LED Lighting

Existing semiconductor and display manufacturing processes could benefit from using assembly techniques copied from biology, according to a US start-up

The European Conference on Optical Communication is the global launch pad for a division of Pirelli, which will focus on next generation telecoms infrastructures

Sharp has developed two 3Mpixel auto-focus CCD camera modules for phones, one with a 2x zoom

Polymer lightguides from Design Led Products can be used as backlights or to add animated graphics to products such as mobile phones

Flat panel specialists Display Technology and Apollo Display Technologies have opened a manufacturing facility in the UK

The town of Ede in the Netherlands has installed the world’s first LED street lights, made by Philips at its plant near Lyon in France

Cambridge-based Screen Technology believes its ITrans LCD technology has the ability to dominate the displays market by offering seamless LCD panelling for large areas

Proof-of-concept and prototype devices made in polymers will be able to go to a facility in County Durham opening in the first half of 2007

Surrey start-up Si-Light is awaiting samples of its all-silicon LEDs and has new intellectual property in the pipeline

CRTs are seeping out of the market to be replaced firstly by plasma screens and, more recently, by large LCD panels