Sanan Integrated Circuit Co Ltd (Sanan IC) of Xiamen City, Fujian province (China’s first 6-inch pure-play compound semiconductor wafer foundry) has announced its entry into the North American, European and Asia Pacific (APAC) markets ...
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LED package manufacturer Everlight and Japan’s largest LED manufacturer Nichia initiated patent wars in Japan, Taiwan, Germany, U.S. and other countries for the past decade, reported Chinese-language magazine Money Weekly. Nichia is ...
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HC Semitek board approved the acquisition of Chinese sapphire substrate manufacturer Crystaland during a recent shareholder meeting. The acquisition deal signals the company is extending its reach into the upstream LED market sector, and ...
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The LED market has shown mixed results in different global regions recently. Stagnant LED shipment growth, and plunging sapphire substrate prices have brought related manufacturers operations under the market lime light. Market sources ...
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Researchers in South Korea have used electrochemical potentiostatic activation (EPA) to alter the hydrogen content in p-type gallium nitride (GaN) layers with a view to improved performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [June Key Lee et ...
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LED maker Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China plans to issue 6.07 million stocks to raise a total of RMB800m ($130.39m) in financing in order to expand its production of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED epitaxial wafers, according to ...
Epistar Corp (Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) is to issue 174.612 million new shares (worth NT$10 each, totalling NT$1746.12m) to acquire fellow Taiwanese LED epiwafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy Inc ...
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At the Light + Building 2014 tradefair in Frankfurt, Germany (30 March - 4 April), Lextar Electronics Corp of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan – founded in 2008 as a subsidiary of display panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) – has debuted ...
For fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to end-August), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $3.4m, down 29% on $4.8m last quarter and down 38% on $5.5m a year ago. Revenue for full-year fiscal 2013 ...
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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) ...
According to the latest '2013 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report' published by the LEDinside research department of market research institute TrendForce, sapphire substrate manufacturers are optimistic about the emerging demand for ...
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Verticle Inc of Dublin, CA, USA has extended its range of Honeycomb hexagonal-shaped vertically structured InGaN-based LED chips from blue wavelengths (in mass production since February 2012) to ultraviolet (UV). As with the firm’s ...
Hitachi Cable has launched a new mass-production technology for GaN-templates as shown in Figures 1 and 2 below. The process allows high-quality GaN single-crystal thin film to be grown on a sapphire substrate and the company plans to ...
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Hitachi Cable, Ltd. announced today that it has developed a new mass-production technology for GaN-templates, in which a high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) single-crystal thin film is grown on a sapphire substrate. Using this product as a ...
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Tokyo-based Hitachi Cable Ltd says that it has developed new mass-production technology for gallium nitride (GaN) templates (see Figure 1), in which a high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) single-crystal thin film is grown on a sapphire ...
Tags: Hitachi Cable, GaN substrate, Electronics