In a trading update for first-half 201, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says it expects first-half performance to be ahead of market expectations, with revenue approaching £63m, EBITDA (earnings ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, says it has achieved strong revenue growth and expanded its headcount in Q1/2013. The firm attributes this to continuing demand for its flexible ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, has introduced its LowTemp debonding platform, which features three different room-temperature wafer-debonding processes and an extended material ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, has begun mass production of its RFX240 high-power 2.4GHz ...
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SEMATECH (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials manufacturers) claims that researchers have made significant advances in post-epitaxial-growth backside clean processing that will prepare ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, and manufacturer of chemicals for the electronics industry Dynaloy LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company) have introduced ...
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LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications, and Sweden's Nanometer Structure Consortium at Lund University have jointly ...
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Japan's Sharp Corp has used a concentrator triple-junction III-V compound semiconductor photovoltaic cell to achieve a solar energy conversion efficiency of 44.4%, exceeding the record of 43.5% for concentrating conversion efficiency set in ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in second-quarter 2013 it delivered a Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactor (ordered in fourth-quarter 2012) to the ...
GaN LEDs set to top 100 billion units 25 Jun 2013 Shipments of the blue-emitting chips will reach new milestone this year, reports analyst company IHS. Analysts at the market forecasting company IMS Research (part of IHS) are expecting ...
Luminus Devices Inc of Billerica, MA, USA, which makes PhlatLight (photonic lattice) LEDs for solid-state lighting applications, has agreed to merge with Lightera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, a US affiliate of LED maker Sanan Optoelectronics Co ...
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Northrop Grumman Corp of Redondo Beach, CA, USA has developed a new gallium nitride (GaN) flange-packaged power amplifier targeting military and commercial Ka-band communication applications. The APN180FP represents the first commercial ...
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Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA says that its advanced plasma processing workshop, held at KANC (Korea Advanced Nano Fab Center), attracted nearly 100 engineers and researchers from 25 companies and ...
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For fiscal second-quarter 2013 (to end-March), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufactures compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has reported revenue of $42.3m, up ...
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LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that, in his invited talk at the LED Technology Forum in Singapore (7-10 ...
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