Hackaday

LED Fabrication From Wafer To Light

Building a circuit to blink an LED is the hardware world’s version of the venerable “Hello, world!” program — it teaches you the basics in a friendly, approachable way. And the blinky light project ...
EDN

TSMC breaks ground on LED lighting wafer fab

LONDON — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has held a groundbreaking ceremony for an R&D center and wafer fab to develop and make light emitting diodes for lighting ...
Magazine

Cree to produce next-generation LED wafers with new manufacturing capability

Date Announced: 21 Sep 2010 DURHAM, N.C. — Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) continues to lead the LED Lighting Revolution with the announcement of a new 150-mm LED wafer production facility in Research ...
Business Wire

Mojo Vision Develops First 300mm GaN-on-Silicon Blue LED Wafer for Micro-LED Display

SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mojo Vision, the high-performance micro-LED company, today announced an important development and process milestone with the successful light-up of the first-ever ...
Business Wire

LED Materials (Substrate, Wafer, Epitaxy, Phosphor) Market 2017 - Global Forecast to 2021 - Research and Markets

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "LED Materials Market by Material Type (Substrate, Wafer, Epitaxy, Phosphor), Application (General Lighting (Residential ...
Electronic Design

Epi-Wafer Market to Grow to $4 Billion in 2020 as LED Lighting Zooms to $80 Billion

As LED lighting becomes an $80 billion industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers (epi-wafers) LEDs are made from will grow to $4 billion in 2020, according to Lux Research. As LED lighting becomes ...
EDN

LED test

Rapid market growth for HB (high-brightness) LEDs is driving what was once a niche industry into full-fledged high-volume production. With the emergence of applications such as display backlighting, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LED Firms Mull New Wafer Sizes And Materials

Seeking to reduce the cost of solid-state lighting and related applications, LED manufacturers are taking a page from the IC industry: They are looking at larger wafer sizes and new materials in the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How To Lower LED Costs

Market will grow significantly if costs continue to decrease at current rates, but there is nothing similar to Moore’s Law in this sector. The LED market remains hot, particularly in the solid-state ...
Electronic Design

LED makers tackle costs

GE Lighting Solutions president Jaime Irick says LED costs have been dropping about 20% annually and thinks the trend will continue. But he figures it will be about 10 years before LED lighting will ...
Newsshooter

Godox LiteWafer UP150R RGB LED Light Panel (2-Light Kit)

Back in December, Godox unveiled the LiteWafer UP150R Full-Color LED Panel, which is essentially a 2x1-sized panel. Now, they are offering a two-light kit ...