Researchers in China have used laser micromachining to boost light extraction efficiencies of nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by up to 46% [Bo Sun et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol113, p243104, 2013]. The team was based at ...
Tags: LED, Laser Sculpting, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers in China have been developing nanopatterned-sapphire substrates (NPSS), achieved with nano-sphere lithography (NSL), as a basis for the production of superior aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) semiconductor material for deep ...
Tags: DUV LEDs, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), is expanding its family of MultiSwitch STeP8 dual single-pole, seven throw (SP7T/SP7T) ...
Due to rising competition in the LED lighting market, Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Genesis Photonics has been aggressive in vertical integration from LED chips to system products. The firm plans to focus its 2013 marketing efforts to promote ...
Taiwan-based LED firms such as Lextar, Epistar, Everlight, Genesis Photonics, TSMC Solid State Lighting (SSL), and Edison Opto are currently participating in the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013 (GILE 2013) in China from ...
Elec-Tech will release its lighting high drive current flip chips in the name of "Aurora Borealis" on Guangzhou International Lighting Fair to be held on June 9th. 1ALED lighting-class high drive current flip chip can achieve 310 lumens ...
Tags: LED Market, Lights, Lighting, LED
In response to SSL Manufacturing R&D funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0000792, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the competitive selection of five projects for solid-state lighting (SSL), involving a total of ...
Tags: Lumileds Lighting, Electrical
U.S. energy secretary Ernest Moniz revealed five manufacturing R&D projects to support energy-efficient lighting products. The Energy Department’s $10 million investment is matched dollar for dollar by private sector funding. The ...
As a response to the (solid-state lighting) SSL Manufacturing R&D funding opportunity announcement made in December, the US. Department of Energy (DOE) has competitively selected five projects for SSL to receive the fourth round of funding. ...
Tags: lighting, LED lighting
TSMC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL) announced to release TH3 and TMx series products and will showcase their applications in 2013 Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. Based on the company’s flip chip technology, superior ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting Exhibition
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched three broadband solderable flip-chip devices, namely a ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Electrical, Electronics
Back-end segment and the wafer-level packaging (WLP)-related segments ruled the semiconductor market during the year Global semiconductor capex on manufacturing equipment declined 16.1% during 2012 to $37.8bn compared to 2011, according ...
TSMC Solid State Lighting in the later part of the year will put into production uncased LED, saving cost to the LED illuminate packaging sector. TSMC Solid State Lighting President Dr. Jacob Tarn pointed out that the future of indoor ...
Tags: LED Illuminant, LED, LED bulbs
Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of a new member of the R-Car Series of automotive system-on-chip (SoC) multimedia processors. The multicore SoC is one of the first commercial chips to implement ARM's big.LITTLE ...
TSMC Solid State Lighting (SSL) plans to introduce LED chip products that do not require packaging, with brightness reaching 130lm/W in the second half of 2013. The new product is likely to save 20-40% of packaging costs, hence TSMC SSL may ...
Tags: LED chips, LED, LED chip products