Tower Bridge in London receives Olympic LED makeover 31 May In preparation for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games,London's Tower Bridge has been fitted with an LED lighting system from GE.Philips Ledalite announces TruGroove LED-based ...
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Germany increases focus on infrastructure,LED lighting 26 Jun Germany has invested in SSL in automobiles and street lights,and now broader investments are being encouraged to build a larger SSL manufacturing base.Hella research says LED ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA has received a$2.7m contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA)to triple the power handling performance of ...
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that at last October’s International Workshop on Nitride ...
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With the LED TV backlight market slowing, and the general lighting market yet to take off, LED makers are looking to all sorts of innovative ways to improve cost and performance to drive adoption — from disruptive new technologies to ...
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LED chip and lighting array maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore,CA,USA has been named in the annual San Francisco Business Times 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area list.Ranked 17 on the list,Bridgelux was selected because of ...
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Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will start mass production of white light-emitting diode(LED)on a production line that the company will construct in the 200mm wafer facility at Kaga Toshiba Electronics Co.Ltd.,a production base ...
Epistar,the Taiwan-based company that is ranked as one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-brightness LEDs,has become the latest major producer to hint at a transfer to a potentially much cheaper silicon platform. Currently the ...
Semiconductor of Phoenix,AZ,USA,which supplies silicon-based power and signal management,logic,discrete and custom devices for energy-efficient electronics,has joined the multi-partner,industrial R&D program at nanoelectronics research ...
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Bridgelux was named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100,produced by Cleantech Group,a global research and advisory firm focused on innovation in energy and the environment. The Global Cleantech 100 list is unique in the ...
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At this year’s China SSL Conference , AIXTRON again has hosted an MOCVD seminar along with the China Solid State Lighting Alliance (CSA). More than 200 decision-makers from industry and research took part in AIXTRON’s ...
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The release of GAN-on-silicon LED chips in China presents a lower-cost alternative that is comparable in quality to mainstream products based on sapphire and SiC substrates. R&D work leveraging the advantages of silicon substrates has ...
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This quarter, Plessey Semiconductors plans to sample its GaN-on-Silicon LEDs. Samples are due out in December with production sales beginning in March for both LED die and packaged devices. It is the culmination of a decade of ...
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Epistar hints at'game-changing'silicon LED switch 12 Oct 2012 Giant Taiwanese LED maker works with GaN-on-silicon specialist Azzurro on technology with potential to cut cost of solid-state lighting. Plessey's GaN-on-silicon LED ...
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Epistar and Azzurro have jointly made breakthroughs on developing GaN-on-silicon based LEDs utilising Epistar's HB LED structures and Azzurro's technology for 150mm GaN-on-silicon in just 4 months. The firms transferred Epistar's existing ...
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