Leading U.S. LED manufacturer Cree announced earlier this month, it will be rebranding its power and RF business as Wolfspeed. In an exclusive interview with LEDinside analyst and assistant manager Joanne Wu, Cree co-founder and CTO John ...
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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 ...
HC Semitek board approved the acquisition of Chinese sapphire substrate manufacturer Crystaland during a recent shareholder meeting. The acquisition deal signals the company is extending its reach into the upstream LED market sector, and ...
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Despite technological leaps in modern electronics, the quality of lighting they provide still leaves much room for improvement. A collaborative team — led by Jian Li, an associate professor of materials science and engineering in ...
Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan says that it has developed gallium nitride (GaN) diodes that can not only operate at a high current of 7.6kA/cm2 - four times greater than that tolerated by conventional silicon carbide (SiC) diodes with a ...
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Bonderite duaLCys process exploits lubricant-cleaner synergies to reduce costs, boost performance, save energy, lower waste generation, and improve working conditions. When maintaining your metal machining tools and operations, what if ...
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Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global manufacturer of liquid and powder coatings, introduces three new cleaning products for commercial vehicle surfaces and equipment: 3800S Surface Cleaner, 3821S Low VOC Surface Cleaner and 3850S ...
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H.B. Fuller has introduced a new adhesive solution that will promise manufacturers 20% volume savings on typical applications. The new Advantra 8790 adhesive has been designed to cater to customers' requirements for high-performance ...
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BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that one of its key specialized epitaxy customers has committed to an order for about $300,000 of foundry development, to be delivered over the next six months. The customer is developing a ...
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At the recent European Coatings Conference on Automotive Coatings on September 24 and 25 in Düsseldorf, Germany, Dr. Klemens Bartmann, Global Technology Director at Axalta Coating Systems, a leading manufacturer of liquid and powder ...
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Axalta Coating Systems has introduced a new non-sanding, chromate-containing epoxy primer, Corlar 821CR, for use in the commercial vehicle industry. Axalta’s Corlar 821CR Epoxy Primer may be used by commercial vehicle shops who ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has developed an n-type gallium nitride (n-GaN) tunnel junction (TJ) intracavity contact to reduce threshold current and increase differential efficiency in its m-plane III-nitride ...
Tags: VCSEL, n-GaN, GaN substrates, MOCVD, MBE
Axalta Coating Systems has developed Rival RV450 Epoxy Primer to provide customers with a wider variety of its popular economy paint brand. It is designed for high performance, color capability and appearance. “As we continue to ...
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University of Arkansas researchers are working on a promising new material to create more efficient photovoltaic solar cells to be used in space missions. Shui-Qing 'Fisher' Yu, associate professor of electrical engineering, will serve as ...
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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