When asked whether he had envisioned the impact that his revolutionary blue LED would have in years to come, new Nobel physics laureate Shuji Nakamura’s answer was in typically modest and candid. “No!” he replied in a ...
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Sintering is the process of using high temperature to shape powders into a solid object. The sintering temperature is below the melting point of the material, and the process is carried out in a sintering furnace. This particular furnace ...
Aegis Lightwave Inc of Woburn, MA, USA and Photop Technologies Inc of Fuzhou, China (both subsidiaries of II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA) have merged under the Photop brand identity. Founded in 2003 through a merger of four firms ...
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White light There are two primary ways of producing white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs), LEDs that generate high-intensity white light. One is to use individual LEDs that emit three primary colors— red, green, and blue — and ...
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After a fiscal year in which it was hit by slumping metal prices and floods in Thailand, II-VI reports mixed demand trends. The diversified optics and materials company II-VI has reported sales of $534.6 million for its fiscal year ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes lasers and optical components, modules and subsystems for the optical communications, industrial and consumer laser markets, has completed the sale of the assets of its Santa Rosa thin-film ...
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Oclaro of San Jose,CA,USA,which makes lasers and optical components,modules and subsystems for the optical communications,industrial and consumer laser markets,has agreed to sell the assets of its Santa Rosa thin-film filter business to ...
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It is 50 years since laser scientist Dr Nick Holonyak and his team of researchers at General Electric made the breakthrough with a new type of alloy that allowed them to create the first practical, visible-spectrum LED and paved the way for ...
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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 ...
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