The modern day LED was born 50 years ago this month.Jeanine Chrobak-Kando,Business Development Manager at Verbatim,describes how far the lighting technology has come in such a short time. Light-emitting diodes(LEDs)have become an ...
Tags: LED, celebrates 50th Anniversary, Jeanine Chrobak-Kando
San'an Optoelectronics intends to invest around$80 million to obtain a 19.9%stake in Formosa Epitaxy. San'an Optoelectronics Co.Ltd,one of China's largest LED makers,plans to invest NT$2.35 billion(approx.$80 million)in Formosa ...
Australian clean technology innovator,BluGlass Limited announced today that it is now producing n-type gallium nitride(GaN)films with demonstrated industry equivalent performance properties using its breakthrough low temperature Remote ...
Researchers in Korea have developed gold-doped graphene as a transparent and current-spreading electrode (TCSE) for ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Some of the research group from Chonbuk National University and ...
Tags: UV LED
Lighting LEDs are a route to energy efficiency that also allow creative effects that were not possible with incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes. But the output spectrum, like that of fluorescent tubes, is nothing like the sunlight ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, Lighting LEDs, energy efficiency, energy
Researchers in China have improved LED power output and droop behavior in nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by including an electron-emitting layer under the active region [Jianbao Zhang et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol5, ...
Researchers in Korea and India have used zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods on the rear side tolight-emitting diodes (LEDs) grown on c-plane sapphire [Joo Jin et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol51, p102101, 2012]. The researchers were based at Chonbuk ...
Tags: LED
18 October 2012 Georgia State University selects Meaglow's hollow cathode plasma source Meaglow Ltd of Thunder Bay,Ontario,Canada a privately held firm that produces epitaxy equipment and MBE and MOCVD accessories,as well as providing ...
Tags: Meaglow Ltd, Georgia State University, hollow cathode plasma source
18 October 2012 Osram Opto launches direct-emitting green laser diodes Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg,Germany says that it is now offering its first direct-emitting green diode lasers.The two compact indium gallium ...
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 ...
Tags: LED
Increasing brightness capability has seen coloured LEDs move into applications that were previously the domain of filtered incandescent light. Perhaps the most obvious example is in car rear light clusters where red-emitting LEDs ...
Tags: LED
LEDs - or Light-Emitting Diodes – are semiconductors that generate narrow-spectrum light when electrically biased in the forward direction of the p-n junction. This effect is a form of electroluminescence. A single LED is often a ...
Tags: LED
Researchers in China have applied graphene as transparent conducting layers (TCLs) in vertical light-emitting diodes (VLEDs) made from indium gallium nitride (InGaN) semiconductors. The researchers were based in Beijing at Chinese Academy ...
Tags: LED
Strategies Unlimited is forecasting a flat LED lighting market for 2012 relative to 2011, with growth in retail and industrial/commercial lighting offset by contraction in retrofit lamps, as reported by VRINDA BHANDARKAR, ...
Tags: LED lighting
The Luxeon Z is a very small, unencapsulated LED package that can be used to build multi-chip arrays, while the Luxeon H50-2 is an improved version of Lumileds’ high-voltage package. Philips Lumileds has ...