Quantum dots to see 55% 10-year CAGR on LED, display, healthcare, other applications
May 22, 2012
Quantum dots will grow to a $7480.25 million market by 2022, at a ten-year CAGR of 55.2%, according to Electronics.ca Publications. |
Wafer bonding enables better LEDs with right process and materials
May 21, 2012
LED manufacturers must choose the appropriate materials and processes to fight low yields, writes Thomas Uhrmann of EV Group (EVG). |
China’s LED production, consumption plans
May 18, 2012
China has designated LEDs as one of the 7th emerging industries to be fostered in the Twelfth Five-year Plan. China is accelerating standardization plans, encouraging local production, and subsidizing purchases of LED lighting, Displaybank reports. |
SEMICON West preview: Conference keynotes and "Extreme Electronics"
May 18, 2012
SEMICON West is less than 2 months away, July 10-12 in San Francisco, CA. Plan your attendee schedule now with highlights from the Extreme Electronics “show within a show;” 4 strong keynotes; sessions on device architecture and node shrink, lithography, 450mm wafers and more. |
China's LED subsidy totals RMB2.2B
May 17, 2012
Barclays Capital’s Asia IT analyst Jones Ku shares details of China's State Council’s subsidy program for household electrical appliances. The program sets aside RMB2.2 billion to promote consumption of LEDs and “other energy-saving light bulbs.” |
Is the LED boom and bust cycle leveling out?
May 16, 2012
After a surge in 2010 and oversupply in 2011 that suppressed 2012 fab, LED makers will see a leveling out of supply and demand into better equilibrium, according to NPD DisplaySearch. Demand will shift from LCD-backlit LEDs to LEDs for lighting. |
Beyond sapphire: LED substrates from GaN to ZnO, SiC, and Si
May 14, 2012
LEDs are typically manufactured on sapphire substrates, about 90% of the blue LEDs currently in production. SiC substrates are used for virtually all the remaining 10% of blue LEDs. To improve efficiency and brightness, as well as cost, LED makers are looking to other substrates, such as Si and Z...
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The low utilization/MOCVD uptick phenomenon, LED efficacy and price, more from Lightfair
May 14, 2012
Barclays Capital analysts attended Lightfair International and gleaned several trends in LEDs and OLEDs for lighting, including an interesting phenomenon around MOCVD utilization rates and new orders. |
GaN-on-Si LED from Bridgelux, Toshiba hits performance record
May 11, 2012
Bridgelux and Toshiba reported a 1.1mm2 LED chip fabricated on an 8" GaN-on-Si wafer, emitting 614mW, <3.1V @ 350mA. The companies will collaborate on commercializing GaN-on-Si LEDs, and Toshiba has invested in Bridgelux. |
AMAT throws the brakes on LED fab equipment
May 10, 2012
In light of “challenging industry conditions” in the LED and PV manufacturing sectors, Applied Materials (AMAT) decided to restructure its Energy and Environmental Solutions (EES) segment. |
SEMI lauds Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI) for microelectronics/photovoltaics support
May 9, 2012
SEMI presented US Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI) with its 2012 North American Government Leadership Award for his leadership and support of the US microelectronics and photovoltaic manufacturing value chain. |
LED maker SunSun Lighting raises $30M from investors
May 9, 2012
SunSun Lighting, a provider of high-performance, energy-efficient and low-cost LED lighting technologies, received $30 million in Series B financing from GSR Ventures and Oak Investment Partners and additional commitments from its original angel investors. Allan Kwan, a China-based advisor for Oa...
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HB-LED makers drive economic improvement with alternative substrates, automation, and yield
May 8, 2012
SEMI’s Paula Doe covers the “commodity market” of LEDs, including capacity utilization at LED fabs, automation in manufacturing that could improve yields, LEDs fabbed on silicon and GaN instead of sapphire wafers, and more. |
AIXTRON MOCVD tool installed for GaN research at U of Warsaw
May 8, 2012
University of Warsaw, Poland, researchers will grow GaN materials on a new AIXTRON SE Close Coupled Showerhead MOCVD reactor in a 3 x 2” wafer configuration. |
AIXTRON wins repeat MOCVD order from LED maker
May 7, 2012
AIXTRON SE’s long-time customer Formosa Epitaxy Inc. (FOREPI) ordered several MOCVD systems: 4 CRIUS II-XL systems in a 19 x 4” wafer configuration and 2 G5 HT reactors in a 14 x 4” wafer configuration. |
LED makers qualify c-axis sapphire wafers from ARC Energy, Trinity Material
May 4, 2012
Sapphire wafers grown using ARC Energy’s Controlled Heat Extraction System furnaces for Trinity Material was certified for high-quality LED chip production at two leading LED chip companies. |
Toyoda Gosei, Showa Denko form GaN LED JV
May 1, 2012
Showa Denko KK will transfer 70% of its gallium-nitride (GaN)-based blue light emitting diode (LED) chip business into a new company, TS Opto Co. Ltd, with Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. |
What have we done for you lately?
May 1, 2012
This page is usually reserved for a guest editorial by someone in the industry that wants to rant a little bit about the lack of standards in any given area, the need to get young students interested in engineering and the sciences, why fab safety is so important, or answering the call to innovat...
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Phosphor trends for LED manufacturing
May 1, 2012
The phosphor market is largely a game of scale and relationships, as much of the intellectual property (IP) around phosphors was created in the 1970-80s (at least for select element combinations) and protection has by now expired, analysts from Barclays Capital. |
LED manufacturer Lumichip expands in Finland, opens development center
Apr 27, 2012
Lumichip Limited, an LED manufacturer, expanded its commercial operations in Finland and opened a new development center in Espoo, Finland. |
