When the Chinese energy giant Hanergy decided last week to buy Miasole,a Silicon Valley-based thin-film solar company,at less than a tenth the amount venture capitalists had invested in the firm,it could have been making a savvy move.Though ...
Epistar,the Taiwan-based company that is ranked as one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-brightness LEDs,has become the latest major producer to hint at a transfer to a potentially much cheaper silicon platform. Currently the ...
10 October 2012 Shenyang Silicon Technology opts for EV Group's EVG850LT 300-mm SOI production bonding system EV Group(EVG)of St Florian,Austria,a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment,says that China-U.S.joint-venture ...
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Bridgelux was named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100,produced by Cleantech Group,a global research and advisory firm focused on innovation in energy and the environment. The Global Cleantech 100 list is unique in the ...
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GaN-on-Si is a new technology that has the potential to replace sapphire substrates in the LED supply chain. Erwin Ysewijn, vice president of sales and marketing at Azzurro Semiconductors, a Germany-based GaN-on-Si supplier, recently ...
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18 October 2012 TowerJazz and UCI demo integrated 94GHz imaging transceiver with record performance in silicon Specialty foundry TowerJazz(which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek,Israel,and at its ...
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Epistar hints at'game-changing'silicon LED switch 12 Oct 2012 Giant Taiwanese LED maker works with GaN-on-silicon specialist Azzurro on technology with potential to cut cost of solid-state lighting. Plessey's GaN-on-silicon LED ...
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Epistar and Azzurro have jointly made breakthroughs on developing GaN-on-silicon based LEDs utilising Epistar's HB LED structures and Azzurro's technology for 150mm GaN-on-silicon in just 4 months. The firms transferred Epistar's existing ...
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The research project Low Energy Electronics Systems (LEES) has started its work with a kick-off meeting. The program's initiator is the renowned Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center based in Singapore. The LEES ...
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The research project Low Energy Electronics Systems (LEES) has started its work with a kick-off meeting. The program’s initiator is the renowned Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center based in Singapore. The ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Smart, LED Professional
Soraa will lead DOE funded research on GaN LED substrates 08 Aug 2012 The DOE's transformational-energy agency ARPA-E has selected GaN-on-GaN startup Soraa to lead a project on the development of bulk GaN substrates. Startup Soraa emerged ...
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The energy efficiency and long life of white LED is winning wide-scale application in general purpose lighting, TV backlighting, etc. and significantly boosting market size: from 700-billion yen (8.75-billion U.S. dollars) to a projected ...
Aixtron launches AIX G5+ 5x200mm GaN-on-Si package for G5 With its latest product, AIX G5+, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has introduced a 5x200mm GaN-on-Si (gallium nitride on silicon) technology package ...
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With its latest product,AIX G5+,AIXTRON SE has introduced a 5x200 mm GaN-on-Si(Gallium Nitride on Silicon)technology package for its AIX G5 Planetary Reactor platform.Following a customer-focused development program,this technology was ...
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Australia's Griffith University gains AUS$1m grant to develop SiC-onSi chip production processes Griffith University's Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre in Brisbane, Australia has been awarded AUS$1m in research funding by the ...
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