HC Semitek board approved the acquisition of Chinese sapphire substrate manufacturer Crystaland during a recent shareholder meeting. The acquisition deal signals the company is extending its reach into the upstream LED market sector, and ...
Tags: M&A, HC Semitek, Cyrstaland
The LED market has shown mixed results in different global regions recently. Stagnant LED shipment growth, and plunging sapphire substrate prices have brought related manufacturers operations under the market lime light. Market sources ...
Tags: sapphire industry, restructure, LED market
“It is only a matter of time before white LEDs using blue LED chips will disappear from the market,” said Shuji Nakamura at a forum on GaN technology in July organized by Nikkei Asian Review. The comment from the inventor of ...
Tags: LED chip, Blue LED, Purple LEDs
For second-quarter 2015, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $7.1m, down 51% on $14.5m a ...
Tags: Mobile Market, LED light, LED bulb
Oxford Instruments says that several PlasmaPro 800 plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) systems have been ordered by China's Enraytek Optoelectronics Co for manufacturing high-brightness LEDs. Enraytek's key products are ...
OEM Group of Phoenix, AZ, USA (which supplies new and re-manufactured semiconductor capital equipment and upgrades focused on emerging markets) says that a leading LED maker has placed a repeat order for an AGHeatpulse RTP (rapid thermal ...
PSS (patterned sapphire substrate) maker Rigidtech Microelectronics is setting up a factory in eastern China with initial monthly capacity of 100,000 PSS and volume production there will begin around the end of 2015, according to the ...
Shunfeng International Clean Energy Limited (SFCE) announced that it has signed an MOU with Lattice Power to acquire a 51% ownership stake in the company. SFCE's successful bid in Lattice Power is a milestone for the listed company as it ...
Tags: SFCE, Lattice Power, Lights
Patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) maker Rigidtech Microelectronics is seeing strong orders in March and expects continued growth into April, with 4-inch units expected to be at the forefront, according to company president Hung Wen-ching. ...
Tags: Sapphire, LED Chip, epitaxial wafer
As PSS (patterned sapphire substrate) makers have been expanding production capacities, PSS supply has significantly increased and therefore Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers have asked PSS makers to lower quotes for a 4-inch ...
As prices for 6-inch sapphire wafers are on the decline and China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers are increasing their use of 4-inch sapphire wafers, Taiwan-based LED makers are poised to shift mainly to 6-inch wafers to reduce ...
Tags: 6-Inch Sapphire Wafers, LED
Zhejiang University in China and University of Cambridge in the UK have jointly developed ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) based on metal-semiconductor Schottky junctions between silver nanowires (AgNWs) and gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Epistar has invested NT$825 million (US$25.94 million) to merge with TSMC Solid State Lighting (SSL), helping to enhance Epistar's capability in the lighting industry. Before the decision was made, many companies such as SemiLEDs and ...
Tags: LED Market, LED technologies, Lights
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) says that its board of directors has appointed William Weissman to the permanent ...
NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Japan has used a hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) layer to release and transfer gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) from sapphire substrate to thermally conducting copper, ...
Tags: Boron Nitride, GaN Transistors