A.   Developer News

·   Accent Optical Technologies installed a Vektor-GaN metrology tool at South Epitaxy Corporation in Taiwan.  Vektor-GaN is a task-specific x-ray diffraction tool that is designed to monitor the quantum well structure of HB-LEDs at the atomic level.  [ Press release ]

·   Agilent's illumination and color management system (ICM) has been included in Coretronic's reference design for 30-inch LCD flat-panel TVs.  The design combines Coretronic's RGB LED backlight module with Agilent's ICM system.  It offers LCD flat-panel TV manufacturers resolution of 1280 x 768 WXGA and brightness of 550 cd/m(2).  The LCD panel color saturation achieves 106 percent of the color space defined by the National Television System Committee (NTSC) and the backlight unit color saturation is rated at 123 percent of NTSC.  [ Press release ]

·   Agilent's Envisium mid-power LED family won the EE Times Ultimate Products award in the Interconnect, Passive and Electromechanical Components (IP&E) category.  The Envisium Power PLCC-4, jointly developed by Agilent and Lumileds Lighting, is a surface-mount LED designed for automotive exterior lighting, such as center high-mounted stoplights, front turn signals, rear combination turn, tail and stoplights, and mirror turn signals.  Agilent's Envisium LED family was rated the highest among the 10 products chosen by EE Times' readers in the IP&E components award category, based on its technical significance and likelihood of use.  [ Press release ]

·   AIXTRON announced the establishment of AIXTRON Europe, which will have responsibility and lead the sales, service and spare parts business for all AIXTRON products including Thomas Swan, Epigress and GENUS for European customers.  Dr. Frank Schulte was named director of AIXTRON Europe, which will cover the principal regions of Europe and other regions such as Israel and Russia.  [ Press release ]

·   CAO Group has received two Luxeon® certifications and is now part of the Luxeon Lighting Network.  As a Certified Luxeon Luminaire Manufacturer, the company is qualified to design, develop and manufacture Luxeon-based luminaries and to offer performance warranties on each product.  The second certification, as a Certified Future Electronics Luxeon Solutions Partner, certifies that the company is qualified to design, develop, manufacture and guarantee the performance of Luxeon-based lighting components, light engine modules and arrays.  [ Press release ]

·   Carmanah has purchased Soltek Powersource (SPS), a privately held manufacturer/supplier of solar power systems for industrial, government, residential and retail applications, for $10 million.  SPS is the largest Canadian supplier of solar systems and solar-related equipment, with about 60% market share.  [ Press release ]

·   Carmanah launched the second generation of its i-STOP™ solar-powered LED-illuminated transit stop.  The redesign includes brighter illumination with new, higher-intensity LEDs and LED-illuminated activation buttons.  The new i-STOP™ is fully ADA compliant.  The original i-STOP™ is in use by more than 80 transit agencies.  [ Press release at CNW Group ]

·   Color Kinetics chairman and CEO George Mueller was named 2005 Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year, in the Industrial Products & Services category.  Along with the additional regional winners across the country, he will now be considered for the national Entrepreneur of the Year awards to be presented in November.  Mueller co-founded Color Kinetics in 1997 with Ihor Lys, CTO.  [ Press release ]

·   Color Kinetics was issued a U.S. patent relating to the use of intelligent solid-state lighting systems as a means for indicating information about a package. U.S. patent 6,897,624, "Packaged information systems," covers an intelligent solid-state lighting system that may be mounted on a package to relate information such as date, temperature, shock, or more.  The technology might be applied to indicate when packages or containers in a warehouse are being exposed to heat or nearing shelf life expiration, for example.  The patent is Color Kinetics' 41st.  [ Press release ]

·   Color Kinetics added two partners to its OEM and licensing business and renewed agreements with three others.  The new agreements are with Cepia, a manufacturer of consumer products, which will license Chromacore® to offer a line of illuminated pillows and plush toys; and Lighting & Electronics, Inc., a manufacturer of entertainment and architectural lighting, which will apply iColor® MR g2 and power/data modules (PDMs) for a custom designed theatrical fixture.  Agreements were renewed with Crystal Fountains, a provider of water feature solutions; Main Light Industries, Inc., an entertainment lighting manufacturer; and Zumtobel Staff Lighting, Inc., an architectural lighting manufacturer.  [ Press release ]

