Growth in Demand for LED Lighting Triggers Need for Increased Warehouse and Manufacturing Capacity STURTEVANT, WISC. -- Cree, Inc.'s Ruud Lighting subsidiary, based in Racine, Wisc., will hold a groundbreaking ceremony today to highlight a ...
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The release of GAN-on-silicon LED chips in China presents a lower-cost alternative that is comparable in quality to mainstream products based on sapphire and SiC substrates. R&D work leveraging the advantages of silicon substrates has ...
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Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced that EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company, has become a distributor for Bridgelux products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. ...
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Lextar Electronics, a Taiwan-based maker of LED epitaxial wafers and chips as well as LED backlight units (BLUs) and lighting products, on November 5 reported consolidated revenues of NT$855 million (US$29.2 million) for October, ...
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China-based tier-two LED chipmakers such as Silan Azure, Epilight Technology, and Tsinghua Tongfang have seen on-year decreases of around 30-50% in their accumulated revenues so far in 2012. Gross margin of the three firms has been below ...
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Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, a provider of c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting market, has announced 'CHES Foundations Series Part 2: Sapphire ...
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NGK Insulators Ltd of Nagoya, Japan has developed gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that significantly reduce defects and approximately double the luminous efficiency of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) over previous models. The GaN wafers ...
Taiwan-based LED firm Lextar Electronics, a subsidiary of AU Optronics (AUO) has announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2012. The firm reported consolidated revenue of NT$2.894 billion (US$99 million), up 10.9% from the ...
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China-based LED chipmaker Sanan Optoelectronics has been quickly upgrading its technology through recruiting experts from Taiwan-based makers and expanding production capacity. Sanan is close behind first-tier Taiwan-based makers in terms ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont,CA,USA,which develops solid-state lighting technology built on'GaN on GaN'(gallium nitride on gallium nitride)substrates,says that as of 1 November 2012 its full-spectrum GaN-on-GaN LED MR16 lamps ,China,South ...
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Taiwan-based LED firm Genesis Photonics introduces a new LED lighting product, Match LED. The new product emphasizes cost-saving features to attract LED packaging houses. Match LED only needs one LED component to reach 50 watt of power, ...
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October marks the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the LED (light-emitting diode) by General Electric's Nick Holonyak, father of the GaAsP visible LED. That decade-old innovation in the lab is finally about to seriously disrupt ...
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The LED phosphor market is expected to more than double in the next five years, according to Yole Développement. Phosphors are used to convert the light emitted by LED chips into a richer spectrum of color approaching or ...
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Analyst: LED phosphor market to reach $1BN by 2015 10 Oct 2012 But Yole Développement report says that shortage of rare-earth elements could persist as incandescent lamps are phased out. The market for phosphors used in ...
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At a shareholders' conference held late September, B.J. Lee, chairman of LED chipmaker Epistar Inc., estimated 2013 would remain a tough year for the LED industry as a whole, constraining the manufacturers' revenue climbing at least until ...
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