Chien-Chung Lin, Huang-Yu Lin, Kuo-Ju Chen, Sheng-Wen Wang, Kuan-Yu Wang, Jie-Ru Li, Huang-Ming Chen and Hao-Chung Kuo The use of distributed Bragg reflectors in remote-phosphor white-LED packaging significantly improves luminous ...
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Recently, quantum dots (QDs)—nano-sized semiconductor particles that produce bright, sharp, color light—have moved from the research lab into commercial products like high-end TVs, e-readers, laptops, and even some LED lighting. ...
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Researchers based in Japan claim the highest output power and external quantum efficiency (EQE) so far for deep ultraviolet (DUV) sub-270nm-wavelength light-emitting diodes (LEDs) during DC operation [Shin-ichiro Inoue et al, Appl. Phys. ...
Tags: DUV LEDs, DUV devices
Researchers at Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Semiconductors have achieved a 42% enhancement in light output from flip-chip indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by incorporating a photonic crystal ...
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Following its Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials (MAFuMa) call issued in February, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded £20m to 10 new research projects that aim to advance the ...
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A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. ...
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Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan have used evanescent wave coupling to enhance the light output power of red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by a factor of 3.8 [Guo-Dong Hao ...
Tags: Red LEDs AlGaInP, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Eulitha AG (a spin-off of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland that develops nano-lithographic technologies for optoelectronics, photonics, biotechnology and data storage applications) has announced the availability of the ...
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Physicists from the University of Southampton have "convincingly demonstrated" the first steps in science that might one day improve LEDs and solar cells. Related to photonic crystals, in which light is refracted by regular arrays of tiny ...
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Researchers in China have developed a low-cost, high-throughput photonic crystal (PhC) process for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Tongbo Wei et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p211111, 2012]. The process used ...
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Mainz,November 27,2012–The SCHOTT technology group has developed a nanostructuring technique for surfaces that already ranks among the important emerging technologies:so-called nanoimprint lithography.This technological platform ...
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Riber S.A.of Bezons,France,which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells,has sold a Compact 21 research MBE system to what it describes as a"world famous"research laboratory in ...
Tags: Photonic Crystals, MBE, Materials