Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that it has written down €51.5m of inventory due to a significantly slower-than-expected recovery of demand for metal-organic vapor phase deposition (MOCVD) equipment. ...
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012. Veeco reports its results on a U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") basis, and also provides results ...
The Company will not Return to Profitability within the Current Year. AIXTRON SE(ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6),a leading provider of deposition equipment to the global semiconductor industry,wrote down EUR 51.5m of inventory due to a ...
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Veeco Instruments Inc. (NAS: VECO) announced today that HC SemiTek Corporation (300323: CH), one of China's leading LED manufacturers, has purchased additional TurboDisc® MaxBright® GaN MOCVD Systems for high volume production of ...
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Picture: Aixtron’s CCS 6x2-inch configuration MOCVD system. Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in Q1/2012 Asahi Kasei Corporation, of Japan, ordered an Aixtron Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview,NY,USA says that China's HC SemiTek Corporation has purchased a Veeco TurboDisc MaxBright gallium nitride(GaN)metal-organic chemical vapour ...
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Taiwan-based LED firm High Power Opto has enlisted Semileds to become a shareholder with a close to 10% stake, which makes Semileds the largest single shareholder of the firm. High Power Opto reported net losses of NT$1.108 billion ...
18 October 2012 Lithium aluminate substrate for low-cost nonpolar gallium nitride Researchers based in Germany and the Netherlands have been studying the potential for growing nonpolar gallium nitride(GaN)on lithium ...
18 October 2012 Georgia State University selects Meaglow's hollow cathode plasma source Meaglow Ltd of Thunder Bay,Ontario,Canada a privately held firm that produces epitaxy equipment and MBE and MOCVD accessories,as well as providing ...
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9 October 2012 IQE's III-V-on-Si laser materials enable next-gen hard disk drive technology Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK says that it has produced epitaxial wafers combining the optical properties of ...
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China's government has been providing subsidies to help its domestic LED industry. Some firms have been benefitting but others remain in limbo amid rapid product price falls. Slowing demand for LED billboards According to sources from ...
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The company will boost its output of key metalorganic chemicals that are used in the deposition of LED semiconductor materials. AkzoNobel has announced plans to boost capacity at one of its US sites in ...
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China-based Elec-Tech's LED revenues have been increasig, with the business segement's contribution reaching around 32% of total revenues in first-half 2012. A further breakdown shows that LED applications, packaging, and chips accounted ...
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In 2010, the future of the Chinese LED market was looking brighter than ever. The world economy was recovering from the "Great Regression," new environmental and efficiency initiatives outlined in the country's twelfth five‐year plan ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany has announced a repeat order from AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH of Heilbronn,Germany for two more metal-organic chemical vapor deposition(MOCVD)systems,to be dedicated to growing ...
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