Soaring demand from China, Japan and the U.S. ensures that the first-tier photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturers are booked in orders up to the first quarter of 2016. Currently, prices are rising for all multi-Si products from wafers to ...
Tags: Mono-Si Market, PV Sector, wafer
Prices for a solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers have risen to US$0.835-0.840 currently due to strong demand, and are likely to further rise to US$0.85-0.87 in November, according to industry sources. In contrast, prices for ...
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
Policy directives from the Chinese government continue to drive the country’s demand for photovoltaic (PV) systems. China’s National Energy Agency has recently increased the national PV installation target and expects an ...
Tags: PV Systems, Solar Cell
Toshiba Electronics Europe has added four new products to its TL1L4 series of white LEDs. These new additions provide a high luminous flux and are suited to applications ranging from street and stadium lighting to LED light bulbs and down ...
According to the latest 2015 Global LED Industry Supply and Demand Database Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, capacity expansion efforts of Chinese LED chip manufacturers have resulted a supply glut with this year’s LED ...
Veeco Instruments announced today that Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM), a leading electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has purchased a GEN200® Molecular Beam Epitaxy System and S UMO® Effusion Cells for production of ...
Tags: Veeco, Asahi Kasei, MBE, IR sensor production
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 ...
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA, which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets, has expanded its range of laser diode and avalanche photodiode ...
Tags: optical chips, subsystems
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
Capacity expansion by Chinese LED chip makers has resulted in a supply glut, with this year's LED chip supply-demand ratio reaching 22%, according to the latest '2015 Global LED Industry Supply and Demand Database Report' by LEDinside (a ...
Tags: LED Chip, MOCVD Capacity
SüSS MicroTec AG of Garching, near Munich, Germany, a supplier of equipment and process solutions for microstructuring in semiconductor and related markets, has launched the XB8 bonding platform. Designed for a wide range of bonding ...
Tags: SüSS MicroTec, Wafer bonding, semiconductor
For first-half 2015, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported unaudited results in line with expectations and its July trading update. Revenue was £53.2m, down 11% on £60m in second-half ...
k-Space Associates Inc of Dexter, MI, USA (which supplies thin-film metrology tools for the semiconductor, compound semiconductor and solar markets) has introduced its kSA Scanning Pyro in-situ tool, which is designed to measure temperature ...
Tags: k-Space Associates, MOCVD, Scanning Pyro
SPTS Technologies Ltd (an Orbotech company that manufactures etch, PVD and CVD wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LED, high-speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets) has surpassed $1bn in cumulative ...