Osram has signed a contract with the Wuxi New District Administrative Committee to build a new assembly plant in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. LED chips will be packaged in housings at the new backend facility starting in late 2013; with ...
Tags: Osram, LED, China, lighting sector, LED chips
After a fiscal year in which it was hit by slumping metal prices and floods in Thailand, II-VI reports mixed demand trends. The diversified optics and materials company II-VI has reported sales of $534.6 million for its fiscal year ...
Wide-bandgap semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) offer far higher performance than traditional silicon but cost significantly more. However, by 2020 GaN costs will drop enough for it to become competitive based on ...
Tags: Bulk GaN, traditional silicon, gallium nitride, reckons market
Brolis Semiconductors Ltd of Vilnius,Lithuania has won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year category at the Swedish Business Awards 2012.Established by brothers Augustinas Vizbaras,Kristijonas Vizbaras and Dominykas Vizbaras in 2011,the firm ...
Tags: MBE, Epitaxial wafers, Laser diodes, Semiconductors
Anderson & Vreeland will now offer Luscher drum and flat-bed computer-to-plate systems for photoengraving, expanding the company's line-up of CTP systems. Swiss-based manufacturer Luscher has appointed Anderson & Vreeland as its exclusive ...
Tags: Luscher, CTP systems, Anderson and Vreeland
Brolis Semiconductors Ltd of Vilnius, Lithuania officially opened its new MBE and laser diode production facility on December 5. Established by brothers Augustinas Vizbaras, Kristijonas Vizbaras and Dominykas Vizbaras in 2011, the firm ...
Tags: Brolis, Lithuania, MBE, laser diode, production facility
Boeing lands$16M laser weapon follow-up 08 Oct 2012 Defense contractor agrees follow-on contract with US Army Space and Missile Command for 10kW solid-state system. Boeing is to develop a truck-mounted 10kW laser weapon for the US Army. ...
Tags: laser weapons, US Army Space and Missile, 10kW solid-state system
Of the global market for semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), the integrated SOA chip packaged devices (monolithic multi-diode) are expected to hold 71% share of global consumption (by value) in 2012, and rise to 82% in 2017, according ...
Tags: SOAs, SOA chip, monolithic multi-diode, optical components
Optical networking and associated semiconductor technology company JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported its first-quarter 2013 (ended 29 September 2012). Non-GAAP net revenue was $420.9m and net income was $35.0m ($0.15 per share). ...
Tags: Optical networking, associated semiconductor, net revenue
Taiwan’s Union Optronics Corp (UOC) has purchased an AIX 2600G3 planetary reactor from Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany, to expand production of gallium arsenide (GaAs) based laser diodes. Purchased in Q2/2012 and due for delivery ...
Tags: laser diode, diodes, Metal Organic Chemical, laser production
Brolis Semiconductors Ltd of Vilnius, Lithuania is to launch a new facility on 5 December 2012. Established by brothers Augustinas Vizbaras, Kristijonas Vizbaras and Dominykas Vizbaras in 2011, the firm specializes in mid-infrared type-I ...
Tags: MBE Epitaxial wafers, Laser diodes, Brolis Semiconductors
Brolis Semiconductors Ltd. and Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Brolis has received shipment of a Veeco GEN200® Edge™ Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) production system for installation at their new epitaxial ...
Tags: Brolis Semiconductors, MBE systems, Veeco
AIXTRON SE today announced the sale of an AIX 2600G3 Planetary Reactor to Union Optronics Corp. (UOC) to expand production of gallium arsenide based laser diodes. The system is capable of handling 49x2-inch wafers in each run. The purchase ...
Brolis Semiconductors Ltd of Vilnius, Lithuania says it has received shipment of a Veeco GEN200 Edge molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) production system from Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA. The system will be installed at Brolis' ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in Q3/2012 the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO), China, ordered two Aixtron Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS), metal organic chemical vapour ...