GENEVA — Technologists have long sought a silicon light-emitting diode that could be integrated into standard CMOS fabrication lines. Now STMicroelectronics claims to have achieved this critical goal ...

In recent years, LED brightness has improved tremendously due to advancement in LED die in terms of luminous efficiency and its ability to be driven under higher powered conditions. Due to these ...

The LED is one of those fundamental building block components in electronics, something that’s been in the parts bin for decades. But while a simple LED costs pennies, that WS2812 or other fancy ...

Dow Corning introduced four optical silicone materials for LED lighting applications this week at the Light+Building show in Frankfurt, Germany. As LEDs continue to replace conventional light sources, ...

Light-emitting diodes -- LEDs -- can do way more than illuminate your living room. These light sources are useful microelectronics too. Smartphones, for example, can use an LED proximity sensor to ...

Silicon’s prominence in microelectronics contrasts with its weak light emission owing to an indirect bandgap that favours non-radiative recombination. Over the past decade, researchers have pursued ...