With the LED TV backlight market slowing, and the general lighting market yet to take off, LED makers are looking to all sorts of innovative ways to improve cost and performance to drive adoption — from disruptive new technologies to ...
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Lextar Electronics Corp. and Wellypower Optronics Co. Ltd. today announced that they have entered into an amalgamation agreement. The merger agreement was approved today by the Boards of Directors of both Lextar and Wellypower. The ...
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Dialight plc ("Dialight") announces that its US subsidiary, Dialight Corporation, has completed the acquisition of the assets of Airinet Inc ("Airinet"), a lighting controls company, for upfront consideration of $2.6m with additional sums ...
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Scotland-based Braveheart Investment Group plc has injected £378,000 in mLED Ltd of Glasgow, UK. The latest equity funding round comes from Braveheart's established network of private clients, the Scottish Enterprise ...
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The companies today jointly confirmed achieving GaN-on-Si based LEDs utilizing Epistar's high-brightness LED structures and AZZURRO's patented technology for 150 mm GaN-on-Si. The successful completion of the joined project confirmed the ...
Lextar Electronics Corp.announces its"Photometric Laboratory"has been listed with LM-79 and LM-80 accreditation.This makes Lextar the first of any LED corporation in Taiwan to be awarded both accreditations and shows the company's ...
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Out of India's total use of electrical power, over 60% in domestic and commercial area is for lighting. As India continues to sleep, China is today lighting up many Indian homes and commercial premises through Indian LED trading businesses ...
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Epistar,the Taiwan-based company that is ranked as one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-brightness LEDs,has become the latest major producer to hint at a transfer to a potentially much cheaper silicon platform. Currently the ...
More than 130 locations of convenience restaurant chain Sheetz, Inc. now feature state-of-the-art LED lighting by Cree. The installation of energy-efficient Cree interior and exterior lighting at Sheetz® retail gasoline locations is ...
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Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
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The market for phosphors used in high-brightness LEDs is set to grow rapidly as solid-state lighting becomes a mainstream technology,and reach $1 billion by 2015. That is the prediction from analysts at France-based Yole ...
The attention-getting lighting industry event-HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair(Autumn Edition)will be held 27-30 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.The exhibition will gather more than two thousand ...
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Even at the age of 84 Nick Holonyak Jr can still be found in his laboratory daily The 50th anniversary of the birth of the LED is being celebrated at the University of Illinois with participation from the LED inventor himself,Nick ...
The modern day LED was born 50 years ago this month.Jeanine Chrobak-Kando,Business Development Manager at Verbatim,describes how far the lighting technology has come in such a short time. Light-emitting diodes(LEDs)have become an ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA Inc says that Guangdong Deli Optoelectronics Co Ltd, a newly formed and privately held company located in the high-tech development zone of ...
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