Taiwan is the world's leader in LED manufacturing with 41 LED fabs representing over 21 percent of the world's capacity — more than any other region (according to SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast report). After the challenging year of 2011, ...
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After 2014, China will boast the world's largest LED epitaxy and chip production capacity base. However, China LED fabs are mainly concentrated on blue/green GaN LED manufacturing, and most of the capacity focuses on small and medium size ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA has received a$2.7m contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA)to triple the power handling performance of ...
University of California,Santa Barbara(UCSB)has demonstrated for the first time nonpolar m-plane(10-10)nitride semiconductor vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser(VCSEL)diodes[Casey Holder et al,Appl.Phys.Express,vol5,p092104,2012]. The ...
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Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK says that its new MAGIC (MAnufactured on GaN ICs) High Brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs) have won the Solid-State Lighting Application Category of the Elektra Awards 2012. The winners were announced at the ...
Two Yale University researchers have developed epitaxial distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) in nitride semiconductors with reflectivities of more than 98% [Danti Chen and Jung Han, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p221104, 2012]. Further, the ...
Source: Toshiba Toshiba’s white LED package Toshiba Corporation will begin mass production of white LEDs on 200mm silicon wafers this month based on technology that it licensed and developed with Californian firm Bridgelux. ...
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BASF and Hisense have jointly presented a new highly energy efficient domestic refrigeration technology using the newly launched Elastocool® low-density polyurethane solution from BASF. Combined with Hisense’s advanced foaming ...
Retrofit lamp stories were the most popular according to LEDs Magazine web readership statistics, followed by financial stories, technology stories, and then product releases. Another year is coming to end, and we at LEDs Magazine are ...
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Toshiba will begin mass production of white LEDs on 200-mm silicon wafers this month based on technology that it licensed and jointly developed with Bridgelux. Toshiba has announced that it will begin production of white LEDs on 200-mm ...
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Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has won the Solid-State Lighting Application Category of the Elektra Awards 2012 for its new MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN ICs) High Brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs). The winners were announced at the ...
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Current bright blue LEDs are based on the wide band gap semiconductors GaN (gallium nitride) and InGaN (indium gallium nitride). They can be added to existing red and green LEDs to produce the impression of white light, though white LEDs ...
Toshiba Corporation today 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 LED ...
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Toshiba Corporation 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 LED packages. ...
Tags: Japan Toshiba Bridgelux White LED Packages, LED Package, LED CHIP
About half as many metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) tools for gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diode (LED) manufacture will ship in 2012 than last year, IMS Research reports in its most recent GaN LED Quarterly Supply and ...
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