GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua,NH,USA(a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar,LED and other specialty markets)says that it is ...
Tags: GT, structure, PV, photovoltaic equipment
Researchers at University of Notre Dame and Kopin Corp have developed high-performance nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with indium gallium nitride (InGaN) channels [Ronghua Wang et al, Appl. Phys. Express, ...
Tags: semiconductor, high electron mobility transistors, InGaN
The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France, and Canada studied the internal ...
Tags: LEDs, LED light, LED design, LED production
Works with Soraa is a program that will thrive with partnership and collaboration from lighting manufacturers and distributors within the industry. Littman Bros has promoted one of Soraa's launch partners Tech Lighting for over 20 years. ...
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Researchers in Singapore claim the first DC and microwave performance measurements for 0.15μm-gate aluminium gallium nitride(AlGaN)on gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistors(HEMTs)on silicon substrates with gold-free ...
Have you ever looked at your TV's soundbar speaker and thought, "Wow, what this thing really needs is tubes?" Then Samsung's 2012 audio lineup should put a smile on your face: It's expanding its lineup of gear that uses vacuum tubes to ...
Tags: Samsung, Bluetooth, soundbar speaker
Initially Toshiba will offer phosphor-converted white LEDs based on its GaN-on-Si manufacturing process over a range of 3000K to 5000K. Back in mid-December, Toshiba announced that it was entering mass production of LEDs using a 200-mm ...
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Production of LED chips is typically done on 2- to 4-inch wafers with an expensive sapphire substrate. Toshiba and Bridgelux, Inc. have developed a process for manufacturing gallium nitride LEDs on 200mm silicon wafers, which Toshiba has ...
Tags: LED chips, LEDs, Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation, lighting
Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, has used nanocolumns of nitride semiconductor to produce different emission color LEDs in a single growth process for what is claimed to be the first time [Katsumi Kishino et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, ...
Tags: Sophia University, LEDs, Sapphire substrates, LEd lighting
Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo: 6502) announced that the company will start sales of white light-emitting diode (LED) packages that offer makers of general purpose and industrial LED lighting solutions a cost-competitive alternative to current ...
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BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that it has succeeded in its initial laboratory experiments in developing p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN) material (essential for making up the top layers of a nitride LED). Spun off from the ...
Tags: BluGlass RPCVD, Macquarie University, RPCVD, nitride LED
Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, which provides crystalline gallium nitride (GaN), aluminium nitride (AlN) and aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) materials and related products and services, says that it has demonstrated a 10-inch ...
Tags: Kyma, AlN-on-sapphire, GaN, LEDs
Seoul National University and Ritsumeikan University in Korea have developed a new technique for growing higher-quality gallium nitride (GaN) layers at temperatures as low as 500°C [In-Su Shin et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol5, p125503, ...
Tags: Lights, Instruments, Meters
Yale University has developed techniques to release nitride semiconductor layers and transfer them to other substrates, allowing vertical current-flow light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Yu Zhang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol100, p181908, 2012]. ...
Nitride Solutions Inc of Wichita, KS, USA, which is developing substrates for LEDs, lasers and power electronics, has been awarded a US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of nearly $150,000 to commercialize its manufacturing ...
Tags: Nitride Solutions Inc, LEDs, AlN, substrates