Apart from monetary easing moves, there is room for China to achieve faster and more balanced growth by cutting the private sector's tax burden, a major Chinese investment firm said Monday. China's central bank has cut benchmark interest ...
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The LED industry is now fully embracing the fast-growing lighting market as (based on revenues) LED lighting has become the largest sector among LED applications, surpassing LCD backlighting in 2014, and is expected to be the major driver ...
Tags: LEDs MOCVD, LED Chip
The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released a special report on LED lamps available through the retail marketplace and targeted toward general consumers. While previous reports in the CALiPER retail lamps series have ...
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The demand for LED chipsets, primarily for the LED lighting market, is forecast to increase substantially through 2018. According to DisplaySearch, measured in standard units (500 by 500 micron chip size), demand for LED chipsets are ...
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For many LED makers, 2014 has been a challenging year, with performance in the first and second halves of the year very polarized for many, notes Roger Chu, research director of LEDinside (a research division of TrendForce). Lighting market ...
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The overall market for lamps will rise from $17.9bn now to peak at $21.2bn in 2018 before shrinking to $16bn by 2022, forecasts market research firm Strategies Unlimited in its latest annual report ‘The Worldwide Market for ...
Tags: LEDs Lighting, Lamp Market
David Atkinson’s lighting scheme for the Sky Gallery at The O2 blends LEDs with traditional technologies to stunning effect. Jill Entwistle asks the 2011 Lighting Designer of the Year how he realised the project There ...
Dextra Group, parent company of Dextra Lighting, has expanded its electronics facility, allowing it to become one of the first European lighting manufacturers to produce LED components in-house. With an investment of more than £4 ...
Following the announcement on June 30 that Epistar is acquiring Formosa Epitaxy (FOREPI), Epistar will have over 400 MOCVD reactors including those from FOREPI's China subsidiaries, more than double the GaN MOCVD of its nearest competitor, ...
The European Patent Office (EPO) has revealed that Philips filed the third largest number of patent applications in Europe in 2013. According to the organisation, Philips filed 1,839 patent applications, up 59 per cent compared to 2012 ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that, to keep pace with constant market growth, it is switching its fabrication of red, orange and yellow light-emitting diodes to 6-inch wafers. The firm is therefore extending the ...
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More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of ...
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The story behind LED development—only the 4th lighting technology developed in human history—is remarkable. The potential ahead of LED lighting to deliver real and measurable advantages—to save energy, last years longer, ...
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ACT Research president Kenneth Vieth may have summed up the US economic forecast best at ATA's All Eyes on the Economy session when he said "We came through the Great Recession and we are now in the Great Okay." Vieth was referring to ...
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GE Lighting’s Chief Innovation Manager, Tom Boyle, discusses how GE is working to provide the modern consumer with LED lighting solutions that are affordable and intuitive. (Photo courtesy of GE) GE Lighting has worked with major ...