China Mobile requires that all TD-LTE smartphones to be certified beginning May 31, 2014 support five mobile communication standards: TD-LTE, FDD LTE, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and GSM, according to the company. The largest mobile telecom carrier ...
Tags: China Mobile, TD-LTE, Smartphones
The battle is on to create an LED light source that replicates the dimming characteristics of halogen. Ben Cronin asks if Lucent's Ambience WarmDim comes close It would be an understatement to say there are parts of the?lighting market ...
Continental Tire the Americas L.L.C. previewed its Conti TerraPlus HD3 on/off-road drive tire for Class 4 and 5 trucks during the National Truck Equipment Association’s Work Truck Show, held March 5-7 in Indianapolis. The Conti ...
Tags: Tire, Auto Parts, Truck
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that, in just one year, its LED Bulb has become the best-selling LED bulb in America, enabling a cumulative total of more than $1bn in lifetime energy savings for ...
Tags: Cree, LED light bulbs, LED light
In booth 1815 at the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC 2014) exposition in San Francisco (11-13 March), NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and ...
In a rare public speech, Google Inc. CEO Larry Page once suggested the tech industry needs "safe places where we can try out new things" without rules or interference. Some people thought he was describing a futuristic fantasy, perhaps a ...
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These LEDs are based off of semiconductors that emit light with the movement of electrons. As devices get smaller and faster, there is more demand for such semiconductors that are tinier, stronger and more energy efficient. University of ...
Tags: semiconductors, three-dimensional LEDs, two-dimensional materials
Soraa’s third generation (Gen3) GaN on GaN™ LED achieves world-record setting wall-plug-efficiency, outperforming the nearest competitor by 20% at normal operating conditions. In just one year, Soraa has achieved a remarkable ...
Tags: wall-plug-efficiency, color and whiteness rendering, innovation
The 19th Young Package awards open for entries on March 14. The competition, for young designers up to 30 years of age, has been promoted by Model Obaly, one of the largest package manufacturers in the Czech Republic, since 1996. The ...
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At the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2014) in San Francisco (9–13 March), the fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA is demonstrating a 100G ...
Zeta Instruments Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which makes optical profiling and inspection systems for applications including high-brightness LEDs and solar cells) says that Jeff Donnelly has joined as its chief operating officer. Donnelly's ...
Tags: Inspection tools, Electrical, Electronics
Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gathering of friends. You pull out your cell phone to show a presentation or a video on YouTube. But you don't use the tiny screen; your phone projects a bright, clear image onto a ...
In booth #1531 at the Optical Fiber Communication conference & exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2014) in San Francisco, CA (11-13 March), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog ...
Tags: coherent optical link design, live demonstration, VCSEL driver
Epistar, the largest Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker, had February consolidated revenues of NT$1.982 billion (US$65.4 million) increasing by 4.95% on month and by 57.48% on year, while the largest Taiwan-based LED packaging ...
RockTenn has entered into an agreement with Simpson Lumber to acquire the latter's Tacoma Kraft paper mill in Tacoma, Washington, for around $343m. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory ...
Tags: Paper Mill, Packaging