The latest high-power silicon-based LED technology from Plessey Semiconductor is transforming form, function, and performance when it comes to luminaire design. Chip-on-board (COB) LEDs in a typical ...

Researchers at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors have succeeded in manufacturing high-performance blue and white LED prototypes in which the light-emitting gallium-nitride layers are grown on silicon wafers ...

Researchers have successfully manufactured high performance prototypes of blue and white leds in which the light emitting gallium nitride layers are grown on silicon wafers with a diameter of 150mm.

ALLOS Semiconductors of Germany and Ennostar of Taiwan have announced a partnership to bring 200 mm GaN-on-Si LED epiwafers ...

Plessey recently announced that it has developed a technology for Chip Scale Optics (CSO) based on its GaN-on-Silicon MaGIC LEDs. Plessey recently announced that it has developed a technology for Chip ...

LED Chips, on the Cheap LED bulbs have long been lauded as an energy-efficient alternative to incandescent bulbs. But LED, or light-emitting diode, bulbs are expensive to produce, which has kept ...

Toshiba and US-based Bridgelux will reportedly start volume production of 8-inch Si-substrate GaN wafers for use to make LED chips in the first quarter of 2013, according to Taiwan-based makers.

Gallium nitride (GaN) is a binary III/V semiconductor seen as a potential successor to silicon. GaN has a wider bandgap than silicon, meaning it can maintain higher voltages in electronic devices. 1 ...