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China to dominate flat panel display manufacturing by 2018, IHS

11/05/2015  China is quickly adding capacity in all flat-panel display (FPD) manufacturing segments.

Plasma-Therm acquires plasma processing technology from Nanoplas France

11/03/2015  Plasma-Therm announced that it has acquired a High Density Radical Flux plasma technology that enables low-temperature Bosch polymer removal.

Soraa announces LED manufacturing expansion in Syracuse, NY

10/30/2015  Soraa announced that it will open a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Syracuse, New York.

Pixelligent introduces OLED light extraction technology at 2015 OLEDs World Summit

10/29/2015  Pixelligent announced the development of a new OLED light extraction technology that dramatically increases light output in OLED Lighting devices.

Price erosion in sensors, volatility in discretes slows total O-S-D growth

10/29/2015  According to a report from IC Insights, the worldwide market for optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors (O-S-D) has turned into a mixed bag of double-digit growth for several major product categories combined with single-digit declines in sales for nearly a dozen others.

Toshiba announces sale of image sensor business to Sony

10/29/2015  Toshiba Corp. will retreat from the CMOS image sensor business, by selling the production line at its Oita plant to Sony Corp.

LED driver and chipset market to reach US$11.99 billion globally by 2021, Transparency Market Research

10/28/2015  The global LED Driver and Chipset market was valued at US$2.80 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach US$11.99 billion by 2021, growing at a CAGR of 23.2% from 2015 to 2021.

Quantum dots making inroads in displays

10/28/2015  As part of a new market report, IDTechEx Research has looked at quantum dots' impact on the display industry. Is this the technology that will enable LCD to rival OLED?

Imec and Ghent University present thermoplastically deformable electronic circuits

10/27/2015  imec and CMST have developed a novel technology for thermoplastically deformable electronics enabling low-cost 2.5D free-form rigid electronic objects.

Applied Materials advances OLED display manufacturing for flexible mobile products and curved TVs

10/12/2015  Applied Materials, Inc. unveiled two new systems that enable the volume production of high-resolution, thin and lightweight flexible OLED displays for mobile products and TVs.

Two polymer-blend could boost efficiency of LEDs

10/08/2015  A blend of two polymers can be used to boost the efficiency of LEDs, according to a research study published in the journal Applied Materials Today.

LG Innotek announces high power LED packages

10/01/2015  LG Innotek announced that the company started to produce high-power LED packages (H35C4 Series) featuring 180lm/W.

DuPont Displays opens OLED materials scale-up facility for next generation TVs

10/01/2015  DuPont Displays announced the opening of a state-of-the-art, scale-up manufacturing facility designed to deliver production scale quantities of advanced materials that enable large-format, solution-based printed Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays.

Display technologies and electronic circuits to fuel organic electronics market globally through 2018

09/28/2015  Transparency Market Research (TMR) projects the global organic electronics market to grow at a CAGR of 32.6% from 2012 to 2018.

Silicone shines new light on optical applications

09/22/2015  As a response to meet the increasing demands of cutting-edge LED technologies, Shin-Etsu Silicones of America has recently introduced its new optically clear LIMS (Liquid Injection Molding System) X-34-1972-3 material.

Graphene as an alternative transparent electrode for OLEDs

09/14/2015  Until now transparent electrode materials for OLEDs have mainly consisted of indium tin oxide (ITO), which is expected to become economically challenging for the industry due to the shrinking abundance of indium. One promising candidate is graphene.

New findings move flexible lighting technology toward commercial feasibility

09/04/2015  Next directions in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology for lighting identified in Journal of Photonics for Energy.

Turning clothing into information displays

09/03/2015  Researchers from Holst Centre (set up by TNO and imec), imec and CMST, imec’s associated lab at Ghent University, have demonstrated the world’s first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED display laminated into textiles.

RayVio announces expansion of UV LED manufacturing capacity

08/28/2015  RayVio Corporation, a developer of deep ultraviolet (UV) LEDs and integrated solutions, announced today that they are expanding their international sales force, and manufacturing capacity. The facility expansion at the original site is scheduled to be complete by year-end.

"Quantum dot" technology may help light the future

08/19/2015  Advances at Oregon State University in manufacturing technology for “quantum dots” may soon lead to a new generation of LED lighting that produces a more user-friendly white light, while using less toxic materials and low-cost manufacturing processes that take advantage of simple microwave heating.




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