New White Paper Examines the LED Market and Emerging Markets for Sapphire Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN) a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical industries, today announced the ...
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Prices of sapphire ingots have been increasing causing substrate makers to plan a price hike on patterned sapphire substrates (PSSs). Some firms have been adjusting prices since the end of the first quarter, causing other firms to follow ...
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For first-quarter 2013, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $8.3m, down 18.6% on ...
Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN) a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical markets, today announced that it has relaunched its website to reflect the company's focus on market ...
Market rumors that the new generation of Apple's iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for the home button have been circulating and Taiwan-based sapphire substrate maker Tera Xtal has reportedly sent samples to Apple for verification. ...
Over-investment has caused rising inventories in the sapphire industry. Although demand has been returning in the first-half of 2013, to reduce inventories, sapphire prices are unlikely to show any strong increase. Digitimes Research ...
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Sapphire ingot manufacturers are in a state of “the big gets bigger”, says LEDinside, a research department of TrendForce. According to the firm’s 2013 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report, cost competitive, first-tier ...
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While price drops of sapphire wafers slowed down significantly in the first quarter of 2013, prices for 2-inch sapphire wafers, which stand at US$6.8-7 currently, may rise, according to Taiwan-based sapphire wafer makers. Prices for ...
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Mass production of GaN template wafers based on sapphire substrates could free LED manufacturers' MOCVD reactors for more LED production and lower component cost helping drive the deployment of SSL. Hitachi Cable has become the second ...
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Toshiba's white LED package Bridgelux is selling its gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si)?technology and related assets to Toshiba. The news comes as the two companies announced that they will expand their licensing and manufacturing ...
Hitachi Cable has launched a new mass-production technology for GaN-templates as shown in Figures 1 and 2 below. The process allows high-quality GaN single-crystal thin film to be grown on a sapphire substrate and the company plans to ...
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Hitachi Cable, Ltd. announced today that it has developed a new mass-production technology for GaN-templates, in which a high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) single-crystal thin film is grown on a sapphire substrate. Using this product as a ...
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Sapphire substrate makers have noted that order visibility is clear to May due to expected demand growth in the LED backlighting and lighting markets. Market observers believe prices of sapphire substrates are likely to increase slightly in ...
Tokyo-based Hitachi Cable Ltd says that it has developed new mass-production technology for gallium nitride (GaN) templates (see Figure 1), in which a high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) single-crystal thin film is grown on a sapphire ...
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Bridgelux is selling its gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology and related assets to Toshiba Toshiba’s white LED package The two companies also announced they will ramp up a factory in Japan to make LEDs based ...
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