GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystal growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has acquired exclusive rights ...
Tags: LED Wafer Production, epiwafers
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that its laser epiwafer technology has been employed to develop ultra-high-efficiency optical interconnects, as reported in two technical papers presented by Germany's ...
Tags: IQE, laser epiwafer technology, laser, wafers
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers, and CEA (the French Atomic and Renewable Energy Commission) have renewed their long-standing partnership for the ...
Tags: Soitec of Bernin, Electrical
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers, and Intelligent Epitaxy Technology Inc (IntelliEPI) of Richardson, TX, USA, which uses molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) ...
Tags: IntelliEpi, Soitec, engineered substrates, GaAs
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - and silicon wafer manufacturer SunEdison Inc of St. Peters, MO, USA have entered into a patent cross-license ...
Tags: Soitec SOI engineered substrates, Electrical, Electronics
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has signing an initial three-year supply contract with Philips Technologie GmbH for epitaxial wafers used for the manufacturing of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser ...
Tags: IQE VCSELs, Philips, Electrical, Electronics
Showa Denko (SDK) is launching silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers with a diameter of 6 inches (150mm) - the largest size currently available, it is claimed - for use in power devices. The firm is also selling a new grade of 4-inch ...
Tags: Epiwafers, Inverter Power Devices
The company made public today the foundation of its new LED business unit, called "Azzurro LED Technologies", dedicating more resources to migrate the LED industry to GaN-on-Si. The new business unit's strategy is to license Azzurro's ...
Tags: LED, Lights, Lighting, LED Industry
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that its strategic partner Solar Junction Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes III-V multi-junction solar cells for concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) based on ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics
Power generation and transmission firm Alstom and Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - as well as concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar systems, ...
Tags: CPV Power Plants, Alstom, Soitec
LED forecast plays down GaN-on-silicon impact 23 Jul 2013 Sapphire is set to remain the entrenched wafer technology for solid-state lighting, say analysts at Lux Research. Despite the transition of LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says has announced another repeat order (made in first-quarter 2013) from EpiLEDs Co Ltd of Tainan Science Park, Taiwan to support its ramp-up of gallium nitride (GaN)-based LED ...
Tags: LED, taiwan, Electrical, Electronics
As LED lighting becomes an $80bn industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers that LEDs are made from will grow to $4bn in 2020, according to Lux Research. The vast majority of these epiwafers are currently gallium nitride ...
Tags: LEDs, Epiwafers, LED Lighting
At the SEMICON West trade show in San Francisco (9-11 July), Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - as well as concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Luminus Devices Inc of Billerica, MA, USA, which makes PhlatLight (photonic lattice) LEDs for solid-state lighting applications, has agreed to merge with Lightera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, a US affiliate of LED maker Sanan Optoelectronics Co ...
Tags: Luminus LEDs, Electronics