On July 17, 2008, Purdue University made this exciting announcement. By replacing traditional lighting with solid state lighting technologies such as LED, electricity consumption can be reduced by 10%. LED is also more friendly toward the environment as it does not contain mercury, a poisonous substance that make up CCFL technology that is being touted [...]
A lot of nitrogen triflouride is used in manufacturing CPUs (75%) and LCDs (25%). 4000 tons per year in fact. Michael Prathner, at the Environment Institute at UC Irvine claims that nitrogen triflouride is 17,000 times more potent as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. The greenhouse impact of 4000 annual tons is larger than [...]
On May 7, 2008, DuPont and Dainippon Screen Manufacturing announced their intention to form a strategic alliance to develop integrated manufacturing equipment for printed organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays. The companies also have signed an agreement to bring together materials, technology and equipment to mass produce OLED displays that feature enhanced performance, lower cost [...]
DigiTimes reported that on 2007.10.1, Taiwan-based Applied Vacuum Coating Technologies (AVCT), an indium tin oxide (ITO) glass supplier, announced a shareholders meeting on December 5 to discuss capital reduction and fund raising.
According to Wikipedia, ITO is “a mixture of indium (III) oxide (In2O3) and tin (IV) oxide (SnO2), typically 90% In2O3, 10% SnO2 by [...]
Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) is used to put a transparent conductive coating for LCDs. And there are only a few companies that make ITO. In the oligopoly-like market for ITO, the limited number of suppliers set the price and usually very high. Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) ordered ITO from Samsung Corning. Samsung Corning has sent [...]
Indium is a key metal component in manufacturing liquid crystal display panels. Indium is used to produce indium tin oxide (ITO). Prices for indium has dropped to $720-$760 per kilogram, a major drop from $1000 in May, just a few months ago. This price drop was the result of Chinese “distressed selling”. Total consumption numbers [...]