South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor is launching the global campaign ‘Acrich for Trees’ via its web-site to actively encourage the use of eco-friendly AC LED bulbs using the firm’s Acrich LEDs. Of participants ...
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Demand for backlighting products for large-size TVs in China continues to rise, according to Biing-Jye Lee, chairman of Epistar. Lee added that the firm's joint venture for LED epitaxial wafers and chips in Xiamen, southeastern China, with ...
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South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has announced the new MJT 4040 package, which uses multi-junction technology to bring performance and size advantages to the LED outdoor and streetlight markets. The firm also announced that it ...
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South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has launched a 0.6T side-view LED, optimized for the fast-growing smart-phone and tablet (phablet) market, which requires high brightness and high efficacy. The 0.6mm (tall) LED delivers 8.8 ...
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As sapphire substrate makers brace for a year of consolidation, 2013 could deliver the killer application, reports Compound Semiconductor. Will 2013 be a year of two halves for manufacturers of sapphire substrates? Overcapacity and falling ...
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LED maker Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has launched the LUXEON 3535L family of mid-power LEDs, offering what is claimed to be the highest luminous efficacy available for the category on the market: 165 lumens per watt (165lm/W) at ...
Every LED maker wants to know the emission wavelength of its final device during metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) growth, says LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, ...
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Ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV LED) maker Sensor Electronic Technology Inc (SETi) of Columbia, SC, USA has launched a new line of UVTOP products in surface mount packages at the 2013 SPIE Photonics West show. Initial devices added ...
One in five Chinese LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future. About 4,000 companies in China are producing LEDs, or ...
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At the Strategies in Light 2013 conference in Santa Clara (12-14 February), LED maker Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA launched the second-generation of its LUXEON S illumination-grade multi-chip emitters, offering twice the lumen ...
Bridgelux has appointed Brad Bullington as its new CEO, Marl and Bivar have formed a global alliance, KaiStar has ordered more LED manufacturing systems from Veeco, and Lextar has completed its merger with Wellypower. Bridgelux appoints new ...
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Toshiba and US-based Bridgelux will reportedly start volume production of 8-inch Si-substrate GaN wafers for use to make LED chips in the first quarter of 2013, according to Taiwan-based makers. However, president Jacob Tam for TSMC Solid ...
Late last month LED maker Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA said that, after restructuring its distribution channels, it had added new distributors for the first time in nearly two decades, driven by the needs of a rapidly growing ...
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South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd says that Verbatim is to launch a new range of LED-based products that are built around Seoul Semiconductor’s patented nPola technology. nPola minimizes defects in the LED chip’s ...
Future Lighting Solutions has signed a global LED distribution deal with LG Innotek, PhotonStar has raised funds and signed a licensing deal, Nichia has received a favorable patent-infringement judgment, and Martin Professional has been ...
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