Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has signing an initial three-year supply contract with Philips Technologie GmbH for epitaxial wafers used for the manufacturing of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser ...
Tags: IQE VCSELs, Philips, Electrical, Electronics
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications, says that Epistar Corp (Taiwan's largest LED chipmaker) has qualified the Pyro 400 ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, semiconductor, photovoltaic applications
Demand for sapphire for use in handsets is estimated to grow 25-30%, according to US-based crystal growth equipment and solution provider GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT). GTAT has been promoting HVPE (hydride vapor phase epitaxy) GaN ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, crystal growth equipment
With the unchanging trend of falling LED prices, chip manufacturers are constantly improving LED chip production process and technologies to lower costs. Semiconductor equipment company GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has developed Hydride ...
ARPA-E deputy director Cheryl Martin has announced $27m in funding from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for 14 projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices that ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics plans to expand production capacity by adding as many as 100 MOCVD sets in 2014, company president Lin Ke-chuang said at LEDforum Taipei 2013 on October 16. ...
With LED prices continuing to drop and supply chains actively lowering costs, Taiwanese LED epitaxial wafer and chip manufacturer Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi) chairman Frank Chien points out that changes in product design and manufacturing ...
As the market for LEDs used in backlighting is approaching saturation, lighting applications are expected to rise to 50% of the global LED production value in 2014, according to chairman Frank Chien for LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker ...
Tags: LED Production, backlighting
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a 600V gallium nitride on silicon (GaN/Si) normally-off metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (MIS-HEMT) with large gate swing and low current ...
Tags: GaN MIS-HEMTs AlGaN, Electrical, Electronics
Taiwan-based LED packaging houses Everlight Electronics and Unity Opto Technology as well as LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics hold optimistic business outlooks for the fourth quarter of 2013 mainly because demand for LED ...
Tags: Everlight, LED packaging
The 2013 MBE Innovator Award, which is co-sponsored by co-sponsored by epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA and the North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE) organization, has been ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
LED chip packaging house Everlight Electronics had September 2013 consolidated revenues of NT$2.413 billion (US$80.7 million) hitting a monthly record for the third consecutive time, while LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar saw ...
Tags: LED chip packaging, Lighting
Many SiC-based substrate manufacturers exhibited 6-inch (150mm)-diameter wafers at ICSCRM 2013, an international conference on SiC-based power semiconductors, which took place from Sept 29 to Oct 4, 2013, in Miyazaki, Japan. Six-inch ...
Tags: SiC Wafers, Lighting
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Lextar Electronics has reported September consolidated revenues reached NT$1.139 billion (US$38.1 million) decreasing 7.89% sequentially but increasing 13.15% on year. LED chip packaging house Unity Opto ...
Due to the slow growth in the GaAs device market and increasing use of multi-band GaAs power amplifiers in cellular applications, total demand for semi-insulating (SI) GaAs epitaxial substrates (from manufacturers such as IQE, VPEC, Kopin, ...
Tags: EPI Production, Electronics