Xidian University in China has used pulsed metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to increase indium gallium nitride (InGaN) room-temperature channel mobility to 1681cm2/V-s, which is claimed to be a record [Yachao Zhang et al, ...
In-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has purchased a large number of its latest metrology systems for fab-wide metal-organic chemical vapor ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany received the CS High-Volume Manufacturing Award 2016 for its new fully automated AIX G5+ C metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system at this year's CS ...
Tags: Aixtron, MOCVD, CS industry Awards, GaN-on-Si
X-ray-based in-line metrology and defect detection tool maker Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd (JVS) of Migdal Haemek, Israel has received a strategic order for its QC3 high-resolution x-ray diffraction (HR-XRD) system for strain and ...
The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is awarding the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, Nick Holonyak Jr and Shuji Nakamura for “the invention, development, and ...
Tags: LED Lighting, diode applications, Electrical
Currently, most flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices are fabricated using organic materials. However, for these devices inorganic compound semiconductors such as gallium nitride (GaN) can provide advantages over organic materials ...
Tags: LEDs, LED displays, Electrical, Electronics
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is developing techniques to monolithically integrate high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on aluminium indium gallium nitride (AlInGaN) ...
Tags: Nitride Semiconductor, LEDs, LED regions
Australian Cleantech company BluGlass Limited has today announced that it has increased its operational capacity with the successful commissioning of a former production MOCVD system at the Company’s Silverwater facility. Using a low ...
Tags: Bluegalss, MOCVD System
Global demand for precursor material used in manufacturing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will more than double from 2012 to 2016 as the market for LED lighting booms, according to a new report 'Precursor for LED MOCVD-Market and Industry ...
Global demand for precursor, a material used in manufacturing of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), is set to more than double from 2012 to 2016, as the market for LED lighting booms, according to a new report entitled “Precursor for LED ...
Tags: Key Raw Material, LED Market
Valence Process Equipment, Inc. (VPE) has announced the commercial release of the VPE GaN-500 MOCVD system, a new metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system for production of high-brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs). The VPE ...
Tags: LED industry, LED
GT Advanced Technologies and Soitec , today announced a development agreement and a licensing agreement allowing GT to develop, manufacture and commercialize a high-volume, multi-wafer HVPE system to produce high-quality GaN epi layers on ...
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
Following its proof-of-concept achievement in late 2012, BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that it has produced p-type gallium nitride (GaN) films with industry-equivalent electrical properties using its proprietary ...
Tags: LED device, LED structure, LED
The higher growth rates and improved material properties made possible by the HVPE system are expected to significantly reduce process costs while boosting device performance compared with the traditional MOCVD process. Initial pre-payment ...
Tags: HVPE system, process costs, device performance, MOCVD process