ULIS to triple IR sensor capacity 11 Jul 2012 Investment of €20 million and move to 200mm wafers as the firm marks its tenth anniversary. ULIS 200mm CMOS wafer ULIS,the France-based manufacturer of uncooled infrared sensors for ...
Tags: ULIS, wafer, silicon CMOS process, infrared sensors
Eyelit's integrated MES software chosen by GCS to replace legacy system Eyelit Inc of Toronto,Canada,which provides manufacturing software for visibility,control,and coordination of manufacturing operations,says that ISO-certified ...
Tags: Eyelit, GCS, MES software, legacy system, GaN
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that on 21 June Challentech International Corp, its partner for sales ...
Soitec and Silian partner on HVPE LED template-wafer manufacturing 10 Jul 2012 Soitec and Silian will jointly develop GaN LED template-wafer manufacturing technology using an HVPE process that the companies say can lower component costs and ...
Tags: HVPE LED, Template-wafer, Soitec, Silian
In conjunction with the SEMICON West 2012 event in San Francisco,CA,USA(10-12 July),nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven,Belgium has announced what it claims is the first realization of functional sub-100nm photonics components ...
Tags: Nanophotonics, Silicon photonics wafers, Optical lithography
Nuclear fusion research at the University of Washington has lead to a source of extreme ultra-violet(EUV)for lithography. EUV lithography at 13.5nm is one of the techniques proposed to continue'Moore's Law'below 10nm,replacing 193nm light ...
Tags: EUV, EUV sources, silicon, manufacture microchips
First production order comes from Solar Junction–in which the UK-headquartered wafer foundry has a$5M equity stake. Semiconductor wafer featuring multi-junction cells The advanced semiconductor epiwafer foundry IQE is to ...
Tags: IQE, Wafer Maker, CPV, Sharp
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK has announced its first major orders for concentrating photovoltaic(CPV)wafers from Solar Junction Corp(SJC)of San Jose,CA,USA,which manufactures III-V multi-junction solar ...
Tags: IQE, Solar Junction, Multi-junctioncell, CPV
LED front‐end equipment market to see turbulent investment cycles Market research firm Yole Développement and EPIC have announced the report 'LED Front‐End Manufacturing' (to be published on 16 July), dedicated to the ...
According to a white paper entitled "LED Manufacturing Study on CHES™ Sapphire," ARC Energy has released results of a study showing that sapphire grown from its proprietary CHES technology yield 5% greater LED brightness than the ...
Tags: Sapphire LEDs, LED Chip
According to a white paper entitled"LED Manufacturing Study on CHES™Sapphire,"ARC Energy has released results of a study showing that sapphire grown from its proprietary CHES technology yield 5%greater LED brightness than the industry ...
Japanese maker of lithography light sources says that it is first to surpass commercially significant milestone. EUV:pilot to production Gigaphoton,one of the companies that is developing light sources for the forthcoming generation ...
Tags: Gigaphoton, EUV, Cymer, US, Japan
Cmosis broadens CMOS portfolio 04 Jul 2012 One new sensor and mass production of another indicate that parts of the CMOS sensor market remain robust. Cmosis,the Belgium-based developer of advanced CMOS image sensors,has announced the ...
Tags: Sensor, CMOS, Industrial Environments, Automation Systems
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,has issued the white paper'LED Manufacturing Study on CHES ...
Tags: Lights, LED, Manufacturing Study, Lighting
China-based LED chipmaker Sanan Optoelectronics may enter Taiwan's LED supply chain in third-quarter 2012. The firm has been certified by packaging houses such as Everlight and Unity Opto, said industry sources. Sanan has been quoting low ...
Tags: LED Chip