AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., Head Office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) has decided to shut down AGC Glass North America’s Kingsport Plant in Tennessee in order to improve the profitability of its photovoltaic (PV) cover ...
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At this year’s China SSL Conference , AIXTRON again has hosted an MOCVD seminar along with the China Solid State Lighting Alliance (CSA). More than 200 decision-makers from industry and research took part in AIXTRON’s ...
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GaN-on-Si is a new technology that has the potential to replace sapphire substrates in the LED supply chain. Erwin Ysewijn, vice president of sales and marketing at Azzurro Semiconductors, a Germany-based GaN-on-Si supplier, recently ...
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The release of GAN-on-silicon LED chips in China presents a lower-cost alternative that is comparable in quality to mainstream products based on sapphire and SiC substrates. R&D work leveraging the advantages of silicon substrates has ...
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Azzurro and Epistar say they have achieved GaN-on-Si based LEDs utilizing Epistar's high-brightness LED structures and Azzurro's patented technology for 150mm GaN-on-Si. The joint project, completed in four months, transferred Epistar's ...
National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan has developed a simple silane treatment to improve crystal quality/internal quantum efficiency (IQE) and light extraction in nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Chung-Chieh Yang et ...
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Rubicon Technology, a US-based sapphire substrates provider, has reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2012. The firm reported that third-quarter revenue increased to US$19.9 million from US$17 million in ...
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So far, OLED revenue has been driven mainly by display applications but the industry is now targeting the lighting market based on the technology specificities in terms of design and efficiency. In its new report "OLED for Lighting", Yole ...
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PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business will display its complete line of fastener coatings for the automotive and construction industries at the 2012 Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association (STAFDA) trade show, ...
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Researchers in China have improved LED power output and droop behavior in nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by including an electron-emitting layer under the active region [Jianbao Zhang et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol5, ...
Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, a provider of c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting market, has announced 'CHES Foundations Series Part 2: Sapphire ...
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This quarter, Plessey Semiconductors plans to sample its GaN-on-Silicon LEDs. Samples are due out in December with production sales beginning in March for both LED die and packaged devices. It is the culmination of a decade of ...
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NGK Insulators Ltd of Nagoya, Japan has developed gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that significantly reduce defects and approximately double the luminous efficiency of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) over previous models. The GaN wafers ...
Soraa Inc of Fremont,CA,USA,which develops solid-state lighting technology built on'GaN on GaN'(gallium nitride on gallium nitride)substrates,says that as of 1 November 2012 its full-spectrum GaN-on-GaN LED MR16 lamps ,China,South ...
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Taipei, Oct.30, 2012 (CENS)--Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corp., a major synthetic fiber manufacturer in Taiwan, will invest NT$12 billion (US$400 million) within three years to build a plant in CTSP (Central Taiwan Science Park), which will ...
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