Quotes for sapphire wafers have decreased, with some Taiwan-based makers lowering prices for a 2-inch wafer from a negotiable level of around US$8 in September-October to below US$7.5 currently, according to industry sources in Taiwan. ...
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At this year’s China SSL Conference , AIXTRON again has hosted an MOCVD seminar along with the China Solid State Lighting Alliance (CSA). More than 200 decision-makers from industry and research took part in AIXTRON’s ...
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AIXTRON SE today announced the sale of an AIX 2600G3 Planetary Reactor to Union Optronics Corp. (UOC) to expand production of gallium arsenide based laser diodes. The system is capable of handling 49x2-inch wafers in each run. The purchase ...
Brolis Semiconductors Ltd of Vilnius, Lithuania says it has received shipment of a Veeco GEN200 Edge molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) production system from Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA. The system will be installed at Brolis' ...
GaN-on-Si is a new technology that has the potential to replace sapphire substrates in the LED supply chain. Erwin Ysewijn, vice president of sales and marketing at Azzurro Semiconductors, a Germany-based GaN-on-Si supplier, recently ...
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Azzurro and Epistar say they have achieved GaN-on-Si based LEDs utilizing Epistar's high-brightness LED structures and Azzurro's patented technology for 150mm GaN-on-Si. The joint project, completed in four months, transferred Epistar's ...
Rubicon Technology, a US-based sapphire substrates provider, has reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2012. The firm reported that third-quarter revenue increased to US$19.9 million from US$17 million in ...
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Lextar Electronics, a Taiwan-based maker of LED epitaxial wafers and chips as well as LED backlight units (BLUs) and lighting products, on November 5 reported consolidated revenues of NT$855 million (US$29.2 million) for October, ...
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Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, a provider of c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting market, has announced 'CHES Foundations Series Part 2: Sapphire ...
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Jianzhong Jiao discusses the progress made in the SEMI organization on LED manufacturing standards, including a Wafer Task Force draft document, that should ultimately lead to more efficient and less expensive components for SSL. With the ...
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This quarter, Plessey Semiconductors plans to sample its GaN-on-Silicon LEDs. Samples are due out in December with production sales beginning in March for both LED die and packaged devices. It is the culmination of a decade of ...
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NGK Insulators Ltd of Nagoya, Japan has developed gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that significantly reduce defects and approximately double the luminous efficiency of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) over previous models. The GaN wafers ...
Taipei, Oct. 30, 2012 (CENS)--The four flagship companies of theFormosa Plastics Group (FPG) recently decided to raise around NT$10.9 billion (US$363 million) to finance Nan Ya TechnologyCorp. and assist Inotera Memories Inc. acquire NT$10 ...
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Taipei,Sept.28,2012(CENS)--Green Energy Technology Inc.has recently received increased number of photovoltaics(PV)contracts from mainland China solar-system suppliers after the mainland's PV-equipment manufacturers were slapped with costly ...
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Chi-jen Chen, chairman of Taiwan-based conductive paste maker Giga Solar, has indicated that the solar industry hit bottom in September and is likely to rebound in October. This rebound is obvious in the solar cell segment. Chen believes ...
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