Plessey Semiconductors has launched its first GaN-on-silicon LED product, made in its Plymouth fab. "We can offer samples of our entry-level product and we are already discussing orders," company chief operating officer Barry Dennington ...
Tags: LED delivers, LED Sampling, LED
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of South Korea have developed a zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorod (NR) process for improving light extraction from gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by up to ...
Tags: GaN, LEDs, Electronics
The UK’s University of Cambridge has opened a new £1m facility for growing gallium nitride that aims to enable researchers to expand and accelerate their work, which promises to further reduce the cost and improve the efficiency ...
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Gallium nitride has been described as “the most important semiconductor since silicon” and is used in energy-saving LED lighting. A new £1million (or US$1,530,700) growth facility will allow University of Cambridge ...
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The next generation of smartphones could have bullet-proof sapphire-glass screens thanks to improved production techniques and falling prices. One of the many rumours surrounding Google's upcoming X Phone is that it will feature a ...
TSMC Solid State Lighting in the later part of the year will put into production uncased LED, saving cost to the LED illuminate packaging sector. TSMC Solid State Lighting President Dr. Jacob Tarn pointed out that the future of indoor ...
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Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, says that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ...
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Rubicon has been granted its "Asymmetrical Wafer Configurations and Method for Creating the Same,” U.S. Patent No. 8,389,099 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent covers the creation of visual and ...
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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 its UltraCMOS phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer and prescaler ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has filed a new lawsuit in US District Court alleging the infringement of Peregrine ...
Tags: Peregrine, RFMD, Peregrine's HaRP invention
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has gotten involved in a patent infringement with Boston University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Boston University alleges that Samsung “regularly and deliberately” ...
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Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has signed a distribution agreement with Alphatec relating to the greater China region. The cooperation will market Plessey's EPIC sensors (Electronic Potential Integrated Circuit) together with ...
Tags: Semiconductors, Plessey Semiconductors, EPIC technology
Working with the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Crystal IS Inc of Green Island, NY, USA, which makes ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UVC LEDs) grown pseudomorphically (strained) on aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates, has achieved more ...
Short-wavelength UV LEDs with higher output are likely to be used increasingly in applications such as disinfecting water, sterilizing surfaces, and spectroscopy. Crystal IS, Inc., a manufacturer of ultraviolet LEDs for monitoring, ...
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Working with the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Crystal IS Inc of Green Island, NY, USA, which makes ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UVC LEDs) grown pseudomorphically (strained) on aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates, has achieved more ...
Tags: Germicidal LEDs, UVC LEDs, Electrical, Electronics