China-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings aims to increase its annual production capacity for solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers to 11.5GWp, according to China-based media reports. GCL-Poly produced about 9.0GWp of solar wafers in 2013, ...
PV stock clearance is nearly ending. Industry demands continued to increase in April and May this year, but orders for June 2014 remain uncertain. Thus, the spot market is still observing supply and demand changes in 2Q14. Meanwhile, a ...
China-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers have shifted to tap the Taiwan market where demand from crystalline silicon solar cell makers has remained strong, according to industry sources. Currently in the Taiwan market, ...
Tags: Solar-Grade Wafer, PV demand
GaN-on-Si technology has emerged naturally as an alternative to GaN-on-sapphire — the mainstream technology for LED applications. But today, despite potential cost benefits, the mass adoption of GaN-on-Si technology for LED ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Electrical, Electronics
With silicon-on-insulator (SOI) business declining, 3D TSV stack implementation beginning, and the competitive environment changing, market research firm Yole Développement has released a new study 'Permanent Wafer Bonding for ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Taiwan-based LED chip makers and packaging houses are generally optimistic about their business operations in the second quarter of 2014 mainly due to strong demand from LCD TVs and mobile terminal devices, and in lighting, according to ...
Tags: LED Firms, LED Chips, packaging houses
Researchers in Taiwan have produced indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors (MOSCAPs) with low interface trap densities directly on silicon [Yueh-Chin Lin etal, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p041202, 2014]. InGaAs ...
Researchers at Georgia State University, the University of Leeds and China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a way to use standard semiconductors to detect light over a much broader range of wavelengths, potentially opening up ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Altatech of Montbonnot, near Grenoble, France (a subsidiary of Soitec since January 2012) has received an order for its Orion LedMax wafer inspection and metrology system from Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany. Osram ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has received its first $1m purchase order agreement for indium antimonide (InSb) substrates, which are used in mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) imaging technology. IQE ...
Tags: IR detector, Electrical, Electronics
The tool is designed for high volume manufacturing and can be used for exposing wafers with a diameter of up to 200 mm. This latest generation tool is a further development of the very successful MA200 Compact platform, of which the 100th ...
Tags: Components, Tools, Hardware
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, Electrical, Electronics
Marktech Optoelectronics of Latham, NY, USA, whose capabilities span wafer growth through finished packaging and custom solutions, has introduced its new line of multichip LEDs. As electronic products continue to evolve technologically ...
Hiwin leads Taiwan's machine tool makers in 2013 earnings. (Photo of company chairman and chief executive officer, Eric Chuo, courtesy of Hiwin) Hiwin Technologies Corp.,?a Taiwan-based maker of?precision components for machinery, has ...
Tags: taiwan, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, precision machinery
According to the report 'Gallium Nitride (GaN) Semiconductor Devices (Discrete & IC) and Substrate Wafer Market by Technology, Application, Product, Device, & by Geography - Forecast & Analysis to 2013–2022' from MarketsandMarkets, ...
Tags: semiconductor, Electrical, Electronics