The newest addition to the Apple family, the iPhone 5S/5C will be launched later this month. The addition of fingerprint recognition technology incorporating sapphire crystal has greatly benefitted substrate manufacturers. Crystal Applied ...
LED Taiwan’s 2013 Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) exhibition will be launched on Sept. 4, 2013 to present the latest technology from domestic and international LED manufacturers and suppliers. Main themes of ...
Tags: LED Production, Sapphire Wafers
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
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
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has launched a single-pole, single-throw (SPST) antenna tuning switch for LTE-Advanced ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Electrical, Electronics, Components
Primoceler, a microfabrication company specializing in laser micro welding and scribing of transparent materials, has developed the first sapphire-to-sapphire welding process. "We were the first to weld glass to glass, glass to silicon ...
Iridium and ruthenium prices drifted lower this week on lack of industrial interest and excess supply among traders and consumers. The Platts New York Dealer price range for iridium fell to $725-800/oz this week from $775-850/oz last ...
This fall, Guess by Marciano introduces a vibrant women’s collection that captures the sophisticated essence of the Marciano brand. Pops of teal, electric blue, pink, and gold are worked into the color palette of the modern fall ...
Tags: Fall Collection, GUESS
Canonical will produce its Ubuntu Edge smartphone for launch in early 2014, despite failing this week to achieve the $32m funding it sought on crowd-funding website Indiegogo. According to CEO Jane Silber, the company will push ahead ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Researchers in South Korea and USA have been developing graded-composition superlattice electron-blocking layers (GSL-EBLs) for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jun Hyuk Park et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol103, p061104 ...
Tags: LED, droop GaN EBL, Electrical, Electronics, nitride semiconductor
GIA released a comprehensive global report on Renewable Chemicals markets. Global market for Renewable Chemicals is projected to reach $66.1 billion by 2018, driven by spiraling petroleum prices, rising demand for eco-friendly products and ...
Tags: Renewable Chemicals, Chemicals, Construction
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says that its PE42720 75-Ohm RF switch is now available for broadband cable systems. ...
Tags: switches, Electrical, Electronics
Apple's iPhone 5S could be available in a new gold colour, and could have a 128GB option, evidence suggests. Last week, KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has an impressive track record when it comes to predicting Apple launches, suggested ...
Tags: iPhone 5S, iPhone, Computer Products, apple
Researchers based in the USA and Korea have found "an unequivocal correlation between the onset of high injection and the onset of the efficiency droop" of gallium indium nitride (GaInN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [David S. Meyaard et al, ...
Tags: LED, Nitride LED, Electrical, Electronics
Plansee uses the creep-resistant tungsten material WVM to manufacture heaters for sapphire growth. These have more than twice the service life of conventional tungsten heaters. Sapphire growth takes place at high temperatures of ...
Tags: Doped Tungsten, Lighting