Durham, N.C. and Geneva, Aug. 17, 2021 — Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), the global leader in silicon carbide technology through its Wolfspeed® business, and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announced today the expansion of an existing multi-year, long-term silicon carbide wafer supply agreement. The amended agreement, which calls for Cree to supply ST with 150mm silicon carbide bare and epitaxial wafers over the next several years, is now worth more than $800 milli...

- Robot vacuum cleaners and Power Assist Suits contribute to the innovative Games -   Osaka, Japan - Panasonic Corporation has provided the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 (Tokyo 2020) with its robots that automate tasks otherwise performed manually or assist people in carrying out their tasks. While aspiring to realize a society where human-friendly robots can help support a safe, comfortable lifestyle, the company strives to bring to life Tokyo 2020's vision of "holding the most innovative Games in history and bringing positive reform to the ...

ANSAN, South Korea – Seoul Viosys (KOSDAQ: 092190), the leading global compound semiconductor device provider and a subsidiary of Seoul Semiconductor, announced Seoul Viosys and the Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) team led by Nobel Prize-winning physics Professor Shuji Nakamura, of University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) succeeded in developing blue and green micro LEDs with 1 μm diameter and addressed issues related to red micro LEDs of less than 70 μm, which could not ...

New LED technology has potential to benefit firefighters, miners, the military, plumbers and households. (Source:University of Melbourne) Your smart device could soon be even smarter with a new infrared light emitting diode (LED) that is ‘tuneable’ to different wavelengths of light – it could enable your fridge to tell you when your food is going off and your phone to tell you if that Gucci purse is real. The technology has been developed by the University of Melbourne, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California, Be...

  AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- LightWare LiDAR LLC, is now shipping the smallest and lightest scanning LiDAR on the market.   This USA-based company specializes in the design and manufacture of LiDAR sensors for autonomous vehicles and machines. The award-winning SF45 scanning microLiDAR™ weighs just 59g but delivers the performance of much larger sensors.     LightWare LiDAR’s SF45 is the world’s smallest scanning microLiDAR(TM...

NORTHVALE, N.J., Aug. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- This year's EC&M was a major success for Olympia Lighting. The company managed to secure the top spot in their Product of the Year competition. In particular, the UVC LED Troffer, which was the winner of the EC&M award category for lamps.   UVC Troffer   UVC Troffer installed   Olympia Lighting has been highly revered for creating premium-quality disinfecting lights and light fixtures. It should come as no surprise that the patent pending UVC ...

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Aug. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AeroClean Technologies announced partnership plans with Cape Cod Healthcare (CCHC) to install more than 100 Pūrgo™ air purification and sanitization devices in their facilities as soon as early fall 2021. Pūrgo™ utilizes patented, proprietary, UV-C LED technology to significantly reduce or remove harmful pathogens like allergens, mold, bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including the surrogate pathogen for COVID-19 - offering continuous air sanitizatio...

In 1H21, TCL Technology (hereinafter “TCL”) generated an operating revenue of RMB 115.24 billion (USD 17.7 billion; +89% YoY) and net profit of RMB 10.72 billion (USD 1.654 billion; +460% YoY). In the semiconductor display sector, specifically, TCL focuses on the research and development of emerging technologies including printed OLED/QLED, Mini LED, and Micro LED, aiming to get a head start on other competitors. Recently, TCL has offered its insights into the semiconductor display business in the first half of 2021 when rece...

Tokushima, Japan – 17 August 2021: NICHIA, the world’s largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LEDs, announces a joint-product development collaboration with Zumtobel, a leading international supplier of holistic lighting solutions, to provide LED lighting with advanced human-centric lighting benefits. The partnership has been a key factor for Zumtobel to develop a new offer to its customers. The recently launched ZUMTOBEL Spectrum is a lighting solution developed for its luminaires which harness proprietary te...

Faurecia acquires the 60 percent stake from the pool shareholders of HELLA and announces tender offer to acquire the remaining HELLA shares for € 60 per share Combination of the two companies creates 7th largest global automotive supplier and a global market leader in high-growth technology areas HELLA focus areas to continue significant investment in research and development and to retain a high degree of operative responsibility Management, Shareholders’ Committee and Supervisory Board welcome the transaction   Lippstadt, 14 Augus...

