Samsung Electronics catapulted to the top of the optoelectronics supplier ranking in 2012 from 12th place in 2011 after it gained full ownership of Samsung LED, a 50-50 joint venture in light-emitting diodes that was created in 2009 between ...
Tags: Samsung, Optoelectronics, Electronics
At the SEMICON China show in Shanghai next week (19-21 March), Shanghai-based dielectric and through-silicon via (TSV) etch tool supplier Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc (AMEC) is making its solid-state lighting (SSL) market debut ...
Tags: MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics
Sapphire wafer maker Crystalwise Technology will expand monthly production capacity at its subsidiary in China from 150,000 2-inch sapphire wafer equivalents at present, to at least double in 2013, while fellow maker Tera Xtal Technology ...
Tags: Crystalwise Technology, sapphire wafer equivalents, LED, Tera Xtal
Following its proof-of-concept achievement in late 2012, BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that it has produced p-type gallium nitride (GaN) films with industry-equivalent electrical properties using its proprietary ...
Tags: LED device, LED structure, LED
As the total LED production capacity in China has significantly exceeded demand due to excessive investment over the past three years, the China government is expected to promote integration or mergers for less competitive LED makers to ...
Tags: LED production, LED makers, NDRC
Every LED maker wants to know the emission wavelength of its final device during metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) growth, says LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, ...
Tags: LED maker, LED, LED structures, lighting
Lextar Electronics applied with the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs for 174 patents of which 125 ones were invention patents (the other two types of patents are utility and design) in 2012, ...
Tags: Lextar Electronics, TIPO, LED lighting
One in five Chinese LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future. About 4,000 companies in China are producing LEDs, or ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED lighting sector, LED
Germany-based Azzurro Semiconductor AG has turned out sample 8-inch Ga-on-Si (gallium on silicon substrates) LED epitaxial wafers and plans to begin volume production as soon as the end of the second quarter of 2013, according to company ...
Tags: Azzurro Semiconductor AG, LED epitaxial wafers, LED chips
Azzurro Semiconductor AG’s Sales & Marketing vice president Erwin Ysewijn told to Digitimes that, the company has turned out sample 8-inch Ga-on-Si LED epitaxial wafers and plans to begin volume production as soon as the end of Q2 of ...
Tags: LED Epitaxial Wafers, LED makers, LED chips
Bridgelux has appointed Brad Bullington as its new CEO, Marl and Bivar have formed a global alliance, KaiStar has ordered more LED manufacturing systems from Veeco, and Lextar has completed its merger with Wellypower. Bridgelux appoints new ...
Tags: LED Business, LED, LED makers
As Samsung Electronics has announced plans to halt production of traditional CCFL-backlit LCD TVs and focus on LED-backlit models, market observers believe the penetration rate of LED-backlit LCD TVs will increase to 90% in 2013. ...
Tags: LED-backlit, LCD TVs, LED TVs
Toshiba and US-based Bridgelux will reportedly start volume production of 8-inch Si-substrate GaN wafers for use to make LED chips in the first quarter of 2013, according to Taiwan-based makers. However, president Jacob Tam for TSMC Solid ...
ASPs in the LED market fell 20-30% in 2012. LED makers believe the price fall for LED lighting products will be relatively significant compared to the price fall of backlighting products in 2013. In addition, the price for 60W retrofit LED ...
Tags: LED, Lighting Chips, Prices, 2013
Significant overcapacity and low LED substrate prices will affect the profitability and viability of many sapphire players in 2013 and beyond. So says a new market report 'Sapphire Substrates 2013' from analyst company Yole ...
Tags: sapphire substrates, low LED substrate, LED, LED makers