12/22/2011 

Cree Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE) granted 5 LED lighting manufacturers licenses to select Cree patents through its remote phosphor licensing program. Cree's licensing program facilitates the development of LED lights combining remote phosphor optical elements with blue LEDs.

12/19/2011 

Strategies in Light Europe 2012, September 18-20 in Munich, Germany, is accepting abstracts through February 17. Strategies in Light Europe covers the rapidly growing LED lighting industry.

12/14/2011 

Altatech Semiconductor S.A. launched its first LED inspection system, the non-contact AltaSight LEDMax, for detecting, classifying and characterizing defects on wafers used in manufacturing LEDs.

12/12/2011 

SEMI is looking for presenters for technical sessions and other opportunities at SEMICON West 2012, July 10-12 in San Francisco, CA.

12/07/2011 

Researchers at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Seoul National University have demonstrated the first LEDs to be fabricated on amorphous glass substrates.

11/30/2011 

MicroTech has developed a wet process station to etch patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) wafers in a way that increases LEDs' light output and efficiency while increasing manufacturing throughput.

11/15/2011 

Applied Materials Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) presented five companies with awards for helping Applied meet its strategic business goals in 2011.

11/10/2011 

Philips Lumileds, solid state lighting (LED) maker, deployed Camstar Systems Inc.'s Manufacturing Execution System (MES) at all global sites in less than 12 months.

11/09/2011 

Scanning the latest reports from a quartet of Wall Street analysts, a number of key themes emerge explaining what's driving a MOCVD slump in 2011-2012 (and maybe beyond), and how and when the situation might improve.

11/07/2011 

China lays out its five-year plan to phase out old bulbs and spur LED demand; and Taiwan leaders invoke painful memories of DRAM and LCD market squeezes to urge more support for their own LED industry.

10/31/2011 

Georgia Tech researchers have found that GaN LEDs get a significant efficiency boost from zinc oxide microwires. The piezo-phototronic effect charges LEDs' ability to convert electricity to UV light, which GA Tech believes is a first for the LED industry.

10/25/2011 

Strategies in Light, an annual tradeshow on high-brightness LEDs and lighting hosted by Strategies Unlimited and PennWell Corporation, will take place February 7-9, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. New this year, the conference will include a full parallel track on LED manufacturing.

10/25/2011 

Bridgelux closed an additional $15 million in financing to accelerate R&D and scaling of Bridgelux's gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) LED chip technologies.

10/21/2011 

Rubicon Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN) will transition to on-premise aluminum oxide processing to better control the quality of its sapphire wafers, and reduce manufacturing expenses while ensuring a steady supply of raw materials for large-diameter wafers.

10/14/2011 

Optogan opened its LED production site in Landshut, Germany, planning to produce 1 billion chips/year initially.

10/13/2011 

Researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the University of Cambridge created a full-color high-resolution 4" quantum dot light emitting diode (QD-LED) display using transfer printing.

10/12/2011 

While the market has currently softened, early-2011 momentum will carry the year's semiconductor silicon sales to a higher total than 2010, said Stanley T. Myers, president and CEO of SEMI, noting the figures are an industry record. Growth will continue at "modest levels" through 2013.

10/07/2011 

Revenues for HB-LEDs grew 108% to $11.2 billion in 2010, driven by applications in TV backlight units, according to Strategies Unlimited. The party is quieting down though, as expanding supply and a slowdown in overall TV demand in 2011 pushed LED prices drastically lower and squeezing out weaker makers.

09/27/2011 

The US DOE is accepting funding applications through December 15, 2011, for developers of solid-state lighting such as LEDs and OLEDs. Up to $10 million is available to research lower-cost manufacturing methods.

09/27/2011 

Pixelligent LLC, nanocrystal additive maker, closed $5.1 million in funding. The round was 6 times over-subscribed, requiring the company board to significantly upsize the round.