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Imperial Researchers Win Top Awards

Four researchers from Imperial's Department of Physics have been honoured in the Institute of Physics' annual awards announced this week - more than at any other UK university.

3 Jul 2009

Cree CEO Discusses Advantages of LED Lighting with President Obama

Today, Chuck Swoboda, chairman and chief executive officer of Cree (Nasdaq:CREE) joined President Obama at the White House to discuss the latest developments in energy-efficient technologies. Cree, based in Durham, North Carolina, is a market-leading manufacturer of LED (light-emitting diode) products.

2 Jul 2009

GE's Immersion LED Display Case Lighting Delivers Sparkle

Retailers and display case manufacturers have the power to add sparkle to merchandise with GE Consumer + Industrial,s award-winning, energy-efficient Immersion® LED Display Case Lighting.

2 Jul 2009

Revolution In Lighting for the Home and Office

New developments in a substance which emits brilliant light could lead to a revolution in lighting for the home and office in five years, claims a leading UK materials scientist, Professor Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University.

2 Jul 2009

Program Focuses on Development Of Low-Power, Direct-View Flexible OLED Displays for use In Airplane Cockpits

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL), an innovator behind today's and tomorrow's displays and lighting through its UniversalPHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, today announced that the company has been awarded a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract from the United States Air Force Research Laboratory.

1 Jul 2009

LEDs Go Greener, Save Power With Flexible, Efficient ICs

Micrel Inc., (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today rolled out the MIC3230/31/32, a new family of dedicated high brightness LED drivers.

30 Jun 2009

New Competitively Priced LED Features Small Footprint, Robust Package Design, High Flux Output, and Extended Operating Life

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced one of the industry's smallest high-brightness 3-Watt LEDs for use in a wide range of solid-state lighting applications.

30 Jun 2009

Diodes Incorporated Introduces Three New LED Drivers

Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq:DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets, has introduced a family of three new LED drivers that provide a cost-effective and small form factor solution for small LCD screens used across a wide range of portable consumer electronics, such as portable media players, personal navigation devices and digital photo frames.

30 Jun 2009

New LED Driver Delivers High Accuracy for LCD TVs and Monitors

Supertex (NASDAQ: SUPX), a recognized leader in high voltage analog and mixed signal integrated circuits (ICs), today introduced the HV9985, a three channel LED driver IC designed to provide high LED current accuracy through closed loop control of the output current.

30 Jun 2009

Freescale Introduces MC34845 LED Driver With High-Speed Pulse Width Modulation Capability

Enabling slimmer laptops with brighter screens and extended battery life, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are rapidly replacing cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) as the dominant backlighting technology for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) used in notebook PCs and industrial and medical displays.

30 Jun 2009

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