A group of lighting designers and manufacturers, researchers, and utilities have joined to ask the EPA to recognize that higher-CRI lamps can increase energy savings through broader usage even with a slightly reduced efficacy specification. ...
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Retrofit lamp stories were the most popular according to LEDs Magazine web readership statistics, followed by financial stories, technology stories, and then product releases. Another year is coming to end, and we at LEDs Magazine are ...
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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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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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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 as of 1 November 2012 its full-spectrum GaN-on-GaN LED MR16 lamps ,China,South ...
Tags: LED MR16 lamp, GaN on GaN substrates, USA, Soraa Inc.
SDK and TS Opto concluded an absorption-type company split agreement. (Since this is a case of "simplified absorption-type company split" involving SDK and its wholly owned subsidiary, part of the details are omitted from the scope of ...
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Tokyo-based chemical manufacturer Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has announced to split off and transfer its GaN LED epitaxial wafer and chip production business to its subsidiary TS Opto Co Ltd (which was founded at the end of September at SDK's ...
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At its latest board meeting,Tokyo-based chemical manufacturer Showa Denko K.K.(SDK)has decided to split off and transfer its gallium nitride(GaN)LED epitaxial wafer and chip production business to its subsidiary TS Opto Co Ltd(which was ...
Tags: SDK, GaN LEDs, Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd, chemical manufacture, TS Opto
SSL industry celebrates 50th birthday of visible LED light 10 Oct 2012 LEDs are ubiquitous now, but fifty years and a few days ago they were completely unheard of until General Electric scientist Nick Holonyak Jr invented a visible red ...
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The Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association named Shuji Nakamura the winner of its Inventor of the Year award for innovations including Soraa's Gan-on-GaN technology. The Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association ...
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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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In this week's update:Are GaN-on-GaN LEDs closer to reality than previously thought?Update on our latest Webcast;DOE updates its SSL manufacturing roadmap;and OLEDs still trail LEDs in cost,but Plextronics hopes to change that. Back at ...
Light source manufacturer Ushio Inc of Tokyo, Japan says that in November it will begin sales of Superline LEDs, a series of LED MR16 halogen replacement lamps from Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting ...
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Using GaN as a substrate holds promise for many industries,but has immediate applications for light-emitting diodes(LEDs),which Soraa manufactures.A major advancement in a commercially viable new substrate is a promising disruptive ...
Soraa, dedicated in developing GaN solid-state lighting technology, has been selected by Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to lead a project on bulk GaN substrates development. It’s the only ARPA-E funded LED substrate ...
Tags: North America Soraa GaN Substrate DOE, Lights, Lighting