"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
The market growth is expected to be driven by increased demand for devices with exceptional speed, low power consumption, smaller chip size, and reduced response time. Information and communication technology (ICT) and consumer electronics ...
Tags: 3D ICs market, Electrical market
Laser dicing systems maker Advanced Laser Separation International NV (ALSI) of Beuningen, The Netherlands has received an order for a laser dicing system from Plessey Semiconductors Ltd for its LED manufacturing facility in Plymouth, UK. ...
As part of an asset deal, as of 1 January, Jenoptik of Jena, Germany has transferred expertise, patents and results relating to thermal laser separation (TLS-Dicing) technology developed by its Laser & Materials Processing Division to ...
Tags: 3D-Micromac, Electrical
Taiwan-based makers have hiked quotes for high energy conversion rate solar-grade wafers to about US$1 per wafer due to tight supplies, according to industry sources. Prices for a high-efficiency solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer ...
Tags: Silicon Wafer, Lighting, Solar-grade
EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce, indicates that since high-efficiency wafer supply shortage remains and demand is still strong, both buyers and sellers have started to plan for February orders ahead of time. It’s ...
Tags: Wafer, Raw Material
EnergyTrend indicates that cell manufacturers may revise the price upward to correspond to the increased poly and multi-si wafer price. Recent targeted average price is US$0.4/watt. “After poly price slightly declined in 2Q13, it ...
Tags: Cell, Poly, Multi-si Wafer
After two years of a punishing downturn, the global solar industry is on the rebound, said Ash Sharma, senior research director for solar at IHS. "Worldwide PV installations are set to rise by double digits in 2014, solar manufacturing ...
Tags: Solar Market, solar industry
Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Neo Solar Power generated December consolidated revenues of NT$2.406 billion (US$80.2 million), hitting the highest since March 2011 and increasing 3.12% sequentially and 300.18% on year. Solar-grade ...
Tags: Solar, silicon solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Sapphire wafer maker Tera Xtal Technology expects global supply of sapphire wafers to be short beginning the first quarter of 2014 due to increasing use in smartphones and other mobile devices. The company currently has a monthly ...
Solar photovoltaic (PV) demand is poised for explosive growth in 2014, and is set to reach 49GW, up from 36GW in 2013, according to findings from Solarbuzz. "The solar PV industry has reached a critical tipping point, with end-market ...
Tags: PV Industry, Solar PV
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy expects flip chip LED components for use in lighting and LCD TV backlighting to account for 15-20% of its 2014 consolidated revenues, according to company chairman Frank Chien. Formosa ...
Tags: Flip Chip LED, Lighting
Good government policies can help propel an industry forward but bad ones can hinder development. Although China’s policies are aimed at developing the LED industry, the subsidies have gotten out of control recently, said LEDinside ...
Tags: LED Policies, LED Lighting
Earlier in December, concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France was informed that the European Commission (EC) has approved financing for the five-year Gupard program, which was launched in May 2012 to develop a ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, PV