Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator wafers and III-V epiwafers) has announced development and licensing agreements allowing GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider ...
Tags: HVPE System, LED, GT, LED lighting
For fourth-quarter 2012, Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, has reported revenue of $20m, up slightly on $19.9m last quarter ...
Tags: LEDs, LED market, LED customer
BMW Australia has introduced High-line editions of its 1 Series and 3 Series coupe and convertible models, enhancing the specification and value of its small- and mid-sized two-door line-ups. Fifty 1 Series coupes and convertibles will be ...
Tags: BMW, 1 Series, 3 Series, High-Line Editions
As the LED lighting market continues to flourish, Verbatim is rapidly introducing new high performance products to take advantage of this anticipated growth. Verbatim’s expansion into the LED sector represents the future for the ...
Two semiconductor materials companies, France-based Soitec and Japan’s Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., have signed a licensing and technology-transfer agreement under which Sumitomo Electric will use Soitec’s proprietary ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
US-based sapphire substrate maker Rubicon has announced fourth-quarter 2012 revenues with on-quarter increase. However, the contract between Rubicon and Korea-based LG Innotek ended in mid-December 2012, and this means sales of Rubicon's ...
Tags: sapphire substrate, Rubicon, LG Innotek
Rubicon Technology, a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, has reported financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012. The firm reported fourth ...
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Taiwan-based Csun Manufacturing has seen orders for LCD, PCB and semiconductor equipment rebound bringing the company's book-to-bill ratio to 1.5-1.8 recently, according to industry sources. In particular, orders for equipment used to ...
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Researchers based in South Korea and France have developed gallium nitride (GaN) fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) with the lowest claimed subthreshold swing for nitride semiconductor metal-insulator-semiconductor FETs (MISFETs) ...
Soraa has developed the next generation of its high external quantum efficiency GaN on GaN LEDs, which outperform the best-documented LED laboratory result by Nichia Chemical Co. at current densities of 100 A/cm2 and beyond as described in ...
Tags: Soraa, GaN on GaN LEDs, LED laboratory
Thermal Technology, a leading manufacturer of crystal growth equipment and high temperature furnace systems, recently shipped 14 K1 HB LED-grade sapphire crystal growers to a customer in Europe. The K1’s large 90kg sapphire boule is ...
Soraa has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for its outstanding work in the development of high-efficiency m-plane LEDs grown on low-defect density bulk GaN substrates. The company demonstrated a very high peak internal ...
As described in Applied Physics Letters 101, 223509, Soraa’s new LED outperforms the best-documented LED laboratory result by Nichia Chemical Co. at current densities of 100 A/cm2 and beyond (J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 43, 354002). ...
Metrology system maker Evergreen Enhancement Inc of Canton, MA, USA says that it is offering semiconductor manufacturers an opportunity to sample a variety of characteristics of its products for free. “For a limited time, ...
Tags: semiconductor, LED, gallium nitride
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has appointed Carl Burrow to the newly created position of corporate VP, worldwide ...
Tags: Peregrine SOS, RFICs, semiconductor and electronic design automation