Taiwan-based sapphire wafer makers, viewing that LED demand is unlikely to grow to, have started looking to have sapphire wafers adopted as protection covers for iPhone 5 cameras. Several smartphone vendors including Taiwan-based HTC and ...
The HB-LED Standards Committee of industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has approved its first standard ‘SEMI HB1: Specifications for Sapphire Wafers Intended for Use for Manufacturing High ...
Tags: LED, Light, HB LED, LED devices
Several SEMI task forces have been developing standards related to LED manufacturing, and the first of these, describing specifications for 150-mm-diameter sapphire wafers, has now been approved. The HB-LED Standards Committee of SEMI, the ...
Tags: SEMI, LED manufacturing, HB-LED Standard
Significant overcapacity and low LED substrate prices will affect the profitability and viability of many sapphire players in 2013 and beyond. So says a new market report 'Sapphire Substrates 2013' from analyst company Yole ...
Tags: sapphire substrates, low LED substrate, LED, LED makers
According to a market research report published by Strategies Unlimited (SU), the high-brightness (HB) LED market, experienced a 93 percent growth rate between 2009 and 2010. In 2009, the global market for packaged HB LEDs was $5.6 billion. ...
Tags: Sapphire Wafer
After 2014, China will boast the world's largest LED epitaxy and chip production capacity base. However, China LED fabs are mainly concentrated on blue/green GaN LED manufacturing, and most of the capacity focuses on small and medium size ...
Tags: China LED
After experiencing a boon in 2010, the weak LED market reaction in 2011 did not allow the global LED manufacturing production to grow as expected. Capacity utilization reached a low due to the fast capacity expansion and slower market ...
Tags: LED market, china LED
PCB equipment maker Csun Manufacturing will begin shipping its PSS (patterned sapphire substrate) manufacturing equipment in December, pushing its revenues for the month to over NT$500 million (US$17.13 million), according to industry ...
Tags: Csun manufacturing, PSS, revenues
MOCVD, lithography, plasma etching, PECVD & PVD tools to experience turbulent investment cycles in the coming years GEARING UP FOR THE NEXT INVESTMENT CYCLE The packaged LED market still presents significant opportunities for growth ...
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Formosa Epitaxy,a Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker,Crystalwise Technology(CWT)and Crystal Applied Technology(CAT),two Taiwan-based sapphire wafer makers,saw November revenues drop by 22.96%,9.32%and rise by 5.00%on month ...
Tags: Formosa Epitaxy, LED epitaxial wafer and chip, CWT, CAT
Suzhou Hyperion Geocrystal Co Ltd has achieved volume production of large-diameter c-axis sapphire cores using CHES (Controlled Heat Extraction System) furnaces from Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, ...
Tags: Hyperion Geocrystal, ARC Energy, Sapphire crystallization furnaces, CHES
ARC Energy's CHES furnaces enable Suzhou Hyperion Geocrystal to enter volume production of sapphire cores and wafers, for high-brightness LEDs, ranging from 2-8 mm in diameter. Larger wafers are one avenue toward lower-cost LEDs and a ...
Zeta Instruments Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which provides optical profilers for micron-scale surface analysis, says that Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA has ordered multiple units of the Zeta-300 series optical profiler for ...
Tags: Sapphire substrates
Rubicon Technology has placed an order of multiple units of the Zeta 300 series optical profiler from San Jose based Zeta Instruments for its sapphire substrate and wafer production. The company will use the Zeta-300 series optical ...
Tags: North America, Rubicon, Sapphire, Zeta
C Sun lands PSS turnkey order from China Patty Wang C Sun,a Taiwan-based maker of PCB,FPD and other types of production equipment,has obtained a turnkey order for PSS(patterned sapphire substrate)production,including equipment,related ...