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Alfalite | Displays | Applications | Jun 16, 2025
Alfalite Launches SKYPIX, a New Ceiling-mounted LED Panel for Virtual Production Environments
Alfalite Launches SKYPIX, a New Ceiling-mounted LED Panel for Virtual Production Environments Alfalite, the only European manufacturer of LED displays, announces the launch of SKYPIX® RGBW & IM, a new series of ceiling-mounted LED panels designed specifically for virtual production (VP XR) environments. This new solution introduces a capability previously unseen in the industry: combining RGB video playback with an integrated white lighting channel to deliver more natural, coherent, and adaptable scenes from above. Read more »
LUAN-UV | UV | Apr 17, 2025
Advanced UV Optoelectronics: Revolutionizing Large-Scale Water Disinfection with Deep Ultraviolet LED Technology
Advanced UV Optoelectronics: Revolutionizing Large-Scale Water Disinfection with Deep Ultraviolet LED Technology As the world grapples with escalating pressures on water resource management and public health security, traditional water treatment technologies are facing significant hurdles—including inefficiencies, high energy consumption, and risks of chemical residue. Data highlights the stakes: waterborne illnesses cost the global economy billions of dollars annually, underscoring the urgency for safer, more effective solutions. Conventional mercury-based UV lamps, long relied upon for disinfection, compound these issues with drawbacks like excessive energy use, short operational lifespans, and environmental hazards from mercury contamination—failings that increasingly clash with modern sustainability goals. Read more »
BrightView | Displays | Trends | May 10, 2024
BrightView’s New Display Film Boosts Brightness up to 30%
BrightView’s New Display Film Boosts Brightness up to 30% BrightView Technologies, a leading global supplier of Visual Intelligence™ solutions, has announced the launch of its new Polycarbonate Brightness Enhancing Films (BEFs), engineered to increase brightness up to 30% for high-performance display designs. An ideal solution for desktop monitors, laptops, tablets and other custom displays, the unique film stack helps engineering teams achieve advanced optics while ensuring efficiency. Read more »
Toyoda Gosei | UV-C | UV | May 02, 2024
Toyoda Gosei Develops UV-C LED with World-Class Light Output
Toyoda Gosei Develops UV-C LED with World-Class Light Output Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has developed deep ultraviolet (UV-C) LEDs with light output that is among the highest in the world. UV-C is used in disinfection as it destroys viral and bacterial DNA structures and inhibits their replication. As an alternative light source for mercury lamps used for disinfection, improved performance of UV-C LEDs has been expected. Sample sales of Toyoda Gosei’s high performance LEDs started internationally in April 2024, to promote their wider use for disinfecting water, air and surface. Read more »
UV LED | Nichia | UV | Dec 11, 2023
Nichia Will Launch UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs
Nichia Will Launch UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs Nichia, the world’s largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, is scheduled to launch two new UV LEDs in March 2024: UV-B LED with a peak wavelength of 308nm and UV-A LED with a peak wavelength of 330nm. Read more »
JBD | Micro-LEDs | Displays | Trends | Aug 31, 2023
JBD Announces the Development of Native Color Monolithic RGB MicroLED Displays
JBD Announces the Development of Native Color Monolithic RGB MicroLED Displays JBD has announced a groundbreaking native color monolithic RGB MicroLED display aimed at AR glasses. The display features a 5 µm color pixel pitch and a qHD resolution of 960 x 540. The innovation overcomes existing technical challenges in micro-display technology, making it a promising development for the future of AR and the Metaverse. Read more »
UV | Optics | Apr 28, 2023
New Highly Efficient UV Optics for the UV-C Range from Asahi Rubber
New Highly Efficient UV Optics for the UV-C Range from Asahi Rubber The Japanese optics manufacturer Asahi Rubber recently introduced new UV optics especially for the UV-C range (280 nm). The silicone lenses named AL-10M-DUV280 (for LEDs of a size of 3.5 x 3.5 mm) and AL-20M-DUV280 (for LEDs of a size of 6.8 x 6.8 mm) were measured with the UV-C LEDs of the type NCSU334B from Nichia and subjected to an endurance test of 15000 hours, whereby hardly any loss of brightness and no damage could be detected. This underlines the high quality of the optics, whose light transmission is 90%. Read more »
Silanna | Nano-Structures | UV | Sep 30, 2022
Silanna UV Makes Ultraviolet LED Manufacturing Breakthrough With Nanostructures
Silanna UV Makes Ultraviolet LED Manufacturing Breakthrough With Nanostructures A major breakthrough in UV-C LED technology from Silanna UV offers huge advantages for applications as diverse as disinfection, water quality monitoring, gas sensing, liquid chromatography, and chemical and biological analysis. The new manufacturing approach promises to make deep ultraviolet and far ultraviolet LEDs easier to make, more efficient at shorter wavelengths, and more reliable. With the renewed focus on air, water and surface disinfection following the Covid-19 pandemic, these next-generation UV LEDs are already attracting interest. Read more »
Ferdinand Braun Institut | UV | Micro-LEDs | Trends | Jul 12, 2022
UV micro-LEDs for Sensing, Production and Communication
UV micro-LEDs for Sensing, Production and Communication Researchers at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) in Berlin have successfully produced the first prototypes of micro-LEDs that emit in the ultraviolet spectral range (UVB). The micro-LEDs with 310 nanometers (nm) emission wavelength feature a small size of the emitting area with diameters down to 1.5 micrometers (µm). This is hundreds to thousands of times smaller than conventional UV LEDs. The micro-LEDs can be closely packed with pitches down to 2 µm to form a two-dimensional array on a chip, resulting in high-resolution UVB emitting areas. Read more »
UV | Standardization | IES | IUVA | Apr 01, 2022
The Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Ultraviolet Association Release a New American National Standard for Measuring Ultraviolet LEDs
The Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Ultraviolet Association Release a New American National Standard for Measuring Ultraviolet LEDs The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES, est. 1906), in partnership with the International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA, est. 1999), has published its first in a series of American National Standards for the measurement of ultraviolet product emissions. Since its discovery in 1877, germicidal ultraviolet disinfection has been deployed globally to reduce the rate of transmission of tuberculosis and other airborne pathogens in indoor spaces, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Read more »
UV | Violeds | Omicron | Sterilization | Mar 01, 2022
Violeds Sterilizes Omicron Variant As Well
Violeds Sterilizes Omicron Variant As Well Seoul Viosys, a company specializing in optical semiconductors, announced an experimental result confirming that its Violeds technology sterilizes 99.99% Omicron Variant (SARS-CoV-2 Variant: B.1.1529) in one second, which has been spreading around the world. Read more »
Business | Aixtron | HC Semitek | Micro-LEDs | Displays | Mar 01, 2022
HC Semitek Cooperates with AIXTRON on Micro LED Display Technology
HC Semitek Cooperates with AIXTRON on Micro LED Display Technology Micro LED technology is on the verge of revolutionizing the display industry. The market demand for self-emissive Micro LEDs in the primary colors (RGB: red, green and blue) begins to rise strongly. HC Semitek, a leading enterprise of the semiconductor technology, will use AIXTRONs Planetary Systems to meet the emerging market demand for Micro LED displays. Read more »
Edison Opto | UV | Featured | Nov 26, 2021
Edison Opto UVA + White & UVC Series Customize Design Solution
Edison Opto UVA + White & UVC Series Customize Design Solution Edison Opto offers customized UVA + White and UVC solutions for continuous disinfection to reduce bacteria and airborne viruses. In the wake of the global outbreak of COVID-19, the people’s need for anti-epidemic, sterilization, and anti-virus products has escalated, ranging from portable sterilization equipment, home appliances sterilization, and public health sterilization. Read more »
UV | Ushio | Covid | Corona | Disinfection | Jul 29, 2021
Research Confirms Ushio’s Technology Is Effective Against a Variant of SARS-CoV-2
Research Confirms Ushio’s Technology Is Effective Against a Variant of SARS-CoV-2 Hiroshima University and Ushio Inc. have been conducting a joint research project (Study on the disinfection (*1) and viral inactivation effects of 222 nm UV-C light using Care222). As part of this study, a group of researchers, including Professor Hiroki Ohge of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Hiroshima University Hospital, and Professor Takemasa Sakaguchi of the Virology Section of the Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences at Hiroshima University, evaluated the effect of irradiating a SARS-CoV-2 variant (*2) with Ushio's Care222 filtered Far UV-C light disinfection technology. The research showed that Care222 technology is equally effective in inactivating a SARS-CoV-2 variant as in inactivating the original SARS-CoV-2 strain. Read more »
SSL | Components | Laser | VCSEL | Special Applications | Jan 29, 2021
Mass Production of Seoul Viosys' 25Gbps VCSELs - a Game Changer in 5G Communication Applications
Mass Production of Seoul Viosys' 25Gbps VCSELs - a Game Changer in 5G Communication Applications Seoul Viosys, a leading compound semiconductor provider, announced that for the first time in Korea, Seoul Viosys succeeded in developing vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) technology, a near-field-only 25Gbps laser diode compatible with 5G wired networks for transmitting and receiving, and has started mass production to supply these products to three initial customers. Read more »
UV-C | Nichia | Components | Featured | UV | Jan 26, 2021
Nichia’s Latest UV-C LED Disinfection Efficacy Proven to Combat Viruses
Nichia’s Latest UV-C LED Disinfection Efficacy Proven to Combat Viruses NICHIA, a leading global LED manufacturer, further demonstrates its commitment to innovation and improvements to global well-being with the public launch of its newest deep UV LED, the NCSU334B. At a peak wavelength of 280 nm, NICHIA’s deep UV LED outperforms other commercially available UV-C LED’s, regardless of wavelength, in output, efficiency and lifetime. At the same time, new independent research confirms they are also best-in-class for disinfection performance against SARS-CoV-2 virus. Read more »
SSL | Components | UV | UV LED | UV-C | Disinfection | Dec 14, 2020
Osram Enters UV-C LEDs Market Offering Their First Products
Osram Enters UV-C LEDs Market Offering Their First Products The longer the coronavirus pandemic lasts, the more important it is to stay safe and healthy in everyday life. Hygiene measures, such as wearing a facemask or socially distancing, help safeguard against the spread of germs. But light in the right wavelength also makes an enormous contribution to fighting viruses. UV-C light can eliminate 99.9 percent of viruses and bacteria on surfaces, in the air and in drinking water. As one of the world's leading manufacturers, Osram Opto Semiconductors now enables particularly small and robust disinfection applications with its LEDs, while also driving the industrialization of these special light sources forward. The Oslon UV 3636 marks the beginning of a comprehensive portfolio in the UV-C LED sector. Read more »
Featured | Measurement | Test Equipment | UV | Calibration | Dec 09, 2020
New Calibration Standards in the UV A/B/C Range
New Calibration Standards in the UV A/B/C Range UV radiation encompasses a very wide wavelength spectrum between 10 and 400 nm and is subdivided in ISO Standard 21348 into three ranges. The UVC range between 100 and 280 nm is currently extremely relevant for air and water disinfection for combating COVID-19. Since the outbreak of the pandemic this has been manifested, among other things, in a sharp increase in the demand for UVC light sources. Read more »
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