The Chinese government views the growth of the LED industry as a national security matter. As a result, it is driving a vast LED manufacturing effort and offering subsidies from central and local government agencies to help build its own ...
Tags: LED Industry, LED
A manufacturer of printed circuit boards and other electronics, will reduce energy lighting costs by 40 percent, or $50,000 in annual costs, thanks to an installation of LED lighting at its facilities, one of the largest installations of ...
Tags: LED Bluestone, Lights, Lighting, LED
The US Department of Energy has released a report on the third part of its LED Environmental testing research, has published a new study covering LED and fluorescent sources in commercial ambient lighting, and has revealed National Academy ...
Increased spending in NAND and flash by Micron, LEDs by Philips and Osram, and continued investments by GLOBALFOUNDRIES will create new opportunities for equipment and materials suppliers in Southeast Asia. These trends will be explored at ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, semiconductor
Startup makes LEDs on 8-in silicon substrates using microwire technology and has received a EUR 10 million investment to commercialize the technology. Aledia has announced that it has successfully transferred its microwire ...
Tags: silicon LEDs, LED technology, LED
The LED industry has been in an oversupply following the large capacity expansion in 2011; how will the landscape shift in 2013? As the LED-related applications make their way into various areas and receive increasing interest in the ...
Tags: LED industry, LED, LED chip
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC) will make its Solid-State Lighting (SSL) market debut with a new multi-reactor Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) cluster tool. The Prismo D-Blue™ MOCVD platform enables ...
Tags: AMEC, Solid-State Lighting, Lighting Market
At the SEMICON China show in Shanghai next week (19-21 March), Shanghai-based dielectric and through-silicon via (TSV) etch tool supplier Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc (AMEC) is making its solid-state lighting (SSL) market debut ...
Tags: MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics
Ming Ma, doctoral student at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A US student has won a $30,000 grant to develop a new way of manufacturing LEDs. Ming Ma, who is studying at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insititute in New York State in ...
Tags: LEDs, lighting, LED manufacturing
Is it time for high-brightness LED manufacturing to get serious about process control? If so, what lessons can be learned from traditional, silicon-based integrated circuit manufacturing? The answer to the first question can be ...
Tags: LED manufacturing, LED substrate, MOCVD
SEMI's HB-LED Standards Committee has approved its first standard, specifying sapphire wafers used in making high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) devices. Sapphire wafers are used in producing HB-LED devices for multiple ...
Tags: SEMI, HB-LED Standards Committee, LED manufacturing supply chain
Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity. According to the SEMI LED/Opto Fab Forecast, spending on LED fab manufacturing ...
Tags: LED Manufacturing Investment, LED fab manufacturing equipment
AIXTRON SE, a provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, last week announced revenues and minimal EBIT loss for the fiscal year 2012. A slow recovery of revenues but a virtually flat order intake throughout the year ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
For full-year 2012, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has reported revenue down by 63% to €227.8m (from €611m in 2011). But despite the dramatic fall in full-year sales, fourth-quarter revenue of ...
Tags: Aixtron MOCVD, Germany, revenue
AIXTRON SE has been awarded the 2013 Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Award for its latest development, the AIX G5+ reactor for gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si). The Award recognizes key areas of innovation surrounding the chip ...