Mass production of GaN template wafers based on sapphire substrates could free LED manufacturers' MOCVD reactors for more LED production and lower component cost helping drive the deployment of SSL. Hitachi Cable has become the second ...
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The Chinese government views the growth of the LED industry as a national security matter. As a result, it is driving a vast LED manufacturing effort and offering subsidies from central and local government agencies to help build its own ...
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GT Advanced Technologies and Soitec , today announced a development agreement and a licensing agreement allowing GT to develop, manufacture and commercialize a high-volume, multi-wafer HVPE system to produce high-quality GaN epi layers on ...
The higher growth rates and improved material properties made possible by the HVPE system are expected to significantly reduce process costs while boosting device performance compared with the traditional MOCVD process. Initial pre-payment ...
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HVPE system expected to lower the cost of LED production and accelerate adoption in commercial and residential lighting GT Advanced Technologies (NASDAQ: GTAT) and Soitec (NYSE Euronext: SOI), today announced a development agreement and a ...
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator wafers and III-V epiwafers) has announced development and licensing agreements allowing GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider ...
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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 ...
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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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Driven by market demand, the semiconductor industry progressed toward consensus on building-block standards for automating LED production on 6-in wafers at the Semicon West conference, explains PAULA DOE. ...
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Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and Chongqing Silian Optoelectronics Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Silian), an established ...
Soitec installation in Durban Soitec,the France-based company specializing in semiconductor materials and concentrated photovoltaics(CPV),says that it is focusing on cost control measures while it gears up for a ramp of production at its ...
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Cree provides LEDs for major municipal street-lighting project in China 03 Jul 2012 A major lighting project in the Beibei district of Chongqing involves more than 20,000 LED street lights,1.9 million Cree LEDs,and an intelligent ...
Chongqing Silian Optoelectronics Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Silian) has cooperated with Soitec (Euronext) to jointly develop gallium nitride (GaN) template wafers using hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE). And the partner companies plan ...
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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 ...
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Soitec and Silian partner on HVPE LED template-wafer manufacturing 10 Jul 2012 Soitec and Silian will jointly develop GaN LED template-wafer manufacturing technology using an HVPE process that the companies say can lower component costs and ...
Tags: HVPE LED, Template-wafer, Soitec, Silian