At the SEMICON China show in Shanghai next week (19-21 March), Shanghai-based dielectric and through-silicon via (TSV) etch tool supplier Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc (AMEC) is making its solid-state lighting (SSL) market debut ...
Tags: MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics
SEMI's HB-LED Standards Committee has approved its first standard, specifying sapphire wafers used in making high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) devices. Sapphire wafers are used in producing HB-LED devices for multiple ...
Tags: SEMI, HB-LED Standards Committee, LED manufacturing supply chain
Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity. According to the SEMI LED/Opto Fab Forecast, spending on LED fab manufacturing ...
Tags: LED Manufacturing Investment, LED fab manufacturing equipment
ElectroniCast Consultants, has announced the release of their 2013 market review and forecast of the worldwide use of High Brightness Light Emitting Diodes (HB-LED) Driver Integrated Circuits (ICs) in illumination. Values include LED ...
Thermal Technology, a leading manufacturer of crystal growth equipment and high temperature furnace systems, recently shipped 14 K1 HB LED-grade sapphire crystal growers to a customer in Europe. The K1’s large 90kg sapphire boule is ...
Every LED maker wants to know the emission wavelength of its final device during metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) growth, says LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, ...
Tags: LED maker, LED, LED structures, lighting
The Optogan group of companies is a vertically integrated producer of High Brightness LEDs based in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The group is also active in Finland and Germany. Founded in 2004 by 3 graduates of Ioffe ...
Tags: Optogan, Lighting Brands, led, led chip, hb led
The HB-LED Standards Committee of industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has approved its first standard ‘SEMI HB1: Specifications for Sapphire Wafers Intended for Use for Manufacturing High ...
Tags: LED, Light, HB LED, LED devices
Several SEMI task forces have been developing standards related to LED manufacturing, and the first of these, describing specifications for 150-mm-diameter sapphire wafers, has now been approved. The HB-LED Standards Committee of SEMI, the ...
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SEMI's HB-LED Standards Committee has approved its first standard,specifying sapphire wafers used in making HB-LED devices. Five categories of single-crystal,single-side polished c-axis sapphire wafers are covered by the new HB1 standard: ...
Tags: HB-LED Standard, SEMI, HB-LED devices, new HB1 standard
According to a market research report published by Strategies Unlimited (SU), the high-brightness (HB) LED market, experienced a 93 percent growth rate between 2009 and 2010. In 2009, the global market for packaged HB LEDs was $5.6 billion. ...
Tags: Sapphire Wafer
LED utilization rates are picking up again, with utilization in Taiwan now back up to 70 to 90 percent of capacity. Companies expect to be back to close to 100 percent in a month or two, driven by TV backlight demand, reports Yole ...
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK says that its new MAGIC (MAnufactured on GaN ICs) High Brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs) have won the Solid-State Lighting Application Category of the Elektra Awards 2012. The winners were announced at the ...
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has won the Solid-State Lighting Application Category of the Elektra Awards 2012 for its new MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN ICs) High Brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs). The winners were announced at the ...
Tags: standard silicon substrates, sapphire, silicon carbide, industry standard
According to LEDinside, a research division of global market research company TrendForce, affected by global economic downturn and a decline of orders visibility, LED price for TV backlight applicationprice has fallens by 5-7% in ...
Tags: LED Backlight