LEDs are projected to grow more than six-fold to nearly $100 billion and power conversion electronics to $15 billion over the next decade as the desire for energy efficiency drives adoption, says Lux Research. While the market opportunity ...
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LEDs are projected to grow more than six-fold to nearly $100bn and power conversion electronics to $15bn over the next ten years, reckons market analyst firm Lux Research in the report “Winning the Jump Ball: Sorting Winners from ...
Aegis Lightwave Inc of Woburn, MA, USA and Photop Technologies Inc of Fuzhou, China (both subsidiaries of II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA) have merged under the Photop brand identity. Founded in 2003 through a merger of four firms ...
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Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has sold an MBE 412 system to a “leading expert company in IR imaging sensors materials for ...
After a fiscal year in which it was hit by slumping metal prices and floods in Thailand, II-VI reports mixed demand trends. The diversified optics and materials company II-VI has reported sales of $534.6 million for its fiscal year ...
5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a producer of specialty metal and chemical products, says that its new Malaysian recycling facility is now operational. Located in the Kulim High Technology Park (one of Malaysia's highest-profile ...
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Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes lasers and optical components, modules and subsystems for the optical communications, industrial and consumer laser markets, has completed the sale of the assets of its Santa Rosa thin-film ...
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Oclaro of San Jose,CA,USA,which makes lasers and optical components,modules and subsystems for the optical communications,industrial and consumer laser markets,has agreed to sell the assets of its Santa Rosa thin-film filter business to ...
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5N Plus'revenue falls 14%in Q2 5N Plus Inc of Montreal,Quebec,Canada,a producer of specialty metal and chemical products,has reported results for second-quarter 2012,with numbers for the comparable period to end-May 2011 restated to ...
Latest issue of Semiconductor Today now available For coverage of all the key business and technology developments in compound semiconductors and advanced silicon materials and devices over the last month,subscribe to Semiconductor ...
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Despite a cumulative silicon carbide (SiC) raw wafer and epiwafer market that will not exceed $80m in 2012, the body of related patents comprises more than 1772 patent families and over 350 companies since 1928, according to the report ...
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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 ...
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Solar shake-out claims Abound amid GE worries 03 Jul 2012 After$370 million in investment–partly through a DOE loan guarantee–the thin-film CdTe module maker files for bankruptcy. 20kW installation Abound Solar has become ...
Tags: solar, Abound amid GE, DOE loan, the thin-film CdTe module
Value of leading infrared laser optics manufacturer slips 15%on weaker-than-expected guidance for the forthcoming year. II-VI stock drops 15% More than$150 million was wiped off of the value of the US-based optics company II-VI,after ...
Tags: II-VI, optics, infrared laser, optical components