Soraa Chief Technology Officer Mike Krames recently ressponded to LED Magazine article's claims that the company's GanN-on-GaN MR16 emits large quantities of UV rays. Below is Krames blog entry on the company website: With the ...
Tags: UV Rays, GanN-on-GaN MR16
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has launched what it claims is the first commercial line of large-diameter ...
Tags: Rubicon Sapphire substrates, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Rubicon Technology, Inc.yesterday reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2013. “We are very pleased with the customer response thus far and believe that PSS will be a strong growth driver for our wafer ...
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LG Electronics Materials and Components Laboratory in South Korea has used aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) superlattice structures (SLs) to improve lateral current spreading from the n-side of nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes ...
Tags: Nitride LEDs, Light
With big smartphone manufacturers such as Apple and LG introducing sapphire substrate into smartphone camera lens protector caps and home buttons, the market predicts that in 2014 sapphire substrate will also be used to replace glass in ...
Tags: Smartphone Displays, Smartphone
Tokyo-based semiconductor manufacturer Toshiba Corphas announced the first devices in its second generation of LETERAS white LEDs fabricated using a gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) process. Scheduled for mass production in November, ...
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The imbalance in sapphire substrate supply and demand is being overcome by increased demands in LED lighting applications and strong demands for non-LED applications. GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) is optimistic about the rapid growth in ...
New 1W GaN-on-Si LEDs break the 100 lm/W level in warm white with Toshiba stating that volume production will begin in November 2013. Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced a second-generation of the company's high-power ...
Tags: Toshiba, Silicon-Based LEDs
LayTec is proud to announce that Epistar Corp. has qualified LayTec’s in-situ metrology Pyro 400 for its GaN LED production. The LED manufacturer based in Taiwan will not use high accuracy GaN surface temperature sensing with Pyro ...
Tags: GaN LED Production, Lighting
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications, says that Epistar Corp (Taiwan's largest LED chipmaker) has qualified the Pyro 400 ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, semiconductor, photovoltaic applications
Hospira, a provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, has announced the launch of the Sapphire infusion system in the US following regulatory approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Sapphire features an ...
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Demand for sapphire for use in handsets is estimated to grow 25-30%, according to US-based crystal growth equipment and solution provider GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT). GTAT has been promoting HVPE (hydride vapor phase epitaxy) GaN ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, crystal growth equipment
With the unchanging trend of falling LED prices, chip manufacturers are constantly improving LED chip production process and technologies to lower costs. Semiconductor equipment company GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has developed Hydride ...
Bridgelux today announced the company has been named in the annual San Francisco Business Times 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area list. The San Francisco Business Times recognizes private companies, and their ...
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Prices for sapphire, due to potential extended use in smartphones, are expected to increase 10-15% in the first or second quarter of 2014, Taiwan-based makers cited Russia-based sapphire maker Monocrystal as indicating. Following use to ...
Tags: Sapphire, smartphone rear cameras