Everlight filed an invalidation action with the Japan Patent Office against Nichia Corporation’s blue LED patent No. JP2780691. The Japan Patent Office rendered a decision in favor of Everlight on Nov. 12, 2012, holding that ...
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LED packaging company Everlight Electronics on December 4 announced that the Japan Patent Office (JPO) has made a judgment to uphold its claim on the invalidity of Japan-based LED maker Nichia's patent number JP2780691. Everlight filed a ...
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Technology Editor Steve Bush, looks at the latest LED products hitting the market from Cree, Lumileds, Seoul Semiconductor, Osram, Nichia, and Sharp. All the major LED suppliers have released additional lighting-class LEDs over the ...
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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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It is 50 years since laser scientist Dr Nick Holonyak and his team of researchers at General Electric made the breakthrough with a new type of alloy that allowed them to create the first practical, visible-spectrum LED and paved the way for ...
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To build market share in China's LED lighting market, international firms have been expanding capacity. Philips' Lumileds has revealed plans to expand LED component capacity in its Malaysia plant in November. The firm expects daily ...
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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In well under a decade, LEDs have expanded their role from little red spots which tell you the HiFi is on, to include brilliant white light sources capable of illuminating a room or lighting the road ahead. Production quality LEDs are now ...
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Increasing brightness capability has seen coloured LEDs move into applications that were previously the domain of filtered incandescent light. Perhaps the most obvious example is in car rear light clusters where red-emitting LEDs ...
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In 2010, the future of the Chinese LED market was looking brighter than ever. The world economy was recovering from the "Great Regression," new environmental and efficiency initiatives outlined in the country's twelfth five‐year plan ...
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Taiwan's LED industry has benefited from simmering anti-Japan sentiment in China, due to nationalization of the Diaoyutai islet. Formosa Epitaxy Incorporation (FOREPI) and Epistar to see booming revenues in September, because many ...
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China is moving toward the standardization of semiconductor lighting’s upstream to downstream sectors. China is undertaking development efforts to strengthen its semiconductor lighting sector and sustain a 30 percent annual growth ...
Strategies Unlimited is forecasting a flat LED lighting market for 2012 relative to 2011, with growth in retail and industrial/commercial lighting offset by contraction in retrofit lamps, as reported by VRINDA BHANDARKAR, ...
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About LEDforum 2012 Taipei Event:LEDforum 2012 Taipei LEDforum 2012 Taipei is a two-day event organized by LEDinside and will be held on November 1st and 2nd at National Taiwan University Hospital International Conference Center.The ...
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Small LED lighting producers in China are banding together to take on the industry`s multinational giants in the West The invention of incandescent lamps by American inventor Thomas Edison more than a century ago not only marked the ...