The open-access paper The role of photonics in energy, authored by a team including Zakya Kafafi of Lehigh University, editor of the Journal of Photonics for Energy, traces the development of the science of light from the Arab scholar Ibn ...
EV Group of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) says that over the past year it has seen a significant increase in demand for its wafer bonding ...
Soitec of Bernin, near Grenoble, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, says that it is defending its rights in an investigation by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) instituted on 18 ...
Tags: Soitec, SOI, Engineered substrates
Appropriately themed “Envision the future of lights” after its mission, the 20th edition of the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition had participants sharing inspirational ideas and innovative technologies. Dialogue of ...
Advances at Oregon State University in manufacturing technology for “quantum dots” may soon lead to a new generation of LED lighting that produces a more user-friendly white light, while using less toxic materials and low-cost ...
Tags: quantum dots, LED lighting, color control
Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today introduced the AL1791/2/3/4 LED drivers. These ...
Tags: Diodes Incorporated, Smart Lighting LED Drivers, Flicker-Free Dimming
The supply of active-matrix organic LEDs (AMOLEDs) needs serious expansion for the display technology to move beyond its niche in high-end Korean smart phones. That’s according to market analyst Vinita Jakhanwal at iSuppli, who ...
Tags: organic LEDs, AMOLED displays, smart phones
Financial results posted by leading chip manufacturer Intel and key lithography system supplier ASML suggest that demand in the microelectronics industry – a key sector for laser companies – is to remain strong. Following ...
Tags: ASML, microelectronics industry, laser
The global market for laser materials processing systems reached a new record high of €7.9 billion in 2012. Measured in euros the market grew 9 % over 2011, while measured in US-dollars the market grew only by 1 %. These observations ...
The factory in Mesa, Arizona, had never been intended to house the manufacture of a gemstone. Ahead of the photovoltaics industry’s 2011-2012 meltdown, First Solar had built it with the aim of producing 280 MW worth of solar panels ...
Tags: Arizona, photovoltaics industry, Alchemy Turns Sapphire
A combination of existing commercial applications and new consumer applications will drive the market for uncooled infra-red imaging technologies, according to Yole Développement, the French market consultancy. The company’s ...
Cities and their emergency responders will soon have a new way to deploy gunshot detection technology and be able to respond to incidents and react faster to protect their residents. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between GE Lighting ...
Tags: GE, Lighting, MOU, smart LED streetlights, ShotSpotter, gunshot detection
Four Taiwanese manufacturers have announced to increase capital to fund their expansion plans in the Taichung Export Processing Zone in central Taiwan and Chiayi Dapumei Intelligent Industrial Park in southern Taiwan. The four companies ...
Tags: IC packaging, single-lens camera, camera
Although Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), reportedly the world's No.1 pure IC assembler, posted reduced earnings in the second quarter, the company remains upbeat about its business outlook for the third quarter due to having ...
Although UV technologies were first introduced around 20-30 years ago, it is still considered not to be a mature sector with plenty of innovations needed to overcome barriers to greater efficiencies. Over the last few years growth in ...