The imbalance in sapphire substrate supply and demand is being overcome by increased demands in LED lighting applications and strong demands for non-LED applications. GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) is optimistic about the rapid growth in ...
With the unchanging trend of falling LED prices, chip manufacturers are constantly improving LED chip production process and technologies to lower costs. Semiconductor equipment company GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has developed Hydride ...
The increased demand for sapphire substrates in non LED applications including for smartphone camera lens caps plus home button covers, the supply and demand situation has had a turnaround. Sapphire substrate used in smartphones will take ...
Tags: Monocrystal, LED applications
Traditionally employed to make LEDs, sapphire substrates now are being used by Apple and other smartphone vendors as covers for camera lenses and home buttons, contributing to a rapid growth in sapphire demand, according to IHS. Demand ...
Some Taiwanese LED manufacturers were affected by decreased backlight shipments, which lead to a clear drop in September revenues, according to LEDinside, a green energy research subsidiary of Trendforce. Korean manufacturers still have ...
Tags: LED Manufacturers, LED Lighting
The LED industry after entering into the lighting era still continues to face pressure to lower prices. LED manufacturers have thus begun competitively pushing their way into package free chip development. Manufacturers like Philips ...
Tags: Free Chip, LED Lighting
The new Luxeon Q family is based on the company's flip-chip die announced back in February that, combined with new light extraction and conversion features, delivers high efficacy especially at high drive currents. Philips Lumileds has ...
Tags: Luxeon Q LED, Philips Lumileds
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 ...
Sapphire substrate applications have shifted from LED to smartphones, according to a report by Taiwanese media UDN. Apple was the first to apply the material in its iPhone home button, and has recently expanded sapphire substrate ...
LED Taiwan’s 2013 Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) exhibition will be launched on Sept. 4, 2013 to present the latest technology from domestic and international LED manufacturers and suppliers. Main themes of ...
Tags: LED Production, Sapphire Wafers
Chimei Optoelectronics has gone out of business leaving behind NTD 5.6 billion in debt. The company's creditor bank has been pursuing the company to obtain their financial claim but has yet to hear anything from the company. Chimei used ...
Researchers in China have been developing nanopatterned-sapphire substrates (NPSS), achieved with nano-sphere lithography (NSL), as a basis for the production of superior aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) semiconductor material for deep ...
Tags: DUV LEDs, LED, Electrical, Electronics
"For China LED industry, LED upstream technology is monopolized by the international giants, midstream is almost so, now the most important thing is that whether the downstream can design better products with more reasonable prices or not", ...
Tags: LED Enterprises, Special Fields
Affected by LED chip’s consecutive price drop and efforts to control costs, Taiwanese chip manufacturers including Epistar, FOREPI, and others are turning to Chinese sapphire substrates. A move that directly contends Taiwanese ...
LED forecast plays down GaN-on-silicon impact 23 Jul 2013 Sapphire is set to remain the entrenched wafer technology for solid-state lighting, say analysts at Lux Research. Despite the transition of LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) ...