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to accelerate implementation of LED lighting in municipalities by promoting the benefits that can be achieved through LED lighting and by encouraging users to share experiences and data. Since its inception, the LED City Program has helped cities across the world confidently move to solid-state lighting and member cities are regularly reporting energy savings of 50 to 80 % and maintenance cost avoidance in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, over the life of the fixtures. The Consortium will provide a forum like the LED City Council Meetings, where buyers and implementers can get information, discuss best practices and share lessons learned.
The Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (Consortium) is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. It is a voluntary group of representatives from interested municipalities, utilities and quality lighting professionals. Its goal is to build a catalog of valuable field experience and data that will significantly accelerate the learning curve for buying and implementing high-quality LED lighting, as well as serving as an objective resource to evaluate these new products on the market.
Formed earlier this year, the Consortium currently has nearly 400 members in 48 states, 5 Canadian provinces, and four other countries, who seek to share technical information and experiences related to LED street and area lighting demonstrations.
Cree is an innovator of lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting, and semiconductor solutions for wireless and power applications. Its product families include LED fixtures and bulbs, blue and green LED chips, high-brightness LEDs, lighting-class power LEDs, power-switching devices and radio- frequency/wireless devices. Cree’s products are used in applications such as general illumination, backlighting, electronic signs and signals, variable- speed motors, and wireless communications.
RFMD Expands Foundry Services to Include Molecular Beam Epitaxial (MBE)
The MBE foundry services should leverage the firm’s position in compound semiconductor technology and manufacturing to deliver flexible MBE-related epitaxial products and services.
RF Micro Devices, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, has announced it has expanded its Foundry Services.
The firm will now deliver multiple molecular beam epitaxial (MBE) platforms, epitaxial characterization and epitaxial development structures, including specialty and high-volume, arsenic- and phosphorus-based processes.
RFMD’s MBE Foundry Services offerings include working with customers to develop epitaxial structures and MBE growth conditions, delivery of epitaxial wafers grown to exact customer specifications, and developing epitaxial design of experiments (DOEs). MBE Foundry Services will leverage the Company’s expertise in high-volume manufacturing and experience in the development of several generations of epitaxial structures to support customers by delivering quality products with world-class cycle times.
Bob Van Buskirk, president of RFMD’s Multi-Market Products Group, said, “We have the industry’s fastest cycle times, and we expect to use that as a key performance discriminator in our MBE foundry service. We have one of the world’s largest MBE production facilities and two of the world’s largest compound semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities in operation, which enable us to deliver a flexible set of MBE-related products and services while driving shorter time-to-market.”
Depending on a customer’s development requirements, RFMD’s MBE Foundry Services team will help design an epilayer structure and MBE process to optimize the performance of an existing epistructure. The team provides experience with growing and developing structures such as BiHEMTs, BiFETs, MOSFETs, VCELs
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