Due to their compactness and low cost of ownership, UV LEDs continue to penetrate the booming UV curing business, through replacement of incumbent technologies such as mercury lamps, according to 'UV LED - Technology, Manufacturing and ...
Thermco Systems, a division of Tetreon Technologies Ltd of Washington, West Sussex, UK has appointed Arthur Chen as sales manager for Taiwan. Picture: Thermco Systems’ new sales manager for Taiwan, Arthur Chen. As a designer ...
Tags: Thermco Systems, Sales Manager, Electrical
LED maker Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China plans to issue 6.07 million stocks to raise a total of RMB800m ($130.39m) in financing in order to expand its production of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED epitaxial wafers, according to ...
Simba, a part of PepsiCo South Africa, has officially openend a state-of-the-art chip manufacturing facility in Prospecton, KwaZulu-Natal. The facility is Simba's third manufacturing facility in South Africa. The Prospecton plant will ...
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The situation, mixed with the entry of several new players at the chip and device levels (mostly from Asia), created a climate of overcapacity, price pressure, and strong competition. As a consequence, packaged LED volumes were sharply ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED
Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Sunlight
Gross production of LED chips by domestic Chinese companies (listed companies with mainly Chinese investment backgrounds) was US $8.49 million (NT $255 million), a YoY increase of 17%, according to LEDinside. Rapid increase of penetration ...
Tags: LED Chip, Commercial Lighting
Researchers have tried a variety of methods to develop detectors that are responsive to a broad range of infrared light—which could form imaging arrays for security systems, or solar cells that harness a broader range of sunlight's ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has celebrated its 30th anniversary, after being co-founded by physicist Dr Holger Jürgensen (now honorary chairman of Aixtron’s Supervisory Board), Dr Meino Heyen and ...
Tags: LED, electronics
For fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to end-August), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $3.4m, down 29% on $4.8m last quarter and down 38% on $5.5m a year ago. Revenue for full-year fiscal 2013 ...
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cJapanese manufacturers are way ahead of competition in LED lighting patent applications. Nine Japanese companies have become major patentee in the LED industry, with Samsung as the sole Korean patent holder. Japanese companies have ...
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Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Epistar saw earnings turn to losses in 3Q13, due to loss on valuation of financial liability. Although, the company’s gross profit rebound rate was much lower than expected in 2013, higher gross profits ...
The Phosphor-on-Die LEDs are based on TSMC's LED flip-chip manufacturing platform and enable more dense packing of emitters in compact light sources such as MR16 lamps. TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd (NYSE: TSM) has announced the ...
Reshuffling in the LED chip manufacturing industries in Taiwan and China through merger may happen faster than originally expected and larger makers will merge with smaller ones, leaving only two Taiwan-based makers and three China-based ...
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