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Lumileds Launches 1700lm Single-Die LED

Aug 2, 2017

LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has unveilled its highest-flux-density LED. Packaged in a compact 4.0mm x 4.0mm footprint, LUXEON V can be driven harder than other LEDs in its class, it is reckoned, due to new die and packaging ...

Tags: Lumileds, LED

Monocrystal Launches Ultra-Clean Sapphire Wafers for Microled Development

Apr 27, 2017

Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia, which manufactures large-diameter synthetic sapphire substrates and cores for LED, optical product and RFIC applications, has launched Ultra-Clean sapphire wafers, after applying its cleaning technology ...

Tags: microLED, LED

Indium Gallium Nitride Solar Cells with Positive Temperature Coefficient

Sep 20, 2016

Researchers in China have developed indium gallium nitride (InGaN) photovoltaic devices that increase in efficiency with temperature up to 423K [Zhaoying Chen et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p062104, 2016]. "The positive efficiency ...

Tags: InGaN solar cells InGaN, MOCVD, positive temperature coefficient

Rubicon Closing Malaysia Plant by End-2016

Sep 20, 2016

Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has announced plans to cease all production activities at its plant in Penang, ...

Tags: Rubicon, Malaysia plant, PSS

Rubicon's Revenue Falls to $3.5m in Q2

Aug 17, 2016

For second-quarter 2016, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $3.5m, down on $4.3m last ...

Tags: Rubicon Technology, Sapphire substrates

US DOE Investing $10.5m in Nine Solid-State Lighting R& D Projects

Jun 15, 2016

Building on the new commitments to the Global Lighting Challenge announced in early June during the Clean Energy Ministerial, the US Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing funding for nine research and development projects that will ...

Tags: DOE, SSL, LED

Rubicon's Revenue Rebounds, Driven by 6'' Patterned Sapphire Substrates

May 16, 2016

For first-quarter 2016, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $4.3m, down on $8.9m a year ago ...

Tags: Rubicon Sapphire, substrates

Rubicon's Revenue Halves In Q4 Due Weak Demand And Delayed Ramp-up At PSS Wafer Customer

Mar 9, 2016

For fourth-quarter 2015, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $2.45m, more than halving from ...

Tags: Rubicon, Sapphire substrates

LayTec's Gen3 in-Situ Metrology Tool Offers New Features for UV LED Epitaxy

Feb 19, 2016

After unveiling its third generation of in-situ metrology tools last October, in-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that the EpiTT Gen3 is now available as the first representative of this Gen3 product class. ...

Tags: UV LED epitaxy, sapphire

Despite Strong PSS Growth Rubicon Reports Lower than Expected 2Q15 Revenue

Nov 12, 2015

Rubicon Technology (Rubicon), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical industries, today reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2015 and announced the signing of ...

Tags: Rubicon, sapphire, LED light

LEDinside Weaker LED Demands Drives Down Sapphire Prices More than 30%

Oct 14, 2015

The average monthly price of sapphire has fallen by more than 30% year on year this September, according to the latest 2015 Global Sapphire and LED Chip Market Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. This decline is the result of ...

Tags: sapphire, led, price, chip

Major Taiwanese Sapphire Manufacturer Tera Xtal Technology Slashes Jobs

Oct 14, 2015

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 ...

Tags: sapphire industry, restructure, LED market

Rubicon's Revenue Falls 20% in Q2, as 2-Inch Sapphire Core Sales and Pricing Hit by Weak Mobile Market

Aug 17, 2015

For second-quarter 2015, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $7.1m, down 51% on $14.5m a ...

Tags: Mobile Market, LED light, LED bulb

EVG Has Unveiled The HERCULES NIL

Jul 10, 2015

EV Group of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) has unveiled the HERCULES NIL — a fully integrated track system that combines cleaning, ...

Tags: lithography equipment, emerging photonic device

Rigidtech Improves PSS Capacity in China

Apr 17, 2015

PSS (patterned sapphire substrate) maker Rigidtech Microelectronics is setting up a factory in eastern China with initial monthly capacity of 100,000 PSS and volume production there will begin around the end of 2015, according to the ...

Tags: patterned sapphire substrate, LED epitaxial wafers

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