As LED lighting becomes an $80bn industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers that LEDs are made from will grow to $4bn in 2020, according to Lux Research. The vast majority of these epiwafers are currently gallium nitride ...
Tags: LEDs, Epiwafers, LED Lighting
Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, announced today that its recently released Vero™ Series of LED Array products are now shipping with industry leading performance efficacy (120 ...
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Canada Cartage has chipped in once again this year to ensure Toronto’s homeless had fresh water to drink. The company provided transportation and warehousing services - providing six dedicated trailers and drivers - to help store ...
Tags: Canada, Transportation, Fresh Water
Steinhoff International announced the takeover of the Kika/Leiner Group at the end of June. Steinhoff reports that the relevant contracts have already been signed. Dr Herbert Koch, chairman of Kika/Leiner's supervisory board, also confirmed ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has launched four new gallium nitride (GaN) ...
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At the SEMICON West trade show in San Francisco (9-11 July), Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - as well as concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar ...
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Access Fixtures upgraded its LED flood lights introducing the latest RTL series, which is supported by Toshiba LED technology. Featuring 25% greater light output than previous LED flood lights, the new products further improve its ...
Tags: LED flood light, LED, Lights, Lighting
Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling ...
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Editor's note: This blog post was written by Fred Clements, executive director of the National Bicycle Dealers Association. Clements' previous blogs can be read on? A future world without bike shops would be a disaster for the cycling ...
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The four cornered lids & bases are manufactured from recycled PET made from a minimum of 50% post-consumer waste [old drinks bottles]. The two parts are supplied ready erected with corners ultrasonically welded. According to ...
When the Great Recession hit in 2008/2009, consumers made shopping for values an epic, albeit mostly necessary, past-time. Many of their shopping behaviors have now become habits even though the economy has improved—and center-store ...
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK says that samples of a 350mW gallium nitride -on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) LED are now available. The entry-level lighting products (part number PLB010350) are manufactured on Plessey's 6-inch MAGIC ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
In partnership with contract microelectronic and optoelectronic packaging design & assembly firm Optocap Ltd of Livingston, Scotland, UK, Cambridge Nanotherm Ltd of Haverhill, UK says that the first commercial order for its ...
Tags: packaging, heat-sink, Electrical&Electronics
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) has announced two funding opportunities relating to solid-state lighting. Both opportunities seek proposals for “transformational advances in ...
Tags: Solid-state lighting, LEDs, ARPA-E
Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging has announced the expansion of global operations, which spans three continents. As part of the developments, the company acquired a facility in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, expanded the clean room ...
Tags: Oliver-Tolas, Healthcare Packaging