ProTek Devices™ today announced a new business line currently targeted at LED lighting manufacturers. The product line consists of individual unpackaged die available in wafer form. The die in wafer form are available as ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview,NY,USA says that China's HC SemiTek Corporation has purchased a Veeco TurboDisc MaxBright gallium nitride(GaN)metal-organic chemical vapour ...
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Brewer Science Inc of Rolla,MO,USA,which provides specialty materials,integrated processes,and laboratory-scale wafer processing equipment,has introduced a next-generation thermal slide debonder that enables high-temperature slide-off of ...
18 October 2012 TowerJazz and UCI demo integrated 94GHz imaging transceiver with record performance in silicon Specialty foundry TowerJazz(which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek,Israel,and at its ...
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18 October 2012 Lithium aluminate substrate for low-cost nonpolar gallium nitride Researchers based in Germany and the Netherlands have been studying the potential for growing nonpolar gallium nitride(GaN)on lithium ...
Taipei,Oct.18,2012--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)has set up complete manufacturing eco system for Apple's application-specific IC(ASIC)contracts,in which Intel Corp.is also reportedly interested,according to Taiwan's industry ...
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Strategies United predicts that by 2015 the global market for high brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs) will generate revenues of $18.9 billion, representing a compound growth rate of 11.8%. A key factor in the growth of HB-LEDs is the use of ...
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Epistar, Taiwan's largest manufacturer of packaged LEDs has decided to trial silicon-based wafers. The company is hoping to take advantage of cost savings in the backend of the LED manufacturing process to in turn broaden SSL deployment. ...
Taipei,Oct.15,2012--According to market research organization LEDinside,Taiwan's publicly held LED makers scored total revenue of NT$9.2 billion(US$309 million at US$1:NT$30)in September,slipping 2.28%from August,due chiefly to weak market ...
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Epistar hints at'game-changing'silicon LED switch 12 Oct 2012 Giant Taiwanese LED maker works with GaN-on-silicon specialist Azzurro on technology with potential to cut cost of solid-state lighting. Plessey's GaN-on-silicon LED ...
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Photo: Courtesy The Vintage Technology Association Nick Holonyak was sure the LED would replace the incandescent light bulb when he presented it to GE executives 50 years ago. While the incandescent is still king in homes across the ...
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Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar had September revenues of NT$1.616 billion (US$54.7 million), representing a decrease on month of 6.09%, while LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics had sales of ...
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With the Chinese government banning imports and sales of 100W-and-above incandescent lamps in the country starting on October 1, 2012, Taiwanese LED makers who have actively built footholds will hail huge growth potential of the domestic ...
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9 October 2012 IQE's III-V-on-Si laser materials enable next-gen hard disk drive technology Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK says that it has produced epitaxial wafers combining the optical properties of ...
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Many researchers have reported improvements in LED technology by enhancing the properties of the LED itself. But the packaging that secures and protects the LED also impacts its overall performance. In a new study, researchers from Taiwan ...
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