·   Columbia University professor Gertrude F. Neumark has filed patent infringement lawsuits against four major LED manufacturers.  Neumark filed separate but similar suits against Cree, Lumileds, Toyoda Gosei, and Osram, claiming the companies have infringed her U.S. patents 4,904,618, "Process of Doping Crystals for Wide Band Gap Semiconductors," and 5,252,499, "Wide Band Gap Semiconductors Having Low Bipolar Resistivity and Method of Formation.”  Toyoda Gosei denied the claims and issued a statement accusing Neumark's patents of lacking novelty and inventiveness.  [ News item in LIGHTimes, News item at CompoundSemiconductor.net ]

·   Cree licensed its white LED patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,600,175, to several strategic chip customers, including Stanley Electric, Rohm, and Cotco.  The licenses provide rights to manufacture and sell white LEDs that incorporate Cree’s high performance LED chips.  The company also announced it is now in discussions with other potential partners.  The 6,600,175 patent was originally filed by Advanced Technology Materials Inc. (ATMI) and was acquired by Cree when it took over ATMI’s gallium nitride business in March 2004.  The patent was the subject of a cross-licensing agreement between Cree and Nichia announced in February 2005.  [ Press release 1, 2; News item in LEDs Magazine ]

·   Cree's Japanese distributor, Sumitomo Corporation, will purchase $200 million of Cree’s LED products during the fiscal year ending June 2006, a 25% increase from the prior year.  The purchase commitment, subject to end-customer demand and other terms and conditions, was added to the existing distributorship agreement, which extends through Cree’s fiscal year ending June 2007.  Both companies anticipate that purchases will be made across Cree’s full line of LED chip products representing its standard brightness, mid-brightness and high brightness devices, including MegaBright®, XBright® and XThin® LEDs.  [ Press release ]

·   Cree signed an agreement with Tecnika Due srl to distribute Cree® XLamp™ power LEDs in Italy.  Tecnika Due, a distributor and value-added reseller of electronic components and subsystems since 1982, has been representing Cree’s energy-saving power components since 2002.  [ Cree Press release ]

·   Cree has signed a three-year agreement with Osram, one of its largest customers, for the purchase of LED chips.  The agreement covers Cree's entire LED chip product line, including standard, mid-bright and XBright® LED families.  Pricing, product mix and volume have been agreed to for an initial term and will be periodically reviewed and adjusted over the three-year contract.  “We are pleased to announce our mutual commitment to continue to work together to further develop the exciting market for high performance LEDs.  OSRAM Opto Semiconductors fulfilled its previous purchase commitment far earlier than expected and this agreement reflects the way in which the two companies have conducted business over the past several quarters,” said Chuck Swoboda, CEO.[ Press release, News item in LEDs Magazine ]

·   Cyberlux and Bruni Industria Mobili (Italy), a furniture, lighting product and fixtures, and consumer products manufacturing conglomerate, announced a joint venture “that will address the solid-state lighting needs of the European marketplace.”  Under the terms of the agreement, Cyberlux has granted Bruni Industria the European marketing and distribution rights for Cyberlux products, and Cyberlux technology will be integrated into Bruni Industria products.  The companies expect the joint venture to begin operating in the early 4th quarter of 2005.  [ Press release ]

·   Dowa Mining Company (Japan) will begin mass producing GaN epi in 2007, according to a NikkeiNet Interactive Article.  Dowa plans to work with the Nagoya Institute of Technology to develop wafers made by layering GaN onto a sapphire substrate using technology developed by NGK Insulators, and expects sales of 10 billion yen in 2008.  Dowa affirmed that its business will not infringe on patents of other companies in the field such as Nichia.  [ News item in CompoundSemi News ]

·   Robert C. Walker was named president and CEO of eLite Optoelectronics. Walker is a general partner of YEBY Associates, and was previously with Vincera Ventures and Emcore.  eLite's current CEO/CTO and founder, Dr. Heng Liu, will continue as CTO.  eLite plans to move its headquarters from City of Industry to Sunnyvale, Calif.  [ News item in LIGHTimes ]

·   Everlight received a contract for white LEDs for mobile phone backlight module use from Hon Hai.  The LEDs are to be used for handsets provided by Chi Mei, in which Hon Hai purchased a dominant stake.  Hon Hai affiliate Ambit is also buying Everlight diodes to be used in mobile phones it is making for Nokia.  [ News item at EMSNow (No URL available) ]

