Despite a major surplus in the light-emitting diode (LED) market, top suppliers are increasing their capital spending and production because of government incentives and in order to cash in on an expected boom in the lighting business. ...
Tags: LED, light-emitting diode, Electrical, Electronics
Ultratech Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which designs and manufactures lithography, laser-processing and inspection systems used to make semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs), has moved its Ultratech/Cambridge NanoTech ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Acuity has supplied LED streetlights to Chula Vista, CA while Ipswich, Australia retrofits streetlights, and Detroit installs SSL in airport parking garages; but citizens in Arlington, VA and Fairhope, AL aren't fully happy with LED ...
Sub-watt LEDs in 3014 and 3030 packages target general illumination and are based on the gallium-nitride-on-silicon technology developed by Toshiba and Bridgelux. Toshiba has announced two mid-power white LED families that are being ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, Lighting
Veeco Instruments has characterized a marginally improving market for its MOCVD reactors used in LED manufacturing, along with details of new orders from Sanan Optoelectronics and KaiStar Lighting. Veeco Instruments has released limited ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Lights, Lighting
The US Department of Energy has made slight revisions to the LED PAR38 L Prize competition including eased beam angle specs and requirements in the origin of components, and the agency announced a new OLED funding opportunity. The US ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that in third-quarter 2013 China’s largest LED maker Sanan Optoelectronics Co Ltd has placed a multi-tool order for TurboDisc MaxBright ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that in second-quarter 2013 it received an KaiStar Lighting Co Ltd. Order for multiple TurboDisc MaxBright M metal-organic chemical vapor ...
Tags: Kaistar, LED Manufacturing Ramp
Renovated Supermarket Showcases Merchandise with Better Light, Improved Efficiency and Continued Savings DURHAM, NC -- Bashas’, a family-owned and operated grocery retailer in the western United States, recently installed ...
Tags: CREE, LED Lighting
Veeco announced on July 29 that Sanan Optoelectronics Co. Ltd., the biggest LED maker in China, has placed a multi-tool order for Veeco's TurboDisc MaxBright M Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems in the third quarter of ...
Toshiba Corporation announced the launch of white LEDs fabricated with gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) process. The LEDs are low power sub-watt type and ideal for indoor lighting applications, due to reduction of forward voltage ...
Tags: Toshiba, White LEDs
Veeco Instruments Inc.is providing select financial metrics and business highlights for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Due to the accounting review announced on November 15, 2012, the Company is unable to report revenue and earnings ...
On July 29, Veeco announced that KaiStar Lighting Co., Ltd., a China-based joint venture between Epistar Corporation and Shenzhen Kaifa Technology Co., Ltd., ordered multiple TurboDisc MaxBright M MOCVD Systems in the second quarter of ...
With the efficiency and total lumen output for LEDs on the rise, lighting in 2013 will surpass handsets as the biggest application for LED driver ICs, with revenue rising by more than 50% annually, and then more than doubling by 2018, ...
Tags: LED Driver, IC Segment
For second-quarter 2013, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany, has reported revenue of €45.3m, down 1.7% on €46.1m a year ago but up 13% on €40.2m last quarter. The firm also recorded improvements in its ...
Tags: Aixtron MOCVD