The ongoing shortage of global supply of mono-Si solar wafers is likely to remain until third-quarter 2018, according to China-based makers of such wafers. The China government, encouraging adoption of PV modules made of mono-Si solar ...
Tags: PV module, solar wafers
Rudolph Technologies has secured multiple orders from two advanced packaging service suppliers for its Firefly inspection systems. The system helps manufacturers in identifying defects earlier in the process, improving reliability of ...
Tags: advanced packaging, semiconductor
Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia, which manufactures large-diameter synthetic sapphire substrates and cores for LED, optical product and RFIC applications, has launched Ultra-Clean sapphire wafers, after applying its cleaning technology ...
The LED materials market is increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.9% from 2016 to $12.55bn in 2021, forecasts a report from MarketsandMarkets. The market is driven by the growing demand for LED materials in general ...
Tags: LEDs Lighting, LED materials
The LED lighting market grew 18.1% to $47,303m in 2016, accounting for almost 60% of global lighting, according to the report ‘Global LED Lighting Market (2017 Update)’, part of Frost & Sullivan’s Homes & Buildings Growth ...
Tags: LED market, Lighting market
Supply of LED chips produced by China- and Taiwan-based makers has been tight and the situation will remain until the third quarter of 2017 when major China makers ramp up their new production capacity, according to China-based LED ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has announced its Phase Nine Reliability ...
Tags: gallium nitride, FETs
China’s installation rush by June 30th has revived market demand beginning from last week. However, the speed of rising has been slow. Thus, price of polysilicon remained falling this week. Some price quotations even fell below US $ ...
Tags: PV Demand, Polysilicon
Carbonics Inc of Marina Del Rey, CA, USA has launched its ZEBRA carbon-on-silicon technology for radio frequency (RF) components and devices in wireless, communications, defense and aerospace markets. Carbonics was spun out from ...
The overall solar PV demand was weaker than expected during the first quarter of 2017, so it is unsure if the downward price trend could be reverse in April, found EnergyTrend. Polysilicon’s price started decreasing last week and ...
At Semicon China 2017, executives at chip giant Intel, IC packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, equipment vendors ASML, Lam Research and Tokyo Electron (TEL), and nano-electronics research institute Imec talked about innovation to ...
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China’s installation rush has yet emerged until early March as expected, while PV supply chain have started fluctuating. Strong demand to mono-si products drove the prices to hike during this week; by contrast, spot prices for ...
Tags: mono-si products, PV cell
The Chinese market has started to hold bids for power plants in February. Judging from the winning prices, modules prices have declined. The winning price for 5MW of Hanwha’s 280W mono-Si modules reached RMB 2.91/W (US$ 0.362/W) and ...
Tags: multi-Si wafers, polysilicon
China National Energy Administration released statistics right after the Lunar New Year: Up until late-2016, the cumulative PV installation reached 77.42GW in China. The newly-added installation reached 34.54GW in 2016, a doubled growth ...
Tags: PV installation, mono-Si modules
Although the Lunar New Year holiday has ended, employees in China will have to wait until the Lantern Festival to return to work. In addition, power plant installation has been suspended in China during the Lunar New Year holiday, leading ...
Tags: PV Market, Solar Cell