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How LEDs are Made

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Re: How LEDs are Made

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Same as regular chips: in a grid on a wafer, then cut and pick&placed. Don't forget: yield goes up when the die shrinks because the defects are typically small spots. The smaller the die the better you pixelate the defects. The wafers are only 2 inch diameter to avoid yield loss due to edge effects: at the edge of the wafer you have lowest quality components (optical ring effects)

I doubt that they 2-inch wafers to avoid yield loss from edge effects. The ratio of area to perimeter rises as you increase the wafer size. Perhaps the reasons they use 2-inch wafers are for better uniformity, better flexibility, or lower capital investment.

Probably uniformity & capital. The profit margins on LED aren't what they used to be.

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We should make a raspberry powered microscope that can project onto a 22" HD display. It would be awesome if Lytro had a realtime USB version of their camera.

Needs to be steroscopic or else you'd be nailing bonds down in the wrong location. No substitute for a good stereo microscope for microelectronics work.

Top and side view?

Re: How LEDs are Made

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Needs to be steroscopic or else you'd be nailing bonds down in the wrong location. No substitute for a good stereo microscope for microelectronics work.

Top and side view?

Nah, just something that gives you depth of field, sort of 3D, but not that drastic.

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I don't envy the eyesight of the worker that has to look through a microscope their entire shift, this was sad to read.

We should make a raspberry powered microscope that can project onto a 22" HD display. It would be awesome if Lytro had a realtime USB version of their camera.

An RPi projecting scope would be useful for inspection work. Have a look through FEC to see the kinds of prices people pay for inspection equipment.

Ridiculous URL: http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2031+202618&Nt...

Re: How LEDs are Made

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And so this makes an interesting point, LED shapes are controlled by the mold makers, but when do we get just a flat thin LED and you can 3D print the shape you want on top? :-)

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I don't envy the eyesight of the worker that has to look through a microscope their entire shift, this was sad to read.

We should make a raspberry powered microscope that can project onto a 22" HD display. It would be awesome if Lytro had a realtime USB version of their camera.

Video microscopes work OK for inspection but for working under the microscope, the video delay and the lack of stereo vision are pretty intolerable. What would probably work better is a Vision Engineering eyepieceless stereo scope.

Re: How LEDs are Made

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I could do this in my basement! Years ago I answered a "for sale" newspaper ad for used office desks and some test equipment. I showed up at the address and it was a small dingy old building and most of the employees seemed to be 55+ year-old women. When I asked what they did and was told they made diodes, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Like he did, I assumed that all electronics parts manufacturing w…

Anyone else have the theme from Bladerunner playing in their head?

Re: How LEDs are Made

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We should make a raspberry powered microscope that can project onto a 22" HD display. It would be awesome if Lytro had a realtime USB version of their camera.

Video microscopes work OK for inspection but for working under the microscope, the video delay and the lack of stereo vision are pretty intolerable. What would probably work better is a Vision Engineering eyepieceless stereo scope.

How about a stereo microscope hooked up an oculus rift?
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