The German community of Pielenhofen has begun a transition to LED-based street lights using Herkules retrofit kits and Osram LEDs while Nova Scotia plans to extend its SSL retrofit program to every street light in the province.

LED products accounted for 14% of Philips’ lighting sales in the last fiscal year. Meanwhile, shares in Cree and SemiLEDs have been hit by poor recent performance.

Replacement lamp design relies on inert liquid for cooling allowing Switch Lighting to drive the LEDs at higher current achieving greater brightness with fewer components.

Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute leverages a nanoscale pattern to boost the optical efficiency of green LEDs in the lab.

Cree’s CR SSL luminaire designs deliver 90 to 110 lm/W efficacy utilizing LEDs that radiate upwards into a mixing chamber and reflector that distributes light through a diffuser.

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

Veeco continues to see strong orders from China and other regions, while Aixtron has reported more reactor sales in Taiwan.

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.

TSMC plans to spin off its SSL business, LG Display has ended an LED chip supply deal with Cree, GT Solar has received a huge order from a Chinese company, and CRS has completed a private equity financing round.

Aixtron saw its revenue grow by a third in the first quarter of 2011, and believes it is well placed to benefit from ongoing LED industry expansion in China.

Philips has claimed that many of Seoul Semiconductor’s LED products infringe several Philips patents, and that a patent owned by Seoul Semiconductor should be ruled invalid.

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.

Yonkers IDA has agreed to negotiate an economic incentive package with Altman Lighting to enable a $4.6 million modernization plan that will see the company upgrade its LED lighting capabilities.

Intematix has significantly expanded the Chromalit family of phosphor-coated optics adding different shapes and sizes and also adds Future Lighting Solutions as a distribution partner.

Over the past few years, China has undergone dramatic growth as both a supplier of LEDs and LED-based products, as well as a market for these products, and this will be a theme for discussion at Strategies in Light China.

The Infusion module is designed to be easy to replace, and offers a wide range of color temperatures and light outputs up to 3300 lm at 4000K.