Taiwan-based flip-chip LED makers generated a total production value of US$11.63 million in the first quarter of 2014, taking up 3.1% of total LED production value, and flip-chip LED production value in 2014 is expected to reach US$160 ...
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
Driven by the fanfare over (and over-estimation of) the LCD display market, the LED front-end equipment market experienced an unprecedented investment cycle in 2010-2011, driven mostly by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
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
Lextar Electronics has reported it consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter of 2013 reached NT$3.32 billion (US$109.55 million). The company's consolidated gross margin was 10.1%, while net profit for the fourth quarter was NT$33 ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Electronics, LED, LED Lighting
GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystal growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has acquired exclusive rights ...
Tags: LED Wafer Production, epiwafers
Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED packaging service provider Lextar Electronics filed applications for 208 patents with the Intellectual Property Office under the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2013, the highest ...
Tags: LED Makers, LED epitaxial wafer
LED packaging house Everlight Electronics is likely to see the revenue proportion for LED lighting exceed that for LED backlighting in 2014, according to company chairman Robert Yeh. Everlight expects fourth-quarter 2013 revenues from LED ...
Tags: Everlight, LED Lighting
Spurred by demand from Chinese TV makers, LED TV penetration rates have reached 95% in 2013, according to LEDinside (a subsidiary of TrendForce). The market research firm estimates that LEDs will completely replace cold-cathode ...
Tags: LED market, LED TV, Electrical, Electronics
The proportion of LED chips used in LED lighting will increase from 20% in 2012 to about 25% in 2013, Taiwan-based LED makers cited statistics as indicating. For LED light bulbs, average luminous efficiency is estimated to reach 77lm/W in ...
Taiwan-based LED packaging company Everlight Electronics expects the proportion of consolidated revenues for LED lighting components and devices to increase from over 20% in 2013 to more than 30% in 2014, according to company chairman ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Everlight
Taiwan is the world’s leader in LED manufacturing with 41 LED fabs representing over 21 percent of the world’s capacity — more than any other region (according to SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast report). Meanwhile, worldwide ...
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment maker Picosun Oy of Espoo, Finland has launched the P-200 batch ALD system, specifically optimized for fast and efficient manufacturing of MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems, e.g. sensors and ...
Tags: ALD System, LEDs
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that, at its MOCVD Seminar at the 10th China International Forum on Solid State Lighting (China SSL 2013) in Beijing (10-12 November) - organized by the China Solid State ...
Tags: Aixtron MOCVD, China SSL 2013
During the Strategies in Light Europe Investor Forum, TSMC discussed its phosphor-on-die approach to LEDs while Seoul Semiconductor discussed the market opportunity and homogenous substrate development. The Strategies in Light (SIL) ...
Tags: LED, SIL Europe, Strategies