US-based food company TreeHouse Foods is planning to close two production facilities located in Azusa, California and Ripon, Wisconsin. The shutdown of facilities is part of the company's efforts to streamline operations by reducing ...
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Several China-based first-tier and second-tier PV makers have been expanding or plan to expand solar cell production capacity in China or overseas, and they are likely to ramp up an additional annual capacity of as much as 15GWp in ...
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For first-quarter 2016, 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 $4.3m, down on $8.9m a year ago ...
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Manufacturers have finished negotiating for May orders, leading to smaller fluctuation in prices. Due to the interruption of trade wars, the polysilicon market still witness slight supply shortage, resulting in stronger prices. But prices ...
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Researchers in Hong Kong and China have claimed the first demonstration of gallium nitirde (GaN) fully vertical p-type-intrinsic-n-type (p-i-n) junction diodes on silicon (Si) [Xinbo Zou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
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Orders have been confirmed for May. Aside from polysilicon that sees stronger prices, prices in all segment of PV supply chain have weakened. The industry will cool down after June 30th, where grid-connection will mostly be completed by ...
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In response to increased demand for 4- and 6-inch sapphire substrates, Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia (which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LEDs, optical products and RFIC applications) plans to ...
A team led by Alexander Spott of University of California, Santa Barbara – in collaboration with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison – has fabricated what is said to be the first ...
Researchers based in China, Singapore and Turkey have used an extremely thin layer of silicon dioxide (SiO2) insulator as a charge inverter in indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs), improving light output power and ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that during March it received record volume purchase orders worth just over $3m (to be delivered over the next 12 months) for its indium antimonide (InSb) and gallium ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that its G5+ C multi-wafer batch metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) platform has been qualified for the manufacturing of specific buffer layers as ...
Arctic Zero, a Fit Frozen Desserts maker, has launched seven new flavor additions to its line of creamy treats, including: Brownie Blast, Snickerdoodle Dandy and Banana Pudding Chunky Pints; Cake Batter and Poppin' Pomegranate Creamy Pints; ...
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In the China market, polysilicon has been slightly shortage in supply because newly added mono-si wafer and multi-si wafer capacities cause difficulties to procure spot products. Therefore, mainland China's polysilicon price had reached RMB ...
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Researchers in France claim the first demonstration of 10GHz large-signal microwave power performance for flexible aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [S. Mhedhbi et al, IEEE Electron Device ...
In 2014, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of the gallium-nitride-based blue-light LED and its use for new, efficient LED-based white lamps. The development efforts in this field, however, do not stop there. The ...
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