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 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
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
Printing equipment manufacturer in the US, Primera Technology has introduced the new LP130e Laser Marking System. LP130e, which is said to be the optimized version of the company's previous DL500e Durable Label Printer, has various ...
AlN crystal maker CrystAl-N GmbH of Fürth, Germany says it is now moving from production of 1-inch to 2-inch AlN and accepting pre-orders. According to the firm, which was founded in 2010 as spin-off of Friedrich-Alexander-University ...
Tags: UV LEDs, Electrical, Electronics
A proposed new ASTM International standard will offer guidelines for selecting wood substrates for the evaluation of the weathering performance of architectural coatings, such as exterior paints, primers and deck finishes. The proposed ...
Tags: Architectural Coatings, Coatings
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 ...
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has finalised the ZAR 1,000,000,000(more than $100m) solar ...
Tags: Soitec CPV, Soitec
Mass production of GaN template wafers based on sapphire substrates could free LED manufacturers' MOCVD reactors for more LED production and lower component cost helping drive the deployment of SSL. Hitachi Cable has become the second ...
Tags: Hitachi Cable, GaN-Template LED, Lighting
Toshiba's white LED package Bridgelux is selling its gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si)?technology and related assets to Toshiba. The news comes as the two companies announced that they will expand their licensing and manufacturing ...
The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded funding totaling more than £823,800m to two universities for the project ‘Novel High Thermal Conductivity Substrates for GaN Electronics: ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, GaN Electronics
Hitachi Cable has launched a new mass-production technology for GaN-templates as shown in Figures 1 and 2 below. The process allows high-quality GaN single-crystal thin film to be grown on a sapphire substrate and the company plans to ...
Tags: Hitachi Cable, LEDs
Following the December 2012 launch of the Works with Soraa program, the lighting industry’s first lamp and fixture validation program, Soraa announced the addition of nine new fixture manufacturers. The companies Excelsior Lighting, ...
Hitachi Cable, Ltd. announced today that it has developed a new mass-production technology for GaN-templates, in which a high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) single-crystal thin film is grown on a sapphire substrate. Using this product as a ...
Tags: Hitachi, Gan-Template Product
Sapphire substrate makers have noted that order visibility is clear to May due to expected demand growth in the LED backlighting and lighting markets. Market observers believe prices of sapphire substrates are likely to increase slightly in ...
The emerging market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors is forecast to grow a factor of 18 during the next 10 years, energized by demand from power supplies, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and industrial ...