In 1999, Roland Haitz plotted a graph that showed the remarkable exponential progress of LED technology over the previous 30 years. The data he gathered from his employer, Palo Alto, California, headquartered technology giant Hewlett ...
UK-based mail equipment supplier AMS is set to launch its desktop digital color label printer, M1C Labelmaxer for the packaging sector. The new label printer has the capability to handle print widths of 50-222mm and substrates as thick as ...
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US-based Boingo Graphics, a commercial printing company, has expanded its grand format print capabilities by installing the HP Scitex FB700 six-color UV press and the Colex Sharpcut Flatbed Cutter system. Boingo Graphics president Scott ...
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The companies today jointly confirmed achieving GaN-on-Si based LEDs utilizing Epistar's high-brightness LED structures and AZZURRO's patented technology for 150 mm GaN-on-Si. The successful completion of the joined project confirmed the ...
Abstract The entire LED lighting supply chain can be divided into the following segments: rare earth, MOCVD equipment, sapphire ingots and substrates, LED chips, LED packaging, and LED lighting fixtures. This Digitimes Special Report ...
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A shortage of sapphire material between 2010 and 2011 created a window of opportunity for new entrants. In just the last two years, more than 80 companies announced their intention to enter the industry. This trend coupled with slow demand ...
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MOCVD, lithography, plasma etching, PECVD & PVD tools to experience turbulent investment cycles in the coming years GEARING UP FOR THE NEXT INVESTMENT CYCLE The packaged LED market still presents significant opportunities for growth ...
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UK-based etch and deposition system maker Oxford Instruments has been chosen by Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology to supply a FlexAL ALD (atomic layer deposition) system for installation in its cleanroom. FlexAL systems provide a ...
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AGC Flat Glass North America and Asahi Glass,Tokyo Inc.has filed a silicon thin film deposition patent regarding photovoltaic device applications with inventors being Christopher Cording,Matthew Spencer and Kunio Masumo,according to the ...
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Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
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Cynora today unveiled a new flexible OLED prototype,demonstrating yet again the huge potential of OLED technology.One key aspect that sets organic light-emitting diodes(OLEDs)apart from conventional LEDs,is that they are two-dimensional ...
Henkel KGaA has received a patent for a chromium-free,curable corrosion protection agent for the first coating of metallic substrates.The corrosion protection agent has a pH in the range of from 1 to 3 and containing water and ...
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PPG has launched two new waterborne primer surfacers,Envirobase High Performance EPW115 Waterborne Speed Prime and Aquabase Plus P950-5505 Waterborne Primer Surfacer,for the automotive refinish industry. The low-VOC products are intended ...
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HexaTech Inc of Morrisville,NC,USA has reported the results of an ongoing collaboration with development partner Tokuyama Corp of Tokyo,Japan that has demonstrated UV-C LEDs with exceptional output power and improvements in internal quantum ...
Researchers based in the USA and France have created graphene nanoribbon structures with regions that have relatively large energy bandgaps of about 0.5eV [J. Hicks et al, Nature Physics, published online 18 November 2012]. Flat graphene ...
Tags: silicon carbide, graphene, nanoribbon structures, bandgaps, energy bands