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Aviza Technology. The company is a wholly- owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Precision Product , and designs, manufactures and sells advanced semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the global semiconductor industry and related markets.
BluGlass Limited is an Australian green technology company which uses Remote Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition (RPCVD) to grow semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) and indium galium nitride (InGaN). These materials are crucial to the production of high efficiency devices such as next generation lighting technology Light Emiting Diodes (LEDs) with significant low cost potential.
TSMC & UMC Compete in Thin-Film Solar Cell Technology Market
TSMC has aggressively moved into the solar industry this year by becoming Motech’s single largest shareholder with a 20% stake. The firm has also acquired a 21 % stake in U.S. solar photovoltaic company Stion to obtain its thin-film solar cell technology.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), one of the world’s largest contract chip makers, is expected to begin work on its first thin film solar cell plant in September according to Focus Taiwan News Channel.
Rick Tsai, president of TSMC’s new businesses division, said the new plant will focus on developing modules for Copper Indium Gallium di-Selenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cells, after it entered the silicon solar cell sector by purchasing a 20 % stake in Motech Industries, Taiwan’s biggest solar cell maker, in January.
Addressing the opening ceremony of a green job fair, Tsai also said machines and equipment will be installed in TSMC’s LED research and development center and plant in Hsinchu beginning next month.
Construction on the plant began last March and mass production is expected in 2011.
TSMC has aggressively moved into the solar industry this year, not only becoming Motech’s single largest shareholder, but also acquiring a 21 % stake in U.S. solar photovoltaic company Stion in
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Industry analysts believe that TSMC’s main rival, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), is ahead of TSMC in the thin-film solar cell market, as UMC established its own thin-film solar cell company NexPower Technology Corp. in 2005. NexPower has already entered mass production.
“TSMC believes that its past experience in developing semiconductor businesses will help speed its growth in the green energy industry, “ said Tsai, who previously served as president and CEO of TSMC from 2005 to 2009.
Tsai said TSMC is expected to recruit at least 500 people to help develop its green energy businesses in the next 12 months.
Meanwhile, Sino-American Silicon Products, Taiwan’s top maker of wafers for solar cells, also said at the job fair that it will increase its workforce from 2,400 to 6,000, in five years.
Sino-American Chairman Lu Ming-kuang said the company’s consolidated revenues grew 80 % year-on-year in the first six months of this year and predicted full-year revenues would surpass NT$21 billion, growing to NT$60 billion to NT$65 billion in 2015.
Connector Optics to Design MBE Facilities in Russia for GaAs on Mass
The plant will be based in St. Petersburgh and be used to mass produce GaAs epitaxial structures used in high-speed active components, specifically VCSELs and photodetectors.
Connector Optics has signed contracts to design industrial facilities to house MBE tools in Parnas industrial area in St.Petersburg, Russia. According to the contracts, A Plus Development also based in St.Petersburg, will be in charge of the project management, and SKTO Promproekt (Zelenograd) will be general designer. Some technology solutions will be provided by CRT Oy CleanRoom Tech (Tampere). The new facilities will house 400 square metres of clean rooms equipped with industrial molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems for mass production of epitaxial heterostructures based on gallium arsenide (GaAs). The heterostructures
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