Norway-based Renewable Energy Corporation(REC)has agreed to terminate a long-term wafer sales contract and has received US$35 million in cash compensation. In the period 2006-2008,REC entered into a number of long term take-or-pay wafer ...
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Veeco Instruments has recently unveiled three new models of its innovative TurboDisc metal organic chemical vapor deposition(MOCVD)systems.The latest models are TurboDisc MaxBright M,TurboDisc K465i HP and TurboDisc MaxBright MHP that will ...
Aixtron SE announced that a new customer, Sinoepi, a manufacturer of wafer materials in China, has placed an order for one CRIUS II-L MOCVD system in a 69x2-inch wafer configuration. The system will be used for the production of epitaxial ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview,NY,USA has introduced three new models of its TurboDisc metal-organic chemical vapor deposition(MOCVD)systems for the production of high-brightness ...
Tags: Veeco, GaN MOCVD Systems, LEDs, MaxBright M, manufacturing
Cadence is working with foundry TSMC on a tool chain and process for 3D chip designs. 3D chip design incorporates multi-chip packages and even multi-die devices with through silicon via(TSV)interconnect technologies.This requires that the ...
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5 June 2012 China's Sinoepi orders Aixtron CRIUS II-L system to produce nitride LED wafers Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany says that in fourth-quarter 2011 it received an order from new customer Sinoepi Co ...
Tags: CRIUS II-L system, LED wafers, MOVCD, Aixtron SE, Sinoepi
5 June 2012 Plasma-Therm ranks highly in VLSIresearch survey for 13th consecutive year Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg,FL,USA has been voted by market research firm VLSIresearch's 2012 Customer ...
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5 June 2012 IQE acquires RFMD's MBE unit and secures seven-year wafer supply agreement Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK has signed what is described as a multi-faceted agreement to acquire the entire ...
Tags: IQE, RFMD MBE, GaAs, wireless semiconductor industry
4 June 2012 Cascade launches first fully automatic high-power device measurement probe system Cascade Microtech Inc of Beaverton,OR,USA,which provides equipment for the precision contact,electrical measurement and test of ICs,optical ...
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Digitimes Research:US PV inverter sector thrives Sophia Chen,DIGITIMES Research,Taipei[Thursday 31 May 2012]Compared to the solar supply chain in other countries,the US solar industry has been thriving in sectors such as ...
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But the leading manufacturer of CMOS image sensors still sees a need to diversify outside of consumer applications. Diversification strategy:medical applications OmniVision Technologies has reported a strong sequential increase in ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany says that in fourth-quarter 2011 it received an order for an AIX 2600G3 IC MOCVD reactor in 12x4"-wafer configuration from existing customer Jenoptik Diode Lab GmbH,which ...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have found that a post-etch anneal dramatically improves the performance of their self-aligned indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum-well metal–oxide–semiconductor ...
A new report estimates that the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of polymer usage will increase by 26% in wafer level applications over the next 5 years. Last year, polymeric semiconductor material market was valued at $274 million, ...
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A little bit of semiconductor magic made a lot of difference to RF power amplifiers,and looks like it will do the same for mains PSUs. That magic is the'two-dimensional electron gas'that forms between layers in certain semiconductor ...
Tags: GaN, semiconductor, RF power amplifiers, GaAs, SiC, PSU, JFET