White LED with high light efficiency, long life, energy saving, environmental protection and other significant advantages of green lighting and information display has broad application prospects in the field. At present, the core material ...
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Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
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National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan has developed a simple silane treatment to improve crystal quality/internal quantum efficiency (IQE) and light extraction in nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Chung-Chieh Yang et ...
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Triangular quantum well injection boosts nitride LED efficiency by 80% The State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technology of Sun Yat-sen University has reduced the forward voltages and increased the device efficiency of ...
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The HB-LED Market track of Strategies in Light opened today with a variety of talks that included a comprehensive market update; news from China, Korea and Europe; a company emerging from stealth mode; and detailed focus on phosphors, ...
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Soraa, the world’s leading developer of GaN on GaNTM – gallium nitride on gallium nitride – solid-state lighting technology, today announced the launch of its flagship product, the Soraa LED MR16 lamp. The new product is ...
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Soraa, the world’s leading developer of GaN on GaNTM – gallium nitride on gallium nitride – solid-state lighting technology, today announced the launch of its flagship product, the Soraa LED MR16 lamp. The new product is ...
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A Japanese research team has uncovered large reserves of rare earths in the floor of the Pacific Ocean in a discovery that could have large implications for the supply chain in the lighting industry. Until now the messy business of mining ...
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IMEC (Leuven, Belgium), a global research institute, and Siltronic AG (Munich, Germany), a silicon wafer manufacturer, have concluded an agreement to collaborate on the development of gallium-nitride-on-silicon wafers (GaN-on-Si) as part of ...
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A developer of aluminum nitride substrates, Nitride Solutions, will use $1.8 million in financing to optimize its substrate manufacturing technology and begin manufacturing and sales this year. Nitride Solutions (Wichita, KS) has secured ...
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The high purity metal-organic (HPMO) business of AkzoNobel, part of its Functional Chemicals Business Unit, will build two new production plants for trimethyl gallium (TMG) and trimethyl indium (TMI) at its existing production facility in ...
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Rubicon Technology is beginning volume production of 6-inch and 8-inch sapphire wafers at its state-of-the-art facility in Penang, Malaysia, while GT Solar has invested $27 million to triple its sapphire production capacity in Salem, Mass. ...
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Strategies Unlimited says that the market for LED driver ICs will grow at a CAGR of 12% between 2010 and 2015, driven by the demand for LED TV backlights and replacement LED lamps. LED driver IC sales will reach nearly $3.5 billion in 2015 ...
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A Chinese crystal-growth company has produced a very large sapphire crystal using equipment from Thermal Technology. Hefei Crystalbridge Optoelectronic Materials Co. Ltd., a China-based sapphire crystal manufacturer, has grown a ...
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National Semiconductor's LM3466 driver targets LED-based street lights while Micrel targets architectural and landscape lighting applications with the MIC4801/4802. National Semiconductor has announced its linear LM3466 LED driver that's ...
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