Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Sino-American Silicon (SAS) expects its solar business to reach breakeven and may obtain profits in the second quarter as market conditions have been improving. Doris Hsu, president of SAS, stated that since ...
Tags: SAS, Solar Business
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments decreased during the first quarter 2013 when compared to fourth quarter 2012 area shipments, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer ...
Over-investment has caused rising inventories in the sapphire industry. Although demand has been returning in the first-half of 2013, to reduce inventories, sapphire prices are unlikely to show any strong increase. Digitimes Research ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
Textile finishing in classic dip tanks requires large amounts of drying energy in light of the immense water volumes used in the dipping process, which often lead to high water loads in the dryer. In contrast to this, spray application ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, has introduced the latest version of its EVG120 automated resist processing system. Incorporating new features and improved productivity in an ...
Sapphire ingot manufacturers are in a state of “the big gets bigger”, says LEDinside, a research department of TrendForce. According to the firm’s 2013 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report, cost competitive, first-tier ...
Tags: LEDs, Electronics
The LED industry gained a foothold for growth in the parts and materials industry after LED technology was applied to the TV backlight unit (BLU). The industry is now about to advance again with the development of the LED lighting, an end ...
Tags: LED Ingot Market, Lights
Output value in the LED upstream ingot segment is expected to reach US$324 million in 2015, according to market research institute Displaybank. The downstream segments of the LED supply chain have been in oversupply, causing market ...
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Xenics nv of Leuven, Belgium - a manufacturer of infrared detectors, cameras and customized IR imaging solutions covering the spectrum from long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) to the visible (0.4–14μm) – says that on 3 May three ...
Tags: InGaAs SWIR, Proba-V Satellite
For first-quarter 2013, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA has reported revenue of $22.4m, down 5% on $23.5m a year ago but up 18% on $18.9m last quarter. Fiscal Q1/2012 Q2/2012 Q3/2012 Q4/2012 Q1/2013 Revenue $23.5m $25.2m $20.8m $18.9m $22.4m ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has announced the launch of the new division IQE Infrared, which aims to provide customers with a complete 'one-stop shop' for infrared substrate and epitaxial wafer ...
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At the SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2013 infrared materials conference in Baltimore, MD, USA (30 April to 2 May), Galaxy Compound Semiconductors Inc of Spokane,WA, USA, a subsidiary of epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of ...
Tags: IQE, InSb substrates, GaSb substrates, Electrical, Electronics
The University of Pennsylvania, MIT and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana are in the process of creating a surreal design involving LEDs, implants and tattoos. Researchers are working to create an implant that uses ...
Tags: LED Tattoo, LED, Lights, Lighting
A new semiconductor device capable of emitting two distinct colours has been created by a group of researchers in the US, potentially opening up the possibility of using LEDs universally for cheap and efficient lighting. The ...
Tags: LED Dual-color Lasers, LED Lightin, LED
Traditionally Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED devices are produced on either sapphire or silicon carbide (SiC) substrates, due to the good crystal lattice matching between the materials and the GaN, with typically 2” or 4” diameter ...