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
Count On Tools Inc (COT) of Gainesville, GA, USA, a provider of precision components and SMT spare parts, has been invited to take part in the Cree Solution Provider program (CSP). The CSP network was created by LED chip, lamp and lighting ...
Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has developed a passivation process for aluminium gallium nitride on gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon substrates that significantly ...
Tags: Nitride HEMTs, Electrical
In cooperation with PVD Products of Wilmington, MA, USA, Finland-based nanotech firm Picodeon Ltd Oy, which specializes in thin-film coatings and surface treatments, has developed the ColdAb Series 4 thin-film deposition system, which is ...
Tags: PLD, Electrical, Electronics
Menges Roller announced the enhancement of its Engineering Department capabilities. Heat transfer rollers are a flagship product at Menges, and these Engineering enhancements are primarily aimed at the heat transfer roll marketplace. ...
Symptom: refrigerator evaporator leakage. There are five ways to solve refrigerators evaporator leakage. 1.Pickling welding.First blocking evaporator leakage holes,then use sandpaper burnish and wipe around the hole.Dropping a few drops ...
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Many SiC-based substrate manufacturers exhibited 6-inch (150mm)-diameter wafers at ICSCRM 2013, an international conference on SiC-based power semiconductors, which took place from Sept 29 to Oct 4, 2013, in Miyazaki, Japan. Six-inch ...
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Researchers at Japan’s Ishinomaki Senshu University have developed a new photodiode that can detect in just milliseconds high-energy deep-ultraviolet (UVC) light, which is powerful enough to break the bonds of DNA and harm living ...
Tags: Gallium Oxide, Silicon Carbide, UVC Light
Regardless of whether it´s to be used as a filigree lightweight mirror substrate for satellites and space telescopes or as a component in lithography, the glass-ceramic ZERODUR® that exhibits extremely low thermal expansion is ...
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Due to the slow growth in the GaAs device market and increasing use of multi-band GaAs power amplifiers in cellular applications, total demand for semi-insulating (SI) GaAs epitaxial substrates (from manufacturers such as IQE, VPEC, Kopin, ...
Tags: EPI Production, Electronics
A strong close to 2012 allowed the gallium arsenide device market to grow by about 2% to record revenue of slightly more than $5.3bn for the year, due mainly to the cellular segment, as most other segments for GaAs devices were flat or ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the UK’s University of Nottingham has purchased two GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems for its School of Physics and ...
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Veeco Instruments announced that the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, purchased two GENxplor™ R&D Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Systems for its School of Physics and Astronomy. The systems will enable the growth of high ...
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Fujifilm Corporation and imec have developed a new *photoresist technology for **organic semiconductors that enables the realization of submicron patterns. (For * please see note at bottom for further explanations.) Due to their ...
Tags: Organic Semiconductors, Lighting