who have made an outstanding contribution to innovation of technology

In 2006, Nakamura won the Millennium Technology Prize of Finland, known as “the Nobel Prize in the technology field.” In 2004, he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in the engineering segment, previously conferred upon Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. In addition, he won The Economist's Innovation Award, given to only six scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to innovation of technology. In 2009, he received the Harvey Prize from the Technion in Israel.

As a professor in the Material Department and co-director of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Center (SSLEC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Prof. Nakamura is leading the effort to develop the next-generation LED and Laser Diode (LD) based on the blue LED, as well as a GaN-based solar cell.Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. is proud to be one of the industrial sponsors of the SSLEC. Prof. Nakamura’s consulting will lead Seoul Semiconductor's bright future,” Senior Vice President S.M. Lee of Seoul Semiconductor said.Doug Hardman, North American Marketing Director for Seoul Semiconductor, said: “The legendary Professor Shuji Nakamura’s consultancy with Seoul Semiconductor is sure to accelerate our leadership position in LED technology for North America and all the world.”

With this year’s forum focusing on innovation, energy efficiency and technology, MEGAMAN? will showcase their passion for providing products and solutions that benefit both the environment and the people. At a state–of-the-art booth, designed to reflect an eco-living setting by top interior designer Kinney Chan and the renowned lighting designer, Tino Kwan, MEGAMAN? is geared up with many exciting events to show exhibitors and press alike how they bring design and revolutionary technology together to create ground breaking products for the industry. MEGAMAN will also launch the revolutionary LED MR 16 Reflectors which are positioned as the true replacement of MR 16 Halogen at the fair.

we can help them with customization of software locally

In addition to system performance, the quality of Labsphere’s sales support impressed the Institute. During system development, US staff flew to Shanghai to meet with the Institute face to face, along with Labsphere’s local sales and applications engineers. Now that the system is in place, Labsphere’s Shanghai-based team will be available on an ongoing basis for upgrades to meet evolving LED market needs.

“The Labsphere system is ideal as we will be able to upgrade it for certain applications. The system is also tailored specifically to new solid state lighting sources,” said Steven Li, the Institute’s General Evaluation Lab Manager.Per Roger Xiao, Asia Pacific Sales Director of Labsphere, a key reason the Institute selected Labsphere is, “Labsphere can commit to the customer that we can help them with customization of software locally; also both parties can cooperate on building a SSL test and measurement platform that complies with international industry trends.”

He is widely known for having developed the high-brightness blue LED based on GaN in 1993 while working for Nichia Corporation in Japan. In those days, developing a blue LED was considered impossible; only red and green LEDs had been available for the prior 20 years. Prof. Nakamura’s innovation allowed LED manufacturers to produce LEDs with three primary colors (red, green and blue) which could be mixed to express 16 million colors. Perhaps most importantly, the new technology was leveraged by the LED industry to begin commercial production of white LEDs, the semiconductor ecological light source.

The LED backlight rails are also field replaceable

To ease the customer’s transition from CCFL-backlit displays, many of the new LED-backlit displays have the same mounting locations and sizes, saving on re-design and development costs. Each of the new panels are compatible with Optrex’s conventional CCFL-backlit TFT LCDs of the same size and resolution. The LED backlight rails are also field replaceable.Optrex’s LED-backlit led highbay light are designed for a board range of applications, including test & measurement, factory automation, navigation and avionics systems, POS and ATM machines, and medical equipment.

One contract, with Woodstone Energy, is to upgrade the lighting at a large Fortune 50 manufacturing facility which will involve the retrofit and replacement of several thousand fixtures. The other two contracts are with large National Energy Services Companies ("ESCOs"); one to upgrade a community college and the other encompasses the upgrade of several county government buildings in the Southeast. In all three of these contracts, SRC has already audited the existing facilities, inventoried their lighting systems, proposed an improved design and will now procure the materials and oversee the installations. All three contracts are expected to be completed before the end of the year.

Rob Wilson, VP of SRC, commented, "We have established ourselves as a premier lighting design and retrofit firm. That combined with our positive relationship with Woodstone Energy and other ESCOs is clearly giving us a competitive advantage in securing these contracts."

LED in outdoor lighting to help cities improve road and pedestrian safety

As LED technology opens up the application of architecture and design in home lighting, YAHAM will introduce a collection of home luminaires at the cutting-edge of contemporary interior design. Three new product families - Lirio by YAHAM, Arcitone and Ledino - each enable consumers to express themselves by applying the design flexibility of LED lighting with bold new forms, materials and finishes.

As increased urbanization presents new challenges for cities to provide more livable urban environments, YAHAM is to drive the appeal of LED in outdoor lighting to help cities improve road and pedestrian safety, reduce night-time light disturbance and make significant energy savings.

During 2010 YAHAM will introduce a new range of outdoor luminaires – CitySoul, CitySpirit, MileWide and StreetStar – all built around LEDGINE, a future-proofed and fully upgradable platform for outdoor luminaires to maintain pace with progressive improvements in LED technologies.

YAHAM is also exploring the potential of applying LED to help ‘declutter’ city streets increasingly obscured by a variety of elements, including lighting fixtures. Visitors to Light + Building will be able to see a number of proof-of-concept demonstrations in new street lighting designs, including advanced new LED luminaires which rendering lighting virtually invisible during the day, but still ensure bright, white light at night.

our design is a sneak preview into the future of light

Marl will offer the full Lumoluce series, which is a modular system based on aluminium construction with a 2.3W LED module, driver and connectors. These assemblies deliver the same light output as a 25W – 35W halogen bulb but use 90% less power – and even save 35% of energy costs of standard energy saving lamps. The Lumoluce range includes an extensive selection of fittings in different shapes and sizes, with different configurations of LED lamps, to meet every conceivable lighting requirement and application.

Visitors can enter, walk through the installation and see for themselves that in future lighting will no longer have to be produced from just one central point by individual luminaires. Where conventional luminaire designs dictated the approach in the past, these organic light-emitting diodes provide unprecedented creative freedom. “With OLED architecture has been given a new building material which will change our perception of space and light – our design is a sneak preview into the future of light”, says Professor Andreas Schulz.

These applications will be demonstrated at the show stand – a display case with integrated OLED panels shows the opportunities that coloured or white light sources provide. A light fixture with 90 Orbeos can display exhibits and merchandise in museums and retail stores especially impressively. With the warm, soft and glare-free light of OLED, exhibits in museums can be staged far more naturally and impressively than with conventional harsh lighting effects.