Seven China-based panel makers have been expanding existing or setting up new AMOLED production capacities, with total annual capacity estimated to increase from 272,000 square meters in 2016 to 1.584 million square meters in 2018, 4.464 ...
About nine million curved-surface LCD TVs were sold globally in 2016, 2.25 times the sales volume in 2015, according to Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO). China is the largest market for curved-surface LCD TVs, with ...
China-based panel makers are making big investments in OLED technology, with EverDisplay Optronics (Shanghai) kicking off construction of a 6th-generation (6G) AMOLED factory. In addition to EverDisplay Optronics, China-based display panel ...
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China-based makers of LED materials, including aluminum substrates, copper foil and plastic materials, have hiked quotes by 30-40%, sending China-based LED chip makers raising prices by about 10%. China-based LED packaging service providers ...
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Early in May, Luxlite, Epistar's sole distributor in China, has sent out an announcement of price adjustment, listing a number of reasons for price increase, including continuingly increased raw materials and manpower costs. Chinese LED ...
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Apple’s developments in the market are a hot topic in the technology industry, market rumors that next generation iPhones would be using OLED displays ushered in a large wave of investments in the sector in China. OLED, which was a ...
UK-based process equipment maker Oxford Instruments has announced the development and launch of a silicon carbide (SiC) via plasma etch process using its PlasmaPro100 Polaris etch system. SiC is becoming an increasingly important ...
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UK-based Oxford Instruments, which provides process technology equipment for the manufacturing of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HBLEDs), says that its systems are being used to facilitate the introduction of ultraviolet (UV) LEDs ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received an order for its 25th GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system. Introduced in August 2013, the GENxplor system is said to be ...
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China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) has been held successfully for 17 years. The event is world’s largest and most influential exhibition in optoelectronics industry with a total exhibition area of 110,000 sq. meters. ...
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According to the 2016 Chinese LED Chip and Package Industry Market Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, the market scale of China’s LED package reaches 2% year on year (YoY) growth at US $8.8 billion in 2015. The COB LED ...
The project MIRPHAB (MidInfraRed PHotonics devices fABrication for chemical sensing and spectroscopic applications) has unveiled a chemical sensor capable of detecting drugs and explosives from a distance of 30m. Lasting from the ...
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For first-half 2016, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €55.5m, down 31% on first-half 2015's €80.7m, reflecting the ongoing weak demand environment in the firm's ...
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POET Technologies Inc of San Jose, CA, USA — which has developed the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated III-V-based electronic and optical devices on a single ...
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John Bowers, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), has been selected to receive the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics ...
Tags: Integrated Photonics, PICs