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Lumens Completes LED Factory in Vietnam

by Bob Raikes

Korean sources report that LED maker, Lumens, is boosting its LED production facilities in Vietnam to support growth in its supply to Samsung for LCD TV backlights. Samsung is reported to be shifting TV …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LED| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Everlight LEDs for Small Pitch and Outdoor Applications

by Bob Raikes

Everlight is a packager of LEDs and had a number of areas covering automotive, lighting and infrared applications. There was also an area devoted to displays but, sadly, with nobody with expertise in the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Osram Concentrates on Automotive and HUD LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Osram is a successful local supplier of LEDs that is doing well in the market at the moment. It had a big booth that was mostly about applications other than displays. The first application …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Osram| Vol 23 - Issue 45

The Trickstick is a Handheld “Persistence of Vision” Display

by Arthur Berman

Electricks (San Francisco, CA) is developing a product called Trickstick. The device is a hand held “persistence of vision” display in the form of a wand. “Wave it in front of you and a …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Novel Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Nichia Takes Action Against HTC

by Bob Raikes

Nichia has taken legal action against HTC Nippon and its distributor in Japan over the use of white LEDs in the HTC smartphone Desire 626 which are said to have infringed Nichia’s patents, JP5177317 …

Tags:HTC| Japan| LCD Backlights| LED| Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Nichia| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Absen Europe Launches New Website

by Bob Raikes

Absen Europe today announced the launch of its new dedicated European website integrating which includes features such as a product finder and screen calculator. Users looking for specific products can filter their search by …

Tags:Absen| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 42

LED Industry Veteran Joins Leyard as Chief Scientist

by Milos Pavlovic

Leyard, a global leader in visualization products, today announced that the company has hired LED industry veteran Nedi Nadershahi. Nadershahi will serve as principal scientist in Leyard’s research and development department based in the …

Tags:LED| Leyard| Recruitment & Appointments

MicroLED, the Directview Display of the Third Kind

by Norbert Hildebrand

Many years ago I saw a LED Wall with a pixel pitch of 1mm and was intrigued by the opportunities that such a technology could bring to a low power cinema or TV display …

Tags:LED| Microdisplays| MicroLED| Vol 23 - Issue 42

CSP LEDs Are the Next Step in Development

by Bob Raikes

LEDs have been a hot topic in recent years in the display industry (pardon the pun) and there are interesting technical developments that are helping to drive the adoption of finer pitch LEDs. The …

Tags:LED| MicroLED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 42

White LEDs without Wavelength Conversion

by Matthew Brennesholtz

[White LEDs (WLED) are a major part of many displays, especially LCD displays. No current white LEDs emit white light directly – they use GaN blue LEDs and use phosphors, quantum dots or some …

Tags:LED| Lighting| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Epistar to Increase LED Capacity by 300%

by Bob Raikes

Taiwan sources say that LED maker, Epistar of Taiwan, is to increase its capacity for CSP (chip scale package) LEDs that are used in TV backlights, by 300%. The chips have previously been used …

Tags:Edge Backlights| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 23 - Issue 39