China's LED chip makers have seen a large decrease in government subsidies this year, according to an article by Peoples Daily. Numerous companies have relied on the subsidies to offer lower prices. The market is currently facing overcapacity. Compani...

TechNavio, a market analysis firm owned by Research and Markets, predicts that Global Packaged GaN LED market will grow at a CAGR of 12.1 percent during 2012-2016. According to Technavio, one of the key contributors to this market growth is the increased adoption of packaged GaN LEDs in the lighting segment. Packaged GaN LEDs ...<br><br>Category: sslfin

Bellvue, Washington-based eMagin claims to have developed the world’s brightest family of lower power sipping and full color organic light emitting diode (OLED) microdisplays. eMagin contends that the luminance of its Color OLED-XLSTM, at 1000 ni...

QD Vision of Lexington, Massachusetts, a developer of quantum dot based LEDs, reports having achieved 19 cd/A efficiency and 18 percent external quantum efficiency. QD Vision’s latest QLED performance results are currently published in the 21 April 2...

Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota USA, has designed, manufactured and installed an integrated LED video display system for the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The display was installed at the home field of the Cedar Rapids Kernels, Veterans Memorial Stadium. The stadium is a 5,300 capacity facility that opened in 2002, replacing the original ...<br><br>Category: ledappsdisplay

Osram Opto Semiconductors is coordinating a project to develop the framework for adaptive forward lighting headlamps. The joint project, which is part of the “Photonics Research Germany” program, is in the “Integrated Microphotonics” Field of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FMER).The goal of the project is to ...<br><br>Category: ledappstransauto

Verticle, an LED chip maker in Silicon Valley with production in Korea, has come out with a hexagonally shaped UV-LED on a copper substrate that can be driven at high current. The chip employs what the company calls Chemical Chip Separation Technology between the Cu substrate and the GaN-based UV-LED. Verticle points out that ...<br><br>Category: leddevpkgpower

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. of Malvern, Pennsylvania USA, has introduced two new high-speed 850 nm and 940 nm infrared emitters and a package-matched high-speed silicon PIN photodiode with high radiant sensitivity from 780 nm to 1050 nm. The VSMG10850, VSMB10940, and VEMD10940F offer an ultra-wide ± 75° angle of half intensity ...<br><br>Category: leddevpkgstd

Neuchatel – CSEM has joined a recently launched €11.2 million European initiative to help bring flexible OLEDs to market. The project, known as Flex-o-Fab, will create a pilot-scale manufacturing line for flexible OLEDs and use it to develop reliab...

As a result of a midnight premier of Star Trek - Into Darkness last night (this morning, technically), the forward-looking technology thoughts are flowing judiciously. Apparently I walked into the conclusion of the discussion on when and where th...

SSL fixtures installed in roadway curbs and adjustable LED spotlights for pedestrian and vehicular tunnels preserve the historic look of Nîmes while providing effective route markers and ambiance.

Adaptive SSL implementations will be capable of varying the range of headlights based on vehicle speed or widening the beam to illuminate sidewalks in city driving.