Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Sino-American Silicon (SAS) reported 2012 total revenues of NT$4.414 billion (US$152 million) and global consolidated revenues of NT$19.072 billion. In particular, the firm's subsidiary GlobalWafers reported ...
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IDG News Service - A prototype flexible tablet with edges that can be bent to switch between pages is expected to be shown at the International CES this week. The PaperTab has a flexible 10.7-inch grayscale screen and is being pitched as ...
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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 ...
European LED chip and luminaire maker Optogan Group has started mass production of its high-power X10 modules in St.Petersburg,Russia."The opening of the X10 production line,with a production capacity of 40,000 units per month,will make LED ...
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Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has announced reference designs for what it claims are the world’s lightest and highest-energy-density flexible military charging mats. Alta fabricates single-junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
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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 ...
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In general, all the LED products can be divided into two major parts, the public lighting and indoor lighting. LED uses fall into four major categories: Visual signals where light goes more or less directly from the source to the human ...
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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, ...
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After recovering strongly from 2009 with growth of 22% in 2010, the gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrate market slowed sharply in 2011, rising just 4% to nearly $360m, due to weak demand in RF circuits (handsets and WLANs) and in ...
After qualifying sapphire substrates at multiple LED chip companies, Jiangsu Trinity Material Co., Ltd. continues to further improve the efficiency of ARC Energy's CHES furnaces. ARC Energy is currently working on the upgrades to lower ...
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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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Scientists from IIT Delhi have developed nanocomposite fibres which have unique features of self-cleaning, dyeability, toughness and thermal stability. Prof. Mangala Joshi, Department of Textile Technology, IIT Delhi, told ...
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Optimedia Labs, a US-based retailer of Primera color label printers and Epson ColorWorks color label printers, has announced that it is now distributing High Gloss Polypropylene Labels for use with Primera LX400, LX800, LX810 and LX900 ...
White light There are two primary ways of producing white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs), LEDs that generate high-intensity white light. One is to use individual LEDs that emit three primary colors— red, green, and blue — and ...
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