Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar obtained OEM orders for low- and mid-power blue-color LED chips from US-based Cree in July 2013 and will begin shipments in September, according to supply chain sources. In addition, ...
With welcoming the era of lighting, LED industries are slowly switching from horizontal labor division to vertical integration development. Switching to vertical integration is Samsung's main development strategy. Samsung LED China General ...
Epistar, the largest Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker, on September 9 reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.971 billion (US$65.7 million) for August, an increase on month of 2.85% and 0.39% on year, and revenues of NT$14.280 ...
Lee Biing-jye, chairman of Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar, has indicated he does not object to partnerships or technology transfers between Taiwan- and China-based LED makers because Taiwan's LED industry should be ...
Tags: LED Makers, Epistar
China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Elec-Tech International has been seeking strategic alliances with Taiwan-based fellow makers, with Genesis Photonics being the most likely target, according to industry sources in Taiwan. ...
Tags: LED chip, LED lighting
Researchers from the universities of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and of New Mexico (UNM) have demonstrated semipolar nitride semiconductor blue and green laser diodes (LDs) with part of the upper cladding replaced by indium tin oxide ...
Tags: Iii-Nitride Lasers, Electrical
Bruker Corp has introduced its LumiMap electroluminescence system for high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) epi wafer process metrology. Joining a suite of other Bruker HB-LED epi metrology tools, LumiMap incorporates many of the ...
Tags: Hb-LED Epi Wafers, Electrical
Taiwan- and China-based LED chip makers are expected to lay the emphasis on market share gains over the next two years, instead of profitability which was primarily considered in the past, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye for ...
Tags: LED Makers, Epistar
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar expects its consolidated revenues for third-quarter 2013 to remain unchanged or decrease slightly on quarter, according to company chairman Lee Biing-jye. Demand for TV LED backlights in the ...
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has given a conditional approval to China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics' proposal to invest NT$2.352 billion (US$78.4 million) in Taiwan-based fellow maker ...
Azzurro has announced both production and lab milestones in wavelength variation using its GaN-on-Si LED template wafers and Air Water is working on a GaN-on-SiC-on-Si architecture with a new Aixtron MOCVD reactor. While the LED industry ...
Tags: LED Substrate Strategies, Lighting
Growing demands in the LED market were fueled by decreased product prices, government bans on incandescent light bulbs, and shift away from traditional lighting to more energy efficient LEDs. Financial service company Credit Suisse believes ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights
Researchers in Guangdong province, China, have been exploring the potential for improved light extraction from nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on patterned sapphire substrates with spherical cap bumps [Haiyan Wang et al, ...
Tags: LEDs, Electrical, Electronics
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA and Belgium's imec are collaborating on a project aimed at lowering the cost of producing gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si)-based power ...
Tags: LED, Power Electronics, Electrical, Electronics
China's Jinli city has received RMB $ 2 billion in investment to establish a factory in the city's economic zone for production of epitaxial wafers. It is expected to have a gross production of 300 million by 2014 becoming the biggest LED ...