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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Significant overcapacity and low LED substrate prices will affect the profitability and viability of many sapphire players in 2013 and beyond. So says a new market report 'Sapphire Substrates 2013' from analyst company Yole ...
Tags: sapphire substrates, low LED substrate, LED, LED makers
Yole Développement announces its report"Sapphire Substrates 2013".This report provides a detailed analysis of the sapphire industry,including revenue,volume and price trends for all major substrate applications.It also includes an ...
Tags: LED, SoS, sapphire material, LED-on-Si
After qualifying sapphire substrates at multiple LED chip companies, Jiangsu Trinity Material Co., Ltd. continues to further improve the efficiency of ARC Energy's CHES furnaces. ARC Energy is currently working on the upgrades to lower ...
Tags: LED, chip LED, lighting, Trinity Material, ARC Energy
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
After 2014, China will boast the world's largest LED epitaxy and chip production capacity base. However, China LED fabs are mainly concentrated on blue/green GaN LED manufacturing, and most of the capacity focuses on small and medium size ...
Tags: China LED
PSS World Medical, a distributor of medical products and services, has obtained certification from Surescripts for its eDispense solution for prescription routing. eDispense software, which is part of the company's office pharmaceutical ...
Tags: PSS World, Surescripts Certificatio, Edispense Solution, Medicine
After experiencing a boon in 2010, the weak LED market reaction in 2011 did not allow the global LED manufacturing production to grow as expected. Capacity utilization reached a low due to the fast capacity expansion and slower market ...
Tags: LED market, china LED
In a move to expand its portfolio of information governance software,IBM is acquiring e-discovery software vendor StoredIQ. Founded in 2001,StoredIQ offers e-discovery systems that help organizations index,store,de-duplicate and delete ...
Tags: portfolio, information governance software, IBM, StoredIQ
PSS World Medical (PSSI) has entered into an agreement to distribute Masimo's new Pronto-7 handheld device. Under the agreement, PSSI will provide access of Pronto-7 to its US customer base of physicians, skilled nursing and assisted ...
Tags: PSS World Medical, Pronto-7, SpHb, Masimo
PCB equipment maker Csun Manufacturing will begin shipping its PSS (patterned sapphire substrate) manufacturing equipment in December, pushing its revenues for the month to over NT$500 million (US$17.13 million), according to industry ...
Tags: Csun manufacturing, PSS, revenues
Abstract The entire LED lighting supply chain can be divided into the following segments: rare earth, MOCVD equipment, sapphire ingots and substrates, LED chips, LED packaging, and LED lighting fixtures. This Digitimes Special Report ...
Tags: LED, MOCVD, Sapphire, Rare Earth
A shortage of sapphire material between 2010 and 2011 created a window of opportunity for new entrants. In just the last two years, more than 80 companies announced their intention to enter the industry. This trend coupled with slow demand ...
Tags: LEDs, polycrystalline silicon, semiconductor chemicals
MOCVD, lithography, plasma etching, PECVD & PVD tools to experience turbulent investment cycles in the coming years GEARING UP FOR THE NEXT INVESTMENT CYCLE The packaged LED market still presents significant opportunities for growth ...
Tags: MOCVD