After recovering strongly from 2009 with growth of 22% in 2010, the gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrate market slowed sharply in 2011, rising just 4% to nearly $360m, due to weak demand in RF circuits (handsets and WLANs) and in ...
Advanced Micro Devices has cut orders to contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries, expecting a "choppy demand environment" in the next few quarters. The company said Thursday it has amended its wafer-supply agreement to cut its purchase ...
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BluGlass has utilized its low temperature RPCVD process to develop p-type GaN, an essential material that make up the top layers of a nitride LED. Preliminary testing has been carried out on the sample using a 0.5mm diameter size p-type ...
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Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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Taipei, Dec. 27, 2012 (CENS)--Some local residents and council representatives showed up Dec. 26 at a meeting to protest against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s plan to build its first 450mm wafer fab plant at the Central Taiwan ...
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BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that it has succeeded in its initial laboratory experiments in developing p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN) material (essential for making up the top layers of a nitride LED). Spun off from the ...
Tags: BluGlass RPCVD, Macquarie University, RPCVD, nitride LED
Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, which provides crystalline gallium nitride (GaN), aluminium nitride (AlN) and aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) materials and related products and services, says that it has demonstrated a 10-inch ...
Tags: Kyma, AlN-on-sapphire, GaN, LEDs
Trina Solar, a China-based manufacturer of solar products, announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2012. According to Trina Solar, net revenues in the first quarter of 2012 were US$349.9 million, a decrease of 19.7% ...
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Suntech Power, a China-based producer of solar panels, announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2012. Total net revenues for the first quarter of 2012 were US$409.5 million, a decrease of 34.9% from US$629 million ...
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Lin Her-lon, chairman of Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET), has said that orders have been strong and capacity is fully booked. Lin added that the firm has been planning to rent solar wafer manufacturing ...
Yale University has developed techniques to release nitride semiconductor layers and transfer them to other substrates, allowing vertical current-flow light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Yu Zhang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol100, p181908, 2012]. ...
Epistar Photoelectricity (Changzhou), a joint venture LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker established by Epistar and Lite-On Technology in Changzhou, eastern China, will expand its production capacity by adding seven MOCVD machines to bring ...
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According to a market research report published by Strategies Unlimited (SU), the high-brightness (HB) LED market, experienced a 93 percent growth rate between 2009 and 2010. In 2009, the global market for packaged HB LEDs was $5.6 billion. ...
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Solar wafer prices to fluctuate in May,says industry source Nuying Huang,Henan;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Friday 11 May 2012]China's solar industry has been hit hard by oversupply in the market.Some firms are reportedly using shipments to repay ...
Commentary:Zero export tariff on China-made solar wafers likely to push down global wafer prices Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES,Taipei[Friday 11 May 2012]China-based solar firms have been demanding the government cut export tariffs on solar wafers ...
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