·   Fujikura (Tokyo) has collaborated with the National Institute for Materials Science to develop a new brighter, white LED that uses a special phosphor material, according to articles in Nikkei Business Daily and LIGHTimes.  The device uses a blue LED coated with a resin containing a phosphor material, a mixture of silicon, aluminum, oxygen, and nitrogen.  Fujikura expects to begin shipping samples of the new LED before the end of the fiscal year.  [ News item in LIGHTimes ]

·   Hangzhou Silan Azure, a new LED start-up in China, plans to mass produce high brightness LEDs.  AIXTRON announced that it received an order for an AIX 2400G3 HT and a 19x2" Thomas Swan Close Coupled Showerhead system from Silan Azure, which will use the two mass production MOCVD systems for the manufacturing of GaN-based LEDs.  Silan Azure's product line will cover both the epi wafer growth and chip processing.  The company is a joint venture of Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Joint-stock Co. Ltd., a publicly traded company in China specializing in designing, developing and manufacturing integrated circuits.  [ Press release ]

·   Hella's prototype headlamp system received top honors for innovation in a bi-annual competition held by Spain's Society of Automotive Engineers (Sociedad de Tecnicos de Automocion).  The award-winning design was developed in cooperation with Volkswagen for the Golf 5.  It incorporates low beam, high beam, indicator and daytime running lights through the use of LED technology.  Hella's prototype LED headlamp achieves around 1,000 lm in low beam, creating light similar in intensity to xenon headlamps.  [ News item at the Auto Channel ]

·   Holiday Creations was awarded the Power Smart Excellence Award for Manufacturing by BC Hydro of Vancouver, British Columbia.  The award is given annually to the manufacturer that demonstrably helps the power company conserve the most electricity in the province.  Holiday Creations manufactures and markets AC-driven LED holiday lights.  [ News brief from LEDs Magazine ]

·   Ichikoh Industries has developed a simulation technique for the design and prototyping of LEDs for automotive headlights.  The technology analyzes heat flow and helps cut back on the need for prototyping, shortening the development cycle by up to 75%.  It applies the analysis techniques of computer-aided engineering (CAE) to measure heat distribution and help determine optimal solutions for heat dissipation and cooling.  The simulations yield values that differ by less than 2% from the measurements of actual prototypes, according to the company.  [ News brief at LEDs Magazine ]

·   The Lighting Research Center conducted a field study showing that LEDs can be effective, energy-saving alternatives for incandescent downlights in elevators.  The field installation, in an RPI campus elevator, used prototype LED fixtures and showed an energy savings of 45% compared with the original incandescent lights.  The low-profile LED fixtures may also change the way elevator cabins are built, resulting in further energy savings, according to the study.  [ Article in LRC News ]

·   Lighting Science will use Cree XLamp™ power LEDs as the light source for its Optimized Digital Lighting™ (ODL™) product line.  ODL products, which will incorporate Cree's high brightness XLamp 7090 LEDs, are suitable for indoor and outdoor applications.  [ Press release at LEDs Magazine ]

·   Lumileds' Luxeon® LED array product for LCD backlights received the Display Material/Component of the Year Silver Award in the 2004 SID/Information Display Magazine competition.  The array, consisting of red, green and blue side-emitting Luxeon LEDs, is the first to enable LED-based backlight illumination systems that provide greatly improved color fidelity and other benefits over cold cathode fluorescent lamps, according to the company.  The Display of the Year Awards recognize major advances in the design and manufacture of displays used in television sets, notebook computers, desktop computer monitors, cellphones, PDAs, DVD players, and other electronic devices.  [ Press release ]

·   Mitsubishi Electric (Japan) has developed an LCD monitor using a backlight consisting of six LEDs of differing peak wavelengths, intended to expand the color reproduction range.  The prototype can display 95.58% of the Munsell Color Cascade, an index of all natural object colors, compared to 80.62% for a three-color LED backlight.  A key problem is brightness, as the prototype achieved only 80 cd/m2.  [ Article in Nikkei Electronics Asia ]

·   Mitsubishi Rayon (Japan) has developed special optics to guide more light from LCD backlights to the display panels of the devices.  The optics, in sheet form, increase the brightness of LCD displays by up to 35%, according to Nikkei Net Interactive and LIGHTimes.  [ News item in LIGHTimes ]

·   Shuji Nakamura was named as a "Star of Asia" by Business Week magazine.  Nakamura's litigation with his former employer, Nichia, "has forced a reworking of the way Japanese companies remunerate the brains behind the thousands of patents registered in Japan each year," according to the article.  The magazine's series is meant to honor "25 leaders at the forefront of change." [ Feature article at Business Week magazine ]

