The LED consists of (1) a blue LED chip made on a β-type Ga2O3 substrate by using GaN-based semiconductor and (2) a fluorescent material. Compared with a case where a common blue LED chip formed on a sapphire substrate is used, the new ...
SSL manufacturers can utilize the Molex LED array holder to simplify the luminaire assembly process and allow for easy service. Molex has announced a new plastic LED array mounting scheme that includes a holder or retainer for ...
Taiwan-based sapphire substrate maker Tera Xtal Technology will establish two subsidiaries in eastern China, each with investment of US$15 million. Sapphire substrate production at the subsidiaires will begin in the second half of 2013 at ...
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GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Japan has used hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) layers to release nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from sapphire and transfer them to commercially available adhesive tape [Toshiki Makimoto ...
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XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, has begun processing CIS films with ...
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Japanese companies from Tamura Corp and Koha Co Ltd have created a white LED using gallium oxide (β-type Ga2O3) and exhibited it at Lighting Japan 2013 from Jan 16 to 18, 2013. The LED consists of a blue LED chip made on a ...
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The glass and materials industry of China is presently faced with various difficulties while developing, such as uncoordinated and unsustainable development, weak ability for scientific and technological innovation, unbalanced industrial ...
Century Packaging has installed a new Mitsubishi Diamond 3000LX sheetfed press at its headquarters in East Brunswick, New Jersey, US. Installed to augment the company's packaging printing capacity, the six-color, 40-inch press shares the ...
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Toshiba and US-based Bridgelux will reportedly start volume production of 8-inch Si-substrate GaN wafers for use to make LED chips in the first quarter of 2013, according to Taiwan-based makers. However, president Jacob Tam for TSMC Solid ...
LEDs are “going mainstream but are still not yet a mature commodity”, according to market analyst Yole Développement in its latest ‘LED Packaging’ report. The analyst determines that the combination of growth ...
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Cutting LED packaging cost drives new designs 22 Jan 2013 Optimistic sector forecast for 2013 published. LEDs are “going mainstream but are still not yet a mature commodity”, according to market analyst Yole ...
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Led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, a team of researchers in the Laboratory for Thin Film and Photovoltaics at Empa (the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) has raised the energy conversion efficiency record for copper ...
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Seoul National University and Korea Electronics Technology Institute have been developing hafnium dioxide (HfO2) as a gate insulator for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) metal-oxide-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors ...
Tags: HfO2, gate insulator, Lights, Lighting
Microsemi has introduced silicon carbide (SiC) standard power modules with industrial temperature grade. Designed for use in high power switch mode power supplies, motor drives, uninterruptible power supplies, solar inverters and oil ...
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