Two semiconductor materials companies, France-based Soitec and Japan’s Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., have signed a licensing and technology-transfer agreement under which Sumitomo Electric will use Soitec’s proprietary ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
Rubicon Technology, a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, has reported financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012. The firm reported fourth ...
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Taiwan-based Csun Manufacturing has seen orders for LCD, PCB and semiconductor equipment rebound bringing the company's book-to-bill ratio to 1.5-1.8 recently, according to industry sources. In particular, orders for equipment used to ...
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Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, says it has shipped a total of 400,000 six-inch sapphire wafers to LED ...
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Taiwan-based sapphire substrate maker Tera Xtal Technology will establish two subsidiaries in eastern China, each with investment of US$15 million. Sapphire substrate production at the subsidiaires will begin in the second half of 2013 at ...
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NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Japan has used hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) layers to release nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from sapphire and transfer them to commercially available adhesive tape [Toshiki Makimoto ...
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The HB-LED Standards Committee of industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has approved its first standard ‘SEMI HB1: Specifications for Sapphire Wafers Intended for Use for Manufacturing High ...
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Several SEMI task forces have been developing standards related to LED manufacturing, and the first of these, describing specifications for 150-mm-diameter sapphire wafers, has now been approved. The HB-LED Standards Committee of SEMI, the ...
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In 2012, Panasonic's LED lighting accounted for 10% of the global market. The firm has been expanding product lines and expects to obtain a 37.5% share in Japan in 2013. Panasonic has been expanding in other markets such as China and Europe ...
Tags: research, Japan market, LED lighting, lighting, Panasonic, Toshiba
Significant overcapacity and low LED substrate prices will affect the profitability and viability of many sapphire players in 2013 and beyond. So says a new market report 'Sapphire Substrates 2013' from analyst company Yole ...
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Yole Développement announces its report"Sapphire Substrates 2013".This report provides a detailed analysis of the sapphire industry,including revenue,volume and price trends for all major substrate applications.It also includes an ...
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Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, has closed a three-year $25m secured revolving credit facility with ...
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According to 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, after qualifying sapphire substrates at ...
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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, says that, after qualifying sapphire substrates at ...
Tags: ARC Energy, sapphire crystallization, Trinity Material, LED chip
Production of LED chips is typically done on 2- to 4-inch wafers with an expensive sapphire substrate. Toshiba and Bridgelux, Inc. have developed a process for manufacturing gallium nitride LEDs on 200mm silicon wafers, which Toshiba has ...
Tags: LED chips, LEDs, Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation, lighting