Xref: utzoo misc.wanted:8189 sci.electronics:10314 sci.physics:11692 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!littlei!reed!bowman From: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman) Newsgroups: misc.wanted,sci.electronics,sci.physics Subject: Re: Do _blue_ L.E.D.s exist? Message-ID: <14268@reed.UUCP> Date: 25 Feb 90 19:41:44 GMT References: <2026.25e3b2bb@admdev.cut.oz> <7568@b11.ingr.com> Reply-To: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 42 In article <7568@b11.ingr.com> mcconnel@b11.ingr.com (Guy McConnell) writes: >In article , thomas@uplog.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes: >> >> Yes, they exist. They are *EXTREMELY* expensive, at least when I checked >> last. >> >> An old catalog (1988) that I have has a price of $50 (!) for the blue >> and about $0.50 for red/green/yellow. Quantities of one. > > I saw them recently in EE Times or somesuch magazine advertised much cheaper > than this. Unfortunately, I don't remember the mag, the price, or the > company! I'll look for the add again but I recall that they were advertised > as "available in production quantities" so they do exist. They were still > more expensive than the red/green/yellow ones but several orders of > magnitude less than the price you quote above. > > > Guy McConnell > Intergraph Corp. > Huntsville, AL. I read something recently about a cost breakthrough that might make LED TV possible -- evidently a *big* cost breakthrough. A friend of mine working in a display group thinks the TV part is bunk, but confirmed about 1/10 recent price reduction. BoBo bowman@reed.{bitnet,UUCP} FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL FILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILLFILL (sorry, our mailer's got an attitude problem)