The DOE continues to fund LED-based research in an initiative aimed at accelerating SSL adoption to both save energy and build an SSL technology and manufacturing base in the US.

Mitsubishi Electric utilizes OLEDs to build a 6m spherical display, while Panasonic has created the world’s largest HDTV using LEDs at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Samsung LED has filed an LED patent-infringement lawsuit against Osram Opto Semiconductors in Korea, after denying the infringement claims in Osram’s prior legal action. Meanwhile, Osram says it is relaxed about Samsung

Enhancing the Quality and Performance of LED Lighting is the theme of this year’s Strategies in Light Europe 2011 conference, which takes place in Milan, Italy.

National Semiconductor’s LM3466 driver targets LED-based street lights while Micrel targets architectural and landscape lighting applications with the MIC4801/4802.

SunSun Lighting has received $10 million in Series A financing from GSR Ventures, Formosa Epitaxy has placed a multi-unit order for Maxbright MOCVD systems, Dialight branches out into Japan, Lattice Power and ShineOn join forces on GaN-on-Si

Osram has reported an efficiency of 87 lm/W from a small OLED panel with a color temperature of around 4000K.

A Chinese crystal-growth company has produced a very large sapphire crystal using equipment from Thermal Technology.

Phoseon Technology, the provider of UV LED solutions is about to showcase its air cooled and water cooled UV LED systems designed to be capable of curing in a wide range of UV applications at RadTech Asia 2011 conference, in Yokohama, Japan.

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that Tsinghua Tongfang Company, a Beijing-based publicly listed division of the Tsinghua Holdings Company Limited, has placed an order for Veecos new TurboDisc(R) MaxBright(TM) Multi-Reactor MO

Reportedly, Chinese Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xi Guohua will sign industrial Standardization MOU with Chairman of the non-profit Sinocon Industrial Standards Foundation, R.L. Chen, a former economics minister, who

This years Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition broke the record of the largest-scale LED exhibition in the history, which was supported by 2,600 manufacturers, including ESTO Lighting (Austria), General Electric Company (America), Os

German lighting manufacturer Trilux has become the latest participant in Philips’ licensing program for LED-related intellectual property.

Philips has announced a royal-blue LED meant specifically for remote-phosphor SSL applications, and also launched the Luxeon A illumination-grade LED that’s part of the Freedom From Binning program.

Acuity Brands launched new outdoor SSL products, while San Francisco seeks bids on wireless-enabled street lights, and controversy hits Nova Scotia’s mandatory LED conversion plan.

Seoul Semiconductor has filed LED patent lawsuits against Philips in Germany and Korea, ilumisys has been granted four new patents related to LED replacements for fluorescent lamps, and Samsung has licensed Evident’s quantum-dot technology