This quarter, Plessey Semiconductors plans to sample its GaN-on-Silicon LEDs. Samples are due out in December with production sales beginning in March for both LED die and packaged devices. It is the culmination of a decade of ...
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NGK Insulators Ltd of Nagoya, Japan has developed gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that significantly reduce defects and approximately double the luminous efficiency of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) over previous models. The GaN wafers ...
Strategies United predicts that by 2015 the global market for high brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs) will generate revenues of $18.9 billion, representing a compound growth rate of 11.8%. A key factor in the growth of HB-LEDs is the use of ...
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Gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si)-based LEDs have been fabricated using high‐brightness LED structures of Epistar Corp of Taipei, Taiwan and the patented technology for 150mm GaN-on-Si substrates of Azzurro Semiconductors AG 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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Acme Electronics is expected to report flat or slight sequential growth in consolidated revenues for the third quarter of 2012, buoyed by rising sales generated by sapphire ingot-making subsidiary USI Optronics, according to market sources. ...
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Sony's diode lasers claim 2012 Leibinger prize 17 Sep 2012 Mass production of laser diodes and backwards compatible optical data storage recognized with biennial Zukunftspreis. Osamu Kumagai, a senior VP at Sony, has won the 2012 ...
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Sapphire substrate makers report mixed August revenues Siu Han,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Wednesday 12 September 2012]Sapphire substrate firms such as Crystalwise and Crystal Applied have both reported on-month decreases in August ...
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As the semiconductor industry moves to 28nm,20nm and below process technologies,demand for equipment used to make more advanced chips is set to boom allowing Scientech to work toward a promising future,according to company president ...
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Sanan Optoelectronics has been experiencing record high revenues and profit margins in first-half 2012. Nevertheless, the firm's inventory turnover days is relatively high showing that it is possible for the firm to experience an oversupply ...
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Sapphire substrate maker Sino Sapphire has posted a net loss of just NT$1.89 million(US$63,000)or NT$0.05 per share for the first half of 2012,according to a filing by parent company Sino-American Silicon(SAS).Total revenues for first-half ...
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For second-quarter 2012, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, has reported revenue of $17m, down 60% on $43m a ...
Reducing noise at high frequency in nitride-on-silicon transistors France’s Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN) has produced the first benchmark for low-noise gallium nitride on silicon transistors in ...
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Zeta Instruments Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which provides optical profilers for micron-scale surface analysis, says that Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA has ordered multiple units of the Zeta-300 series optical profiler for ...
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Rubicon Technology has placed an order of multiple units of the Zeta 300 series optical profiler from San Jose based Zeta Instruments for its sapphire substrate and wafer production. The company will use the Zeta-300 series optical ...
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