The new Luxeon Q family is based on the company's flip-chip die announced back in February that, combined with new light extraction and conversion features, delivers high efficacy especially at high drive currents. Philips Lumileds has ...
Tags: Luxeon Q LED, Philips Lumileds
Apple has yet again swept the market with the launch of the new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. The new cell phones have acted as a propeller for sapphire substrate manufacturers and LED manufacturers with the introduction of new fingerprint ...
Researchers in France have developed a monolithic metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) process for growing indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with a multiple quantum well (MQW) light converter [Benjamin ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Husqvarna Viking, a global leader in the sewing industry, has introduced the most innovative and intuitive additions yet to the brand's growing line of sewing and embroidery machines. The burgeoning Sew-It-Yourself movement, which ...
Tags: Sewing, Embroidery Machines, Textile
Apple is expected to extend the use of sapphire glass home keys to its new 9.7-inch iPad and 7.9-inch iPad mini to be launched in October, and possibly further adopt sapphire for making touch screen covers for its new iPhone to be launched ...
Tags: iPad, Taiwan, Consumer Electronics
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says that it is supplying the main antenna switch driving RF performance in ...
Tags: Samsung, Smartphone
Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, which provides crystalline gallium nitride (GaN), aluminum nitride (AlN) and aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) materials and related products and services, has provided an update on its aluminum ...
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Research and Development Center for Semiconductor Lighting has been exploring the effect of p-type doping of the barriers in multiple quantum well blue-green (~500nm) light-emitting diode (LED) ...
Tags: Blue-Green LEDs, Electronics
Sapphire substrate applications have shifted from LED to smartphones, according to a report by Taiwanese media UDN. Apple was the first to apply the material in its iPhone home button, and has recently expanded sapphire substrate ...
Jimei University in China has used indium gallium nitride (InGaN) p-type contacts to increase light output power by 45% over a reference device [Wang Min-Shuai and Huang Xiao-Jing, Chin. Phys. B, vol. 22, p086803, 2013]. The researchers ...
Tags: InGaN LEDs MOCVD, LED, Electrical, Electronics
The maturing of the LED lighting application market has not only seen LED manufacturers aggressively increasing LED luminosity, but also gradually placing more and more attention on the importance in color rendering performance for LED ...
Tags: LED Color Rendering, Lighting
Crystal Applied Technology and Crystalwise Technology have become suppliers of sapphire wafers used to make covers for the iPhone 5s home key which features fingerprint recognition, according to Taiwan-based makers. A 2-inch sapphire ...
While mid-power LED chips account for only a small proportion of LED lighting currently, the proportion will grow fast over the next few years to reach about 50%, Philips Lumileds Lighting CEO Pirre-Yves Lesaicherre said during a Digitimes ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights, Lighting
Taiwan LED wafer manufacturer Epistar announced more good news for its market layout in LED lighting. According to a report by global financial service firm Morgan and Stanley, Epistar's infiltration into CREE's supply chain, controlling ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has launched the PE42820 and PE42821 single-pole double-throw (SPDT) switches for ...
Tags: Switches, Electrical, Electronics