09/07/2007  Grote Industries selected a custom-formulated Hysol potting compound from Henkel to enable full automation at its 1-million-parts per year LED lamp assembly line. The compound met 19 engineering requirements for environmental friendliness, thermal conductivity, reliability, and other criteria, and will be deployed for use across 10 product families.

09/05/2007  September 5, 2007 - Synova SA and Manz Automation say they've created a hybrid tool combining their technologies: an inline laser edge isolation system for photovoltaic manufacturing of solar cells.

08/01/2007  August 1, 2007 - OSRAM Opto Semiconductors says it will stop making its "Pictiva" organic LEDs (OLEDs) for passive matrix displays by year's end, instead focusing on its OLED activities for "market-ready" lighting solutions.

05/25/2007  Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester) will cross license its active matrix organic LED (OLED) intellectual property (IP) and manufacturing processes to Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) and its subsidiary Chi Mei EL (CMEL), both based in the South Taiwan Science Park (Tainan). CMEL expects to use the technology for small-panel mobile displays.

05/15/2007  BASF has announced the opening of a $2.6 million R&D center for organic electronics in Singapore that will focus on nanotechnology and energy management.

05/10/2007  TT electronics OPTEK Technology opened an in-house visible LED laboratory with resources to assess LED packages on junction temperature variation, optical performance, and other parameters. The lab aids in design, manufacturing, and test.

05/10/2007  Intel Capital, the venture capital branch of Intel Corporation, invested in six new companies, totaling $31 million. In the semiconductor space, Intel invested in China-based Phoenix Microelectronics.

04/12/2007  A 100-mm sapphire wafer-dicing capability, developed on J.P. Sercel Associates' IX-200 Chromadice DPSS UV laser wafer-singulation system, reportedly increases LED yields by processing larger sapphire wafers than prior methods.

03/05/2007  GE Global Research and OLED-manufacturing equipment supplier TOKKI Corporation (Tokyo) partnered to use plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) film encapsulation technology and manufacturing equipment to build organic electronics, such as OLED flat panel displays, in thinner and more cost-effective packages.

01/19/2007  January 19, 2007 - QD Vision, a startup founded by MIT scientists in 2004 says it has received a US patent for "Stabilized Semiconductor Nanocrystals," materials that the company says can enhance the performance of quantum dots, for use in quantum dot light-emitting devices (LED) for flat displays.

01/18/2007  OTB Display, a subsidiary of OTB Group BV, created a method of producing thin-film-encapsulated organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices for commercial applications. The process of multilayer thin-film stacking eliminates clean room equipment, facilitating mass production.

01/15/2007  Arrowhead Research Corp. of Pasadena, Calif., announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, Unidym, has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore to develop organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) incorporating transparent electrodes made of carbon nanotubes.

01/03/2007  January 3, 2007 - Universal Display Corp., a developer of OLED technologies and materials, and Nippon Steel Chemical Co. Ltd., a provider of super-purified OLED materials, say they have achieved a "significant enhancement" in the performance of green phosphorescent OLEDs, doubling the device's operational lifetime while maintaining existing color and efficiency characteristics.

11/13/2006  UTEK Corp., a specialty finance company focused on technology transfer, and Cyberlux Corp., a provider of LED lighting solutions, announced that Cyberlux has acquired SPE Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of UTEK Corp., in a restricted stock transaction.

06/26/2006  Austria-based Nanoident Technologies AG is hoping its ultra-thin, organic semiconductor-based nanolayers can help the company slide into market faster than previous nanotechnologies with applications in displays, sensors and biometrics.

06/14/2006  June 14, 2006 - Researchers at Advance Nanotech Inc. and the Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE) at the U. of Cambridge, UK, say they have developed novel composites made from organic polymers and nanostructured materials that provide "printable" semiconductors for low-cost inkjet print manufacturing.

05/31/2006  May 31, 2006 - Universal Display Corp. (UDC) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. have agreed to codevelop materials for phosphorescent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays that are processable through solution, or "wet" processing methods, such as inkjet printing.

05/17/2006  May 17, 2006 - Scientists from the U. of Cincinnati claim to have developed a method to make organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) as much as 10x more efficient and 30x brighter -- with a little help from the humble salmon fish.

05/01/2006  May 1, 2006 - Strong sales of cell phones, particularly in China, drove higher semiconductor sales in 1Q06 to a 7.3% increase from a year ago, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

04/14/2006