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ORCA Series Offers Higher Power Efficiency and Greater Luminous Intensity

Bivar, a leading provider of optoelectronics and assembly hardware, today announced the launch of the ORCA series of Super Flux LEDs. A pioneer in LED indication, Bivar's new ORCA product family is an expansion of its high power LEDs designed for use on standard printed circuit boards (PCBs).

2 Feb 2009

QLED Thermal Simulation Software from Future Lighting Wins Innova Award

Future Lighting Solutions announced today that its QLED thermal simulation software for solid-state lighting designers has earned top honors in the Product Development Excellence category of LED Journal's Innova Awards. The results of the competition, designed to recognize LED-related technology breakthroughs, were announced in the publication's January/February 2009 issue.

2 Feb 2009

New Way of Making LEDs Could See Household Lighting Bills Reduced by up to 75 Percent

A new way of making LEDs could see household lighting bills reduced by up to 75% within five years. Gallium Nitride (GaN), a man-made semiconductor used to make LEDs (light emitting diodes), emits brilliant light but uses very little electricity. Until now high production costs have made GaN lighting too expensive for wide spread use in homes and offices.

28 Jan 2009

NEC LCD Technologies Introduces Two New Amorphous-Silicon TFT-LCD Modules with White LEDs

NEC LCD Technologies, together with its sales and marketing channels in the Americas and Europe, NEC Electronics America, Inc. and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, today introduced two new amorphous-silicon thin-film-transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) modules incorporating white LED backlights for industrial applications.

26 Jan 2009

New Competitively-Priced, Energy Efficient Super Bright Red and Amber LEDs Delivers High Performance and Reliability

Avago Technologies today announced the availability of one of the brightest 5 mm through-hole (TH) round LED lamps in the world for use in a variety of electronic sign and signal (ESS) applications.

20 Jan 2009

SMI Offers ZnO Deposition Development Services for Transparent Contact Work as used with LEDs

Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) announces today that it has opened its application lab facilities for the MOCVD growth of ZnO based films for transparent contact work as used with LEDs and photovoltaics, as well as ZnO films for transparent and power transistors.

18 Jan 2009

New Insights into the Way Molecules Absorb and Move Energy

Inexpensive solar cells, vastly improved medical imaging techniques and lighter and more flexible television screens are among the potential applications envisioned for organic electronics.

15 Jan 2009

Industry’s First 4-Amp, Single-Chip Driver for Supercapacitor-Based LED Camera Flash Applications

ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a leading global supplier of high performance, energy efficient, silicon solutions, has introduced the industry's first 4-amp supercapacitor LED flash driver. The new CAT3224 addresses the emerging requirements for true high-intensity LED flash capability in high megapixel camera phones and standalone camera applications.

14 Jan 2009

Universal Display Awarded SBIR Phase III Contract to Develop Flexible OLED Displays

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL), an innovator behind today's and tomorrow's displays and lighting through its UniversalPHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, today announced that it has received a $1,089,600 extension to a United States Army Communication Electronics Research and Development Engineering Center (CERDEC) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract

14 Jan 2009

Leadis Technology Launches New LED Driver

Leadis Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: LDIS), an analog and mixed-signal semiconductor developer of color display drivers, Power Management and Touch Sensor ICs for mobile consumer electronic devices, today announced sample availability of the LDS8160, a new LED driver featuring its proprietary LED-Sense™ Temperature Compensation engine and its patent-pending PowerLite™ Current Regulator.

14 Jan 2009

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