Mass production of GaN template wafers based on sapphire substrates could free LED manufacturers' MOCVD reactors for more LED production and lower component cost helping drive the deployment of SSL. Hitachi Cable has become the second ...
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Toshiba's white LED package Bridgelux is selling its gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si)?technology and related assets to Toshiba. The news comes as the two companies announced that they will expand their licensing and manufacturing ...
The combination of TIR lenses, a reflecting chamber, and a diffuser-like microlens array deliver greater light output, better beam control, and less glare in SSL street lights according to a team of researchers from Taiwan and Mexico. ...
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NXP Semiconductors N.V. introduced 15 new reference design boards featuring NXP’s broad portfolio of mains-dimmable and non-dimmable solid-state lighting (SSL) driver ICs. Each reference board is built around a best-in-class ...
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Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in collaboration with colleagues at the Ecole Polytechnique in France, say they have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes light emitting ...
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Seoul Semiconductor(SSC), a global LED manufacturer , announced its qulification for UL WTDP which reduces the time it takes to get the UL Mark for products targeted to overseas markets by allowing the company to perform testing in its own ...
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UV disinfection specialist Hanovia has appointed Mark Aston as its new Technical Director. Mark has over 25 years’ experience in developing profitable products from innovative technology. He has held senior director roles in ...
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Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, a provider of c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting market, has selected Elmet Technologies Inc of Lewiston, Maine, ...
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In 2012, MCU unit shipments surged 16%, but total revenues declined 3% and ASPs plunged 17%, says IC Insights. While uncertainty about the global economy played a factor in lowering MCU revenues, the market was significantly ...
Bridgelux is selling its gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology and related assets to Toshiba Toshiba’s white LED package The two companies also announced they will ramp up a factory in Japan to make LEDs based ...
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Following the launch of the Works with Soraa program (a lamp and fixture validation program) in December 2012, Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride ...
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Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the école Polytechnique in Paris, France, say that they have identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes nitride light-emitting diodes ...
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Luminus Devices Inc of Billerica, MA, USA, which makes PhlatLight (photonic lattice) LEDs for solid-state lighting applications, and Vision X Lighting have formed a strategic partnership aimed at extending the adoption of LED technology ...
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At a Lightfair press conference, GE Lighting reveals wireless network for outdoor lighting and Los Angeles LED street-light pilot, and discusses consumer retrofit lamps. GE Lighting was one of several companies to address lighting ...
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The consumer-electronics stalwart hopes to leverage its position in smartphones and home electronics while adding ZigBee-based SSL to the mix, and also used Lightfair as a platform to launch new packaged LEDs and LED modules. Samsung held ...