LEDs & OLEDs

Technology | Jul 29, 2010
Rensselaer researchers create world's first ideal anti-reflection coating
Rensselaer researchers create world's first ideal anti-reflection coating Troy, N.Y. -- A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world’s first material that reflects virtually no light. Reporting in the March issue of Nature Photonics, they describe an optical coating made from the material that enables vastly improved control over the basic properties of light. Read more »
Technology | Jul 29, 2010
Arrowhead subsidiary collaborates with Kyma Technologies to reduce the cost of blue lasers and blue LEDs
PASADENA, Calif., Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ ARWR) announced today that its majority-owned subsidiary, Aonex Technologies, Inc. has entered into a collaborative agreement with Kyma Technologies, Inc., a producer and marketer of semiconductor products, to develop materials to reduce the cost of gallium nitride (GaN)-based devices such as blue laser diodes and blue light emitting diodes (LEDs). Read more »
Technology | Jul 29, 2010
Cheaper LEDs from breakthrough in ZnO nanowire research
Cheaper LEDs from breakthrough in ZnO nanowire research Engineers at UC San Diego have synthesized a long-sought semiconducting material that may pave the way for an inexpensive new kind of light emitting diode (LED) that could compete with today's widely used gallium nitride LEDs, according to a new paper in the journal Nano Letters. Read more »
Technology | Jul 29, 2010
Team awarded for better bulb discovery
A team of scientists at Vanderbilt University have been given an award from Popular Mechanics magazine for a discovery that could someday replace the common light bulb, the researchers say. Read more »
Technology | Jul 29, 2010
MIT chemist studies how electrons behave
MIT chemist studies how electrons behave New spin on electrons could improve lights, other devices. Troy Van Voorhis likes to watch how things work. This natural curiosity led to his current research on the behavior of electrons and how they function in various molecular systems, including artificial photosynthesis. Read more »
Technology | Jul 29, 2010
QD Vision improves quantum-dot LED performance
WATERTOWN, Mass., QD Vision, Inc., announced it has achieved significant improvements in efficiency of its red quantum-dot light-emitting devices (QD-LEDs). The trend of improvements in brightness, color, resolution and other metrics continue to advance QD- LEDs toward best-in-class performance levels among display technologies. Read more »
Technology | Jul 29, 2010
Organic semiconductors make cheap, flexible photovoltaics and LEDs
Organic semiconductors make cheap, flexible photovoltaics and LEDs Imagine T-shirts that light up, or a beach umbrella that collects solar energy to run a portable TV. How about really cheap solar collectors for the roof? All this and more could come from cutting-edge research at Cornell that demonstrates a new type of organic semiconductor device which shows electroluminescence and acts as a photovoltaic cell. Read more »
Technology | Jul 29, 2010
QD Vision chief technologist Seth Coe-Sullivan named top innovator by Tech Review Magazine: MIT journal honors 35 top scientific and technology innovators under the age of 35
WATERTOWN, MA, SQD Vision, Inc. announced that Cofounder and Chief Technologist Seth Coe-Sullivan has been recognized by Technology Review as one of the world’s Top Science and Technology Innovators under the age of 35 for his breakthrough work in quantum dot LED performance and manufacturing process technology. Read more »
Technology | Jul 29, 2010
Novel Nano-Etched Cavity Makes LEDs 7 Times Brighter
Novel Nano-Etched Cavity Makes LEDs 7 Times Brighter Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) more than seven times brighter by etching nanoscale grooves in a surrounding cavity to guide scattered light in one direction. Read more »
Technology | Jul 29, 2010
Paint-on semiconductor outperforms chips
Paint-on semiconductor outperforms chips Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a semiconductor device that outperforms today's conventional chips -- and they made it simply by painting a liquid onto a piece of glass. Read more »
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