Plastic electronics hold the promise of cheap, mass-produced devices. But plastic semiconductors have an important flaw: the electronic current is influenced by "charge traps" in the material. These traps, which have a negative impact on ...
Tags: Raw material
A common mechanism underlying charge traps in organic electronics has been discovered,leading to a theoretical framework for improved plastic electronics,OLEDs and organic solar cells. During their passage through semiconductors,a ...
Tags: Common, Electronics, theoretical
Intevac Photonics orders hit new high 01 Aug 2012 Record bookings largely due to$10 million deal to fit Apache helicopters with night-vision cameras. Intevac's"Night Port" Intevac Photonics,the optics-focused subsidiary of the ...
Tags: Intevac, Photonics, Californian
Second-quarter 2012 revenues of Taiwan-based LED chipmakers climbed out of the trough with capacity utilization rates rising to 80-90%. The firms believe third-quarter 2012 capacity utilization rates to remain similar to the peak level seen ...
Tags: LED Chip
Latest issue of Semiconductor Today now available For coverage of all the key business and technology developments in compound semiconductors and advanced silicon materials and devices over the last month,subscribe to Semiconductor ...
Tags: Issue, Semiconductor, Lights
Fiber laser firm stands to benefit from growing adoption of high-strength steel and aluminum in auto manufacturing. IPG Photonics sales and earnings:past six quarters IPG Photonics has posted record figures for both sales and net ...
Tags: IPG Photonics, Economic, Record Quarter
Second-quarter 2012 revenues of Taiwan-based LED chipmakers climbed out of the trough with capacity utilization rates rising to 80-90%.The firms believe third-quarter 2012 capacity utilization rates to remain similar to the peak level seen ...
Tags: LED lighting, Epistar, Formosa Epitaxy, Genesis Photonics, Lextar
Laser giant ends June quarter with a record backlog,and will formally release its kilowatt fiber laser by the end of September. Microelectronics order boom Coherent,one of the world's leading laser vendors,says that it now has a record ...
Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin,in collaboration with colleagues at Taiwan's National Tsing-Hua University and National Chiao-Tung University and at the Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute ...
Maxim Group LLC analyzed metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) utilization and revenues at light emitting diode (LED) makers in Taiwan, finding that MOCVD orders are placed just to maintain capacity, not add, and high utilization ...
Tags: LED MOCVD
In order to improve the quality of LED lighting subsidies’ beneficiaries, China’s National Development and Reform Commission plans to restart the bidding for the SSL Lighting Product Subsidy. On July 25-26, the commission will ...
Amplified'weak'IR light shows PV,medical potential 25 Jul 2012 Dutch researchers harvest infrared photons,amplify power 3300 times in technique inspired by photosynthesis. Chemists and materials scientists from the University of ...
Tags: PV, IR light, medical potential, photosynthesis, infrared, solar cell
LM-80 testing continues to be an important component of LED lighting development. Orb Optronix,the first fully-independent ISO 17025 certified IES LM-80 testing facility in the United States,has been chosen by the Korea Photonics ...
Tags: Orb Optronix, LM-80 in-house, high-brightness LEDs, KOPTI
CVI Melles Griot parent company has slashed costs at the photonics subsidiary as it seeks to boost productivity and profit margins. IDEX,the industrial technology company that acquired the well-known optics firm CVI Melles Griot just over ...
Tags: IDEX, Corporation, CVI
Veeco Instruments,a process equipment solution provider for the production of wireless chips,MEMS,hard drives,power electronics,LEDs,and optoelectronics,has announced the participation of over 150 LED manufacturing customers at its metal ...
Tags: LED, Manufacturers, Taiwan