While growth in the LED industry came initially from small display applications and was furthered by LCD display applications, lower-than-expected adoption of LEDs in the TV market and the entry of several new players (mostly from Asia) in ...
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According to Epistar's chairman B.J Lee, the company will invest NT$ 5 billion (US$ 166.7 Million) in expanding production, making it become one of the top two LED epitaxy manufacturers in the world, next only to Nichia. At the ...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has grown high-performance indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal–oxide–semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MOSHEMTs) directly on silicon [Xiuju Zhou et al, ...
For second-quarter 2012, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $136.5m, down 2% on $139.9m last quarter and 48% on $264.8m a year ago. Fiscal ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that existing customer UMI Georgia Tech-CNRS in Metz, France has bought a 3x2”-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) ...
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Veeco announced that Nantong Tongfang Semiconductor Co., Ltd. has received shipment of Veeco's TurboDisc® K465i™ MOCVD System for research of GaN-on-Si HB LEDs. The system was delivered to Tongfang's new LED Technology Center in ...
After 2014, China will boast the world's largest LED epitaxy and chip production capacity base. However, China LED fabs are mainly concentrated on blue/green GaN LED manufacturing, and most of the capacity focuses on small and medium size ...
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University of California,Santa Barbara(UCSB)has demonstrated for the first time nonpolar m-plane(10-10)nitride semiconductor vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser(VCSEL)diodes[Casey Holder et al,Appl.Phys.Express,vol5,p092104,2012]. The ...
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Two Yale University researchers have developed epitaxial distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) in nitride semiconductors with reflectivities of more than 98% [Danti Chen and Jung Han, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p221104, 2012]. Further, the ...
Following a built up of 60 percent capacity expansion in 2011, LED fab investments will slow down somewhat with expected capacity expansion of 39 percent and 26 percent in 2012 and 2013, respectively. The slowdown follows the strong build ...
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After experiencing a boon in 2010, the weak LED market reaction in 2011 did not allow the global LED manufacturing production to grow as expected. Capacity utilization reached a low due to the fast capacity expansion and slower market ...
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Taiwan makers of light-emitting diode (LED) products are unlikely to see a recovery in 2013 LED equipment spending due to a lack of investments and an alarming sector-wide cash crunch, warns one industry analyst. Maxim analyst Aaron ...
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LED industry chain can be divided into five parts. First, the raw materials. Second, LED upstream industries, including epitaxial materials and chip manufacturing. Third, LED midstream industry, including a variety of LED accessories and ...
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Spatial pattern recognition Spatial pattern recognition (SPR) looks for relationships among defect locations on the substrate surface. When detected, spatial patterns can often lead to rapid identification of the defect's root cause (Fig. ...
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LED manufacturers invested heavily in production equipment in 2010–2011, driven primarily by demand for backlighting for flat panel displays in TVs and computers. Although this driver has moderated and there is currently an oversupply ...
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