·   New Wave Research and Opto System (Japan) will cooperate in developing and marketing advanced LED wafer-scribing systems.  New Wave is a manufacturer of laser-based systems for flat-panel display repair, semiconductor failure analysis and micromachining, and Opto System is a Japanese manufacturer of inspection and manufacturing equipment for semiconductor-related products.  New Wave is currently creating a portfolio of patents in methods and devices related to laser applications in the LED manufacturing process.  [ Press release ]

·   Nichia executives discussed the company's legal dispute with Shuji Nakamura at a meeting of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, in Tokyo.  Nichia no longer uses the patent on the blue LED technology Nakamura invented, the executives said.  They also said that the risks companies take in developing and commercializing inventions should be considered when making awards to individual inventors.  [ News item in Japan Weekly Monitor (No URL available) ]

·   Nichia and Hitachi Cable each purchased a 6.4% stake in Opto Tech.  Opto Tech had previously stated that it planned to increase its capital expenditure allotment to NT$7.03 billion ($220 million at NT$31.88:$1) by issuing more than 96 million new shares via private placement.  Opto Tech expects the move will help the company reach break-even point from its OLED division by April 2006.  Nichia and Opto Tech in August 2004 formed an alliance through which Opto Tech would produce and sell Nichia's patented blue InGaN LEDs to Taiwan, China, and South Korea.  [ News item at Global Sources, News item at LIGHTimes ]

·   Nichia and Radiant Imaging have formed a partnership intended to support designers of LED-based lighting systems for applications such as signage, display backlights, automotive and aviation instrument panels, and traffic lights.  Radiant Imaging supplies imaging systems for light and color measurement, and as part of the partnership, will fully characterize the output of certain Nichia InGaN LEDs by generating Radiant Source Models of the products.  Radiant Source Models are software models that fully characterize a light source’s angular and spatial luminance characteristics.  ProSource software allows full data analysis and ray generation from any Radiant Source Model data file, and enables its use with most major illumination design software packages.  [ News item in LEDs Magazine ]

·   Nichia resolved intellectual property disputes with U.S. distributors JM Group and ASP and Korean LED manufacturer Luxpia.  The dispute with JM Group had been filed in a federal court, but no lawsuit with ASP had been filed.  Nichia announced that the parties agreed to pursue a "good business relationship," with no further details.  Nichia had filed suit against Luxpia in June 2004.  As part of the settlement, Luxpia put apology ads in two of the major industrial papers in Korea (The Electronic Times and Maeil Business Newspaper) and Nichia withdrew its patent infringement claims.  [ Press release 1, 2 ]

·   Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (NTT) has developed a prototype blue laser element with a light emission efficiency of 70%, double that of the highest performance lasers currently on the market.  NTT plans to promote the technology to manufacturers of blue lasers for reading and recording to next-generation digital versatile disks (DVDs).  The prototype blue laser element has an emission efficiency of 71% at room temperature, which is comparable to the red lasers now used to read data from DVDs.  NTT achieved this level of efficiency by modifying the way the different layers are formed on the sapphire substrate, so that all steps can be performed at the same temperature of 800°C.  [ Article in New Materials Japan (registration required)]

·   The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has dismissed Osram's complaint against Dominant Semiconductors, according to the Malay Mail Online.  Osram filed the complaint with the ITC in June 2004, claiming that Dominant was infringing two sets of patents, one relating to white LEDs and the other to the design of electrical connections for high-power LEDs.  Dominant had responded with a lawsuit accusing Osram of violating U.S. unfair competition laws, and alleging that Osram has made false and misleading statements about Dominant's products to Dominant's customers and end users.  [ News item in LEDs Magazine ]

·   Osram Sylvania announced that its Joule™ LED lighting system will be used on the 2006 Mercury Mountaineer.  The first of its kind, the Joule system features an integrated, standardized mounting and thermal management approach, and can be used on many vehicle platforms for rear combination lamp assemblies.  [ Press release ]

·   Permlight Products has filed suit against Microsemi Corporation, alleging that Microsemi issued a certificate of conformance on defective products, and is seeking $1 million in damages.  Microsemi has closed the Watertown, Mass., factory that provided the products that are the subject of the lawsuit.  [ Press release ]

