DOE announced the third round of $7 million 100 thousand to support Cree and other companies LED R & D projects

The day before, the U.S. Department of energy (DOE) announced as part of the latest SSL manufacturing research and development plan will provide a $7 million 100 thousand fund, but the congressional budget cuts to the core technology research and product development project of new funds. Part of its third round of funding, $7 million 100 thousand will be used in the SSL manufacturing R&D three projects, focusing on significantly reduce costs, while maintaining quality, improve production equipment, processes and monitoring technology.

Headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, Cree has been awarded a project that aims to develop an optimized LED lamp that can be easily integrated into buildings and outdoor applications using less raw materials. The goal of this project is to reduce the overall manufacturing cost without sacrificing the lighting performance. Cree received an additional $5 million.

Another project beneficiary is headquartered in California, Milpitas, KLA TENCOR (Ke Nateng company), will be used to try to improve the thermal testing tool of high precision, can be used to detect LED color consistency in LED manufacturing.

The third project is in Michigan, Dexter k-Space, will be used in the optical monitoring method of existing companies developed highly accurate measurement of OLED layer tools, measuring the thickness and composition, in order to provide efficiency, color and life production level control OLED.