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Luxtera and Freescale Semiconductor Enabling High Volume Manufacturing of Monolithic Electro-Photonic Integrated Circuits

Luxtera, the worldwide leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics, today announced its collaboration with Freescale Semiconductor as its foundry source to achieve production of the world's first commercial Silicon CMOS Photonics semiconductor manufacturing process.

3 Jun 2009

Microsemi Ships High-Performance LED Controller and Driver Chipset

Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading manufacturer of high performance analog/mixed signal integrated circuits and high reliability semiconductors, today extended its comprehensive line of backlight-driving IC solutions with the production release of the company's LX24132 32-port LED backlight controller and LX23108L 8-port LED driver.

3 Jun 2009

SCHOTT Solar Joins IMEC's Newly Launched Silicon Photovoltaics Industrial Affiliation Program

SCHOTT Solar, a leading photovoltaics manufacturer, entered into a 3 year research partnership with IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research center. SCHOTT Solar joins IMEC's newly launched silicon photovoltaics industrial affiliation program (IIAP).

From imec Inc. 3 Jun 2009

Interactive Data Eyeglasses

The data eyeglasses can read from the engineer's eyes which details he needs to see on the building plans. A CMOS chip with an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes this possible. The eyeglasses are connected to a PDA, display information and respond to commands.

2 Jun 2009

HP Launches New Display Technology for Personalization of Consumer Electronics Products

HP (NYSE:HPQ), the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructuretoday announced the launch of a new display technology for the personalization of consumer electronics products.

1 Jun 2009

New LED Driver Featuring "In-situ" Temperature Compensation Reduces Number of White LEDs in Portable Displays

Leadis Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: LDIS), an analog and mixed-signal semiconductor developer of LED drivers, and Touch ICs for mobile consumer electronic devices, today announced sample availability of the LDS8161 and LDS8...

28 May 2009

Measuring Body Temperature from a Distance to Prevent Spreading of AN1H1

Xenics, the leading developer of innovative infrared detection solutions for a wide range of applications headquartered in Europe, presents a secure and non-invasive countermeasure to the uncontrolled spreading of the respiratory disease, sometimes called swine flue, caused by the potentially pandemic virus AN1H1.

27 May 2009

Festival Creates a Brave New Green World

Photonics Festival in Taiwan 2009, one of the most prominent photonics exhibition in Asia, will be held during June 10th to 12th 2009 at Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1, covering the spectrum of photovoltaic, LED, optics, and other photonic areas.

27 May 2009

Latest Breakthroughs in Electro-Optics and Lasers

Researchers from around the world will present the latest breakthroughs in electro-optics, lasers and the application of light waves at the 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/IQEC) May 31 to June 5 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore.

26 May 2009

Substrates for GaN-Based Devices: Performance Comparisons and Market Assessment 2009

Over the past 15 years, the availability of high quality sapphire and silicon carbide substrates has enabled the rapid growth of the gallium nitride device (mainly high-brightness LED) market to $4.6 billion in 2008.

26 May 2009

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