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Features Hold Great Promise for Electronics and Photonics

Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, whose extraordinary electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise for nanoscale electronics and photonics. But there's a catch: graphene has no bandgap.

10 Jun 2009

New, Simpler White LED Shows Promise as a More Efficient and Stable Source of Pure White Light

Researchers are reporting the first use of a fundamentally new approach in the quest to snare the Holy Grail of the lighting industry: An LED (light-emitting diode) - those ultra-efficient, long-lived light sources - that emits pure white light.

10 Jun 2009

QD Vision Awarded Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Contract

QD Vision, developer of nanotechnology-based products for lighting and displays, today announced it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the U.S. Army as part of its Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD).

9 Jun 2009

New Lighting Technologies Key Player in Energy Efficiency

A study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers argues that new lighting technologies can be a key player in the portfolio of strategies needed to promote energy efficiency and to help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.

9 Jun 2009

High-Brightness, Surface Mount LEDs Provide Excellent Color Uniformity

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (TAEC) has expanded its lineup of compact, high-efficiency white light emitting diodes (LEDs) with three devices in PLCC-2 packages in daylight (or cool) white and two warm whites. These white LEDs are among the brightest white LEDs in Toshiba's current LED product line in this form factor.

8 Jun 2009

I2C Programmable XRP7620 Enables Full Color Control in RGBW and RGBA LEDs for Color Mixing Applications

Exar Corporation (NASDAQ:EXAR) today announced the XRP7620, a 4 channel, I2C controlled LED driver with independent software adjustable channel current control.

8 Jun 2009

Organic Lighting Offers a Bright Future

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are set to revolutionize lighting technology, ushering in an era of thin, flexible, and ultra-bright devices. At the heart of recent OLED devices are phosphorescent metal complexes that, when stimulated by an electric voltage, produce a sustained emission of light with higher efficiency than other sources.

4 Jun 2009

Boost For Laser Alignment Detection Product Sales

Applied Scintillation Technologies Ltd (AST) reports that over 7000 of its 'credit card' style VISUALIZE® phosphor products were sold in FY 2008/9. The VISUALIZE® (VisualizeIR, VISualize and UVisualize) range of products use specialized phosphor coatings to provide a safe image of the beam for infrared (IR), visible to near infrared and ultraviolet lasers. This addresses the problems of profile measurements and component alignment of laser and laser diode modules.

4 Jun 2009

Making LED Lights Even More Energy Efficient

Add the search for economical, long-lasting, brighter lights that use less energy to the list of energy topics occupying the attention of West Virginia University scientists and engineers.

3 Jun 2009

OSRAM Expands LED Portfolio Across the Entire Performance Range

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has expanded its LED portfolio for the projection market with two new LEDs, OSTAR Compact and OSTAR Power Projection. OSTAR Compact is designed for small, efficient systems in cell phones, PDAs and MP4 players.

3 Jun 2009

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