LEDs Magazine E-News - Week 37, 2006

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**** LEDs Magazine E-News **** Week 37, 2006 ****

Welcome to the weekly e-mail newsletter from LEDs Magazine. Send your
news and comments to me, Tim Whitaker, at editor@leds.iop.org.

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CONTENTS:

1) DISPLAYS: Full-color video LED billboards feel the impact of alternative
technologies
2) ENTERTAINMENT: PLASA in pictures - LEDs enable entertainment applications
3) PATENTS: Cree sues BridgeLux for patent infringement
4) ARCHITECTURAL:
i) LAX uses LEDs from Color Kinetics in lighting installation
ii) LEDs enhance visual design of CEDES Science Park
5) DEVICES: Research reveals how blue LEDs emit light
6) TRANSPORTATION: LEDs feature in train indicator applications
7) MARKETS: LEDs to top $10 billion in 2011...and more
8) EVENTS: LED makers join forces to create industry meeting
9) PRODUCTS
10) EVENTS
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ARTICLES:

1) DISPLAYS: Full-color video LED billboards feel the impact of
alternative technologies
Smaller LED display manufacturers could struggle in the face of decreasing prices and the emergence of competing technologies such as digital ink.
See http://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/features/3/8/5

NEWS:

2) ENTERTAINMENT: PLASA in pictures - LEDs enable entertainment
applications
The annual tradeshow for the lighting and sound sectors of the entertainment industry was rich with LED-related applications.
See http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/3/9/18?alert=1

3) PATENTS: Cree sues BridgeLux for patent infringement
Cree is suing a rival chip maker over patents relating to light extraction structures used in LEDs, and to gallium nitride-based buffer technology.
See http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/3/9/14?alert=1

4) ARCHITECTURAL:
i) LAX uses LEDs from Color Kinetics in lighting installation
Color Kinetics LED fixtures have replaced metal halide fixtures in a renovated lighting installation at Los Angeles Airport.
See http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/3/9/16?alert=1

ii) LEDs enhance visual design of CEDES Science Park
Optical sensor manufacturer CEDES has used over 20,000 LEDs for internal and external lighting at its headquarters in Landquart (Switzerland).
See http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/3/9/13?alert=1

5) DEVICES: Research reveals how blue LEDs emit light
A new understanding of the mechanism behind blue LED luminescence could lead to the development of revolutionary new families of light emitters.
See http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/3/9/17?alert=1

6) TRANSPORTATION: LEDs feature in train indicator applications
Oxley is supplying LED indicator lights for illuminated control boxes on the London Underground, while DDP has developed a LED-based train door safety system.
See http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/3/9/15?alert=1

7) MARKETS: LEDs to top $10 billion in 2011...and more
BCC predicts a total LED of $10.6 billion by 2011, Strategies Unlimited has released a new report on the market for substrates for GaN-based device growth, and Freedonia says the US lamp market will exceed $12.6 billion in 2010.
See http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/3/9/12?alert=1

8) EVENTS: LED makers join forces to create industry meeting
In an unprecedented step, several leading LED makers are collaborating to organize and sponsor the LED Leadership Summit.
See http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/3/9/9?alert=1
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CO-SPONSOR: Light Emitting Diodes 2006

This seventh annual three-day conference will bring together leading executives, sales and marketing directors, product development managers, and engineers from lighting, automotive, display, and high-brightness LED communities.
See http://www.intertechusa.com/leds.html

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JOBS:

* POSITION WANTED: Senior applications/packaging manager or manufacturing Director
* ARROW ELECTRONICS: Application Engineer, Lighting
* SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR: General Sales Manager or Sales Manager

Visit our Employment page at
http://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/features/3/6/11/1

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9) PRODUCTS:

* STAR PRODUCT: Avago Technologies enters high-power LED market with first series of low-profile LED packages
See http://www.ledsmagazine.com/press/13301

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See http://www.ledsmagazine.com/press for press releases submitted by
manufacturers and distributors, including:

* DRIVERS: Maxim LED driver eliminates need for microcontroller or switch-mode converter
* POWER LEDs: Seoul Semiconductor's 75-lm LED offers superior
reliability
* BUSINESS: Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas launches Avnet
LightSpeed
* VISIBLE LEDs: Optek extends visible offering with family of
surface-mount RGB LEDs
* ENTERTAINMENT: SpectraLed144* Line from LDDE uses RGBAW
configuration of LEDs
* DRIVERS: Catalyst Quad-Mode(tm) LED driver extends battery life
with no added cost
* LIGHTING: Semicon-Optronics unveils new recessed HB LED lighting

Submit product press releases and images to our website (this is a
FREE service) at:
http://www.ledsmagazine.com/press/add
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10) EVENTS:

See http://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/features/1/3/3 for details of all major LED-related events, including:

Power Signs 2006: Outlook for Digital Signage in Retail
September 25-26: San Diego, California, USA

Light Emitting Diodes 2006
October 16-18: San Diego, California, USA

Send details of your event to Tim Whitaker at editor@leds.iop.org