POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
Tags: POET, Electronic Technology
As clients are adjusting inventories of LED chips used in backlighting and lighting, demand for LED chips in the third quarter of 2014 will significantly decrease sequentially, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye of Taiwan-based LED ...
Tags: LED Demand, LED Chips
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that Mitsubishi Electric Corp (MELCO) of Tokyo, Japan has begun operations with an AIX 2800G4 HT Planetary Reactor system. The 11x4”-wafer configuration metal-organic ...
Tags: Mitsubishi, GaN-on-Si, power amplifiers
Process control and yield management solutions provider KLA-Tencor Corp of Milpitas, CA, USA has introduced the WaferSight PWG patterned wafer geometry measurement system, the LMS IPRO6 reticle pattern placement metrology system, and the ...
Tags: KLA-Tencor, process control loops
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has qualified Migdal Haemek ...
Tags: TowerJazz, RF Front-End Modules, Electrical
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED packaging service provider Lextar Electronics on August 27 announced that US-based Cree will invest US$83 million to acquire 13.32% of its stock through subscribing to 83 million new Lextar shares ...
Tags: Cree, Lextar Electronics, Lights
The company’s upholds a positive outlook, having made a production capacity breakthrough in June 2014, lowered costs in 3Q14 and optimized utilization rates and product portfolio. Optimistic about the emerging LED lighting market, ...
Tags: Lextar, Production Capacity, Lights
On August 19, the US Department of Commerce announced it had revised the preliminary anti-dumping duty on solar products produced by Motech Industries in Taiwan, causing Motech’s tariff rate to drop from 44.18%, the highest among ...
Tags: PV, Anti-Dumping Duty, Solar Cell
Fukuda Crystal Laboratory Co Ltd has grown ScAlMgO4 scandium aluminium magnesium oxide (SCAM) crystal with a diameter of 50mm (2 inches) that could be used as a substrate for gallium nitride (GaN)-based light-emitting devices such as blue ...
Tags: Fukuda Crystal Lab, a diameter, Electrical
The China government has announced a temporary stoppage of polysilicon imports through export processing zones (EPZs) beginning September 1, 2014, with the measure intended to block evasion of anti-dumping and anti-subsidization taxes. ...
Tags: China government, temporary stoppage, Lights
Beyond all of the hype and tumult, market drivers and technological developments are converging to ensure a bright future for silicon photonics, according to the ‘Silicon Photonics 2014’ report from Yole Développement. ...
Tags: Silicon Photonics
At SEMICON West 2014 in San Francisco (8-10 July), CyberOptics Corp of Minneapolis, MN, USA (which provides inspection and sensing systems for electronics assembly and semiconductor process equipment) showcased its most efficient and ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany has achieved record photovoltaic (PV) solar module efficiency of 36.7%, as measured under Concentrator Standard Testing Conditions (CSTC). This has been done by ...
Tags: PV Module, Solar Energy Systems
Researchers from Ohio State University (OSU) and University of California–Irvine (UCI) have developed a band engineering technique to improve the results from photo-electro-chemical (PEC) etch of nitride semiconductors [Prashanth ...
Wet-chemical equipment maker ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA has launched its Solstice line of electroplating tools, designed specifically for the smaller-substrate users in emerging technologies such as MEMS, LEDs, power devices, ...