LEDs are up to 80 percent more energy-efficient than normal light bulbs and last around five times as long as energy-saving light bulbs. As a result they are being used more and more frequently as a source of light. Nevertheless, white LEDs ...
Tags: LEDs, Protein-based LEDs, FAU
For full-year fiscal 2015 (ending 2 October), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported record revenue of $3.26bn, up 42% on fiscal 2014's $2.29bn. For the fiscal ...
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UV LED firm Seoul Viosys plans to partner with Watersprint of Medicon Village, Lund, Sweden, which develops water purification products and systems for the disinfection of bacteria, viruses and protozoa. The system will be used to supply ...
Tags: UV LEDs, Seoul Optodevice, Water Purification Technology
For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (ended 3 October 2015), Qorvo Inc, which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, has reported revenue of $708.3m, up 5.2% on $673.6m last ...
Tags: Qorvo, RFMD, TriQuint Semiconductor, Mobile Products
Solvay Specialty Polymers, a world leader in the research, development and manufacturing of high-performance materials designed to master the most challenging requirements in the semiconductor industry, will showcase at Semicon Taiwan 2015 ...
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Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today introduced the AL1791/2/3/4 LED drivers. These ...
Tags: Diodes Incorporated, Smart Lighting LED Drivers, Flicker-Free Dimming
Jijun Feng and Ryoichi Akimoto based in China and Japan have developed low-threshold green and green-yellow laser diodes (LDs) based on a beryllium zinc cadmium selenide (BeZnCdSe) quantum well [Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p161101, 2015]. ...
Tags: laser diodes, zirconium dioxide
The 2016 semiconducor market will be all about demand, according to Tien Wu, COO for IC backend house Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE). Macroeconomic factors such as US interest rates, Europe's economies and quantitative easing in ...
In response to China-based Tsinghua Unigroup's interest in combining its two subsidiary IC designers with Taiwan-based MediaTek, Acer founder Stan Shih said that China-based investment in Taiwan-based IC design houses is feasible as long as ...
It's hard to escape the positive vibe that is currently circulating within the optics industry. As well as publishing record results in quarter one, many of the industry's big hitters have also published encouraging growth forecasts for ...
Tags: optics industry, cosmetic medical systems, semiconductor tools
Equipment spending by semiconductor chip manufacturers, a key industrial market for vendors of both lithography and laser-based wafer processing systems, will reach $32 billion in 2010 – more than double the 2009 figure. ...
Tags: semiconductor, chip, LED fab
An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...
The market for mid-infrared lasers is about to receive a welcome boost from a raft of new medical and military applications. That’s according to a new analyst report from the market research firm Strategies Unlimited, which ...
Tags: mid-infrared lasers, photonics industry, mid-IR region
Can you consider light as a product, ready to pick up from the shelf and take home? You can't touch or hold it, but being able to use it whenever needed has been vital to the progress of humanity. Light sources have progressed from candles ...
Tags: Lighting market, LED demand, displays
In a dramatic change from the status quo, nearly half of all gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs will be produced on silicon substrates by the end of the decade. That’s according to a new report by analysts at IHS, who forecast that the ...
Tags: LED Production, GaN LEDs, sapphire wafers