At the 13th Annual Symposium on the Science and Technology of Lighting,top-level technologists from LED and lighting companies presented their thoughts on the future of lighting with a heavy emphasis on SSL. The Lighting Research ...
Large-scale adoption of retrofit LED lamps are forecasted to lead to $100 billion in global energy savings over the next five years, according to a recent report from IMS Research based on numerous interviews with leading industry ...
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22 June 2012 Sumitomo and Sony claim first 100mW true-green 530nm laser diode Tokyo-based compound semiconductor materials provider Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd(SEI)and Sony Corp say that,by using a semi-polar gallium ...
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Thin film resistor supplier Viking Tech has been seeing demand for aluminum nitride substrates increase. According to Stone Wei, president of Viking Tech, this is likely to help grow the firm's revenues from heat dissipation substrates in ...
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Using proprietary Nano-Pore Silicon Substrate(NPSS)technology developed by Daewon Innost,Glaxum arrays provide the industry's best thermal dissipation performance with unprecedented thermal impedance of only 0.41 degrees centigrade per ...
21 June 2012 Sapphire substrate maker Rubicon ranked 13th on Crain's 2012'Fast 50 List' Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville,IL,USA,which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED,RFIC,semiconductor and optical ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) using flexible substrate materials, has received a purchase order for 50,000 units ...
Daewon Innost has made a breakthrough on its Glaxum LED array family of chip on board (COB) modules, which it claims to achieve the LED industry's best thermal dissipation performance. The proprietary Nano-Pore Silicon Substrate (NPSS) ...
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20 June 2012 Mitsubishi develops 170W,70%-efficiency GaN-on-Si PA for base-station transmitters Picture:Mitsubishi Electric's 170W,2.1GHz GaN-on-Si power amplifier. Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has developed a prototype 2GHz ...
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20 June 2012 Cubic silicon carbide grown with quality similar to hexagonal SiC Cubic silicon carbide(3C-SiC)is considered to be very suitable for making highly efficient solar cells but the material quality has been poor compared with the ...
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20 June 2012 First 40GHz 2.5W/mm output performance of GaN/Si HEMTs Institute for Electronics,Microelectronics and Nanotechnology(IEMN)in France has demonstrated high-power-density nitride high-electron-mobility transistors(HEMTs)on ...
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Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has announced the qualification and production release of two new gallium nitride(GaN)processes:G40V4(a 0.25µm process with operating drain voltage up to 40V)and G50V3(a 0.4µm process with operating ...
Daewon Innost has recently launched the Glaxum LED Array family of Chip-On Board modules.Based on Daewon Innost's proprietary Nano-Pore Silicon Substrate(NPSS)technology,Glaxum arrays ensure superior thermal dissipation ...
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Raytheon Company of Waltham,MA,USA says that its technology facility in Glenrothes,Scotland,UK has been awarded grant funding by the Technology Strategy Board(TSB,the UK government's national innovation agency)that will be used to support ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK has completed its acquisition(announced on 5 June)of the entire in-house molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)epiwafer manufacturing unit of RF Micro Devices Inc of ...