Light Emitting Diodes (LED’s) are about to pick up one of the key drivers from the low cost IC industry – Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED’s are being manufactured on large silicon wafers. This opens the ...

Market will grow significantly if costs continue to decrease at current rates, but there is nothing similar to Moore’s Law in this sector. The LED market remains hot, particularly in the solid-state ...

Date Announced: 21 Sep 2010 DURHAM, N.C. — Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) continues to lead the LED Lighting Revolution with the announcement of a new 150-mm LED wafer production facility in Research ...

The startup sees a 75 percent boost in efficiency with its LED bulb, a new material platform for bringing down the cost of LEDs for general lighting. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Samsung Electronics introduced a full line-up of chip-scale LED packages (CSP), including 0.6-W-class and 3-W-class packages, CSP arrays, and PoW (Phosphor on Wafer) packages. Samsung’s CSP technology ...

Emerald Technology Ventures and others close round aimed at adding capacity for silicon-based LED wafer production at Azzurro Semiconductors. Azzurro Semiconductors, a Germany-based manufacturer of ...

LED bulbs are bright, have long lives, are energy efficient, but very expensive. But that may soon change. A new production breakthrough could see the costs of making the bulbs drop by as much as 75 ...

A lighting contractor (Andrew Schmitz) calls Amico's ultra-thin 6-inch his "preferred choice" for low ceilings, pointing to brightness and a wide beam angle, plus smooth dimming to 5% and no driver ...

Polymatech Electronics, India’s first semiconductor chips manufacturer, has introduced a complete range of high-quality sapphire substrates which includes two, three, and four-inch diameter sapphire ...

February 2, 2009 Cambridge University researchers have developed cheap, light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs that produce brilliant light but use very little electricity. They will cost just GBP2 (USD2.80 ...