An Australian-UK consortium is offering a epitaxial silicon carbide buffer layer for 300mm silicon wafers, claiming it will improve gallium nitride growth for GaN-on-Si LED fabrication. The buffer is the result of over 10 years research ...
The Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Facility (QMF) of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia and its industry partner, plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK, have ...
Tags: Silicon, Micro and Nanotechnology
Synthetic diamond materials firm Luxembourg-registered Element Six (part of the De Beers Family of Companies, and co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Group4 Labs Inc of Menlo ...
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LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that, in his invited talk at the LED Technology Forum in Singapore (7-10 ...
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Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA has ranked number 1 in the 10 BEST of VLSIresearch’s 2013 Customer Satisfaction Survey. The distinction is given to the top-voted focused supplier of chip ...
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For first-quarter 2013, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $8.3m, down 18.6% on ...
Pure-play compound semiconductor wafer foundry Global Communication Semiconductors LLC (GCS) of Torrance, CA, USA says that its proprietary indium gallium phosphide (InGaP) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) D5 and P7 foundry processes ...
Tags: GCS, HBT Foundry Processes
In an industry project with concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany is developing a new generation of multi-junction solar cells ...
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Although global capital spending this year in the solar supply chain is expected to fall to its lowest level since 2006, indications signal that the downturn in investment has hit bottom and that purchases of equipment may soon rebound. ...
Tags: Solar Industry, Energy
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched three broadband solderable flip-chip devices, namely a ...
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Funded by the US Army Research Office, researchers at North Carolina State University ( at the atomic scale (just one atom thick). The technique can be used to create the thin films on a large scale, sufficient to coat wafers that are ...
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Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN) a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical markets, today announced that it has relaunched its website to reflect the company's focus on market ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar expects LED applications to account for 30% of total revenues in third-quarter 2013, up from the current 20-25%, due to increasing demand. As production capacity for blue-color LED (InGaN) chips ...
Valence Process Equipment, Inc. (VPE) has announced the commercial release of the VPE GaN-500 MOCVD system, a new metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system for production of high-brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs). The VPE ...
Tags: LED industry, LED
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted Thursday in his first speech in that role that the company has been weak in smartphones and tablets, but aims to improve by advancing chip and manufacturing technologies. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich ...
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