AlGaN/GaN and InAlN/GaN structures combine high electron mobility and high critical electric field strength and are excellent platforms for the production of next-generation RF and power electronics devices such as high-electron-mobility ...
Tags: LayTec, Metrology MOCVD, AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd in the UK has been improving its indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-on-silicon light-emitting diode (LED) technology [Liyang Zhang et al, Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol3, p457, 2015]. A light output ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon LEDs, Plessey MOCVD
Researchers based in USA have been studying performance improvements in aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) ultraviolet (UV) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) gained from using free-standing gallium nitride substrates instead of gallium nitride on ...
Tags: AlGaN, Ultraviolet photodetectors, HVPE
Researchers in the USA have reduced current leakage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon to the level achieved for devices produced on much more expensive silicon carbide [Bo Song et ...
Tags: AlGaN, transistors, Silicon
LED manufacturers had an especially tough year in 2015. Despite rising LED lighting market demands, and large scale replacements of traditional luminaires, the oversupply situation in the market has caused average sales price (ASP) of LEDs ...
Tags: LED Industry, LED package
HexaTech Inc. announced today that it has received a continuation of funding under the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) development program. The cost-share extension is valued at $1.2 million over 1 ...
Tags: HexaTech, AlN, semiconductor
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq:VECO) announced today that it has shipped the 50th TurboDisc® EPIK™700 GaN Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System reactor since its introduction ten months ago. After its launch in ...
Tags: Veeco, MOCVD system, reactor
AIXTRON, a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced that Japanese chemical company Asahi Kasei has ordered an AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead system (CCS) for pilot production of ...
Tags: AIXTRON, Asahi Kasei, UV LEDs
China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker San'an Optoelectronics saw revenues of CNY3.602 billion (US$576 million) and net profit of CNY1.447 billion for January-September 2015 increase 3.55% and 37.82% respectively on year, while ...
Can you consider light as a product, ready to pick up from the shelf and take home? You can't touch or hold it, but being able to use it whenever needed has been vital to the progress of humanity. Light sources have progressed from candles ...
Tags: Lighting market, LED demand, displays
Last week Samsung became the latest big-hitter to change its strategy in the LED lighting sector, with the Korean technology conglomerate making a significant retreat. Having identified the emerging application as a key growth area just ...
Tags: Samsung, LED Lighting, luminaire markets
For third-quarter 2015, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $140.7m, up 51% on $93.3m a year ago although up only 7% on $131.4m last quarter (which was the ...
Tags: LED market, LCD TVs
For third-quarter 2015, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €54.6m, up 35% on €40.4m last quarter and up 19.7% on €45.6m a year ago due to increased scheduled ...
Tags: Aixtron, lighting market
The global average price of 40W replacement LED light bulbs fell 1.5% in August to US$10.9, while the 60W replacement LED light bulbs fell 2.3% to US$14.9, based on the latest report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. The U.S. was ...
Leading LED chip manufacturer Epistar’s has raised the number of job cuts from the previously announced 65 to about 180, reported UDN. Job cuts at the company’s factories in northern Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park will ...
Tags: Epistar, business strategy, layoff