LED chip and lighting array maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA has agreed to sell its gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology and related assets to Tokyo-based semiconductor manufacturer Toshiba Corp. The firms will also ...
Companies Enter Into Agreement for Sale of GaN-On-Silicon Technology / Chip Related Assets to Toshiba, With Expanded Licensing and Manufacturing Collaboration Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the research lab CEA-Leti in Grenoble, France, has selected Veeco’s TurboDisc K465i metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
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Aledia S.A. of Grenoble, France, which develops LEDs based on microwire GaN-on-silicon technology, has made its first LEDs on 8-inch (200mm) silicon wafers. The firm says that the cost of its 3D LED chips based on microwires is expected to ...
Aledia, a developer of LEDs-based on disruptive microwire GaN-on-Silicon technology, announced today that it has made its first LEDs on 8-inch (200mm) silicon wafers. The cost of Aledia’s LED 3D chips based on microwires is expected ...
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Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity. According to the SEMI LED/Opto Fab Forecast, spending on LED fab manufacturing ...
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AIXTRON SE has been awarded the 2013 Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Award for its latest development, the AIX G5+ reactor for gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si). The Award recognizes key areas of innovation surrounding the chip ...
LED chip and lighting array maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore,CA,USA has been named in the annual San Francisco Business Times 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area list.Ranked 17 on the list,Bridgelux was selected because of ...
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Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will start mass production of white light-emitting diode(LED)on a production line that the company will construct in the 200mm wafer facility at Kaga Toshiba Electronics Co.Ltd.,a production base ...
Epistar,the Taiwan-based company that is ranked as one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-brightness LEDs,has become the latest major producer to hint at a transfer to a potentially much cheaper silicon platform. Currently the ...
Bridgelux was named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100,produced by Cleantech Group,a global research and advisory firm focused on innovation in energy and the environment. The Global Cleantech 100 list is unique in the ...
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Epistar hints at'game-changing'silicon LED switch 12 Oct 2012 Giant Taiwanese LED maker works with GaN-on-silicon specialist Azzurro on technology with potential to cut cost of solid-state lighting. Plessey's GaN-on-silicon LED ...
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Epistar and Azzurro have jointly made breakthroughs on developing GaN-on-silicon based LEDs utilising Epistar's HB LED structures and Azzurro's technology for 150mm GaN-on-silicon in just 4 months. The firms transferred Epistar's existing ...
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The energy efficiency and long life of white LED is winning wide-scale application in general purpose lighting, TV backlighting, etc. and significantly boosting market size: from 700-billion yen (8.75-billion U.S. dollars) to a projected ...
Silicon Valley-based Gaas Labs LLC,a private investment fund targeting the communications semiconductor market,has acquired privately held Nitronex Corp of Durham,NC,USA,which designs and makes gallium nitride(GaN)-based RF power ...
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