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Lighting & LEDs
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LED Claims 33% Efficiency Boost
Cree said the LED will allow for a reduction of cost and size of lighting platforms as well as enabling a higher performance for track, downlight and outdoor lighting.
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Why Philips is Selling Its OLED Lighting Division
Why has the world’s largest producer of OLED panels decided to pull out?
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Researchers Create Graphene-based Transparent Displays
Latest breakthrough with graphene could result in thinner phones, tablets and TVs.
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Module Market Next Target for LED Vendors
Searching for a way to expand their product offerings and stave off profit margin losses, many LED suppliers are turning to the module market for future growth.
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Lighting Up 2015
This could be pivotal for the global LED industry as Asian companies continue to grow their market share and traditional manufacturers transition to pure-play lighting companies.
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Scots Startup Turns Lighting into Wi-Fi Alternative
PureLiFi, a 2012 startup, has moved quickly to market with a product that allows LED lighting to be used as an alternative to a Wi-Fi router.
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TSMC Sells LED Subsidiary to Epistar
TSMC, which once had billion-dollar ambitions in LED lighting and solar cells, has sold its LED subsidiary to Epistar for $26 million.
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Lighting Set to Drive LED Demand
The replacement of compact fluorescent and incandescent lighting with LED-based luminaires is set to drive an annual doubling of LED unit demand over the next few years, according to DisplaySearch.
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ON Semi Expands LED Lighting Component Portfolio
New power factor corrected offline AC-DC driver families intended for use in LED applications that require a higher amount of power.
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OLED Lighting Gaining Ground on Inorganic LEDs
The price of OLEDs for general lighting has always been the one sticking point with consumers when choosing a lighting option. However, with recent improvements to OLED manufacturing, the gap is closing and the battle for general lighting is heating up.
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Diodes Unveils Wide Temperature LED Driver
The driver allows for a temperature range of – 40 degrees Celsius to 125 degrees Celsius for LED applications such as signage, strip lighting and retrofit lamps.
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Connected Street Lighting to Grow 4X in Next 5 Years
The market for connected street lighting may only be worth $104 million but with the benefits to cities’ budgets, revenue is expected to surge in the coming years to $450 million.
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Embedded LED Enables Contact Lens Display
Forget Google Glass. It could soon be possible to read information that is streamed to an LED array embedded in a contact lens.
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LED Matrix Manager Drives Auto Headlamp Arrays
LEDs are an increasingly viable option for headlamps, but an array of LEDs is difficult to control on a per-LED basis; the Texas Instruments TPS92661-Q1 is designed to alleviate the problem and enable electronic steering of the light-beam output.
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Cree Rolls High-Power Lighting LEDs
Next-gen lighting can provide a longer lifetime compared to currently available LEDs.
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Carbon Nanotubes Make Planar Light Source
A field emission diode based on carbon nanotubes as electron sources could make for planar light sources to rival LED assemblies for lighting.
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Blue LED Inventors Win Nobel Prize
The blue light emitting diode has allowed white light that can be produced more energy efficiently and using less resources than previous light sources. And so the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics goes to Professors, Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura.
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Philips Ready to Exit Lighting, Focus on Healthcare
Philips' CEO Frans van Houten says he knows it is a big step but the time is right to focus the company on health and consumer lifestyle products and services.
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Cree to Invest $83 Million in Lextar Electronics for LEDs
Deal seen as verification of the success of mid-power LEDs.
