Altatech of Montbonnot, near Grenoble, France (a subsidiary of Soitec since January 2012) has received an order for its Orion LedMax wafer inspection and metrology system from Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany. Osram ...
At the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting & Exhibit in San Francisco (22–24 April), Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville, near Columbus, OH, USA, which makes scientific sensors, instruments and systems for ...
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Obducat AB of Lund, Sweden, a developer and supplier of technologies, products and processes based on proprietary nanoimprint lithography (NIL), has launched the second-generation SINDRE system which, due to improved performance, will be ...
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The tool is designed for high volume manufacturing and can be used for exposing wafers with a diameter of up to 200 mm. This latest generation tool is a further development of the very successful MA200 Compact platform, of which the 100th ...
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Netherlands-based bakery products producer Daelmans Group has bought Fabulous Bakin' Boys, a baked goods manufacturer based in Oxfordshire, England. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Fabulous Bakin' Boys ...
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Driven by the fanfare over (and over-estimation of) the LCD display market, the LED front-end equipment market experienced an unprecedented investment cycle in 2010-2011, driven mostly by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
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According to the report 'Gallium Nitride (GaN) Semiconductor Devices (Discrete & IC) and Substrate Wafer Market by Technology, Application, Product, Device, & by Geography - Forecast & Analysis to 2013–2022' from MarketsandMarkets, ...
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The market surge was driven mostly by MOCVD reactor shipments to new Chinese entrants, who benefited from the generous subsidies of the Chinese central and local governments in a bid to stimulate domestic chip production. Financial ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that Jiangsu Trifortune Electronic Technology Co Ltd of Jintan City, China has ordered an AIX G5 HT metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system to develop gallium ...
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Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) on April 7 announced the establishment of Star River Energy, a joint venture with several local insurance companies specifically for investing in and managing operation of PV systems or ...
SemiTEq of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, which designs and manufactures high-vacuum and ultra-high-vacuum (UHV) equipment including molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) deposition systems, has launched a new generation of physical vapor deposition ...
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Ammono S.A. in Warsaw, Poland, which produces bulk gallium nitride (GaN) using ammonothermal technology, and the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Unipress) say they have conceived proprietary new ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has delivered the first 200mm (8") gallium nitride-on-silicon wafers (GaN-on-Si) into the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center's Low Energy Electronic ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has signed a $9.7m agreement with the Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies Directorate within the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to transfer and produce a 0.14μm gallium nitride ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that its minor equity stake in the share capital of Solar Junction Corp (SJC) of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes III-V multi-junction solar cells for concentrated ...
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