Category Archives: LED
Right in time for summer, Osram is expanding its line of Noxlite outdoor LED luminaires. New in the range is the Noxlite LED Garden Spot Mini. It adds evening highlights to your garden, balcony and around your home. The Noxlite LED Garden Spots Mini are equipped with the latest LED technology and are energy efficient, durable and robust. They can be used in the garden, on the balcony or terrace, but also as path and accent lighting. The lights can be installed simply and easily as needed using an adhesive pad, screws or stakes. The Noxlite LED Wall and Noxlite LED Spot lines of flexible outdoor luminaires now come in the colors white and silver.
Continue reading 
Panasonic took part in the Symphony of Light event of the Tokyo Hotaru Festival on May2, 2012, using Panasonic LED lighting to create a spectacular art installation on the Sumida River in Tokyo. This art installation was part of the Tokyo Hotaru Festival, or “Firefly Festival” in English, a two-day event held on the banks of Sumida River in Central Tokyo, near Asakusa and the Tokyo Sky Tree. Over the two days of the festival, a variety of events, including art exhibitions, concerts and outdoor food stands were held, attracting a great number of visitors.
Continue reading
Osram will be installing the latest light technology in four stadiums for the European Football Championship, which is to be held in Poland and the Ukraine from June 8 to July 1, 2012. The outer façade of the National Stadium in Warsaw will be the high point of the Euro 2012. Some 1,700 LED luminaires from the Osram subsidiary Traxon will light up the shell of the stadium in Poland’s national colors of red and white, creating atmospheric light that is visible from far away.
Continue reading
The new Osram LED accessories Cuby and Raystar combine energy efficient LED technology with elegant design in a range of colors. Designed as cubes and flashlights, they can bring light and color to shelves, cars and even handbags. The winning feature of the practical miniature luminaires is that Cuby and Raystar need no batteries. The integrated rechargeable battery is simply charged via a USB port. Both LED accessories from Osram received the Red Dot coveted Design Prize in 2012.
Continue reading
With the new high power laser diode PL TB450, Osram Opto Semiconductors strengthens its leading role in lasers on indium-gallium-nitride basis. Mounted in a compact TO56 package, the blue laser diode features an optical power of 1.4 Watt (W). Professional projectors with a luminous flux of more than 1000 lumen are the main area of application for the new laser diode PL TB450. With its wavelength of 450 nanometer (nm) it produces exactly the wanted blue, and with 1.4 W (at room temperature and a current of 1.2 A) the high optical power required. The long lifetime of the laser diodes facilitates a maintenance-free operation of projectors at low energy consumption.
Continue reading
In March 2012 at Kameyama Plant No. 2, Sharp began producing the world’s first high-performance LCD panels incorporating IGZO oxide semiconductors. IGZO (InGaZnO) is an oxide comprising indium (In), gallium (Ga), and zinc (Zn). Sharp is expanding production scale through April to meet market demand. Employing advanced IGZO oxide semiconductors enables Sharp to produce LCDs with smaller thin-film transistors and increased pixel transparency, thus allowing for lower energy consumption. In addition, proprietary UV2A photo-alignment technology employed in Sharp’s AQUOS LCD TVs enables these displays to achieve high image quality.
Continue reading
The new Osram Ostar Stage LEDs provide the basis for compact spotlights with an extremely narrow beam and high luminance. These LEDs are ideal for moveable stage lights, known as moving heads, which provide powerful light beams for rock concerts and other impressive lighting arrangements. The new Osram Ostar Stage LEDs are based on the successful Osram Ostar SMT platform and contain four different chips in red, green, blue and white. This means they can produce virtually any color. All four chips are manufactured using efficient thin- film technology so that almost all the light produced internally is emitted at the top and more light can be focused in the customer optics system.
Continue reading
Researchers at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors have succeeded in manufacturing high-performance prototypes of blue and white LEDs, in which the light-emitting gallium-nitride layers are grown on silicon wafers with a diameter of 150 millimeters. The silicon replaces the sapphire commonly used until now without a loss in quality. Already in the pilot stage, the new LED chips are to be tested under practical conditions, meaning that the first LEDs on silicon from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors could hit the market in just two years.
Continue reading
Sony has developed the next-generation self-emitting display, Crystal LED Display. Sony will present a Full HD, 55-inch prototype model at the ’2012 International CES. Sony Crystal LED Display is the industry’s first 55-inch Full HD self-emitting display using LEDs as the light source. Compared to existing LCD displays, the 55-inch prototype exhibited at CES is boasting approximately 3.5 times higher contrast in light environment, approximately 1.4 times wider color gamut, and approximately 10 times faster video image response time (all values based on current Sony models).The Crystal LED Display is a self-emitting display that uses Sony’s unique methods to mount ultrafine LEDs in each of the Red-Green-Blue (RGB) colors, equivalent to the number of pixels (approximately six-million LEDs for Full HD).
Continue reading
LG will present the future of TV technology at the CES in Las Vegas with the unveiling of the world’s largest OLED TV with a display size of 55 inches. What sets LG’s TV picture apart from other OLED TVs is 4-Color Pixels and Color Refiner which work together to generate natural and accurate colors that are sharp and consistent. The 4-Color Pixels feature allows for more accurate color depiction by using a set of four colors (red, green blue and white) in comparison to the RGB setup used by other OLED TV manufacturers. Color Refiner ensures consistency in colors from a wider viewing angle via an LG algorithm which improves and refines hues and tones. This is in contrast to other OLED TVs which often exhibit drastic changes in hues from different viewing angles and abnormal color gamut.
Continue reading
