Yole Développement announced today its new report “UV LEDs: Technology & Application Trends” which presents UV LED new applications and associated market metrics for the period 2012-2020, and a deep analysis of UV LED ...
Tags: UV LEDs, lighting industry, UV curing
Due to UV curing, UV LEDs should become a $270m business by 2017, and could hit $300m if new applications boom, according to a report ‘UV LEDs: Technology & Application Trends’ from market research firm Yole Développement ...
Luxonic luminaires based on GE Infusion LED modules met all the requirements for a UK retailer, including low maintenance, flexibility and the possibility of easy upgrades. Next, one of the UK's largest and best-known fashion and ...
Tags: LED Luminaires, GE Modules, Lighting
At the SIL conference, Atmel announced a driver IC family designed specifically for high-CRI lamps and luminaires that use a mix of phosphor-converted white LEDs and red or amber LEDs that combined deliver good light quality and high ...
Tags: Atmel, LED Driver ICs, High-CRI Color-Mix SSL Applications
Soraa has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for its outstanding work in the development of high-efficiency m-plane LEDs grown on low-defect density bulk GaN substrates. The company demonstrated a very high peak internal ...
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has received an award from the US Department of Energy for its work in the ...
Tags: Soraa GaN-on-GaN, Electronics, Lighting
The Consumer Electronics Show just completed its Las Vegas run and SSL technology was showcased in products ranging from the latest TVs to retrofit lamps, and adaptive controls were prevalent as well. The annual Consumer Electronics Show ...
Tags: CES, LED, TVs, retrofit lamps
Bright, uniform, reliable channel letter lighting is important to the brand image of countless businesses. Inconsistent or unlit elements can undermine customers' positive perceptions. With more than 20 million linear feet of Tetra product ...
High initial price: LEDs are currently more expensive, price per lumen, on an initial capital cost basis, than most conventional lighting technologies. As of 2010, the cost per thousand lumens (kilolumen) was about $18. The price is ...
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Bridgelux Inc.and Toshiba Corporation announced that Bridgelux and Toshiba have achieved the industry's top class 8"GaN on Silicon LED chip emitting 614mW,<3.1V@350mA with 1.1mm square chip,just months after they have engaged in a joint ...
Tags: Japan North America Toshiba LED Chip Bridgelux GaN on Silicon
While growth in the LED industry came initially from small display applications and was furthered by LCD display applications, lower-than-expected adoption of LEDs in the TV market and the entry of several new players (mostly from Asia) in ...
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Solid-state devices such as LEDs are subject to very limited wear and tear if operated at low currents and at low temperatures. Many of the LEDs made in the 1970s and 1980s are still in service today. Typical lifetimes quoted are 25,000 to ...
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Following a built up of 60 percent capacity expansion in 2011, LED fab investments will slow down somewhat with expected capacity expansion of 39 percent and 26 percent in 2012 and 2013, respectively. The slowdown follows the strong build ...
Tags: China LED
LED manufacturers invested heavily in production equipment in 2010–2011, driven primarily by demand for backlighting for flat panel displays in TVs and computers. Although this driver has moderated and there is currently an oversupply ...
Tags: MOCVD, MOCVD epitaxial process
Researchers in China have developed a low-cost, high-throughput photonic crystal (PhC) process for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Tongbo Wei et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p211111, 2012]. The process used ...
Tags: Nanospheres GaN LEDs MOCVD, LEDs