Samco Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of etch, CVD and cleaning systems for the semiconductor industry, says it has expanded its OPTO Films Research Laboratory in California's Silicon Valley in order to strengthen its research structure and ...
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South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has achieved qualification for the UL Witness Test Data Program (WTDP), allowing it to conduct UL tests on LEDs and modules in its own laboratories, under the supervision of an engineer from ...
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Solar Junction of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes III-V multi-junction solar cells for concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), is in contract negotiation along with epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK for the ...
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The race to make the most advanced chips for smartphones and tablets is gaining steam, with contract chip manufacturer TSMC hastening implementation of its latest manufacturing technology to close a chip-making advantage long held by Intel. ...
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Glass is everywhere: from MEMS, CMOS image sensors and power to memory, logic IC and microfluidics. Glass is widely used in everyday life and found in large quantities in many industries, such as flat panel display applications. ...
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Seoul Semiconductor (SSC), a global LED manufacturer has announced it has achieved qualification for the UL Witness Test Data Program (WTDP) allowing the company to conduct UL tests on LEDs and modules in its own laboratories, under the ...
AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new facility at the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy. The CCS ...
Tags: MOCVD Reactor, Gan-on-Si Wafers
Boeing Company subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA has introduced 150mm-diameter germanium wafers into production (50mm larger than its prior 100mm wafers). The 50% increase in wafer diameter allows more than 2.5 times more gallium ...
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Long-term collaboration for growth of 6-inch GaN-on-Si wafers planned AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new ...
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Intel, the world's largest chip manufacturer, has not adjusted its sales forecasts for 2013, despite a drop in first quarter revenue and a slump in PC sales. Revenue for Q1 2013 was $12.6bn (£8.2bn), down from $12.9bn (£8.4bn) ...
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The US professional lighting journal Architectural SSL Magazine has awarded Osram Opto Semiconductors for the third time in a row as winner of the Product Innovation Award in the category Market Leadership.The award also honours the work of ...
The Chinese government views the growth of the LED industry as a national security matter. As a result, it is driving a vast LED manufacturing effort and offering subsidies from central and local government agencies to help build its own ...
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In order to meet the growing demand for sustainable lighting, Technology Foundation STW and Philips have taken the initiative to form the ‘Advanced Sustainable Lighting Solutions’ . With eight recently approved research ...
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Lattice Semiconductor has introduced a reference design for remotely locating image sensors up to eight metres away from the image signal processor (ISP) and transmit and receive video signals at resolutions that range up to 720p60 and ...
Paris-based FPGA partitioning software firm Flexras Technologies has released version 3.2 of its Wasga compiler design suite for FPGA-based prototyping. This new release supports the Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA and includes new features that ...