As sapphire substrate makers brace for a year of consolidation, 2013 could deliver the killer application, reports Compound Semiconductor. Will 2013 be a year of two halves for manufacturers of sapphire substrates? Overcapacity and falling ...
Tags: sapphire substrate, raw material
Is it time for high-brightness LED manufacturing to get serious about process control? If so, what lessons can be learned from traditional, silicon-based integrated circuit manufacturing? The answer to the first question can be ...
Tags: LED manufacturing, LED substrate, MOCVD
Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity. According to the SEMI LED/Opto Fab Forecast, spending on LED fab manufacturing ...
Tags: LED Manufacturing Investment, LED fab manufacturing equipment
Bluglass Produced p-GaN Films that Meet Industry Benchmark for the First Time Australian clean technology innovator, BluGlass Limited (ASX: BLG) announced today that it has succeeded in producing p-type gallium nitride (GaN) films with ...
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At the SIL conference, Atmel announced a driver IC family designed specifically for high-CRI lamps and luminaires that use a mix of phosphor-converted white LEDs and red or amber LEDs that combined deliver good light quality and high ...
Tags: Atmel, LED Driver ICs, High-CRI Color-Mix SSL Applications
During a keynote address at Strategies in Light, Norbert Hiller of Cree announced that the company had achieved a new LED efficacy milestone of 276 lm/W in a research & development environment. In the opening Plenary Session at the ...
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In the patent lawsuit in Korea at the Seoul Central District Court which Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (“MCC”) filed against a US company, Intematix Corporation (“Intematix”) and a Korean distributor, GVP, claiming ...
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LEDucation 7 announces VERSATILE line up of speakers for the 7th annual premier event on LED Technology to be held in NYC oN March 20th. The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY) is proud to announce its versatile speaker line up ...
Tags: LED Technology, lighting, lighting community
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, says it has shipped a total of 400,000 six-inch sapphire wafers to LED ...
Tags: LED manufacturing, LED, LED lighting
Researchers from Boston University have invented a unique way of using LED lights to transmit location information to mobile devices within buildings. Researchers Dan Ryan and Aaron Ganick’s start-up, ByteLight, is based entirely ...
Tags: Boston University, LED lights, location information, mobile devices
LEDs are “going mainstream but are still not yet a mature commodity”, according to market analyst Yole Développement in its latest ‘LED Packaging’ report. The analyst determines that the combination of growth ...
Tags: LEDs, LED package, LED Package Costs
Cutting LED packaging cost drives new designs 22 Jan 2013 Optimistic sector forecast for 2013 published. LEDs are “going mainstream but are still not yet a mature commodity”, according to market analyst Yole ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED, LED packaging cost
Source: Credit: Fisher Marantz Stone National September 11 Memorial: Two 200-foot-square, illuminated pools mark the footprints of New York’s twin towers. Breakthroughs in LED and lighting control technology have made it possible ...
Yole Développement announces its new report “LED packaging”. Compared to the last edition, this update version provides you an update of all market metrics (packaged LED, equipment, materials…), an highlight of 2012 ...
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Global LED production value is expected to hit US$12.4bn in 2013,representing a 12%year-on-year growth,according to a report from LEDinside(the LED research division of TrendForce). Handset applications and LED lighting product demand are ...
Tags: LED Production Value, grow by 12 percent, US 12.4bn dollars in 2013