color of White? Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have received attention the last couple of decades as a potential replacement for traditional white light sources. This webinar provides an overview of how color is studied and measured, as well as the challenges and research being done to make LEDs the next generation white light source. Read more »
Cree LED | XLamp | RGBW LEDs | SSL | Featured | Mar 31, 2022
Set the Scene with the XLamp® XM-L Color Gen2 RGBW LEDs
Set the Scene with the XLamp® XM-L Color Gen2 RGBW LEDs The XLamp XM-L Color Gen 2 LEDs are Cree LEDs’ newest generation RGBW LEDs. Delivering a combination of high lumen output and great color mixing in a small 5.0 x 5.0 mm package, the XLamp XM-L Color Gen 2 LEDs feature the smallest possible distance between LED die, creating a small optical source for excellent optical control and efficient color mixing with a dazzling light output of up to 1400 lumens. Read more »
OSRAM Digital Systems | LED Drivers | Smart Lighting | Featured | Mar 31, 2022
Wireless LED Drivers for Flexible Lighting Solutions
Wireless LED Drivers for Flexible Lighting Solutions Future-proof light is wireless. At OSRAM, we’re now launching a groundbreaking new LED driver portfolio: OPTOTRONIC Wireless intelligent (OT Wi). Our linear and compact LED drivers are now available with your preferred communication protocol – QBM, Casambi and others – to help you design the light you need. Read more »
Luminus Devices | HCL | COB | Featured | Mar 31, 2022
Luminus Natural, Healthy Spectrum 97 CRI Smooth White™ COBs
Luminus Natural, Healthy Spectrum 97 CRI Smooth White™ COBs Luminus Devices has expanded its portfolio of COB arrays with the launch and immediate availability of a new smooth white COB series designed for spotlights, downlights, low blue spectrum lamps, museum, hospitality, and architectural lighting applications. These new LED arrays offer excellent uniformity and color over angle consistency, as well as exceptional long-term color stability. Read more »
Lumileds | LUXEON | 3528 RGB | SSL | Featured | Mar 24, 2022
New, Slim RGB Package Simplifies Engineering of Architectural, Decorative, and Fun Color LED Applications
New, Slim RGB Package Simplifies Engineering of Architectural, Decorative, and Fun Color LED Applications Lumileds released its new LUXEON 3528 RGB, a very small, slim RGB LED package that supports a broad range of architectural, decorative, and color changing applications. The white body increases reflectivity and system lumens per watt and system efficiency. The IPX8 water resistant rating allows for use in moist environments inside or outside a building. Read more »
Yujileds | Color LEDs | LED Matrix | SSL | Featured | Mar 24, 2022
Yujileds® LED Matrix Solution with Full-color Functions
Yujileds® LED Matrix Solution with Full-color Functions Yujileds® Matrix aims to provide high-density illumination with high-performance white, tunable-white light and full-color lighting options for a variety of applications that require focusing light, accurate chromaticities and excellent color rendition. The Matrix is developed based on the purpose of simplifying the optical design with the small Light Emitting Surface (LES) to accomplish the spectra mixing. Read more »
Instrument Systems | VCSEL | Testing | Featured | Mar 15, 2022
LIV Test Systems for Laser Diodes
LIV Test Systems for Laser Diodes At LASER WoP 2022 Instrument Systems will be showcasing its extensive test portfolio of IR emitters and VCSELs. New product developments in the fields of spectroradiometers of the CAS series and the VTC near-/far-field cameras serve the fast-growing market for laser diode production in the short-wave infrared range of 900 to 1700 nm. Read more »
Nichia | Vitasolis | Featured | HCL | Mar 08, 2022
Osaka Umeda Twin Towers South Chooses Nichia’s Vitasolis™ LED Technology
Osaka Umeda Twin Towers South Chooses Nichia’s Vitasolis™ LED Technology Nichia’s Vitasolis™ has been implemented in lighting at the recently completed Osaka Umeda Twin Towers South. Osaka Umeda Twin Towers South is a large-scale complex constructed by Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. and Hankyu Corporation. While construction began in 2014, it was just recently completed in its entirety on February 25, 2022. The office zone from the 11th floor to the 38th floor of the building was designed with three concepts in mind: "Heart of Umeda," "Huge hospitality services," and a “Wellbeing experience.” This building actively installed a facility contributing to wellbeing with the focus of WELLCO, a floor dedicated to office workers on the 12th floor. Read more »
Cree LED | Horticulture | Featured | Mar 01, 2022
Glow up Your Grow with Cree LED’s New Horticulture Reference Design
Glow up Your Grow with Cree LED’s New Horticulture Reference Design This reference design is to showcase the J Series® 2835 G class white LED working together with the XLamp® XP-G3 S Line Photo Red LED in an updated 12 inch vertical farming fixture. The 2835 G class of LEDs are valued for their high efficacy and uniform appearance. The XP-G3 S Line Photo Red LED is optimized for enhanced-spectrum horticulture applications. Read more »
MetroSpec Technology | Featured | Feb 28, 2022
FlexRad Delivers Cutting Edge Innovation
FlexRad Delivers Cutting Edge Innovation It seems impossible at first glance - the most innovative supplier of custom light engines in the market is also the most reliable in quality and in delivery. MetroSpec Technology® LLC has well over 3,000 miles of installed base to prove these points. FlexRad®, a novel, high performing, cut-to-size, LED light circuit technology, has been in volume production for 14 years and is installed in hundreds of thousands of locations. FlexRad was a decade ahead of other LED products, with reels of circuits over 200 feet trimmable to the inch. Well proven and perfected, FlexRad carries a seven-year warranty that actually means something. Read more »
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