Midsummer AB of Jarfalla, Sweden, a supplier of production lines for manufacturing flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, has halved the thickness of its CIGS layer, to 800nm (less than ...
Tags: CIGS Layer Thickness, Electrical
Rudolph Technologies Inc of Flanders, NJ, USA, which provides defect inspection, packaging lithography, process control metrology and data analysis systems and software, has received multi-system orders from several customers for its latest ...
UK-based Plessey has announced the realization of high-volume, large-die LED performance based on its gallium nitride on silicon MaGIC (Manufactured on GaN-on-Si I/C) high-brightness LED (HBLED) technology. The large die benefits from ...
Tags: LED Technology, LEDs
Munich-based Wacker chemicals group has developed a thermally conductive adhesive for electronics applications. This new silicone rubber, SEMICOSIL 975 TC, is characterized by high thermal conductivity and good flow and processing ...
Tags: Wacker chemicals, coating
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp have reported indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with thicker active regions enabled by growing the crystal on the semi-polar (30-3-1) plane ...
For third-quarter 2014, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $8m (at the bottom of the $8-12m ...
Tags: 2-Inch Sapphire, Electronics
For third-quarter 2014, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $114.4m, down 16% on $136.6m last quarter but up 5% on $108.6m a year ago. “We reported ...
Tags: 5N Plus, chemical products
For third-quarter 2014, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which makes gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and germanium substrate and raw materials, has reported revenue of $23.1m, up 8% on $21.4m last quarter and up 13% on $20.5m a year ago. ...
Tags: gallium arsenide, indium phosphide
Contrel Technology, which makes TFT-LCD, PV and LED inspection and testing equipment, will invest in production of PSS (patterned sapphire substrate) using soft mask photolithography technology developed by a R&D team under National Cheng ...
Tags: Contrel Technology, PV, LED inspection, PSS production
North Carolina State University (NCSU) has been developing homo-epitaxy of non-polar aluminium nitride (AlN) with a view to deep ultraviolet (DUV, less than 300nm wavelength) optoelectronics [Isaac Bryan et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol116, ...
Tags: aluminium nitride, UV LED
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NAIST) has claimed the highest breakdown voltage to date for a diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) [Hitoshi Umezawa et al, IEEE ...
Protex International has acquired Chartwell International Inc., based in the United States. Protex International says it pursues its external growth policy by targeting acquisitions that bring scientific added-value products and expertise ...
Tags: Protex, Chartwell, Decoration
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (a Hanergy Holdings company) has announced a cooperation with Airware to enable manufacturers of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to integrate solar power into their aircraft. Founded in 2007, Alta ...
Tags: Alta Devices, GaAs, PV Hanergy
Xi’an Jiaotong University and Shaanxi Supernova Lighting Technology Co., Ltd., of China have used silver nanorods to engineer gallium vacancy defects in gallium nitride (GaN) to create color tunable light emitting diodes [Yaping Huang ...
Tags: GaN, LEDs, LED heterostructure
UK-based LED specialist Intelligent LED Solutions (ILS) - a division of display and optoelectronics provider Intelligent Group Solutions Ltd (IGS) - has launched a range of high-power UV LEDs suited to demanding industrial applications such ...
Tags: UV LEDs, LED, LED Component