South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has announced the globally availability of an Acrich kit for customers trying to meet the special design requests of global lighting manufacturers. The kits consist of high-voltage Acrich ...
Researchers in Taiwan have used nanopyramid nitride semiconductor structures to explore long-wavelength green, olivine and amber light-emitting diode (LED) structures [Shih-Pang Chang, Optics Express, Vol. 21, p23030, 2013]. The team was ...
Tags: Nitride LEDs, Electronics
Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University has developed near-green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) using a new indium gallium nitride (InGaN) growth process that gives devices with a higher peak external quantum efficiency of 48.6% ...
Tags: LEDs, Near-green LEDs, InGaN MOCVD
PVA TePla of Wettenberg, Germany has launched the baSiC-T physical vapor transport (PVT) crystal growth system (which uses sublimation of a source powder at high temperatures) for the mass production of silicon carbide (SiC) material. ...
Tags: PVT System, Modular
Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University has developed a method to improve the performance of zinc oxide (ZnO) transparent conductive oxide (TCO) as an electrode for short-wavelength nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) ...
Tags: zinc oxide, LEDs
LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA claims to have set a new industry benchmark with its higher-performance XLamp XP-G2 LEDs, boosting brightness by 7% compared to the existing XP-G2 family. XP-G2 LEDs are used ...
Lowered LED bulb prices by Cree in 2013 proved effective. The low price policy not only successfully drove sales for LED bulbs but also lead to stock prices doubling for 2013. Goldman Sachs newest report lists four major reasons for its ...
Tags: Goldman Sachs, Lighting
Walmart today announced the launch of a Great Value line of LED lightbulbs for less than US$10 in all of its U.S. stores, with the goal of making LED lightbulbs more accessible and affordable for consumers. The new line will be available ...
Background The University of Dayton, located in Dayton, Ohio, U.S., is the largest private university in the state of Ohio. Managing the energy consumption of a university that large is no easy feat, but that’s exactly what is asked ...
LED chip maker Genesis Photonics expects to obtain certification from Japan-based smartphone vendors for flip chip (FC) LED chips used to make smartphone flashes in the fourth quarter of 2013 and begin shipments in the first quarter of ...
Many consumers are shying away from LED lighting due to potential harm blue LED bulbs can have on the retina of the eye. The media has even confused blue lights emitted from blue-ray and blue LED light. So what exactly are blue LEDs then? ...
GE Lighting delivers improved visibility and a long life rating for drivers with its GE NIGHTHAWK™ LED headlights, which are designed to last for 15,000 hours and draw less amperage than standard halogen headlights. GE will ...
Tags: GE Lighting, LED Headlight
Nesora Light Technologies earned high praise from lighting industry judges and took top honors in two key LED categories in the annual Lighting for Tomorrow competition that serves to advance the arts and sciences of LED lighting for a ...
Tags: LED Competition, Lighting
With the LED lighting market soaring and backlight products increased incorporation of mid-powered LEDs, it is unsurprising that mid-power LEDs were most popular in 2013. Mid-power LEDs production value in 2013 surpassed that of ...
Tags: MID-Power LEDs, Lighting
LED lights have been integrated into this model’s hat via a programmable webbed surface with animated light sequences that spin around creating a whirling helicopter halo of light. Designed by Moritz Waldemeyer for Philip ...
Tags: LED Propellor Hat, Lighting