2015-03-03

Cash-strapped Sharp to Shutdown LED Factories

Ailing Japanese electronic company Sharp will be closing down three LED factories as part of its drastic cost-cutting plan, according to a latest Nikkei report.
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2014-04-29

Swiss Researchers Develop Molybdenite LED that Doubles as Solar Cell

After using it to develop a computer chip, flash memory device and photographic sensor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) scientists have once again tapped into the electronic potential of molybdenite (MoS2) by creating diodes that can emit light or absorb it to produce electricity.
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For three decades, white LEDs have depended on rare earth materials such as yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) layered onto a blue LED chip (Figure 1). Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 092190) today announced that it has broken that dependence. It h... READ MORE

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