  In partnership with leading scientific research institutions around the world, Fluence explores broad-spectrum white light performance in select crops, cultivars   AUSTIN, Texas (Aug. 12, 2021)—Fluence by OSRAM (Fluence), a leading global provider of energy-efficient LED lighting solutions for commercial cannabis and food production, announced today the results from a series of multiyear global studies analyzing the effects of broad-spectrum white light on cannabis, Merlice tomatoes and bell peppers.   The studies found that whil...

On August 4, the IPO proposal filed by Colorlight Cloud Tech Ltd (hereinafter “Colorlight”) for ChiNext (an enterprise growth market of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange) was approved. With China International Capital Corp (CICC; 601995) being its IPO sponsor, the LED equipment manufacturer plans to raise up to RMB831 million (US$128 million). Reportedly, Colorlight will issue no more than 170 million shares, which accounts for at least 25% of the total share capital after IPO. Image source: PAIXIN.COM With Continuous Sales ...

Raises Guidance for Full-Year 2021 Revenue, Major Commercial Program Targets, and Forward-Looking Order Book   Orlando, Fla. — Aug. 12, 2021 — Luminar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAZR), the global leader in automotive lidar hardware and software technology, today announced its quarterly business update and financials for the second quarter of 2021, ended June 30, 2021. The company is increasing full-year guidance for major commercial wins, revenue, and forward-looking order book growth as a result of strong execution year-to-date and a...

Leveraging Nikon’s market position in laser radar technology and excellence in industrial precision with Aeva’s industry-first Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) 4D LiDAR on chip, companies to develop next-generation solutions with superior performance at industry-leading costs   Aeva and Nikon positioned to accelerate broad adoption of 4D LiDAR in the $10 billion industrial automation and metrology markets     MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., August 10, 2021--(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210810005226/en/...

New LiDAR-based People Counting Solution to optimize beach operations and keep tourists safe at Sinji Myeongsasimni Beach in Wando, South Korea. Smart 3D LiDAR solution provides superior accuracy and real-time IoT data and insights to tourism industry, replacing previous camera-based system. Data collection using LiDAR protects individual privacy with zero PII risk. 24/7 monitoring in any environmental condition prevents accidents. Quanergy Deploys First LiDAR People Counting Installation for Tourism in South Kore...

On August 6, FitTech—an LED equipment provider—announced at its board of directors meeting that the company will spend no more than NT$50 million (US$1.8 million) on investing in K-Jet Laser Tek. The investment aims to strengthen FitTech’s technologies of Micro LED mass transfer and removal as well as precision laser processing for PCB substrates, which also helps the two companies to develop technology strategies for the Micro LED market, thereby facilitating the “cooperation within the same industry and interdisciplinary alliance” ...

Skytech managed to overcome challenges in developing advanced semiconductor equipment and developed an atomic deposition layer (ALD) instrument, becoming the first Taiwanese equipment supplier that achieved “mass production” of ALD thin-film solutions. With its ALD equipment being verified and adopted by Epistar, Skytech has contributed to Epistar’s endeavor to promote commercialized applications of LED technologies. Founded in 2002, Skytech is a major supplier of critical semiconductor components in Taiwan. In 2017, the company started to invest in...

Innovator Porotech teams up with micro-LED display tech leader Jade Bird Display Shanghai, China, August 11, 2021 – University of Cambridge spin-out Porotech has today announced its first partnership – with Jade Bird Display (JBD) in China, a leader in microLED display technology. Porotech will be providing Shanghai-based JBD with its unique porous gallium nitride (GaN) technology that is set to transform the electronics industry. Porotech's display technology breakthrough heralds a new era of brighter, sharper, more vivid microdisplays for...

According to TrendForce’s latest report “2021 Global Lighting LED and LED Lighting Market Outlook-2H21”, the LED general lighting market has comprehensively recovered with increasing demand for niche lighting, leading to growth in global markets of LED general lighting, horticultural lighting, and smart lighting in 2021–2022 to different extents.     A Remarkable Recovery in the General Lighting Market As vaccination coverage increases in various countries, economies worldwide begin to recuperate. Since 1Q21, the LE...

On August 9, Honglitronics confirmed on its WeChat page that it is the supplier of Mini LED backlights for the X12 8K smart TV, the “Starlight”, unveiled by TCL at the just ended UDE2021. Image source: PAIXIN.COM As Honglitronics described, TCL’s X12 8K Mini LED TV “Starlight” is the first smart TV that adopts the OD ZERO Mini LED backlighting technology. The TV features 96,000 LED chips, 1,920 physical local dimming zones, 3,000 nits of peak brightness at maximum, and an ultra-high one-million-...

