LED Lighting

After a slower than expected start, the OLED market is about to become significant according to US analysts DisplaySearch who see the $600m OLED market translating into a $7bn market by 2016.

The EU has initiated price-fixing legal actions against LG and Philips. The EU's 'statement of objections' relates to price-fixing on LCD panels.

Supertex has introduced a power LED driver that works from 8-450V, requiring only one external mosfet and a handful of passives.

Dialight has won a contract to supply the state of New Mexico with over 8,000 individual LED-based traffic signals. This is the start of a significant $3bn programme to replace the incandescent lighting currently used in traffic intersections across the state. The grant is part of the President Obama's recovery and reinvestment federal stimulus package

Lumileds has used novel amber LED technology to get 70 lm from a single die. Rather than the traditional AlInGaP route to amber light, the firm uses another semiconductor, probably GaN, and a phosphor.

The 16 month old alliance between Sony and Sharp to jointly manufacture LCD screens is under threat as six months of talks on the funding of a new factory have failed to produce results.

Sony has been given Seiko Epson's small and medium sized TFT LCD operations. Seiko Epson's high-temperature polysilicon TFT LCDs are not included in the deal.

Intended for use in spectroscopy, barcode, touch screen and machine vision, the DLIS-2K Imager is a Quad Line Sensor with 11-bit A/D and Correlated Multi-Sampling (CMS) for enhanced sensitivity

The first Sitronix product based on the voltage matrix multi-touch technology is expected to be a driver for small to medium touch panels -- up to 10.1 inches, depending on the touch panel specifications

The 3D projectors are based on the company's DLP chip technology. The chip uses an array of millions of micro-mirrors which can be switched at high speed, which enables the simultaneous display of left-eye and right-eye images required for the brain to create a 3D picture