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Escatec Claims 10x LED-Cooling Improvement

by Tom Allen

Escatec is to launch an LED-cooling solution, which has implications for displays, at the LED Professional Symposium, between 22nd and 24th September in Austria. The Heat Spreader solution uses LEDs soldered onto a copper …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LED| LED Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 36

QD Technology May Help Light the Future

by Tom Allen

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 …

Tags:LCD Backlights| LED| Quantum Dots

OSU Produces Cheap, Non-Toxic QDs

by Tom Allen

Advances in quantum dot (QD) manufacturing, by Oregon State University, may lead to a new generation of LED lighting. Researchers on the project say that the light produced could be a soft white, and …

GE Lighting Licenses PFS Phosphor Technology

by Tom Allen

Everlight Electronics and Lextar Electronics have obtained licensing rights from GE Lighting, for the use of PFS-based phosphor. The phosphor boosts the richness of the red colour in LED backlights. The companies will begin …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Radiant’s July Sales Up MoM, Coretronic Slips

by Helen Vince

Radiant Opto-Electronics reported a 13.2% increase in sales in July to NT$3.5 billion ($109.1 million), though this was 21.4% lower than July 2014. Sales for the year to date were also lower year on …

Nichia/Everlight Dispute Ongoing

by Tom Allen

Patent disputes between Japan’s Nichia and Taiwan’s Everlight Electronics have been on-going since 2012. The two companies have been pursuing litigation against one another over LED patents. Everlight won a victory in late 2014 …

Nichia Starts to Enforce in Germany Further Newly-Granted YAG Patent Against Everlight

by Bob Raikes

A further new white LED patent which covers, among others, YAG phosphors has been granted by the European Patent Office in favor of Nichia Corporation (“Nichia”), namely EP 2 276 080. MUNICH, July 27, …

Tags:LCD Backlights| LED| Patents

Kyocera BLU Life Reaches 100K Hours

by Bob Raikes

UK distributor, Ginsbury, has said that Kyocera is extending the backlight lifetime specification on 26 of its LCD modules to 100,000 hours. Sizes are from 4.3″ to 12.1″. Ginsbury said that the enabler for …

Tags:Kyocera| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Chinese Researchers Suggest Energy Recycling to Raise LCD Efficiency

by Norbert Hildebrand

Long Wen, a researcher at the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues, are suggesting a new type of backlight to increase the power efficiency of LCD modules. …

Tags:Colour Filters| Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Glo Aims to Exploit LCD Then Compete (BC17)

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Fariba Danesh from glo, which is a VC-backed company developing LED products using nanotechnology. Although founded in Lund, Sweden, the company moved to Silicon Valley to further develop. Danesh said …

Can Ignis Enable the OLED TV Market?

by Bob Raikes

As is often the case, one of the most interesting things that I saw at the SID was not on the show floor, but in a dimly-lit suite in a hotel near the event, …

Fraunhofer FEP Coatings Enable Efficient Laser Beam Expander for Holographic Displays

by Chris Chinnock

(If this story looks familiar, we covered it last week [Fraunhofer Coatings Enable Full-Laser Backlights], but Chris got a lot of extra information.) Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) …