Yesterday, a group of people consisting of ten academicians from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), two leaders from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and three industry specialists came to Chengdu and conducted an ...
Tags: AC LED Light, Energy-saving Lamps
The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has demonstrated the first monolithic integration of LED and high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) on the same gallium nitride (GaN) chip. It is ...
Tags: Smart Lighting, Lights, Lighting, LED Lighting
The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA has demonstrated what is reckoned to be the first monolithically integrated light-emitting diode (LED) and high-electron-mobility ...
Tags: Smart Lighting, GaN Chip
Researchers in Korea have used three-dimensional (3D) graphene foam as a transparent conductor for the p-contact of blue nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Byung-Jae Kim et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol102, p161902, 2013]. The ...
Tags: Graphene foam, LEDs
Traditionally Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED devices are produced on either sapphire or silicon carbide (SiC) substrates, due to the good crystal lattice matching between the materials and the GaN, with typically 2” or 4” diameter ...
Together with researchers at the US Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center (AMRDEC) and Duke University, a team led by North Carolina State University (NCSU) claims to have solved a long-standing materials ...
Tags: NCSU, ZnO-Based UV Lasers, Electronics
Intermolecular, Inc. (Nasdaq:IMI) announces today that Epistar, Corp. (TWSE:2448) and Intermolecular, Inc. (Nasdaq:IMI), have signed a collaborative development program (CDP) and royalty-bearing IP licensing agreement to increase the ...
Tags: LED Collaboration, LED
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has gotten involved in a patent infringement with Boston University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Boston University alleges that Samsung “regularly and deliberately” ...
Tags: LED devices, LED, Samsung
TSMC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL) announced today that its laboratory was accredited as a LM-80 qualified lab by Taiwan Accreditation Foundation (TAF). At the same time, all of its LED product series have been tested in the lab and will ...
Tags: Solid State Lighting, Lighting, LED product
As sapphire substrate makers brace for a year of consolidation, 2013 could deliver the killer application, reports Compound Semiconductor. Will 2013 be a year of two halves for manufacturers of sapphire substrates? Overcapacity and falling ...
Tags: sapphire substrate, raw material
Is it time for high-brightness LED manufacturing to get serious about process control? If so, what lessons can be learned from traditional, silicon-based integrated circuit manufacturing? The answer to the first question can be ...
Tags: LED manufacturing, LED substrate, MOCVD
SEMI's HB-LED Standards Committee has approved its first standard, specifying sapphire wafers used in making high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) devices. Sapphire wafers are used in producing HB-LED devices for multiple ...
Tags: SEMI, HB-LED Standards Committee, LED manufacturing supply chain
Philips Lumileds has reentered the market for blue LED die at SIL and also announced an expansion of the Luxeon S family of multi-emitter packaged LEDs at the Strategies in Light conference. Philips Lumileds has announced the ...
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Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has launched new LUXEON Flip Chip LED devices (in a 1mm x 1mm format) to provide luminaire manufacturers with more design flexibility. Users can now access Lumileds technology through a robust LUXEON ...
EMS provider Lite-On Technology will expend production capacity for camera modules by 20-30% and PC keyboards by 20% by adding equipment and increasing automation, according to company CEO Warren Chen. For the capacity expansion, Lite-On ...