SAS sees semiconductor products account for 70%of total revenues Nuying Huang In a shareholders meeting on June 27,Taiwan-based semiconductor and solar wafer maker Sino-American Silicon(SAS)indicated the plans to increase production of ...
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Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced that it will begin shipping its latest report that analyzes the opportunities for OLED materials suppliers in both the display and lighting sectors over the next eight years.The report,"OLED ...
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New surface-emitting laser design could improve speed and efficiency of optical connections. On-chip laser,2 microns high A new design of surface-emitting laser measuring just 2 microns in height could make it easier for ...
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Silicon Valley-based Gaas Labs LLC,a private investment fund targeting the communications semiconductor market,has acquired privately held Nitronex Corp of Durham,NC,USA,which designs and makes gallium nitride(GaN)-based RF power ...
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Cornwall-based OMC has introduced a range of light engines for LED luminaries,called Spectralux. "Spectralux light engines allow customers to concentrate on what they do best-creating and taking innovative and appealing products to ...
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Eyeing the potential of the LED lighting market, equipment firms Csun Manufacturing and Chroma ATE are both showcasing related products at LED Lighting Taiwan 2012. Csun has been developing turnkey equipment for producing upstream patterned ...
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Thin film resistor supplier Viking Tech has been seeing demand for aluminum nitride substrates increase. According to Stone Wei, president of Viking Tech, this is likely to help grow the firm's revenues from heat dissipation substrates in ...
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21 June 2012 Sapphire substrate maker Rubicon ranked 13th on Crain's 2012'Fast 50 List' Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville,IL,USA,which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED,RFIC,semiconductor and optical ...
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Balance in solar market to return in 2014-2015,says SAS chairman Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Thursday 21 June 2012]MK Lu,chairman of Taiwan-based Sino-American Silicon(SAS),believes continuous upgrades to R&D skills are a ...
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Recognized as a compelling alternative to silicon for many RF applications,gallium nitride(GaN)technology has generated significant industry interest due to its performance advantages,but has faced significant challenges related to ...
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Lattice Power says that it is in volume production of high-power gallium nitride LEDs grown on silicon substrates, while Plessey appears to be not far behind. Lattice Power Corporation, a China-based company that is developing gallium ...
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20 June 2012 First 40GHz 2.5W/mm output performance of GaN/Si HEMTs Institute for Electronics,Microelectronics and Nanotechnology(IEMN)in France has demonstrated high-power-density nitride high-electron-mobility transistors(HEMTs)on ...
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Soitec of Bernin,France,which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator(SOI)wafers(as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division),has completed construction and grid connection for the largest ...
Taiwan-based researchers have been working to reduce nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor(HEMT)costs by developing copper interconnect structures compatible with production processes on silicon substrates[Yueh-Chin Lin et ...
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Picture:Tungsten crucible with ultra-smooth surface. In booth I112 at the Display Taiwan trade show(19 June),PLANSEE of Reutte,Austria(which makes refractory metals and composite materials including pressed-sintered crucibles made of ...
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