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 received an order for its EVG850 temporary ...
Equipment maker Scientech noted that the firm's share in high-end LED wet bench processes has exceeded 50%. The firm expects the LED market to continue expanding. Scientech's new single wafer wet processor tool for front-end semiconductor ...
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Chinese solar companies have begun a round of belt-tightening as they struggle to maintain operations and pay down looming debt obligations,but layoffs might impede their ability to build market share if global demand for solar-powered ...
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In response to the government's decision to postpone an increase in power prices originally scheduled for the December 10, 2012, Taiwan-based LED chip packaging company Everlight Electronics indicated that the LED lighting market in Taiwan ...
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PV Book-to-bill ratio of just 0.33 measured in second quarter of 2012,with SEMI seeing no near-term recovery. Heading south:the global PV equipment market The market for photovoltaics manufacturing equipment continued to decline in ...
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UK-based etch,deposition and growth system maker Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology(OIPT),part of Oxford Instruments plc,says that this month saw the 400th sale of its plasma processing tool for HB-LED production,with the receipt of a ...
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According to Oxford Instruments,it has sold its 400th plasma system to a Chinese HBLED supplier. Dan Ayres,Managing Director of Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology,said that"It gives me a great sense of achievement to say that we have ...
China-based LDK debuts M3 solar wafer with 17.5-18%efficiency Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Wednesday 19 September 2012]China-based LDK Solar unveiled its M3 solar wafer with energy conversion rates of 17.5-18%,0.7pp higher ...
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AIXTRON SE today announced a new BM system order from the Institute of Metal Research(IMR)at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.The contract is for a BM Pro PECVD system in a 4-inch wafer configuration,which will be dedicated to the production ...
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Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that SEMATECH, a global semiconductor consortium that conducts research and development to advance chip manufacturing, has recently achieved a major breakthrough using Veeco's NEXUS® Low Defect ...
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Utilizing the company's 150 mm templates the advantages of GaN-on-Si can be gained after very short design-in times. The White Paper outlines technical hurdles to be overcome when migrating to GaN-on-Si, covers key achievements possible ...
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GCL-Poly chairman refutes rumor about month suspension Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Monday 17 September 2012]Zhu Gong Shan,executive director,chairman and CEO of China-based solar firm GCL-Poly,has refuted rumors of shutting ...
Tags: Chairman China, Gcl-Poly, Capacity Utilization, LDK and Suntech
Altera has signed a'huge'contract for TSMC's 20nm process,according to the Taiwan Economic News. Altera will be the first company to use the process which is scheduled for pilot production early next year and volume production in H2 2013. ...
Tags: Altera, TSMC, Taiwan, TSMC's 20nm process, CoWoS
Nanotronics Imaging LLC of Cuyahoga Falls,OH,USA has introduced new capabilities for its nSPEC product,a fully automatic inspection system for analyzing transparent and semi-transparent wafers for defects. nSPEC now detects and ...
Tags: Nanotronics, Automated wafer inspection system, SiC, GaN, GaAs, InP
AZZURRO Semiconductors AG of Dresden,Germany,which makes gallium nitride(GaN)epitaxial wafers based on large-area silicon substrates,has released a white paper that describes the easy migration of LED manufacturing to GaN-on-Si.Using its ...
Tags: AZZURRO, GaN-on-Si LEDs, Dresden, DTF, Taipei