06/14/2016  Study addresses instability issues with organometal-halide perovskites, a promising class of materials for solar cells, LEDs, and other applications.

06/10/2016  Almost two years after GTAT’s bankruptcy, the sapphire industry is still there. Its decor and characters have, of course, changed but the story is still unfolding.

06/10/2016  While semiconductor fab equipment spending is off to a slow start in 2016, it is expected to gain momentum through the end of the year. For 2016, 1.5 percent growth over 2015 is expected while 13 percent growth is forecast in 2017.

05/27/2016  Finding paves the way for devices that switch quickly between transparency and opacity to specific forms of light.

05/20/2016  The lighting market for automotive applications should reach a 23.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) 2015-2121 reaching a US$27.7 billion market in 2021.

05/19/2016  Kateeva today announced that it has closed its Series E funding round with $88 million in new financing.

05/17/2016  Ultratech, Inc. announced the formation of a research collaboration with Professor Thomas J. Webster, Ph.D. at Northeastern University, to study the use of nano-materials produced via ALD for medical applications.

05/11/2016  Standard solutions and devices are compared to a 60 V MOSFET with monolithic Schottky diode as evaluated in SMPS and motor control environments.

04/19/2016  Dow Corning will present an exclusive glimpse of upcoming products and technologies at LIGHTFAIR International 2016.

04/13/2016  The most influential LED exhibition in Taiwan adds pavilions for power devices and LED components.

04/08/2016  Harnessing the power of the sun and creating light-harvesting or light-sensing devices requires a material that both absorbs light efficiently and converts the energy to highly mobile electrical current.

04/07/2016  Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a new approach to modifying the light absorption and stretchability of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials by surface topographic engineering using only mechanical strain.

04/06/2016  UCSB researchers identify specific defects in LED diodes that lead to less efficient solid state lighting.

03/24/2016  Samsung Electronics Co. and Daintree Networks said they are collaborating on joint solutions involving Samsung's smart lighting module (SLM).

03/22/2016  The industrial semiconductor market will post an 8 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), as revenue rises from $43.5 billion in 2014 to $59.5 billion in 2019.

03/14/2016  Soraa, a developer of GaN on GaN LED technology, today announces its support for advances in color science and the new TM-30 method released by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES).

03/01/2016  Researchers increased the device lifetime of OLEDs that use a recently developed class of molecules to convert electricity into light.

02/26/2016  Researchers at Kyushu University were able to widely vary the emission color and efficiency of OLEDs.

02/25/2016  Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have for the first time experimentally demonstrated that copper nanophotonic components can operate successfully in photonic devices.

02/18/2016  Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today the launch of the new TurboDisc K475i Arsenic Phosphide MOCVD System for the production of red, orange, yellow light emitting diodes.