A broad family of LED drivers with standardized form-factors is included in the latest specification from the Zhaga Consortium. The Zhaga Consortium has published a new specification for LED drivers that are used in combination with ...
Teledyne Microwave Solutions Inc of Mountain View, CA, USA (TMS, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Inc) has launched a line of gallium nitride (GaN)-based wideband amplifiers that is claimed to further lower the form factor threshold ...
Tags: TMS, GaN amplifiers
American Bright Optoelectronics Corp. today released the Ingeni-AC family of linear form factor direct AC LED modules that eliminate the need for costly external AC to DC conversion and both speeds total development time while radically ...
Phoseon introduces the FireJet™ FJ240 UV LED curing solution, its highest UV power air-cooled light array. Providing an additional 33% of UV power compared to existing FireJet products, the new solution is designed for more demanding ...
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has launched a highly integrated, low-power-dissipation, small-form-factor single- ...
Tags: semiconductor, wireless networks
Plessey announced today that its dotLED range, designed specifically for wearable applications, has been expanded with a wider selection of colours, including red, green and blue. The extremely small LED die have a footprint of only 0.2mm x ...
Tags: Plessey, dotLED, Wearable Devices
Light Polymers is introducing the world's first liquid-crystal-based remote phosphor flexible film. In LED lighting, a remote phosphor film moves the blue-to-white-light converting phosphor material from the LED itself to the substrate that ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the 2014 edition of its Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Roadmap. The Roadmap, which complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan, intended for R&D programs, aims to guide ...
Tags: LED, OLED Lighting
“The machine vision industry in Germany will grow in 2014 by at least 10% minimum and overall industry turnover will exceed its sales forecast of about €1.8 billion by the end of this year,” stated Dr. Olaf Munkelt, ...
Tags: machine vision industry, Intelligent traffic systems, growth
Apple, fresh off releasing the mega-sized iPhone 6S and even larger iPhone 6S Plus, is considering downsizing to a 4-inch device, according to one analyst. The analyst sees the 4-inch iPhone as a budget-priced model. The casing would ...
Tags: iPhone, led display
In the optical communications markets, demand for 40G transceivers is now “ramping up hard” as data centers deploy 40GbE (Ethernet), particularly as a high-density 10G interface via breakout cables. Also, 40G QSFP (quad small ...
Tags: optical communications markets, transceiver, single-mode fiber
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has announced availability of its complete chipset for CWDM ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Chipset, semiconductors
Ultratech, a supplier of lithography, laser--processing and inspection systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HBLEDs), as well as atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, today announced that it has ...
Tags: Wafer-Level Packaging, LEDs
The legal US cannabis industry is valued at $2.7 billion as of 2014 up 74 per cent from 2013, making it the fastest growing industry in the U.S. over that span (according to ArcView Market Research). As the market grows, so does the need to ...
Avago Technologies Ltd (which designs and supplies III-V-based analog interface components for communications, storage, consumer and industrial applications) has launched the AFBR-57E6APZ ultra-low-power Fast Ethernet small-form-factor ...
Tags: Avago Technologies, analog interface components, fiber-optic transceiver