12/19/2016  Data from SEMI’s recently updated World Fab Forecast report reveal that 62 new Front End facilities will begin operation between 2017 and 2020.

12/15/2016  In 2015, all economic indicators pointed to continued market growth for both industries, power electronics and LED, especially with IGBT modules boosted by EV/HEV industry and general lighting applications, a killer application for LEDs since 2012.

12/14/2016  The new XHP50.2 LED enables lighting manufacturers to quickly improve the performance of existing XHP50 lighting designs.

12/08/2016  Ultratech, Inc. announced that the Laboratory for Emerging and Exploratory Devices has chosen the Ultratech-CNT Fiji G2 PEALD system as its instrument of choice for its research activities.

12/07/2016  “We’ve been seeing a steady increase in market interest and sales,” said ClassOne Technology President, Kevin Witt.

12/02/2016  According to Yole’s analysts, the packaged LED market represented a revenue of nearly US$15.7 billion in 2015. This industry should grow to a size of nearly US$18.2 billion by 2020.

11/15/2016  Nanotech enables powerful and portable sterilization equipment.

11/11/2016  The North American LED market is expected to reach $11,702.6 Million by 2022.

11/04/2016  UCSB researchers warn that trace amounts of transition metal impurities act as recombination centers in gallium nitride semiconductors.

10/31/2016  A Lehigh University team discovers that the widely used semiconducting material is almost as wear-resistant as diamonds.

10/30/2016  Equipment vendors have a lot on their plates now, with memory customers pushing 3D NAND, foundries advancing to the 7 nm node, and 200mm fabs clamoring to come up with hard-to-find tools.

10/14/2016  LED remains the dominant sapphire application in 2016. Overall, rates of usage in smartwatches have been disappointing and have decreased below 2015 levels.

10/13/2016  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced a new line-up of chip scale package (CSP) LED modules for spotlights and downlights that features color tunability and increased design compatibility.

10/12/2016  Scientists with the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the first time discovered how to make perovskite solar cells out of quantum dots and used the new material to convert sunlight to electricity with 10.77 percent efficiency.

09/21/2016  Many LED failures are the result of voids or other gap-type anomalies that block heat flow from the die.

09/21/2016  The conference and networking event, will be held at the iconic Hotel del Coronado in San Diego on May 14-17, 2017.

09/19/2016  As we have predicted two and a half years back, the industry is bifurcating, and just a few products pursue scaling to 7nm while the majority of designs stay on 28nm or older nodes.

09/09/2016  "Promising" and "remarkable" are two words U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory scientist Javier Vela uses to describe recent research results on organolead mixed-halide perovskites.

09/07/2016  Lower sales projections for connected cities leads to reduced semiconductor IoT market forecast.

09/01/2016  “The sapphire industry is still plagued by overcapacity and rapid price declines,” asserts Yole Développement (Yole) in its latest report Sapphire Applications & Market 2016: LED & Consumer Electronics.