On August 4, the Xiamen-based Teyitech unveiled a self-developed Mini LED instrument for the first time on its WeChat account, which has been shipped to leading businesses. Founded in 2014, Teyitech is a supplier specializing in producing testing instruments of automation production for the flat panel display market. Its testing equipment serves the needs of the OLED, LCD, Mini/Micro LED, Micro OLED, and semiconductor industries. At present, Teyitech’s products have been recognized by BOE, Tianma, HKC, AUO, and San’an. Among the 2...

    LG’s VS Company is proud to announce its new Future Mobility website to actively communicate with global partners and interested consumers about its current business and future innovation. This new site is completely dedicated to mobility and focuses on LG’s innovative technologies and products related to the fast-growing segment of electric vehicles.   The new Future Mobility website introduces EV-related information selectively so that the company’s business partners can find related information more conve...

Key points BluGlass demonstrates proof-of-concept milestone with world-first RPCVD tunnel junction laser diodes Utilising BluGlass’ proprietary RPCVD and tunnel junction technologies, the novel dual-n-wave laser diode offers significant future performance advantages Demonstrating good lasing behaviour as uncoated, unpackaged devices Standard (MOCVD) laser diode product development continues to focus on solving reliability and improving downstream production ahead of commercial product launches BluGlass Limited (ASX: BLG...

Peer-Reviewed Publication NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY To enable the development of wearable devices that possess advanced ultraviolet (UV) detection functions, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have created a new type of light sensor that is both flexible and highly sensitive. While invisible to the human eye, UV rays surround us in our environment, and excessive exposure can cause health issues including skin cancer and premature skin ageing. The intensity of UV rays is typically reported ...

Acquisition provides immediate access to the streetlight pole infrastructure to deploy new applications and achieve better outcomes to communities. HYDERABAD [India] / MILPITAS, California / BURLINGTON, Massachusetts [USA], August 4, 2021: Outcomes-as-a-Service forerunner, Quantela, Inc. announces today that it has acquired CIMCON Lighting, Inc., a leader in smart lighting and smart city technologies. This acquisition will provide Quantela with full coverage and access to the ubiquitous streetlight pole infrastructure to deploy innovative te...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, public awareness of sterilization notably enhanced in 2020, particularly in international market. In response to robust market demand, a variety of portable UV-C LED sterilization and disinfection products emerged, but demand overbalanced supply instantly as a result of the sudden explosion in demand. Thus, UV-C became an instant hit in the LED industry, drawing on a large and growing investment capital. As the number of UV-C LED manufacturers mushroomed, total market capacity immediately increased severalfold and even up dozens of ...

USTC team shows how smaller chip size can deliver higher AlGaN-based DUV LED light output power density and peak external quantum efficiency Deep ultraviolet (DUV) light source have numerous valuable applications, including germicidal irradiation, phototherapy, water/air/food sterilization, and optical communication. But while research on AlGaN-based DUV LEDs has made exciting progress, their industrial applications are still in their infancy. This is because of their limited wall plug efficiency (WPE) which is cause by low external quantum efficiency (E...

Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported revenue growth of 21% from €97m in first-half 2020 to €117.2m in first-half 2021 (with 78% coming from equipment sales and 22% from after-sales service & spare parts). This was due mainly to second-quarter 2021’s revenue of €67.7m being up 37% on Q1’s €49.5m. Of Q2 revenue, 61% was attributable to optoelectronics applications, 30% to power electronics (in particular gallium nitride) and 7% to light-emitting diodes. On a regional basis, 62% of first-half ...

For second-quarter 2021, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $146.3m (exceeding the $125-145m guidance). This is up 9% on $133.7m last quarter (driven largely by 27% growth for Data Storage) and up 48% on $98.6m a year ago (due to growth in the Semiconductor, Compound Semiconductor and Data Storage segments). Data Storage contributed $52m (35% of total revenue), up 27% on $41m last quarter and 84% on $28m a year ago, driven by both capacity and technology additions by customers. Semico...

As rumors about the next-generation of Apple Silicon Macs have been floating around the web, we’ve been able to get a better idea of what Apple is working on for the MacBook lineup. In an investor note from Ming-Chi Kuo seen by 9to5Mac, the reliable analyst says that a new MacBook Air is expected to be introduced in mid-2022 with a 13.3-inch Mini-LED display. Kuo had already said in another investor note that Apple was working on a new redesigned MacBook Air for 2022, but he wasn’t specific about the schedule. Now Kuo claims that this rumored laptop w...