The light-emitting diode (LED) industry is entering its third growth cycle, general lighting, according to Yole Développement and EPIC’s report, “Status of the LED Industry.” However, the cost of a packaged LED ...
October 23, 2012 - ProTek Devices says it is now offering individual unpackaged die for LEDs in wafer form, available as unidirectional and bidirectional electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection diodes. The new LED die (<6 mils thickness) ...
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Philips Lumileds has reentered the market for blue LED die at SIL and also announced an expansion of the Luxeon S family of multi-emitter packaged LEDs at the Strategies in Light conference. Philips Lumileds has announced the ...
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Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has launched new LUXEON Flip Chip LED devices (in a 1mm x 1mm format) to provide luminaire manufacturers with more design flexibility. Users can now access Lumileds technology through a robust LUXEON ...
LED utilization rates are picking up again, with utilization in Taiwan now back up to 70 to 90 percent of capacity. Companies expect to be back to close to 100 percent in a month or two, driven by TV backlight demand, reports Yole ...
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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Typical indicator LEDs are designed to operate with no more than 30–60 milliwatts (mW) of electrical power. Around 1999, Philips Lumileds introduced power LEDs capable of continuous use at one watt. These LEDs used much larger ...
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Cree,announces commercial availability of XLamp XB-D color LEDs and XLamp XM-L multi-color LEDs.The high performance color LEDs provide lighting manufacturers with discrete and multi-color LED options to more cost-effectively address a ...
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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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Tunable white,violet and multi-color LED solutions on show at LDI 2012 LED Engin,Inc.,a leader in high lumen density LED products,will be demonstrating on Booth 2211 at LDI 2012 how its tunable white,violet and multi-color LED emitters ...
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See also:The blog LED Luminaries LED headlights will trickle down from premium cars this year,at least as an option. "Now there are a few premium cars:Lexus,Prius,Cadillac,Audi A8 and R8,"Steffen Pietzonka,v-p of marketing at German car ...
LED chip,lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has announced the commercial availability of XLamp XB-D color LEDs and XLamp XM-L multi-color LEDs,providing lighting manufacturers with discrete and multi-color LED options ...
Lighting LEDs are a route to energy efficiency that also allow creative effects that were not possible with incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes. But the output spectrum, like that of fluorescent tubes, is nothing like the sunlight ...
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ProTek Devices™ today announced a new business line currently targeted at LED lighting manufacturers. The product line consists of individual unpackaged die available in wafer form. The die in wafer form are available as ...
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Epistar, Taiwan's largest manufacturer of packaged LEDs has decided to trial silicon-based wafers. The company is hoping to take advantage of cost savings in the backend of the LED manufacturing process to in turn broaden SSL deployment. ...