Johnson Matthey announced on 28 March that, due to the “continued downturn in the LED and semiconductor markets”, it has decided to exit the gas purification market. The decision relates to gas purification for bulk gases ...
Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has appointed James A. Clifford as vice president, Foundry Services. RFMD says that Clifford has wide-ranging experience in ...
In a recent blog in mid-March, Eric Higham of market research firm Strategy Analytics noted that gallium arsenide device revenue closed 2012 at a new record of just over $5.3bn, albeit up by just under 2% on 2011. The small gain was driven ...
Tags: GaAs device, Semiconductors
For 2012, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported record full-year revenue of £88m, consisting of £69m (79%) from Wireless, £18m (20%) from Photonics, and £0.95m (1%) from ...
Tags: IQE, Electrical, Electronics
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 the next few years, the use of patterned sapphire substrates (PSS) ...
Tags: LayTec, Electrical, Electronics
A major challenge of in-situ metrology on single-port reactors with small viewport geometries is the combination of curvature measurements (by blue laser) with reflectance measurement at a wavelength of 405nm, says LayTec AG of Berlin, ...
Tags: LayTec, blue laser, reflectance measurement
Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has announced a new gallium arsenide (GaAs) sourcing strategy intended to increase manufacturing flexibility, expand gross margin, and ...
Tags: RFMD, flexible GaAs sourcing strategy, semiconductor company
OneChip Photonics Inc of Ottawa, Canada, which designs optical chips and transceivers based on monolithic photonic integrated circuits (PICs) fabricated in indium phosphide (InP), says that it is working with both pure-play epiwafer foundry ...
The 11.8m Euro pan-European project NEWLED (‘Nanostructured Efficient White LEDs based on short-period superlattices and quantum dots’) is aiming to develop a new generation of 50-60% energy-efficient white light-emitting LED ...
Tags: LED lighting, LEDlighting
As sapphire substrate makers brace for a year of consolidation, 2013 could deliver the killer application, reports Compound Semiconductor. Will 2013 be a year of two halves for manufacturers of sapphire substrates? Overcapacity and falling ...
Tags: sapphire substrate, raw material
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has sold a SIVA 21 research system to the Institute of Automation and Control Processes (IACP), part of ...
Specialty metal and chemical product producer 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada has decided to close its indium antimonide (InSb) manufacturing operations in Trail, British Columbia over the next few months, laying off the 75 staff ...
Tags: 5N Plus, metal and chemical product, InSb manufacturing operations
AIXTRON SE has been awarded the 2013 Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Award for its latest development, the AIX G5+ reactor for gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si). The Award recognizes key areas of innovation surrounding the chip ...
Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA is shipping production volumes of its power amplification solutions that are compatible with Broadcom's 5G WiFi chips. RFMD ...
Tags: RFMD, Production Volumes, 5G WiFi chips
Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA says it is expanding its entry solutions product portfolio to include multiple new solutions for 2G and 3G entry smartphones. ...