Luminus Devices, Inc., of Sunnyvale, California, has introduced new Horticulture chip-on-board (COB) LEDs with spectrums aimed at cannabis production. The new devices are available with 14mm and 22mm light emitting surfaces (LES) and boast best in class PPF and PPF/W performance. The LEDs operate with power from 25W to 125W, …
Aixtron SE of Germany reported that UK company Plessey Semiconductors ordered Aixtron’s AIX G5+ C Planetary Reactor®. Plessey plans to use the metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system to increase its manufacturing capacity of gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) epitaxial wafers for next-generation microLED applications. The AIX G5+C MOCVD …
The Japanese firm, Dowa Electronics Corporation, a subsidiary of Dowa Electronics Co., Ltd., reported that the company has developed a near-infrared chip at the 1,300 nm band. The firm says that the chip is 3.5 times the size of its previous model, which has an output of 6.8 mW. Dowa …
German Federal Patent Court ruled on July 19, 2018 (docket number 2 Ni 55/16 (EP)), that the German part of Nichia’s YAG patent EP 936 682 (DE 697 02 929) is valid. As a result, the court effectively rejected the nullity action of Everlight Electronics Europe GmbH (Everlight Europe), the …
Nichia Corporation of Tokushima, Japan, reported that the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) recognized two of its latest LED families. Nichia notes that the IES 2018 Progress Report pointed to the innovation and development of Nichia’s Optisolis™ series of LEDs and the discrete colors of the Direct Mountable Chip series of …
On August 10, 2018, a jury of six women and six men delivered a verdict in favor of Lumileds LLC, based in San Jose. The jury ruled that a Chinese competitor stole trade secrets related to Lumileds core technology for producing high-power LEDs used in automotive headlights, flashes for smartphones, …
Tridonic Jennersdorf GmbH, a subsidiary of Tridonic GmbH & Co KG, Dornbirn and part of the Zumtobel Group, has filed a lawsuit against Ingram Micro Distribution GmbH of Germany in Munich Disctrict Court. The lawsuit alleges that Ingram Micro Distribution sells smartphones from HTC of Taiwan which infringe patents owned …
Boston University previously filed an infringement claim against Everlight Electronics and its U.S. subsidiary and Lite-On Inc. and its subsidiaries alleging infringement of a Boston University (BU) patent. The BU patent (U.S. Patent 5,686,738) describes the preparation of monocrystalline gallium nitride films to fabricate blue LEDs using molecular beam epitaxy. The court found …
Researchers at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, have created relatively efficient LEDs with quantum dots suspended in a liquid. The researchers noted that the efficiency of emission from quantum dots is known to be reduced when they are taken out of a liquid and then fixed into a solid form. …
On July 12, 2018 (Japan time), Nitride Semiconductor Co., Ltd. filed a patent infringement lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against Digi-Key Corporation doing business as Digi-Key Electronics and UV-LED maker Ray Vio. Digi-Key sells UV-LED products on the internet that are manufactured by RayVio Corporation, a CA-based UV-LED manufacturer. …
