In 2012, Panasonic's LED lighting accounted for 10% of the global market. The firm has been expanding product lines and expects to obtain a 37.5% share in Japan in 2013. Panasonic has been expanding in other markets such as China and Europe ...
Tags: research, Japan market, LED lighting, lighting, Panasonic, Toshiba
Researchers at University of Notre Dame and Kopin Corp have developed high-performance nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with indium gallium nitride (InGaN) channels [Ronghua Wang et al, Appl. Phys. Express, ...
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Significant overcapacity and low LED substrate prices will affect the profitability and viability of many sapphire players in 2013 and beyond. So says a new market report 'Sapphire Substrates 2013' from analyst company Yole ...
Tags: sapphire substrates, low LED substrate, LED, LED makers
Yole Développement announces its report"Sapphire Substrates 2013".This report provides a detailed analysis of the sapphire industry,including revenue,volume and price trends for all major substrate applications.It also includes an ...
Tags: LED, SoS, sapphire material, LED-on-Si
Researchers in Singapore claim the first DC and microwave performance measurements for 0.15μm-gate aluminium gallium nitride(AlGaN)on gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistors(HEMTs)on silicon substrates with gold-free ...
Have you ever looked at your TV's soundbar speaker and thought, "Wow, what this thing really needs is tubes?" Then Samsung's 2012 audio lineup should put a smile on your face: It's expanding its lineup of gear that uses vacuum tubes to ...
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Fire resistant glass from AGC's Pyrobel range is used in General Aviation Centre's (GAC) new S$10-million aviation hangar at Seletar Aerospace Park. Pyrobel 53N fire resistant glass has been selected to glaze the compartments that ...
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Reuters reported that US regulators have delayed by two months a ruling on BlackRock Inc's plan to launch a copper exchange traded fund backed by physical metal,a week after giving the go ahead to a similar product proposed by JPMorgan ...
Initially Toshiba will offer phosphor-converted white LEDs based on its GaN-on-Si manufacturing process over a range of 3000K to 5000K. Back in mid-December, Toshiba announced that it was entering mass production of LEDs using a 200-mm ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that RFMD fellow Kevin W. Kobayashi has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers by the IEEE board of directors. The IEEE grade of fellow was conferred ...
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Production of LED chips is typically done on 2- to 4-inch wafers with an expensive sapphire substrate. Toshiba and Bridgelux, Inc. have developed a process for manufacturing gallium nitride LEDs on 200mm silicon wafers, which Toshiba has ...
Tags: LED chips, LEDs, Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation, lighting
Future Lighting Solutions has signed a global LED distribution deal with LG Innotek, PhotonStar has raised funds and signed a licensing deal, Nichia has received a favorable patent-infringement judgment, and Martin Professional has been ...
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Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, has used nanocolumns of nitride semiconductor to produce different emission color LEDs in a single growth process for what is claimed to be the first time [Katsumi Kishino et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, ...
Tags: Sophia University, LEDs, Sapphire substrates, LEd lighting
Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo: 6502) announced that the company will start sales of white light-emitting diode (LED) packages that offer makers of general purpose and industrial LED lighting solutions a cost-competitive alternative to current ...
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The Bridgelux MKO 45mm LED chip -- one of the first high-power Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) technology LED chips developed for commercial applications -- continues to deliver 97 percent of its initial lumen output in the test, which has been ...
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