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Side-emitting infrared LED targets VR/MR/AR applications

Rohm Semiconductor has extended its PICOLED family with the launch of the CSL1501RW ultra-compact side-emitting (side view) infrared LED (IR LED). Target applications include head-mounted displays, ...

From beds to LED masks, is the red light craze giving us more than just a warm glow?

Whether it can really repair muscles and make skin look younger is up for debate.
Science Daily

Discovery of non-toxic semiconductors with a direct band gap in the near-infrared

Scientists have discovered a potentially promising infrared LED and infrared detector component. This compound -- composed of calcium, silicon and oxygen -- is cheap to produce and non-toxic. Many of ...
New Scientist

Soap molecule could help make alternative LED tech commercially viable

Adding a molecule normally used in detergent to an infrared LED could make devices that are easier to manufacture, require less energy and display richer colours than existing ones. Solar cells and ...
Digi Times

Ennostar, TAS developing short-wavelength infrared LED biosensing devices

Ennostar and Taiwan Asia Semiconductor (TAS, formerly Opto Tech) are developing short-wavelength (over 1,000nm) infrared (IR) LED devices for use in biosensing including heart rates, SpO2, blood ...
Digi Times

Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor supplies short-wave IR LED devices used in Apple Watch 8

LED chip maker Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor (TAS, renamed from Opto Tech) is the exclusive supplier of short-wave infrared (IR) LED devices used in the body temperature sensor of Apple Watch 8, according ...