For many LED makers, 2014 has been a challenging year, with performance in the first and second halves of the year very polarized for many, notes Roger Chu, research director of LEDinside (a research division of TrendForce). Lighting market ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced commercial availability of XLamp Extreme High Power (XHP) LEDs, a new class of LEDs enabling a system cost reduction of up to 40% for lighting applications, it is claimed. The first LEDs powered ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that Xiamen-based Sanan Optoelectronics Co Ltd, China’s largest LED maker, has ordered 50 TurboDisc EPIK700 gallium nitride (GaN) ...
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While OLED products have been available for some time, their comparatively high price has resulted in low shipment quantities, but with recent advancements in OLED technology, interest in OLED lighting is beginning to rise. While OLED is ...
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Until recently, the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting market was far from mature. While OLED products have been available for some time, their comparatively high price has resulted in low shipment quantities. However, with recent ...
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With the steady increase in the usability and efficiency of LEDs over traditional light bulbs during the last decade, the global market for high-brightness LEDs is projected to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.9% from ...
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Ohio State University and University of Illinois at Chicago have developed deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on III-nitride semiconductor nanowires [Thomas F Kent et al, Nanotechnology, vol25, p455201, 2014]. The ...
Continuing strength in China and a resurgent US economy are combining to drive accelerated growth in the worldwide market for semiconductors used in industrial applications in 2014, according to IHS. Global market revenues for industrial ...
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Researchers based in China have found “remarkably reduced efficiency droop” from staircase (SC) thin indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum barrier (QB) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Kun Zhou et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol105, ...
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At the Electronica 2014 trade fair in Munich, Germany (11-14 November), Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has unveiled the P 13 as the latest addition to its Soleriq P series of LEDs. The Soleriq P 13 has a brightness ...
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Funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and coordinated by Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, the Hi-Q-LED project has made advances with green LEDs, diminishing the ‘green ...
At the 11th China International Forum on Solid State Lighting (SSL CHINA 2014) in Guangzhou (6-8 November), deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has launched its next-generation metal-organic chemical vapor deposition ...
When Into Lighting started to design a lighting scheme for the French fashion house Jitrois on London’s Sloane Street, it knew it had to come up with a model that was as elegant, individual and impeccably executed as the clothes it ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced its SC5 Technology Platform, targeted at powering the next generation of lighting with the introduction of the firm’s new Extreme High Power (XHP) LEDs. The new class of LEDs can reduce ...
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The market for gallium nitride (GaN) packaged LEDs in automotive applications will reach $1bn this year for the first time, rising by 11% from $943m in 2013 to $1.05bn in 2014, forecasts the LED Intelligence Service of IHS Technology in a ...
Tags: Automotive LED lighting, GaN LEDs