University of California Santa Barbara has been exploring the use of laser diodes (LDs) in combination with phosphors as a means to produce white light [Kristin A. Denault et al, AIP Advances, vol3, p072107, 2013]. Commercial 'white' ...
Tags: Near-UV LD, Blue LD, LED, Electrical, Electronics
US-based Henry Schein and medical device company E4D Technologies have announced a new agreement that will bring the latest in CAD CAM technology to select Aspen Dental practices across the US. Under the new agreement, the E4D restorative ...
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Japan's Shimadzu Corp has developed a blue direct diode laser (DDL), providing what is claimed to be industry-leading brightness levels. The 10W-type laser is being exhibited at InterOpto 2013 at Pacifico Yokohama, Japan (16-18 October). ...
Tags: Blue laser diode, Electrical, Electronics
As a modern culture, we crave artificial white lights -- the brighter the better, and ideally using less energy than ever before. To meet the ever-escalating demand for more lighting in more places and to improve the bulbs used in sports ...
Tags: Laser Based Lighting, Lighting
Researchers from the universities of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and of New Mexico (UNM) have demonstrated semipolar nitride semiconductor blue and green laser diodes (LDs) with part of the upper cladding replaced by indium tin oxide ...
Tags: Iii-Nitride Lasers, Electrical
Peking University has found that using a pre-strain layer in nitride semiconductor epitaxial structures designed for blue laser diodes (LDs) can reduce the efficiency-sapping quantum-confined Stark effect (QCSE) [Cao Wen-Yu et al, Chin. ...
New White Paper Examines the LED Market and Emerging Markets for Sapphire Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN) a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical industries, today announced the ...
Tags: Rubicon Technology, IMS Research
Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN) a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical markets, today announced that it has relaunched its website to reflect the company's focus on market ...
ProPhotonix Ltd of Salem, NH, USA, a designer and manufacturer of LED illumination systems and laser diode modules as well as a distributor of laser diodes, has been appointed distributor for Osram Opto Semiconductors range of green and ...
Tags: ProPhotonix, Osram Green, blue diode lasers
Samsung Electronics catapulted to the top of the optoelectronics supplier ranking in 2012 from 12th place in 2011 after it gained full ownership of Samsung LED, a 50-50 joint venture in light-emitting diodes that was created in 2009 between ...
Tags: Samsung, Optoelectronics, Electronics
A major challenge of in-situ metrology on single-port reactors with small viewport geometries is the combination of curvature measurements (by blue laser) with reflectance measurement at a wavelength of 405nm, says LayTec AG of Berlin, ...
Tags: LayTec, blue laser, reflectance measurement
BD Biosciences, a segment of Becton, Dickinson and Company, has introduced new FACSJazz flow cytometer cell sorter. The FACSJazz cell sorter, including digital controls and factory-optimized settings, simplifies cellular isolation and ...
Tags: flow cytometer cell sorter, digital controls, factory-optimized settings
Increasing brightness capability has seen coloured LEDs move into applications that were previously the domain of filtered incandescent light. Perhaps the most obvious example is in car rear light clusters where red-emitting LEDs ...
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Sony's diode lasers claim 2012 Leibinger prize 17 Sep 2012 Mass production of laser diodes and backwards compatible optical data storage recognized with biennial Zukunftspreis. Osamu Kumagai, a senior VP at Sony, has won the 2012 ...
Tags: Sony, Osamu Kumagai, Red Emitters, Blu-ray Disc
Semiconductor and MEMS giant aims to integrate video-sharing devices within smart phones and laptops. Projector phone:Samsung's Galaxy Beam Swiss-headquartered STMicroelectronics,rated as the world's leading maker of ...
Tags: ST, bTendo, STMicroelectronics, smart phones, laptop