Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has received an order for an AIX G5+ C Planetary Reactor metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system from UK-based Plessey Semiconductors to boost its ...
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has announced a strategic partnership for its own monolithic micro-LED displays – manufactured on its proprietary gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers – to be driven by the ...
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Seoul, South Korea has introduced a full line-up of chip-scale LED packages (CSP), including 0.6W-class and 3W-class packages, CSP arrays, and PoW (Phosphor on Wafer) packages. Samsung says that its CSP ...
Shenzhen Kaifa Technology (Kaifa) announced its LED subsidiary Kaistar will be acquiring 100% shares of a major U.S. LED company for US $130 million recently, reported China’s Securities Daily. Following the announcement, Kaistar ...
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In a dramatic change from the status quo, nearly half of all gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs will be produced on silicon substrates by the end of the decade. That’s according to a new report by analysts at IHS, who forecast that the ...
Tags: LED Production, GaN LEDs, sapphire wafers
ALLOS Semiconductors GmbH of Dresden, Germany, which was founded in June, says that it has acquired (via auction) the exclusive ownership of all technology, know-how and intellectual property of the former AZZURRO Semiconductors AG, which ...
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Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK and the Cambridge Centre for GaN (part of University of Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) have grown cubic GaN on 3C-SiC on silicon wafers by metal-organic chemical ...
Tags: green LEDs, silicon wafers, Electrical
Gallium nitride (GaN)-on-sapphire is the existing mainstream technology for LED manufacturing, but GaN-on-silicon technology has naturally appeared as an alternative to sapphire in order to reduce cost. However, a cost simulation by market ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, GaN power electronics, LED
The LED lighting market in China is expected to double in size from 9.6 percent to 18 percent of all lighting used in the next four years, according to a recent growth forecast from Lux Research. This growth will be spurred by falling ...
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silicon to play major role in LED production 13 Dec 2013 IHS predicts rapid transition to GaN-on-silicon LED manufacture for backlighting and some general lighting applications. Silicon switch In a dramatic change from the status ...
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The penetration of gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers into the light-emitting diode (LED) market is forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 69% from 2013 to 2020, by which time they will account for 40% of ...
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The penetration of gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers into the LED market is forecast to increase at a CAGR of 69% from 2013 to 2020, by which time they will account for 40% of all GaN LEDs manufactured, according to IHS. In ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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TSMC Solid State Lighting (SSL) plans to introduce LED chip products that do not require packaging, with brightness reaching 130lm/W in the second half of 2013. The new product is likely to save 20-40% of packaging costs, hence TSMC SSL may ...
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