Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has been selected by the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects ...
Tags: GaN substrates
Zeta Instruments Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which provides optical profilers for micron-scale surface analysis, says that Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA has ordered multiple units of the Zeta-300 series optical profiler for ...
Tags: Sapphire substrates
Toshiba plans silicon-based LED production; Azzurro installs Veeco MOCVD 31 Jul 2012 Veeco Instruments announced that Azzurro Semiconductors has commissioned a new Veeco MOCVD reactor for silicon-based LED production while Toshiba plans to ...
LED makers square off in The LED Show opening session 31 Jul 2012 Cree focuses on the system-level approach to SSL,while Bridgelux discusses the cost roadblock,and Nichia touts market presence and LED and phosphor experience. To kick off ...
Tags: LED, Opening Session, Cree
Taiwan Lustrous Technology has received Asia's first Underwriters Laboratories-Certified Zhaga-compliant light engine certification. The company's chairman,J.C.Liu,pointed out that Zhaga standards are very important to LED light engines ...
Tags: Taiwan LED, Taiwan Zhaga Lustrous Technology, UL-Certification
Taiwanese LED maker Genesis investing $35m this year in its China plant construction Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Genesis Photonics Inc of Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) in Tainan is scheduled to invest US$35m this year on the ...
Soitec installation in Durban Soitec,the France-based company specializing in semiconductor materials and concentrated photovoltaics(CPV),says that it is focusing on cost control measures while it gears up for a ramp of production at its ...
Tags: Soitec, Hit by South African Solar
It was just a few days ago when Japan-based LED maker, Toyota Gosei Co., Ltd., announced its plan to manufacture new LED products using gallium nitride substrates as base components. Measuring up to several hundred µms in thickness, ...
Cree provides LEDs for major municipal street-lighting project in China 03 Jul 2012 A major lighting project in the Beibei district of Chongqing involves more than 20,000 LED street lights,1.9 million Cree LEDs,and an intelligent ...
Seoul Semiconductor launches nPola LED technology to boost brightness 5-10 times South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has unveiled a new LED product based on patented ‘nPola’ technology, which has been under ...
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Everlight has amended its LED patent-infringement lawsuit against Nichia, and has accused its rival of deliberately misleading the US Patent and Trademark Office by quoting fictitious experimental results relating to phosphors for white ...
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LayTec AG of Berlin,Germany(which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes,focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications)says that LED maker Lextar Electronics Corp of Hsinchu,Taiwan has qualified its Pyro ...
Tags: LayTec, GaN LED production, Pyro 400, Germany
According to Japan LED maker Nichia's website,Everlight Electronics Co.,Ltd.("Everlight")has filed patent nullity proceedings in Japan Patent Office against 19 patents held by Nichia Corporation("Nichia"). Among such Nichia patents is ...
Toshiba and Bridgelux plan to develop GaN-on-silicon LEDs on 8-inch wafers, making use of Toshiba's capabilities in silicon-based device manufacturing. Toshiba, the Japan-based industrial giant and lighting manufacturer, has made an equity ...
Tags: Toshiba, LED, solid-state lighting
In booth 3538 at the Lightfair International trade show in Las Vegas this week(9-11 May),South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has launched its 3020 Series,adding a smaller-footprint product with high light density to the ...
Tags: Seoul Semiconduct, high light density, family LEDs, 3020 Series