(Durham, N.C.) Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, has introduced a series of packaged diodes that deliver the industry’s highest blocking voltage available in SiC Schottky technology. Cree’s 1700V Z-Rec® Schottky diodes virtually eliminate the reverse recovery losses suffered in silicon PiN diode alternatives, enabling ultra-efficient, smaller and lighter systems—all with improved reliability. These newly released packaged products extend the performance improvements and system cost savings enabled by Z-Rec technology at 1700V to lower-power applications designed with discrete components. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, extends its high-brightness LED leadership with the commercial availability of the new Screen Master C4SMT and C4SMD 4mm LEDs. The superior brightness and unrivaled far-field pattern matching, combined with industry-leading packaging technology, can enable Cree LED customers to deliver a better viewing experience for their audience and achieve lower system and operating costs than previous generations of LEDs. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEXS) has announced its new ArrayLEDdirect.com commercial web-portal. ArrayLEDdirect.com streamlines an antiquated supply chain, while expanding our commercial customer base for the Array® brand of specification grade LED replacement light bulbs. Our new portal also provides commercial customers with a unique set of services and support based on their specific business needs, including new cost saving tools and ROI calculators that demonstrate the tremendous cost savings potential LED lighting can bring to their specific application, facility or end customer. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of the new LMH2 LED module family, designed to speed time-to-market for high-quality LED luminaires. The barrier-breaking LMH2 is the only LED module delivering 80-lumens-per-watt system efficacy combined with CRI greater than 90. The modules feature Cree TrueWhite® Technology, a revolutionary way to generate white light with LEDs. The modules deliver high efficiency with beautiful light characteristics and color accuracy while maintaining color consistency over the life of the product. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces that more than 930 LR6(TM) six-inch LED downlights and LR24(TM) LED lay-in luminaries have been installed at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base as part of an overall renovation currently underway. Located outside of San Diego, Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps, serving as its prime amphibious training base for nearly 100,000 Marines. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of high-voltage XLamp® XT-E and XM-L LEDs. These new LEDs can enable the use of more efficient, smaller drivers to lower cost for compact lighting applications such as candelabras and retrofit lamps. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) LED lighting leader, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), continues to extend the advantage of its innovative, industry-leading XLamp® LED family with the announcement of new levels of performance for its highly efficient XLamp XP-G LEDs, now delivering up to 140 lumens per watt. The proven XP-G LED can help lighting manufacturers reduce system cost and complexity and can make existing designs brighter and more efficient. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, continues its mission of advancing the adoption of SiC into mainstream power applications. Cree’s advances in SiC technology are setting new standards in energy efficiency while reducing system costs and improving reliability when compared to silicon-based power devices. Cree’s latest addition to its 1200V SiC Schottky diode product offering includes four new surface mount devices in 2A, 5A, 8A, and 10A current ratings and packaged in the industry-standard surface mount TO-252 D-Pak. Cree is the first manufacturer to offer this comprehensive range of current ratings for commercially available 1200V SiC Schottky diodes in the surface mount D-Pak package. Designers of systems, such as solar micro inverters, now have more options to develop smaller, lighter and less costly power conversion circuits. The new surface mount devices deliver the same proven performance as Cree’s TO-220 Schottky diodes, but with a smaller PCB footprint and lower profile. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of TEMPO(TM) Services, a comprehensive set of quantitative and qualitative tests and analyses for LED-based lighting fixtures and lamps. TEMPO (Thermal, Electrical, Mechanical, Photometric and Optical) Services represent the accumulated advantage of Cree’s extensive experience with customer LED systems combined with the use of calibrated test equipment to give LED lighting manufacturers and end users confidence in LED product designs. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces its entire family of LED-based troffer replacements, including the latest Cree CR series of troffers, have been qualified by the DesignLights Consortium(TM) (DLC), ensuring they meet the highest level of quality standards. Cree’s CR14(TM), CR 22(TM) and CR24(TM) troffers, along with the LR24(TM) and LR24-HE troffers, are the most efficient and have the highest CRI of any products rated in the DLC “Linear Panel” categories. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) In a move to improve lighting quality and safety at its Cold Canyon Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Waste Connections, Inc. (NYSE: WCN) upgraded its lighting system with Cree-powered Xeralux LED high-bay fixtures. The Xeralux fixtures feature Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) XLamp® XP-G LEDs, helping Waste Connections reduce its energy costs by almost two-thirds and nearly eliminating its maintenance costs. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) will demonstrate the industry’s first GaN HEMT MMIC high power amplifier (HPA) for satellite communication applications at the 2011 IEEE International Microwave Symposium held June 7-9 in Baltimore. The demonstration product offers dramatic performance improvements over existing commercially-available GaAs MESFET transistors or Traveling Wave Tube-based amplifiers. (more…)