Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has more than doubled production of bonded silicon-on-sapphire ...
Tags: RF, CMOS, Silicon On Sapphire, UltraCMOS, RFIC
The companies today jointly confirmed achieving GaN-on-Si based LEDs utilizing Epistar's high-brightness LED structures and AZZURRO's patented technology for 150 mm GaN-on-Si. The successful completion of the joined project confirmed the ...
GaN-on-Si is a new technology that has the potential to replace sapphire substrates in the LED supply chain. Erwin Ysewijn, vice president of sales and marketing at Azzurro Semiconductors, a Germany-based GaN-on-Si supplier, recently ...
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Gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si)-based LEDs have been fabricated using high‐brightness LED structures of Epistar Corp of Taipei, Taiwan and the patented technology for 150mm GaN-on-Si substrates of Azzurro Semiconductors AG of ...
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Epistar and Azzurro have jointly made breakthroughs on developing GaN-on-silicon based LEDs utilising Epistar's HB LED structures and Azzurro's technology for 150mm GaN-on-silicon in just 4 months. The firms transferred Epistar's existing ...
Tags: LED, GaN-on-silicon
The next technological challenge for the Solid-state lighting industry is the transition to silicon wafers. Everybody knows that silicon offers many advantages in terms of cost and availability. Nevertheless, the changeover bears many ...
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Nanotronics Imaging LLC of Cuyahoga Falls,OH,USA has introduced new capabilities for its nSPEC product,a fully automatic inspection system for analyzing transparent and semi-transparent wafers for defects. nSPEC now detects and ...
Tags: Nanotronics, Automated wafer inspection system, SiC, GaN, GaAs, InP
LED firms Lextar Electronics Corp and Wellypower Optronics Co Ltd,both of Hsinchu Science Park,Taiwan,have agreed to merge,targeting 1 February 2013 for Wellypower to be absorbed into Lextar.The merged entity will operate as Lexstar. The ...
Tags: Taiwan, Lextar, LEDs, Wellypower, AUO
Dongguan Tianyu Semiconductor Technology Co Ltd,which claims to be the first manufacturer of silicon carbide(SiC)epitaxial wafers in China,has started to expand its SiC epiwafer business globally after the completion of three contracts in ...
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced the availability of high-quality, low-micropipe 150mm 4H n-type silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers, with highly uniform epitaxial layers as thick as 100 microns available for immediate purchase ...
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UK-based Plessey readies for volume chip production, while Germany's Azzurro Semiconductors gains support for move to larger wafers. GaN-on-silicon LED A disruptive approach to lowering the cost of solid-state lighting (SSL) with ...
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Taiwanese LED maker Genesis investing $35m this year in its China plant construction Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Genesis Photonics Inc of Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) in Tainan is scheduled to invest US$35m this year on the ...
Despite a cumulative silicon carbide (SiC) raw wafer and epiwafer market that will not exceed $80m in 2012, the body of related patents comprises more than 1772 patent families and over 350 companies since 1928, according to the report ...
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Soitec and Silian enter joint development agreement on GaN template wafers Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga ...
Tags: raw material, GaN wafer
Power+Energy Inc(P+E)of Ivyland,PA,USA has provided a 9000MS Series hydrogen purifier to SemiSouth Laboratories Inc of Starkville,MS,USA,which designs and manufactures silicon carbide(SiC)devices for ...
Tags: SemiSouth, Power+Energy, Hydrogen purifiers, SiC epi, semiconductor, MOCVD