The 2012 Lighting Year began with the historic phase-out of the incandescent light bulb. The year continued with the 50th anniversary of the light-emitting diode (LED) in October and ended in December with yet another Greatest LED. ...
Tags: Philips LED, LED lamp, LED Lighting, OsramNXP Cree
Light output power increased 23% over conventional lateral LEDs. Korea's universities have used aluminum-alloyed graphite as a thermally conducting substrate to improve the light output power performance of nitride semiconductor LEDs by ...
Tags: LED
LED utilization rates are picking up again, with utilization in Taiwan now back up to 70 to 90 percent of capacity. Companies expect to be back to close to 100 percent in a month or two, driven by TV backlight demand, reports Yole ...
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville,IL,USA,which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED,RFIC,semiconductor and optical industries,says that the US Patent and Trademark Office(USPTO)has allowed Rubicon's patent ...
Tags: Rubicon Technology, USPTO, Ultra-Flat, High-Throughput Wafer Lapping
AIXTRON SE introduced a 5 x 200mm gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) reactor design for its G5 Planetary Reactor metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) platform. AIX G5+ comprises special reactor hardware and process design, ...
Tags: MOCVD
Unpatterned wafer defect inspection tools provide broad capability to enable critical infrastructure development Today KLA-Tencor Corporation(NASDAQ:KLAC)announced the installation of its first process control systems capable of handling ...
Tags: wafer, defect inspection tools, infrastructure, Surfscan®SP3 platform
Esko has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Epson to provide a Digital Front-End (DFE) for use with the Epson SurePress L-4033A as well as the L-4033AW inkjet digital label presses. According to Esko, the ...
Tags: Esko, Epson, Agreement, digital label presses, printers
Formulated for electrical potting and encapsulation applications, Master Bond EP36AO combines high thermal conductivity with thermal stability. This flexible, heat resistant epoxy has superior mechanical properties. Serviceable over the ...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has grown high-performance indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal–oxide–semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MOSHEMTs) directly on silicon [Xiuju Zhou et al, ...
HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
Tags: power semiconductor technology, Energy, electrical power grid
Rubicon Technology, a provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, reported that second quarter (ended June 30, 2012) revenue increased to US$17.0 million from US$10.2 million in the ...
Tags: Rubicon Technology, finanacial report, USA
The LED consists of a chip of semiconducting material doped with impurities to create a p-n junction. As in other diodes, current flows easily from the p-side, or anode, to the n-side, or cathode, but not in the reverse direction. ...
Tags: LED
Organic LED materials specialistUniversal Display Corporation (UDC) has slashed its sales guidance for 2012, blaming push-outs of OLED TV production for the shortfall. Nearly one-third of the stock value of New Jersey-based UDC was lost ...
Tags: Organic LED, sales, OLED TV production, company news
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 its GaN-on-GaN LED MR16 Vivid and Outdoor lamps have been recognized ...
Tags: Soraa, LEDs, GaN, lighting technology
XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, says it recently completed assembly ...
Tags: XsunX, CIGS, hybrid copper indium gallium, solar cell evaporation system