MOCVD, lithography, plasma etching, PECVD & PVD tools to experience turbulent investment cycles in the coming years GEARING UP FOR THE NEXT INVESTMENT CYCLE The packaged LED market still presents significant opportunities for growth ...
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Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
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Formosa Epitaxy,a Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker,Crystalwise Technology(CWT)and Crystal Applied Technology(CAT),two Taiwan-based sapphire wafer makers,saw November revenues drop by 22.96%,9.32%and rise by 5.00%on month ...
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Suzhou Hyperion Geocrystal Co Ltd has achieved volume production of large-diameter c-axis sapphire cores using CHES (Controlled Heat Extraction System) furnaces from Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, ...
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GaN-on-Si is a new technology that has the potential to replace sapphire substrates in the LED supply chain. Erwin Ysewijn, vice president of sales and marketing at Azzurro Semiconductors, a Germany-based GaN-on-Si supplier, recently ...
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Rubicon Technology, a US-based sapphire substrates provider, has reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2012. The firm reported that third-quarter revenue increased to US$19.9 million from US$17 million in ...
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Researchers in China have improved LED power output and droop behavior in nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by including an electron-emitting layer under the active region [Jianbao Zhang et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol5, ...
Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, a provider of c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting market, has announced 'CHES Foundations Series Part 2: Sapphire ...
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Researchers in Korea and India have used zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods on the rear side tolight-emitting diodes (LEDs) grown on c-plane sapphire [Joo Jin et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol51, p102101, 2012]. The researchers were based at Chonbuk ...
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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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ARC Energy's CHES furnaces enable Suzhou Hyperion Geocrystal to enter volume production of sapphire cores and wafers, for high-brightness LEDs, ranging from 2-8 mm in diameter. Larger wafers are one avenue toward lower-cost LEDs and a ...
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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The next technological challenge for the Solid-state lighting industry is the transition to silicon wafers. Everybody knows that silicon offers many advantages in terms of cost and availability. Nevertheless, the changeover bears many ...
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Solar market to return to stability in February 2013,says SAS chairman Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES [Thursday 27 September 2012]MK Lu,chairman of Taiwan-based solar wafer and LED sapphire substrate maker Sino-American ...
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Researchers in China have applied graphene as transparent conducting layers (TCLs) in vertical light-emitting diodes (VLEDs) made from indium gallium nitride (InGaN) semiconductors. The researchers were based in Beijing at Chinese Academy ...
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