Opto Diode Corp of Newbury Park, CA, USA (a division in the Photonics Group of ITW) has launched the OD-669-850 high-power gallium aluminum arsenide (GaAlAs) infrared light-emitting diode (IRLED) illuminator. Suitable for night-vision ...
Intel is looking to use light and lasers to shuffle data faster among servers, and is proposing a new optical interconnect, MXC, that could change the way servers are implemented in data centres. The chip maker is pitching MXC as a ...
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Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Genesis Photonics Inc. (GPI) announced record high revenues in July of NT$ 368 million (US$ 12.32 million), as lighting products revenue ratio jumped to 50%. Increased shipments in flip-chips, 3D COB ...
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Financial reports for first half of 2013 released by several Taiwanese LED manufacturers recently showed Epistar rebounded from losses as subsidy Huga Optotech reached break-even point (BEP) in June. For the first half of 2013, ...
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology want to put your signature up in lights – tiny lights, that is. Using thousands of nanometer-scale wires, the researchers have developed a sensor device that converts mechanical ...
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Laser markets keep on an even keel 31 Jul 2013 Longbow Research finds vendors reporting no rude surprises, while fiber laser players continue to tussle. Materials processing The fortunes of US laser vendors during the second quarter of ...
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Following declines of 45% in 2011 and 30% in 2013, LED wafer fab equipment spending will rise 17% to nearly $1.2bn in 2014 as the LED industry is working through its over-capacity problems and will renew capital spending and capacity ...
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Chimei Optoelectronics has gone out of business leaving behind NTD 5.6 billion in debt. The company's creditor bank has been pursuing the company to obtain their financial claim but has yet to hear anything from the company. Chimei used ...
Industrial laser specialist says that there is still growth in the market for high-power CO2 lasers. Sales at Rofin-Sinar in the quarter ended June 30 have exceeded expectations, thanks mainly to machine tool and electronics applications ...
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Photonics, a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, has received an order for its Lutetium Fine Silicate (LFS) scintillation crystals from its Japanese partner Hamamatsu Photonics. ...
Tags: Photonics, Scintillation Crystals, Pet Scanning Device
For its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (ended 29 June 2013), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $293m, up 4.4% on $280.6m on last quarter and up 44.5% on $202.7m a-year ago. Fiscal Q1/2013 Q2/2013 ...
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Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) researchers report considerable improvement in device performance of polymer-based optoelectronic devices. Published in Nature Photonics, the new plasmonic material, can be applied ...
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In a trading update for first-half 201, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says it expects first-half performance to be ahead of market expectations, with revenue approaching £63m, EBITDA (earnings ...
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Sheffield based independent research, test and design specialist, Glass Technology Services Ltd (GTS), has completed a £500K investment programme to meet increasing demand throughout the glass supply chain. The two-year programme ...
Brian Corbett of Ireland's Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork (UCC) has received an Intel Outstanding Researcher Award for 2013. He is the third Tyndall researcher to win the annual honor. Tyndall has now won three of the ...
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