·   In mid-August, Philips (Netherlands) announced that it will buy Agilent 's 47% stake in Lumileds for €765 million ($948 million) in cash, giving Philips a controlling 96% interest in the company, which was created in 1999 as a joint venture between Philips and Agilent.  Completion of the transaction is expected in the fourth quarter of 2005, subject to regulatory approval.  [ Philips press release, Lumileds press release, News item at CompoundSemiconductor.net, audiocast of press briefing on Lumileds, August 15, 2005 ] )  According to earlier reports by the Wall Street Journal and LEDs Magazine in June, Agilent was considering selling its semiconductor group, which includes its LED business and its share in Lumileds.  The Wall Street Journal reported that investment banking firm Goldman Sachs has been appointed to handle the sale of Agilent's semiconductor products group (SPG).  The company's CFO described the SPG as non-core, compared with Agilent's life sciences and test and measurement divisions.  [ News item in LEDs Magazine, editorial in LIGHTimes ]  

·   Philips and Future Electronics announced that Future will be the franchised distributor for all Philips' semiconductor products in Europe.  The new agreement will give customers another channel for purchasing Philips products and obtaining design support.  Future has been a partner of Philips in the Americas and Asia for many years.  [ Press release ]

·   Super Vision signed a licensing agreement for its Variable Color Lighting System patent with AVR of Leicester, U.K.  [ Press release ]

·   Telectra's ice*lighting™ was awarded the lighting product of the year 2005 by the Association of British Theatre Technicians, and its Bead*light® Technologies won the innovation prize at the Oxfordshire Business Awards 2005.  Ice*lighting™ provides visual entertainment effects through LED and Bead*light® Technologies and provides wide area video effects across split batten arrays without the use of a media server.  Bead*light® Technologies (patents pending) is a LED diffusion system used in Telectra's premium aircraft cabin seat lighting and the LIGHT*WAND® range of performance products for professional musicians and stage and theater technicians.  [ Press release 1, 2 ]

·   TIR Systems has been granted U.K. Patent GB 2,398,116, the first to be granted to TIR in the U.K.  The patent recognizes the same technology as U.S. Patent 6,871,983, covering the use of TIR's proprietary LED-based lighting technology for grid ceilings used in general illumination.  [ Press release]

·   Both Toyoda Gosei and Nichia plan to expand production of white LEDs, according to reports in Nikkei Net Interactive and LIGHTimes.  Toyoda Gosei will add a production facility and Nichia will greatly expand its research and development facility, according to the report.  [ News item in LIGHTimes ]

·   Other LED installations / contracts:

Ø       Arup Lighting and Xilver Lighting (Netherlands) designed a LED light show for Hanwha Retail's Galleria Fashion Mall in Seoul.  The 36,800 sq. ft. show is created by a computer-controlled system of 4,330 glass disks containing LEDs mounted on an aluminum substructure attached to the building façade.  [ Feature article in Display & Design Ideas magazine ]

Ø       BillBoard Video will design and manufacture a custom LED sign for WLS, the Chicago ABC television station.  The LED sign is a 40-foot tall curving sculpture that will stand on the sidewalk outside of WLS’ new studios facing pedestrian and automotive traffic on downtown Chicago’s historic State Street.  [ Article in LEDs Magazine ]

Ø       Carmanah will supply 225 units of its i-SHELTER™ solar/LED lighting systems for the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, under a contract with Viacom Outdoor JCDecaux Street Furniture Canada Limited Partnership.  The partnership is a joint venture between Viacom Outdoor Canada and JCDecaux, global providers of street furniture and outdoor advertising in the public transportation sector. [ Press release ]

Ø       Carmanah was awarded a $400,000 contract to supply its i-SHELTER™ solar-powered LED bus shelter lighting systems to King County Metro Transit of Seattle, Wash.  The systems will be installed throughout downtown Seattle and surrounding areas over the next two years.  [ Press release ]

Ø       Carmanah was awarded an $885,000 contract to supply its i-STOP™ solar-powered LED bus stop lighting systems to PACE Suburban Bus of Chicago, Ill.  Installation is scheduled over the next five years with the first $194,000 in i-STOP™ systems to be delivered before the end of August.  [ Press release ]

