news digest ♦ LEDs and May 2013 for between $15 and $30.
The U.S.CPSC works to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals.
Sharp and Osram to take LEDs and lasers to the next level
A patent agreement between the two firms is expected to boost R&D in these markets and others
Sharp and Osram have entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement covering LEDs and laser diodes.
This cross-licensing agreement grants each party the right to use inventions related to LED and laser diodes covered by the patents owned by the respective companies around the world.
Both companies expect that this will spur their R&D and contribute to further advances in LEDs, laser diodes, and related industries.
Sharp began mass-production of LEDs in 1970 and the world’s first production of infrared laser diodes for CDs in 1982.
With these LED and laser diode technologies built up over the years, the company has recently come out with numerous unique devices, including a high-efficiency, high-brightness 100 W-class LED for lighting, and a red laser diode that can be used as a light source for displays.
Under this agreement, the companies’ mutual licensing of patents will allow each party to complement its respective technologies. Sharp and Osram believe this will accelerate development of high-performance LEDs and laser diodes and have a positive effect on the creation of devices that match the needs of worldwide markets.
SETi cuts pricing on its
AlGaN LEDs The company says new high volume pricing make its aluminium gallium nitride UVTOP LEDs commercially viable in consumer type applications
Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. has completed product qualification and shipped the first SMD packaged UVTOP devices from its new high volume manufacturing line.
This is the result of the first phase of growth of Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (SETi) that began in October 2011 with a $20 million investment into a new dedicated volume production facility and an expansion of its Advanced Technology Centre.
These first LEDs delivered from the new line were UVC LEDs operating at 275nm for disinfection applications and give customers access to germicidal UVC LEDs intended for consumer markets.
UVTOP LED
Mainstream disinfection markets are very cost sensitive, but SETi has set a new pricing structure for standard SMD UV LEDs manufactured through the new line to compete with traditional light sources.
“The new volume production facility has allowed SETi to focus a part of its business solely on manufacturing, which has reduced costs through operational methods and yield improvements” says Remis Gaska, President and CEO of SETi.
He adds, “We are passing these savings directly to the customer to enable new market opportunities.”
SETi also says that UVC LEDs are now available as standard SMD products at prices similar to conventional white LEDs, enabling new product opportunities to take advantage of UV LEDs and enter new consumer markets.
“This marks and important milestone for SETi and for deep UV LEDs” comments Gaska. “We have been working with manufacturers of consumer products for the past few years and soon we will see UV LEDs in our homes disinfecting water, air and surfaces and keeping our food fresher for longer.”
Additional wavelengths are being qualified through SETi’s high volume manufacturing line and 310nm LEDs are expected to be available by Q4 2013.
SETi has ISO9001 and AS9100 certified design and manufacturing and produces LED chips ranging from 240nm to 360nm.
Veeco to reveal compact MBE tool
The company says its latest molecular beam epitaxy reactor is the industry’s first integrated MBE System for the compound semiconductor R&D market
Veeco Instruments has introduced the GENxplor Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) deposition system.
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