On October 10, 2008, OSRAM announced its Advanced Power TopLED Plus and the company claims is the brightest colored LED in its class. The Advanced Power TopLED Plus, which I’ll refer to as just APTP, provides 15% more light for direct display backlighting. The wavelengths associated with each of the primary colored LED is as [...]

Opel’s GTC Concept Car uses LEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (OSRAM) for external lighting, namely parking lights, daylight running lights, and fog lights. OSRAM used thin-film technology that substantially increases brightness that allow the reduction of the number LEDs needed for external lighting on automobiles to just a few. OSRAM’s Golden Dragon LEDs illuminate the [...]

Samsung Corning will start to develop larger flat fluorescent lamp (FFL) based backlights. Currently, the company’s FFL backlights can be used for 32″ LCD TVs. In the very near future, Samsung Corning will produce larger FFL backlights for use in 40″ and 46″ LCD TVs. The sizes correspond very well to S-LCD’s optimized sizes of [...]