A recent innovation from Schreiner ProTech, based on advanced self-adhesive label technology, has brought significant cost and time savings for manufacturers of electronic goods – and won recognition in a prestigious international ...
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Unpatterned wafer defect inspection tools provide broad capability to enable critical infrastructure development Today KLA-Tencor Corporation(NASDAQ:KLAC)announced the installation of its first process control systems capable of handling ...
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has grown high-performance indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal–oxide–semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MOSHEMTs) directly on silicon [Xiuju Zhou et al, ...
The LED consists of a chip of semiconducting material doped with impurities to create a p-n junction. As in other diodes, current flows easily from the p-side, or anode, to the n-side, or cathode, but not in the reverse direction. ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system), nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has installed an EVG501 wafer bonding R&D system at Texas ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which manufactures lightweight thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) using flexible substrate materials, has appointed Robert Roche as vice ...
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has more than doubled production of bonded silicon-on-sapphire ...
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At the Western Mail/Institute of Welsh Affairs Business Awards in Cardiff City Hall on 9 November, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK was named ‘Company of the Year’ in the category for large ...
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Wide-bandgap semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) offer far higher performance than traditional silicon but cost significantly more. However, by 2020 GaN costs will drop enough for it to become competitive based on ...
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Taiwan is the world's leader in LED manufacturing with 41 LED fabs representing over 21 percent of the world's capacity — more than any other region (according to SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast report). After the challenging year of 2011, ...
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After 2014, China will boast the world's largest LED epitaxy and chip production capacity base. However, China LED fabs are mainly concentrated on blue/green GaN LED manufacturing, and most of the capacity focuses on small and medium size ...
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University of California,Santa Barbara(UCSB)has demonstrated for the first time nonpolar m-plane(10-10)nitride semiconductor vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser(VCSEL)diodes[Casey Holder et al,Appl.Phys.Express,vol5,p092104,2012]. The ...
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Source: Toshiba Toshiba’s white LED package Toshiba Corporation will begin mass production of white LEDs on 200mm silicon wafers this month based on technology that it licensed and developed with Californian firm Bridgelux. ...
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Valspar has received a patent for a coated article comprised of a substrate; and a coating disposed on the substrate, the coating is comprised of a reaction product of an electrocoating composition comprised of an epoxy-functional compound, ...
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Osram presents a luminaire in the form of the Rollercoaster designer luminaire featuring industry-mature, transparent OLEDs for the first time. The 'luminous glass panels' are intended for series-production from 2014 onwards, and organic ...
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