Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota, reported that the University of Colorado has contracted the company to design, manufacture and install a rectangular centerhung system for the Coors Event Center in Boulder, Colorado USA. The centerhung display will combine four LED video displays totaling almost 700 square feet. Daktronics plans to …
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Full Color Micro-LED Displays Still Not Possible
Several companies including Apple are attempting to produce red, blue, and green Micro-LEDs for high-resolution displays. So far, little progress has been made. Micro-LEDs seem to promise high resolution with a lower cost than OLED displays. However, many technical roadblocks remain. Companies are finding it difficult to produce RGB (red, …
Fraunhofer FEP and Sefar Create Large-Area Flexible OLED Though Roll-to-roll Process
As part of a joint project, Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP and Sefar AG, devised a roll-to-roll processed, large-area flexible OLED. Large area OLED lighting is attractive for numerous applications in residential, architectural and automotive lighting. However, questions about efficacy, lifetime, and the cost …
Dowa Develops High-Output Deep UV LED; Begins Mass Production
Dowa Electronics Materials Co, Ltd. of Tokyo, a subsidiary of Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd. has created a deep ultraviolet LED chip. The says that the deep UV LED features the unprecedented output of 75 mW at a peak wavelength of 280 nm. The company says that it has been prepared …
Lumileds Adds High-Output Arrays to Luxeon COB Core Range with Flux of Up to 30,000 Lumens
Lumileds has extended its Luxeon CoB Core Range to include high lumen output models for applications such as stadium lights, streetlights, as well as low and high bay fixtures. “We now have the ability to address not only 40 and 50W applications but up to 100W and 120W applications with …
Seoul Semiconductor Releases SunLike Series LEDs
Seoul Semiconductor has introduced SunLike Series LEDs. The SunLike Series combines the company’s patented LED chip technology with Toshiba Materials’ TRI-R phosphor technology. Seoul optimized the SunLike Series LEDs for circadian rhythms. The company contends that the SunLike Series LED technology closely matches the spectrum of natural sunlight, and according …
Tallest Los Angeles Building Finally Gets LED Displays
Two enormous LED displays each measuring 42-feet wide by 60-feet high have been installed atop the tallest skyscraper in Los Angeles, the Wilshire Grand. Once turned on, the displays will be able to beam messages out across the city, according to a Los Angeles Times article. Each screen is made …
LG Display Reveals 77-inch Flexible and Transparent OLED Display Prototype
LG Display of Seoul, South Korea display, reported that it has created the world’s first 77-inch flexible and transparent OLED display. The newly unveiled flexible and 40 percent transparent OLED display features and Ultra HD resolution of 3840 by 2160. According to the company, the flexible display can be bent …
Vishay Launches New Series of Green Wavelength LEDs
The Optoelectronics group of Malvern, Pennsylvania-based Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced a new series of green wavelength LEDs that it calls ‘True Green’. The new 525nm wavelength Vishay LEDs come in a compact surface-mount 0603 ChipLED package. The LEDs measure 1.6 mm by 0.8 mm and have an ultra-thin 0.55 mm …
CST Global to Develop Single Photon Stream LEDs For Future Network Security
CST Global, a UK-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Sivers IMA Holding AB and a III-V opto-electronic foundry, reported that the company is leading the gallium antimony/gallium arsenide (GaSb/GaAs) Quantum Ring Single Photon LED (QR_SPLED) project. The QR_SPLED project intends to mass-produce low-cost, single-photon LEDs (SPLEDs). The potential application for the technology is …