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Prices of 12-Inch Blank Wafers to Rise 10-20%

Dec 9, 2016

Chipmakers including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), United Microelectronics (UMC) and Micron Technology have been informed by their upstream suppliers that prices for 12-inch blank silicon wafers will rise by up to 20% ...

Tags: Blank Wafers, Semiconductor

Ledinside Forecasts the Value of UV LED Market

Sep 21, 2016

In 2016, UV LED technology has been rapidly expanding into various application markets including curing, sterilization and purification equipment. The total value of the UV LED market worldwide is estimated to grow from US$166 million in ...

Tags: UV LED, LED Industry

EpiGaN Adds Brussels/Beijing-Based Private Equity Fund ACAPITAL as Investor

Aug 31, 2016

EpiGaN nv of Hasselt, near Antwerp, Belgium, which supplies commercial-grade 150mm- and 200mm-diameter gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) epitaxial wafers for 600V high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) power and RF devices, says that ...

Tags: EpiGaN, GaN-on-Si, ACAPITAL

EpiGaN Nominated for Eu Innovation Radar Prize

Aug 17, 2016

EpiGaN nv of Hasselt, near Antwerp, Belgium, which supplies commercial-grade 150mm- and 200mm-diameter gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) epitaxial wafers for 600V high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) power semiconductors, has been ...

Tags: EpiGaN, GaN-on-Si, nomination

Disco Develops Laser Ingot Slicing Method to Speed Sic Wafer Production and Cut Material Loss

Aug 12, 2016

Tokyo-based equipment maker Disco Corp has developed the KABRA (Key Amorphous-Black Repetitive Absorption) laser ingot slicing method. Implementing the process is said to enable high-speed production of silicon carbide (SiC) wafers, ...

Tags: SiC, Disco Corp, laser ingot slicing method

Epigan's Production Facility Certified as Compliant to ISO9001: 2015

Jun 30, 2016

EpiGaN nv of Hasselt, near Antwerp, Belgium, which supplies commercial-grade 150mm- and 200mm-diameter gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) epitaxial wafers, says that on 7 June it received official notification from the International ...

Tags: EpiGaN, GaN-on-Si

Monocrystal to Double Sapphire Polishing Capacity in 2016

Apr 22, 2016

In response to increased demand for 4- and 6-inch sapphire substrates, Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia (which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LEDs, optical products and RFIC applications) plans to ...

Tags: Monocrystal Sapphire substrates

IQE's Infrared Division Wins $3m in Orders in March for Antimonide Infrared Products

Apr 20, 2016

Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that during March it received record volume purchase orders worth just over $3m (to be delivered over the next 12 months) for its indium antimonide (InSb) and gallium ...

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Plessey Expands GaN-on-Si LED Production Capacity With Aixtron AIX G5+C Cluster

Mar 9, 2016

Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that UK-based Plessey Semiconductors Ltd has ordered an AIX G5+ C cluster system (for delivery in third-quarter 2016) to expand its production capacity for ...

Tags: Plessey GaN-on-Si HB-LEDs Aixtron MOCVD

Chinese Solar Panel Makers Shift to Thailand

Jan 25, 2016

A slew of factors is persuading companies to expand abroad to access the global market Rising costs and steep anti-dumping duties in the United States and Europe, coupled with a desire to expand overseas, are increasingly driving major ...

Tags: Solar Panel, Solar Energy Products

Veeco Delivers 50th EPIK 700 MOCVD Reactor in 2015

Nov 13, 2015

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq:VECO) announced today that it has shipped the 50th TurboDisc® EPIK™700 GaN Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System reactor since its introduction ten months ago. After its launch in ...

Tags: Veeco, MOCVD system, reactor

China Foundry Houses Focusing on FD-SOI Process

Nov 2, 2015

Wafer foundry houses in China have stepped up efforts to develop Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI), or also called Ultra-Thin Body (UTB), processes for wafer production, compared to the Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET) ...

Tags: Insulator, Semiconductor, high density chips

SiC, GaN and Other Wider-Bandgap Materials Present New Choices for Power Electronics

Oct 19, 2015

When people think about wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials for power electronics applications, they usually think of gallium nitride (GaN) or silicon carbide (SiC) – which is not surprising, since SiC and GaN are currently the ...

Tags: Power Electronics, semiconductor, LED

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

Lasertec Launches System for Concurrent Surface and Pl Crystallographic Defect Inspection of SiC Wafers

Sep 29, 2015

Metrology and inspection equipment maker Lasertec Corp of Yokohama, Japan has launched SICA88, the latest model of its SiC wafer inspection and review systems. Featuring both surface and photoluminescence (PL) inspection capabilities, ...

Tags: Lasertec, SiC Wafers

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