China’s Xidian University has produced ‘normally-off’ gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with a thin high-aluminium-content aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier layer [Kai Zhang et al, ...
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US-based crystal growth solution and equipment provider GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has announced that Apple will pre-pay US$578 million to secure sapphire supply. GTAT will be able to use the funds to set up additional sapphire ...
Tags: Apple Funding, iPhone Screen
Local real-estate reporters in Arizona knew something was afoot when First Solar, a Tempe-based manufacturer of thin-film solar cells, said last week that it had sold one of its properties in nearby Mesa to an unknown buyer for $100 ...
Tags: Crystal Glass, Apple
GT Advanced Technology (GTAT) announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire substrate materials for US $578 million (NT $17 billion). Feeling the effect, Chinese sapphire substrate ...
Tags: Apple, sapphire substrate
The company also announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire material. GT will own and operate ASF® furnaces and related equipment to produce the material at an Apple facility in ...
Tags: Apple, Sapphire Materials
With the continual low price trend of in the LED market, manufacturers are beginning to consider options for lowering productions costs. LED package free products have become the focal point of the industry in 2013 with many manufacturers ...
Tags: LED Market, LED Package
Repays $96 million credit facility Resets Fiscal 2013 guidance Will discuss long-range outlook on webcasted conference call The company also announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide ...
Tags: Apple, LED, GT, Electrical, Electronics
Apple plans to build a components plant in Mesa, Arizona, that will run entirely on renewable energy. It will be the company's latest move to build up its manufacturing in the U.S. Most of the company's products are manufactured overseas, ...
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Apple will build a new 700-employee manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona, to make sapphire glass, according to releases from the State of Arizona and GT Advanced, a New Hampshire-based materials manufacturing company. Apple purchased the ...
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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 researchers at Germany's Ulm University have used LayTec's EpiCurve TT ...
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In either a cautious or a more aggressive scenario, LED applications will be the key drivers for the bulk gallium nitride (GaN) market, reckons market research firm Yole Développement in its report 'Free-Standing & Bulk GaN ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI), has shipped its 2 billionth UltraCMOS chip (shipped to ...
Tags: Peregrine SOS SOI RF CMOS, chip, Electrical, Electronics
For third-quarter 2013, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $11.1m, down 45% on $19.9m ...
Chinese Academy of Sciences' Semiconductor Lighting R&D Center at the Institute of Semiconductors in Beijing has developed an electrically driven color-tunable light-emitting diode (LED) based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum wells ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has announced the UltraCMOS 10 platform, the latest development of its UltraCMOS ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics