A major challenge of in-situ metrology on single-port reactors with small viewport geometries is the combination of curvature measurements (by blue laser) with reflectance measurement at a wavelength of 405nm, says LayTec AG of Berlin, ...
Tags: LayTec, blue laser, reflectance measurement
OneChip Photonics Inc of Ottawa, Canada, which designs optical chips and transceivers based on monolithic photonic integrated circuits (PICs) fabricated in indium phosphide (InP), says that it is working with both pure-play epiwafer foundry ...
Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) has launched the Total GaN family of gallium nitride on silicon transistors and diodes, establishing what is claimed to ...
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US-based CCS Printing has announced the addition of a new Hewlett-Packard (HP) Indigo 7600 Digital Color Press, in a bid to strengthen its digital offset printing ability. CCS Printing president Kevin Sullivan said the company invested in ...
Tags: packaging applications, printing applications, packaging
As sapphire substrate makers brace for a year of consolidation, 2013 could deliver the killer application, reports Compound Semiconductor. Will 2013 be a year of two halves for manufacturers of sapphire substrates? Overcapacity and falling ...
Tags: sapphire substrate, raw material
In booth 1136 at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) at the Anaheim Convention Center, California (17–21 March), micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti ...
There are large numbers of companies striving to meet compliance standards for various Defense industry applications. Often, the required specifications demand that a majority of parts or product identification be provided with technologies ...
Tags: Metalized Polyester Labels, UID Applications, Machinery
Stork Prints introduces a new NovaScreen type to the international textile printing world. NovaScreen features the top end of Stork Prints’ textile screens collection. This screen is an established brand and delivers the best ...
Sapphire wafer maker Crystalwise Technology will expand monthly production capacity at its subsidiary in China from 150,000 2-inch sapphire wafer equivalents at present, to at least double in 2013, while fellow maker Tera Xtal Technology ...
Tags: Crystalwise Technology, sapphire wafer equivalents, LED, Tera Xtal
Is it time for high-brightness LED manufacturing to get serious about process control? If so, what lessons can be learned from traditional, silicon-based integrated circuit manufacturing? The answer to the first question can be ...
Tags: LED manufacturing, LED substrate, MOCVD
SEMI's HB-LED Standards Committee has approved its first standard, specifying sapphire wafers used in making high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) devices. Sapphire wafers are used in producing HB-LED devices for multiple ...
Tags: SEMI, HB-LED Standards Committee, LED manufacturing supply chain
Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity. According to the SEMI LED/Opto Fab Forecast, spending on LED fab manufacturing ...
Tags: LED Manufacturing Investment, LED fab manufacturing equipment
Soraa announced yesterday the next generation of its high external quantum efficiency GaN on GaN LEDs. As described in Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 223509, Soraa’s new LED outperforms the best-documented LED laboratory result by Nichia ...
Tags: Soraa, LED outperforms, GaN LEDs, LED laboratory
CoorsTek, one of the largest technical ceramics manufacturers, today announced introduction of aluminum nitride substrates. Ideal for the rapidly growing LED market and other markets where high heat dissipation is useful, these ceramic ...
Tags: ceramics manufacturers, semiconductors, GaAs semiconductors
Canon U.S.A., Inc. recently launched the FPA-3030i5+ i-line stepper, designed for the manufacturing of LEDs, MEMS and power semiconductors. The FPA-3030 platform is an upgrade to earlier Canon “FPA-3000 platform” steppers. The ...