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05 Aug 2005
Including news from DALSA, Alfalight, UDC, Nichia, Samsung Electronics and more.
General company news:
• Optical switch specialists Continuum Photonics of the US and Polatis of the UK have agreed to merge. The companies will combine their technology, product lines and personnel and will maintain offices and operations in both countries. The merger is expected to close by August 15th 2005.
• Samsung Electronics says it will produce 40-inch and 46-inch glass substrates at a new LCD production line. The line will cost approximately $975 million to build and will fabricate glass substrates identical to those produced at its joint venture (S-LCD) with Sony. Samsung hopes this standardization of sizes will give it a strong leadership position in the large-panel LCD market. Mass production at the new line is scheduled to begin in April 2006.
• LINOS is investing EURO 5.3 million in a 7200 m2 production center to be built at its site in Regen, Germany. The company says this move will reduce its infrastructure costs as it can now move out of its current rented production facility.
• Nichia of Japan has filed a provisional injunction action against Doshisha Corporation in the Osaka District Court. Nichia believes that white LEDs used in Christmas illumination lights sold by Doshisha infringe its patent number 3503139. Nichia is seeking injunctive relief to prohibit the sale of the product.
• Universal Display Corporation (UDC), US, has unveiled a white OLED lighting panel with what it claims is a record-breaking power efficiency of 30 lumens per Watt (lm/W). According to UDC, the 30 lm/W was achieved at a color temperature of 4000 K.
• Intematix of the US, a specialist producer of phosphors used in LED lighting, is relocating to Fremont in California. The company says the move will allow it to substantially increase phosphor production as well as expand its R&D capacity.
Contracts and funding:
• Alfalight of the US has received $1.4 million in Phase II funding from DARPA as part of the agency's super-high efficiency diode sources (SHEDs) program. The company met the program's Phase I objective by demonstrating 71% efficiency in a 970 nm, 55 W laser bar at 25 °C. Phase II has a target of 80% power conversion efficiency in a 480 W stacked array at 50 °C.
• Alfalight has also received a $4.5 million R&D contract from the Army Research Laboratory this week. The 12-month award will enable the company to develop a multimode diode laser with an output of 1 kW.
• DALSA of Canada has received a CDN$5.1 million contract from Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC), a specialist producer of digital radiography systems. Under the terms of the contract, DALSA will develop a custom CCD chip for use in a line of IDC's digital X-ray detectors. Deliveries are expected to begin in Q4 of 2005.
Distribution agreement:
• Micro-Photon-Devices of Italy has named PicoQuant of Germany as the sole European distributor of its PDM-series of single photon sensitive avalanche photodiodes (SPADs).
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