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Category Archives: Optoelectronics

A light-emitting materials industry analysis for AMOLEDs

Friday, March 1, 2013

By Paul O’Shea  Displaybank recently published a report on the active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) light-emitting materials industry. It analyzes equipment, supply chain, and development trends of AMOLED panel makers. The report also analyzes the market size of AMOLED charge layer materials and light-emitting materials, as well as the competition among the materials. Based on this, [...]

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The Superdome’s exterior light show uses LEDs

Saturday, February 9, 2013

by Jim Harrison The Mercedes-Benz Superdome has its exterior ringed with 26,000 LED lights, covering two million square feet and supported by five miles of copper wiring. This is for the exterior only, and has nothing to do with field lighting. The entire system, when operating in one color, draws only 10 kilowatts. The $1.6 [...]

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Though Apple be small she is fierce

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

By Paul O’Shea Okay, I took some liberty with Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – but it still holds true that for a company with only 47,000 employees (compare that to 220,000 for Samsung) it has mindboggling impact on the market. It has financial impact like few others – ahead of the iPhone 5 announcement [...]

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OLED living up to its promise

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

A new report from NanoMarkets that will be available June 25th  says that OLEDs are finally showing signs of living up to their potential and becoming more than a niche item.  For example, Samsung is using OLED in its Galaxy smartphones, a phone that exceeded shipments of the iPhone in the first quarter of 2012 [...]

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The crossing from the old to the new displays

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Just like the transit of Venus crossing between the Sun and Earth this week we also saw the crossing from the old displays to the new this week. Display week is one of the most important venues for getting a first look at what consumers will be clamoring to buy in the months and years [...]

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Download the Display Week 2012 Mobile App

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Next week the Society for Information Display will hold it’s annual Display Week symposium, seminar, and exhibition at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.  You can download a mobile app that features: A directory of the Symposium, with session details including speaker information and poster sessions. Exhibitors’ forums also included. Floor maps of the Boston Convention [...]

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Lighting Science Group and Dixon Technologies announce sub-$15 60-Watt-equivalent LED bulb

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Lighting Science Group and Dixon Technologies India Pvt. Ltd unveiled a sub-$15 omnidirectional 60-watt equivalent A19 LED bulb that will be available in India by the end of the year and will be sold worldwide by Lighting Science Group early next year. The bulb, which is based on Lighting Science Group’s technical design and consumes [...]

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