The rapid growth of global trade has brought about a greater need for tracing systems that accurately and efficiently identify and track a product or component, not just from manufacturer to initial customer, but throughout its entire ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Coding Ink
Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan has announced the development of a gallium nitride (GaN)-based power transistor with a blocking voltage of 600V that enables stable switching operations. Shipment of evaluation samples began in March. The ...
Tags: switching operations, GaN, power transistor
The new Pharma-Comb label combines features like holograms, color-shifting security inks and guilloche patterns with voiding effects and LaserSecure, which incorporates special pigments that only become visible via a dedicated hand-held ...
Tags: Pharma Label, Label
Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA has been selected by the UK’s University of Southampton to provide deep silicon etching capability for the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre (SNC), which is ...
Tags: plasma process equipment, Plasma process, optoelectronics
LED Engin has a range of 4-die RGBW emitters for wash lamps and follow spots used in stage lighting applications Two variants are available - LZ4 that can be driven to 1A and LZ4-Plus that can be driven to 1.5A per die, producing up to ...
Tags: LED Lights, LED, Lights
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 ...
Tags: LED lights, LED, lights
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 ...
Tags: GaN LEDs, Electrical, lighting
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/5/2013 10:25:45 AM Mederma Stretch Marks Therapy is lighting up retail shelves with a stunning new package upgrade that addresses major retail challenges. The ...
LCD panel makers in Taiwan, Japan and Korea have been suffering. Despite the growing demand for LCDs the high number of panel makers and new competition from China has resulted in tough price competition for panel makers, to the point that ...
Tags: LED, LCD, Electrical, Electronics, LCD panel
In a recent blog in mid-March, Eric Higham of market research firm Strategy Analytics noted that gallium arsenide device revenue closed 2012 at a new record of just over $5.3bn, albeit up by just under 2% on 2011. The small gain was driven ...
Tags: GaAs device, Semiconductors
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 ...
Tags: LED Illuminant, LED, LED bulbs
H-Square Corporation of Santa Clara, CA, USA, a maker of wafer and substrate fabrication handling tools and equipment, has appointed Rick O’Malley as sales representative of the firm’s Oregon and Washington territories. ...
Researchers in South Korea have developed a new gold-doping process for graphene transparent conducting layers (TCLs) that improves its adhesion and electrical contact with near-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (NUV-LEDs) [Chu-Young Cho et ...
Tags: NUV-LEDs GaN Graphene, Electrical, Electronics, LED
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has won the “Company of the Year” title at the inaugural ESTNet (a network for electronics and software organisations) awards. “It is a great honour to ...
Tags: Epiwafer foundry, substrate maker, ESTNet
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) is supplying customers with samples of Corning® Willow™ Glass, an advanced glass technology that promises to influence the shape and form of next-generation consumer electronic devices, while ...
Tags: Glass Samples, Glass, Glass Industry