Apple has yet again swept the market with the launch of the new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. The new cell phones have acted as a propeller for sapphire substrate manufacturers and LED manufacturers with the introduction of new fingerprint ...
As LED lighting becomes an US$80 billion industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers (epi-wafers) LEDs are made from will grow to US$4 billion in 2020, according to Lux Research. The vast majority of these epi-wafers are gallium nitride ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LED, LED lighting
As LED lighting becomes an $80bn industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers that LEDs are made from will grow to $4bn in 2020, according to Lux Research. The vast majority of these epiwafers are currently gallium nitride ...
Tags: LEDs, Epiwafers, LED Lighting
Prices for sapphire ingots in the third quarter of 2013 are expected to increase by 15-20% on quarter mainly due to growing demand from LED makers and China-based smartphone vendors, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Prices ...
Tags: Taiwan, smartphone, Consumer Electronics
At 2013 LED Lighting Taiwan, Russia-based upstream sapphire crystal maker Monocrystal showcased 12-inch substrates. The firm aims to produce crystal of over 150kg in 2014 for manufacturing 6-inch sapphire ingots. Digitimes Research noted ...
Over-investment has caused rising inventories in the sapphire industry. Although demand has been returning in the first-half of 2013, to reduce inventories, sapphire prices are unlikely to show any strong increase. Digitimes Research ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
Sapphire ingot manufacturers are in a state of “the big gets bigger”, says LEDinside, a research department of TrendForce. According to the firm’s 2013 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report, cost competitive, first-tier ...
Tags: LEDs, Electronics
The market of sapphire substrates, an upstream material for LEDs, has been in oversupply with prices falling. The prices are lower than the production costs of many firms. This has also caused many tier-two sapphire firms to purchase ...
Tags: LEDs, LED lighting, lighting
Apple's premier glass supplier is Corning and Apple's iPhone has been using Gorilla Glass from day one. On page 472 of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, we read: "We produced a glass that had never been made," stated Corning's CEO Wendell ...
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Monocrystal introduces ultra-large high quality sapphire window. Advancements in the development of its proprietary crystal growing technology allow Monocrystal to meet increasing demand from the emerging optical markets for large size ...
Tags: Monocrystal, sapphire window, proprietary crystal growing technology
Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, which provides crystalline gallium nitride (GaN), aluminium nitride (AlN) and aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) materials and related products and services, says that it has demonstrated a 10-inch ...
Tags: Kyma, AlN-on-sapphire, GaN, LEDs
Classic economics believes in small government and let the market mechanism run its course. Keynesian economics believes in interventions, in particular, government interventions to smooth out the business cycles. Most governments have been ...
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Kyma's AlN templates are manufactured using its patented plasma vapor deposition of nanocolumns(PVDNC)technology,which provides GaN LED manufacturers with throughput,cost,and performance benefits.Light emitting diode(LED)manufacturers ...
Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh,NC,USA,has made a breakthrough on a 10-inch diameter AlN-on-sapphire template using its patented plasma vapor deposition of nanocolumns(PVDNC)technology. The PVDNC AlN templates are chosen by manufacturers ...
Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh,NC,USA,which provides crystalline gallium nitride(GaN),aluminium nitride(AlN)and aluminium gallium nitride(AlGaN)materials and related products and services,says that it has demonstrated a 10-inch ...
Tags: 10"AlN-on-sapphire template, GaN, PVDNC, GaN LED