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) ...
As LED lighting becomes an US$80 billion industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers (epi-wafers) LEDs are made from will grow to US$4 billion in 2020, according to Lux Research. The vast majority of these epi-wafers are gallium nitride ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LED, LED lighting
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
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK says it is working with Plymouth City Council to help achieve the Council's ambitious carbon reduction strategy for all their managed buildings and infrastructure. Plessey is replacing the existing ...
Tags: LED Lighting, GaN IC
TurboDisc MaxBright® MHP™ GaN MOCVD Multi-Reactor System Veeco MOCVDs are crucial to LED chip production. The quality, efficiency, and yield of epitaxial wafers may affect the cost and output of the LED epitaxial wafer plant. ...
Tags: LED MOCVD, LED Equipments
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has been awarded the 2013 LEDinside Aurora Award in the category “Most efficient MOCVD Equipment”. Aixtron received the award for its AIX G5+ MOCVD system for growth ...
Tags: Aixtron, MOCVD System
Northwestern University's Center for Quantum Devices has developed a suface-plasmon (SP) enhancement technique for ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) produced on silicon substrates [Chu-Young Cho et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol102, ...
Tags: UV-LEDs, Electrical, Electronics
The Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Facility (QMF) of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia and its industry partner, plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK, have ...
Tags: Silicon, Micro and Nanotechnology
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that, in his invited talk at the LED Technology Forum in Singapore (7-10 ...
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LAST POWER (Large Area silicon-carbide Substrates and heTeroepitaxial GaN for POWER device applications), the European Union-sponsored program aimed at developing a cost-effective and reliable technology for power electronics, has announced ...
Tags: SiC, substrates GaN
Traditionally Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED devices are produced on either sapphire or silicon carbide (SiC) substrates, due to the good crystal lattice matching between the materials and the GaN, with typically 2” or 4” diameter ...
Mass production of GaN template wafers based on sapphire substrates could free LED manufacturers' MOCVD reactors for more LED production and lower component cost helping drive the deployment of SSL. Hitachi Cable has become the second ...
Tags: Hitachi Cable, GaN-Template LED, Lighting
The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded funding totaling more than £823,800m to two universities for the project ‘Novel High Thermal Conductivity Substrates for GaN Electronics: ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, GaN Electronics
The emerging market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors is forecast to grow a factor of 18 during the next 10 years, energized by demand from power supplies, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and industrial ...
The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded funding totaling £1m to two universities – University College London (UCL) and Bristol – to support the development of compound ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Silicon Substrates