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Read our full CES 2008 coverage of the Las Vegas trade showMobile projectors are coming into focus following an agreement between 3M and Himax Technologies. The specialists in optics technology and semiconductor systems for flat panel displays have announced they are combining proprietary technologies for a new mobile system.

3M is demonstrating its mobile projection system, including the…

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The display industry has an interesting new connectivity method that uses network display technology to connect monitors to PCs, network displays, writes Jason Slaughter of DisplayLink.Since the development of the PC, graphics cards with VGA-like connectors have been used as the primary means of connecting displays to host computers. Now the display…

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Guest columnist Tim Haas, product marketing manager for e-mech at Avnet Abacus says that improvements in LED lighting solutions are imposing secondary challenges in thermal management which are just as fundamental.Heat and light are often synonymous. Although LED lighting creates more light and less heat with the available energy, it still generates a proportion of heat – quite a…

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The industry is ready for the year of the diode, writes Doug Bailey, v-p marketing at Power IntegrationsThe emergence of solid state lighting has been discussed in the technical media, at trade shows and in labs for almost a decade. Many of the initial technical challenges have been solved – driving LEDs efficiently, heat management in retrofit LED bulb designs and circuit strategies to…

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Unity Opto aims to ship 60 million bulbs by 2015, nearly doubled growth compared to 2014, according to a China Times report. LED lighting demands have soared after Christmas holidays, which has spurred lighting demands. Additionally, LED backlight is entering a peak delivery season. The Taiwanese LED manufacturer has set an ambitious revenue goal this year of reaching NT $10 billion (US $320 million).…

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Leading Indian dry cell batteries manufacturer, Eveready Industries, is turning to LED lighting products for its next growth phase, according to The Financial Express report. The Indian manufacturer is vying the LED lighting sector to double company revenues in the next three years, as the company faces increasing competition form low-priced Chinese imports in the battery business, said Amritanshu…

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In recent years ";labor shortages" and ";layoffs" have become common terms in the Chinese LED manufacturing industry. In Guangdong Province in Southern China, short term labor shortages have increased in 2014 to reach between 800,000 to 1 million workers, according to a report by Chinese-language LEDtimes. Chinese electronic manufacturing conglomerates Haier Electronics, Gree Electric…

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Rubicon Technology announced that the Board of Directors has appointed William Weissman, 56, to the permanent position of President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Weissman had served as Interim CEO and President since September 17, 2014, and as Chief Financial Officer of Rubicon since 2007.

Mr. Weissman has also been appointed a member of the Board of Directors. Don Aquilano,…

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Another founder in the intensely competitive Chinese LED industry has disappeared, according to a National Business Daily report. Following the disappearance of Phoenix Lighting founder, who had accumulated RMB 70 million (US $11.37 million), Zhong Gang, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Lihefeng Photoelectric Technology's (Lihefeng) has…

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The age of LED lighting is here. LED lighting has overtaken the lighting industry in recent years, and become a beacon of hope for the lighting industry. This is the result of collaborated efforts from the top to downstream manufacturer, the industry supply chain, and now it's the time to embrace the ";golden age" of LED lighting, said Chinese…

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Princeton University researchers have developed a new method to increase the brightness, efficiency and clarity of LEDs, which are widely used on smartphones and portable electronics as well as becoming increasingly common in lighting. Using a new nanoscale structure, the researchers, led byelectrical engineeringprofessor Stephen Chou, increased the brightness and efficiency of LEDs made of…

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                      This feature article from Chinese-language Liberty Times gives a comprehensive overview of the struggles Taiwanese manufacturers face in LED patent wars. As the global LED lighting demand kicks off, patent wars are becoming the inevitable. There are, however, tricks in patent applications. U.S. LED manufacturer Cree for example cast an encompassing network with…

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A Canadian-financed company, Graphene Lighting, has succeeded in commercializing graphene LED light bulbs, and will be launching the lights on the market sometime later this year, reported BBC. These new bulbs will be priced at GBP 15 (US $22.23) each.

LED Heterostructure Schematic. (Photo Credit: Manchester University) The dimmable bulb incorporates a filament-shaped LED…

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                       Building owners now have access to the management facilities of Daintree's ControlScope platform without investing in server hardware; Osram delivers Lightify products, while Philips Lighting and Enlighted hope to add intelligence to every fixture.Daintree has announced the Building Energy Management as a Service…

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                             Iris-scanning technology promises to be a hack-resistant method to protect access to mobile devices including smartphones and tablets, and IR LED technology will enable such biometric applications.Osram Opto Semiconductors has announced the IR Oslux SFH 4780S infrared (IR) LED centered at the 810-nm wavelength. The LED specifically targets biometric identification…

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                Beleaguered inverter manufacturer SMA Solar says it has surpassed 1GW of operations and maintenance (O&M) service contracts since launching this new side of its business a year ago.The German firm said it now had 840MW of PV in North America and 180MW in Europe, the Middle East and Africa under operational management, with further expansion…