Due to UV curing, UV LEDs should become a $270m business by 2017, and could hit $300m if new applications boom, according to a report ‘UV LEDs: Technology & Application Trends’ from market research firm Yole Développement ...
With increasing awareness of global climate change and the importance of energy conservation, more and more countries have launched LED lighting projects and subsidy policies. As a result, even though the growth of the LED market in 2012 ...
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Thomas Edison invented the first incandescent light bulb 130 years ago, which greatly contributed to the advancement of civilization. However, that technology is antiquated, economically inefficient to operate, and fragile. Fluorescent ...
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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced this week that it has developed a prototype multi-wire electrical discharge processing technology to cut very hard four inch square polycrystalline silicon carbide (SiC) ingots into 40 pieces at ...
LEDs are projected to grow more than six-fold to nearly $100 billion and power conversion electronics to $15 billion over the next decade as the desire for energy efficiency drives adoption, says Lux Research. While the market opportunity ...
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The Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) bestowed its Product of the Year Award on Graphic Packaging International, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, for a microwaveable bacon package for Embotits Espina, a ...
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AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.; Head Office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) has made an investment totaling USD 2.1 million in Triton Microtechnologies, Inc. (Head Office: Arizona, U.S.), which owns cutting-edge via-fill technology ...
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German developer and supplier of color management software solutions GMG will demonstrate the OpenColor packaging proofing solution at Northprint & Pack 2013 to be held from 14 to 16 May 2013 at Harrogate, UK. GMG OpenColor is a spot ...
February 2013 — At the European Coatings Show from March 19 to 21, 2013, in Nuremberg, Bayer MaterialScience will present a technology for heat-activated dispersion adhesives that is based on the new polycarbodiimide crosslinker ...
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Researchers in Japan and Switzerland have used a laser treatment of sapphire substrates to increase the thickness of gallium nitride (GaN) layers grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) to around 200μm [Hideo Aida et al, Appl. Phys. ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that CEO & president Dr Drew Nelson has joined a high-level industry group to advise the European Commission (EC) on the implementation of key enabling technologies ...
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As electronic technology has moved towards miniaturization, new manufacturing technologies have needed to be developed. Smaller components cannot always be connected or soldered by older conventional methods, such as flow soldering. At the ...
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U.S. 8,202,581 B2 Valspar Sourcing, Inc. has been granted a patent for a method for preparing a coated article comprised of providing a cement fiberboard substrate having an outer surface, applying directly to the cement fiberboard ...
U.S. 8,211,224 B2 Sun Chemical Corp. has been granted a process for making a pearlescent pigment comprised of reducing a metal oxide coated substrate with a hydrogen source in the presence of a particulate noble metal catalyst in a ...
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U.S. 8,216,687 B2 United Technologies Corporation has been granted a patent for an article comprised of a metallic substrate; a coating system atop the substrate and comprised of an alumina-chromia layer having a thickness at least 50% of ...
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