Sony plans to commercialize by fall of this year a new optical disc archive storage system. Offering capacities of up to 1.5TB, the system could...

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. has developed a new blue laser diode powerful enough to offer multi-layer recording on Blu-ray discs at speeds of up to...

Sony Shiroishi Semiconductor Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, today announced that as of March 2007, cumulative shipments of laser diodes have reached 2 billion...

The launch of high-definition blue-laser optical disc formats has been a disappointment. That was the consensus of a panel of mostly specialty A/V consumer electronics...

DaTARIUS open-platform approach to its test and analyzer systems is leading to accelerated development of HD DVD capability for its flagship DaTABANK test and analyzer...

Engineers at Sharp's research laboratory in the UK have fabricated the first continuous-wave InGaN-based laser diodes to be grown by MBE. All commercial blue-violet laser...

Opto-Electronics & Systems Laboratories of the Industrial Technology Research Institute debuted Taiwan's first self-developed blue-laser DVD pick-up head (PUH) at an OES press event in...

Facing the inevitability of multiple audio/visual codecs required in new-generation digital set tops, Broadcom Corp. will stop developing MPEG-only chips by the second quarter of...

Dr. Shuji Nakamura is generally credited with being the first person to develop and demonstrate a blue LED that had a sufficiently long life to...

Scientists at NEC's research laboratories have fabricated the world's most powerful 405 nm continuous-wave GaN laser.

As semiconductor manufacturers look towards volume production of blue...