Plastic Logic has added to its latest funding round with a multi-million dollar investment by Silicon Valley venture firm Oak Investment Partners
LED Lighting
The latest Electronics Weekly product news on LED lighting (light-emitting diodes – a semiconductor light source).
Slippers with headlights…
Too considerate to turn the light on, but keep tripping over the dog on the way to the loo at night?
Plastic Logic shows 10inch flexible display
Hot on the heels of closing its latest funding round Plastic Logic unveils an SVGA flexible display with four levels of greyscale
Japanese scientist uses SiC to make 130lm/W LED
Using a novel emissive substrate, a Japanese researcher has fabricated a 130lm/W white power LED
Optical efficiency boost for white OLEDs
Osram Opto Semiconductors claims to have achieved a breakthrough in optical efficiency of white organic light-emitting diode technology
Samsung gets flexible with transmissive LCD
A transmissive liquid crystal display capable of VGA resolution has been developed by Samsung, with a view to attacking the mobile digital TV market
Circuit topologies for connecting LEDs
Erik Ogren of Advanced analogic Technologies looks at the choice between serial and parallel architectures for connecting LEDs
Butterflies give light lessons to high efficiency LEDs
The photonic structures used in high efficiency LEDs to confine light to a given plane are also found in the wings of certain butterflies, researchers at the University of Exeter have discovered
CDT ink-jets 35cm display using light-emitting polymers
A 1,280x768 pixel RGB device was printed in the UK using soluble light-emitting inks with the firm's 128-nozzle ink-jet printing heads
Making a bigger screen in Cambridge
Screen Technology plans to take its large screen displays into volume production, using a virtual manufacturing model