Remote-phosphor SSL technology enables Xicato to offer a 5-yr warranty for both color consistency and lumen maintenance with Munich Re underwriting the pledge. While the solid-state lighting (SSL) industry has made significant progress in ...
Tags: SSL technology, Xicato, LEDs
Pluritas, LLC, an intellectual property transaction advisory firm, is conducting the sale of a strategic LED patent portfolio from Illumitex, Inc., an LED innovator and maker of optically advanced lighting products. The Illumitex portfolio ...
At the Strategies in Light 2013 conference in Santa Clara (12-14 February), LED maker Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA launched the second-generation of its LUXEON S illumination-grade multi-chip emitters, offering twice the lumen ...
NANEO Precision IBS Coatings GmbH of Rheinbreitbach, Germany, which produces custom-made precision optical coatings for high-end applications in the laser and photonics industry, recently ordered a SPECTOR ion beam deposition (IBD) system ...
Tags: Veeco IBD, ion beam deposition, Electronics
Diode laser maker DILAS of Mainz, Germany says that its new fiber-coupled tailored bar (T-bar) module meets the critical metric of <1kg/kW of overall module weight to optical output power, while maintaining nearly 50% efficiency. In terms ...
Tags: Advanced Photonix, Diode laser, Lighting
Digi-Key has signed two new supplier franchises military chip specialist Holt Integrated Circuits and cognitive memory supplier, CogniMem. CogniMem has developed a neural network architecture to resemble the synapses of the human ...
With the Holden VF Commodore exterior design “sculptural” has replaced “geometrical” as the design team set out to replace the previous car’s blocky appearance with a more curvature look. Two looks have been ...
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New compared to previous models is the round form of the light emitting surface (LES) of the new product generation of Sharp's Mini ZENIGATA LEDs. Due to their circular LES, modules of type GW6BxxxxHED have qualities similar to a ...
Tags: New Product News, lighting industry news, Mini Zenigata LEDs
TWH and TWP LED outdoor wall-mounted luminaires deliver more than 100,000 hours of maintenance-free operation. Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) now offers its popular Lithonia Lighting® TWH and TWP outdoor wall-mounted luminaires with ...
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IDG News Service - Increased sales of electronics and new forms of computing devices will drive the worldwide semiconductor market to growth this year after a slowdown in 2012, the nonprofit organization World Semiconductor Trade Statistics ...
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Eleven German companies and research institutions have completed the So-Light project, supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research. An OLED project supported to the tune of EUR 14.7 million (US$19.88 million) by the German ...
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The Government is to fund research into LED-based Gbit/s free-space optical networks. The heavyweight academic team includes the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford and St Andrews, and is lead by the University of Strathclyde. ...
Tags: LED, Gbit/s, optical networks, UKplc
UK - MTV has been busy recording the sixth series of Brand New, a programme dedicated to upcoming talent tipped to break through in 2013. Previous discoveries include Lady GaGa, Justin Bieber and Ke$ha as well as UK talent including Tinie ...
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Optical components, modules and subsystems developer Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA has announced advances in its red laser diodes that has enabled it to reduce the size of 4-beam red laser diodes by 75% (from TO9.0mm to TO5.6mm) and ...
Tags: Printing Quality, Oclaro, Red Laser Diodes
Gastrointestinal endoscopy company Pentax Medical has obtained Health Canada license for its Pentax RetroView Colonoscope (EC-3490TLi), designed for use in diagnostic colonoscopy procedures for colorectal cancer screening and therapeutic ...
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