The critical processes and technologies necessary to continue Moore’s Law are currently more uncertain than ever before in the history of advanced semiconductor manufacturing. To assess these uncertainties and provide the latest ...
Tags: 3D Transistors, Electronics
Plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (a Bridgepoint portfolio company) has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. The award recognizes the ...
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LED chip and lighting array maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA has agreed to sell its gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology and related assets to Tokyo-based semiconductor manufacturer Toshiba Corp. The firms will also ...
Glass is everywhere: from MEMS, CMOS image sensors and power to memory, logic IC and microfluidics. Glass is widely used in everyday life and found in large quantities in many industries, such as flat panel display applications. ...
Tags: Glass Wafer Market, Glass Wafer
China-based vertically integrated solar firm, LDK Solar, reported fourth-quarter net sales of US$135.9 million, a relatively low figure compared to US$291.5 million reported in the third quarter of 2012 and US$420.2 million in the fourth ...
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AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new facility at the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy. The CCS ...
Tags: MOCVD Reactor, Gan-on-Si Wafers
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that the University of Cambridge has commissioned another multi-wafer Aixtron Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new facility at the Department of Material ...
Tags: CCS MOCVD System, LED
Boeing Company subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA has introduced 150mm-diameter germanium wafers into production (50mm larger than its prior 100mm wafers). The 50% increase in wafer diameter allows more than 2.5 times more gallium ...
Tags: Spectrolab CPV, wafer diameter
Long-term collaboration for growth of 6-inch GaN-on-Si wafers planned AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new ...
Tags: LED applications, LED
In June, Harvard's Clean Energy Project (CEP) plans to release to solar power developers a list of the top 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic cells (PVCs). The list, culled from about seven ...
MOVCD vendors US-based Veeco Instruments and Germany-based Aixtron SE have lowered quotes in the China market from about US$2 million to about US$1.4 million for a single-wafer MOCVD set and by 30-40% for a multi-wafer model mainly because ...
Tags: LED makers, LED production, LED
Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG has introduced a new silicon germanium (SiGe) based transceiver family to address the market for wireless data links with data rates of more than 1Gbps between LTE/4G base stations and core networks. ...
Tags: Infineon, SiGe Transceivers
Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Gigastorage reported March consolidated revenues of NT$736 million (US$24 million), up 28.63% on month. Gigastorage noted that the rising revenues were due to strong demand of the firm's high efficiency solar ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, has deployed data acceleration software from Silver Peak Systems to accelerate data and applications cost-effectively between its global offices. ...
Tags: EV, Silver Peak Systems
New insight into the state of and prospects for the high-concentrating photovoltaic (HCPV) sector is available in the latest report published by technology market analyst firm Yole Développement. The report presents what the ...
Tags: HCPV Technology, Electrical