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Taiwan CHIMEI has announced to kick off LED lighting in Japan market with the partnership with Japan Waseda University Institute of Bussiness.

Everlight has benefited several LED streetlights contracts from mainland Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Hebei in addition to talks with the mainland’s big retailers over promoting the company’s LED light bulbs in the mainland.

Philips Lighting in Bali has hosted the “city.people.light” event to suggest urban planners to use LED lighting solutions to address urban development and sustainability challenges to improve people’s quality of life.

Toshiba will expand its partnership with the Louvre Museum and will ultimately light the Mona Lisa with LEDs, while the Black Tank announced an SSL project at Madame Tussauds wax museum in Las Vegas.

As newer technologies like 3D and smart TVs become popular around the world, LCDs have seen a slump in demand. And Samsung has intended to focus on selling LED TVs in India after spinning off its loss-making LCD business globally.

Cree announced that John Kurtzweil has resigned as executive vice president-finance and chief financial officer, effective May 21, 2012, to pursue other opportunities, and that Michael McDevitt has been appointed CFO on an interim basis.

Paulmann Light, a German lighting company, has become the 200th organization to sign up to Philips’ licensing program for LED-based luminaires retrofit lamps.

UL Centre of Excellence lab will test lighting products, LED-based lighting in many cases, for safety and performance, compliance to standards such as Zhaga, and product efficiency and quality programs such as Energy Star.

The 2011 GE Edison Award was presented to Glenn Heinmiller, Paul Zaferiou and Dan Weissman of Lam Partners (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) for lighting the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., USA.

Bridgelux and Toshiba have achieved the industry’s top class 8″ GaN on Silicon LED chip emitting 614mW, < 3.1V @ 350mA with 1.1mm square chip, just months after they have engaged in a joint collaborative agreement this year.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have published a paper evaluating the cost of energy for lighting systems and concluded that a DC grid is far less expensive powering LED lighting.

Philips has kicked off working on a technology that will significantly reduce its dependence on rare earth minerals for its LED lighting products.