Ø       Color Kinetics' IntelliWhite™ technology will be used in a multiple store roll-out for men's footwear brand Bostonian.  Bostonian and its sister brand Clarks operate a network of retail stores nationwide, at least 15 of which will apply iW Profile to light their display shelving, replacing existing fluorescent display lights.  iW Profile allows for different Kelvin temperatures to be set according to display location; for example, cooler shades of white for displays near store windows, and warmer shades towards the store's interior.  [ Press release ]

Ø       Color Kinetics technology was used in the relighting of Philadelphia's Boathouse Row.  The new LED-based lighting system replaces the previous 30-year-old incandescent system at the popular Philadelphia landmark, which comprises 12 boating clubs in 10 architecturally distinct buildings along a half-mile stretch of the Schuylkill River.  [ Press release ]

Ø       Daktronics has designed and manufactured seven 14-by-48 foot ProStar® displays for Clear Channel Communications, Inc. for a pilot project incorporating electronic advertising billboards in the Cleveland area.  [ News item in LEDs Magazine ]

Ø       Daktronics will provide ProStar® video and ProAd® LED displays for the Blue Man Group’s performances at a new theater at The Venetian in Las Vegas.  Shipment of the displays for the $1 million project was scheduled for mid-August.  [ Press release ]

Ø       G-LEC's PhantomFrame system was used to advertise BMW's new 3-series at its flagship showrooms on Kurfürstendamm, Berlin's most exclusive shopping area.  Each 1 m x 1 m unit of PhantomFrame supports 16 clear polycarbonate tubes, each housing 16 high intensity LED pixels spaced 60 mm apart.  The space between the tubes is just air, so shoppers can see the vehicles displayed in the showroom behind the PhantomFrame.  [ News item in LEDs Magazine ]

Ø       Lighthouse Technologies will supply a new LED screen at Samsung's Piccadilly Circus site in London.  The P16i/o 16mm pixel pitch, 5,000 nits brightness LED screen will be installed during this summer.  The Samsung screen is positioned next to the Coca Cola Lighthouse screen and will become Samsung's flagship interactive advertising site.  [ Press release ]

Ø       Lighthouse Technologies supplied a LED video screen to real estate agent Flipse for use on the side of its building in Dronten, Holland.  The newly installed Lighthouse P19 LED video screen measures 3x3 panels (3.66 x 2.76 m) and has 5000 nit of brightness.  [ News item in LEDs Magazine ]

Ø       Lighting Technology Projects commissioned and programmed 130 Color Kinetics iColor® Cove EC fixtures for a new complex in The Deep, the world's only "submarium" in Hull, UK.  The Twilight Zone is a newly opened Ł6.8 million exhibition within The Deep, exploring the alien life forms found beneath the sunlit zone of the ocean.  [ News item in LEDs Magazine ]

Ø       Lumileds' Luxeon LEDs have been used to light Stevenage Borough Council's new Customer Service Centre in a project that turns the entire ceiling into a bespoke luminaire that simulates the sky.  In the first project of its kind in the UK, Future Group Lighting Design and Light Projects, a certified member of the LUXEON Lighting Network, created a feature ceiling consisting of a series of coffered arcs that conceal a specially developed light solution.  White and blue Luxeon LEDs create a color changing effect that runs over the course of the day, simulating the sky.  [ News item at Lighting&Sound International ]

Ø       Neutron Enterprises' Digital Signage Broadcast Network's mobile digital signage division (DSBN) has been awarded a three-year contract for the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) in British Columbia.  DSBN will provide a mobile LED screen, located at the main entrance and visible to the 1 million attendees expected during the fair's two-week period.  [ Press release ]

Ø       Neutron Enterprises' Digital Signage Broadcast Network (DSBN), Event & Screen Marketing division, will supply LED screens for the 26th Annual Detroit International Jazz Fest.  DSBN will provide two LED full-motion and full-sound screens, located at the main stages in both Hart Plaza and Campus Martius under the guitar at the Hard Rock Cafe.  [ Press release at PrimeZone Media Network ]

Ø       Osram has supplied white LEDs for the headlights of a Maserati concept car, Birdcage 75th, which was premiered at this year's Geneva Motor Show.  The concept headlights feature 12 high-power Ostar LEDs, as well as color effects around the edges of the headlights.  [ Press release ] 

Ø       Pulsar's ChromaFlood200 fixtures were used to light the exterior of the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in central London.  A total of 14 high-power RGB CFLD200 fixtures provide changing color to the building facade with a power requirement of about 1,250 W for most of the programmed scenes and a maximum of 2,500 W.  [ News item in LEDs Magazine ]