Trinity Material in China has cooperated with ARC Energy to use ARC Energy's CHES furnaces for sapphire production. The two companies are paving the way for new industry expectations and opportunities based on c-axis growth orientation ...
Linde has secured a gas-supply agreement with Kaistar, Aixtron has opened a training center in Suzhou and sold 5 MOCVD systems, SAFC has expanded precursor production in Taiwan and GT has announced a $12M order for sapphire wafers. Linde ...
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As production of sapphire wafers by China-based makers will gradually increase, prices for the product in the second quarter of 2012 are expected to remain at current levels, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Taiwan-based makers have ...
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Bridgelux, a US-based maker of LED expitaxial wafers and chips of which Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is shareholder, will use 8-inch silicon wafers and process (GaN-on-Si) to produce LED epitaxial wafers, with ...
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Taiwan-based makers of sapphire wafers suffered operating losses in 2011 due to stagnant demand for LED epitaxial wafers and chips, but are likely to turn profitable in the second quarter of 2012 as global demand for LED chips used for ...
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Despite a pick-up in orders, Acme Electronics remains wary on the outlook for sapphire ingots citing low pricing that has not recovered. Subsidiary USI Optronics, a maker of sapphire ingots, has seen the visibility of orders shorten to ...
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Orders of 2- and 4-inch sapphire wafers have been rebounding slightly in first-quarter 2012, according to Rubicon. Industry sources indicated that orders have been showing signs of reviving but it is still too early for sapphire substrate ...
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Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, announced today that it has entered into a new contract with its largest customer for ...
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The manufacturing conference at Strategies in Light focused on methods for reducing cost through the manufacturing supply chain. Yesterday kicked off the manufacturing conference portion of Strategies in Light. Presenters discussed various ...
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IMS Research has updated its LED lamp price report, Frost & Sullivan has released a report on LED lighting industry, Osram has met with the China minister, and Rubicon has celebrated the anniversary of its Batavia sapphire production ...
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Recently, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Seoul National University have made an announcement that the first LEDs to be fabricated on amorphous glass substrates. As we know, manufacturers may peffer to improve GaN LEDs on ...
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Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today marks the first anniversary of the company’s next-generation sapphire ...
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GT Advanced Technologies Inc., a U.S. maker of solar manufacturing equipment with more than a year of backlogged sales, fell the most in a year after cutting its revenue and earnings forecast, GT Advanced fell 10 percent to $8.00 in New ...
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GT Advanced Technologies Inc., a U.S. maker of solar manufacturing equipment with more than a year of backlogged sales, fell the most in a year after cutting its revenue and earnings forecast, GT Advanced fell 10 percent to $8.00 in ...
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Rubicon Technology says that it has shipped over 200,000 six-inch sapphire wafers to LED manufacturers worldwide. Rubicon Technology, Inc (Nasdaq:RBCN), a provider of sapphire substrates and products based in Bensenville, IL, says that it ...
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