October 10, 2008 - Technology News
IQE joins European-funded 'VISIT' Program
IQE of Cardiff, UK, was welcomed has a member of the €3.5 million European program to develop photonics components for broadband and ...
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September 30, 2008 - Technology News
IQE provides epitaxy for US graphene project
Innovative molecular beam epitaxy and chemical vapor deposition processes are central to the development of graphene transistors in a DARPA ...
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September 23, 2008 - Industry News
UK cracks GaN-on-silicon LED issues
A government-backed LED project produces crack-free GaN-on-silicon epiwafers with an internal quantum efficiency of 40 percent. ...
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August 14, 2008 - Technology News
Advanced silicon process from IQE set to enter production
IQE plc, the leading global supplier of advanced semiconductor wafer products and wafer services to the semiconductor industry, is ...
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July 10, 2008 - Technology News
Matheson "pico-trap" produces new levels of semiconductor process gas purity
Matheson Tri-Gas Electronics today introduced its patented "PICO-TRAP" (TM) Ultra-Purification System for removing volatile metal ...
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June 4, 2008 - Technology News
IMEC makes crack-free GaN on 8-inch silicon
A breakthrough in GaN-based microelectronics could be on the cards, after researchers from IMEC and Aixtron produced a crack-free nitride ...
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February 15, 2008 - Technology News
Toho Technology to sell Nanometrics' III-V characterization lines in Japan
Nanometrics Incorporated has named Toho Technology Corp. as exclusive distributor in Japan for six Compound Semiconductor and Materials ...
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December 12, 2007 - Industry News
Seoul Semiconductor Claims Thinnest Chip LED
Seoul Semiconductor has launched its new chip LED. The company contends that the design of the chip LED, for which the company has applied ...
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August 2, 2007 - Industry News
Orders increase again at strengthening Aixtron
Despite a sequential dip in quarterly sales, semiconductor equipment vendor Aixtron is witnessing ongoing strong demand, particularly ...
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June 20, 2007 - Technology News
Diodes come in high and wide at Laser show
Alfalight, JDSU and nLight vie for attention with their new product releases at the Laser – World of Photonics show in Munich this week, ...
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April 4, 2007 - Technology News
Berlin researchers buy reactor for UV work
A leading optoelectronics research group at the Technical University of Berlin has ordered a Thomas Swan system to develop high-brightness ...
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March 28, 2007 - Technology News
980nm pump laser makers go for power play
Laser chip manufacturers JDSU, Bookham and Lumics are all showing off new high-power designs at this week’s optical fiber communication (OFC) ...
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March 28, 2007 - Industry News
Motorola bombshell could hit Skyworks and RFMD
Last week's dismal trading update from Motorola looks like it could spell trouble for GaAs chip manufacturers RF Micro Devices and Skyworks ...
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March 26, 2007 - Technology News
Arima Opto Spins off Laser Diode Business
Arima Optoelectronics (Arima Opto), a Taiwan-based LED manufacturer, reported that it will spin off its laser diode manufacturing division to ...
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March 23, 2007 - Industry News
IPG to expand laser fabrication with Veeco tools
IPG Photonics, the fiber laser maker that owns a compound semiconductor fabrication facility at its Oxford, MA, headquarters, has ordered two ...
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March 22, 2007 - Industry News
Tekcore moves into GaN laser production
Epitaxy equipment vendor has received a purchase order from the Taiwanese company Tekcore for a production system designed to manufacture blue ...
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March 22, 2007 - Industry News
More opto consolidation as CyOptics buys Apogee
InP optoelectronic component foundry CyOptics is set to acquire fellow chip manufacturer and close neighbor Apogee Photonics. The deal is a clear ...
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March 2, 2007 - Industry News
Yield improvements spin AXT to operating profit
GaAs, InP and germanium substrate vendor AXT has capped its turnaround story by posting a net profit of $3.4 million for the quarter that ended on December 31. CEO Phil Yin, who has ...
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January 24, 2007 - Technology News
Cree qualifies first 4-inch LED process
SiC and GaN chip manufacturer Cree says it has qualified 4-inch wafer processes for LED and Schottky diode fabrication. In an investor conference call to discuss ...
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January 19, 2007 - Industry News
Bede encouraged by return to profit
X-ray inspection equipment vendor Bede has seen a big jump in orders for its characterization tools, and turned a small pre-tax profit in the final ...
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January 16, 2007 - Technology News
GCS foundry deal signals shifting opto strategies
In a strategic move that highlights an accelerating shift towards outsourced wafer processing of optical telecommunication devices, Xponent ...
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January 11, 2007 - Technology News
RF Micro switches on GaAs PHEMT capability
RF Micro Devices has launched two new types of switch for use in cell-phones, cellular infrastructure, and wireless LAN applications. Last ...
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January 9, 2007 - Industry News
Finnish epi start-up scoops venture gong
EpiCrystals, a Finnish start-up company specializing in laser diode structures, has beaten off nearly 500 rivals to win the European Venture ...
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December 15, 2006 - Technology News
GaAs chipmakers urged to get multifunctional
GaAs market analysts say that with demand from cellular backhaul applications flattening out, device makers will have to develop multi- ...
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December 7, 2006 - Industry News
Market demand provokes AlGaInP ramp at SDK
Show Denko (SDK) is stepping up its AlGaInP chip capacity with a $13 million investment. SDKs upgrade will include an expansion of MOCVD ...
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