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Kyma and Veeco to push LED manufacturing forward
KYMA TECHNOLOGIES has teamed with Veeco Instruments for next generation LED manufacturing equipment development project which was awarded $4 million in funding from the US Department of Energy.
Kyma President and CEO, Keith Evans, stated, “We appreciate the opportunity to work with Veeco on this project to accelerate growth in the LED market.”
Kyma’s product line is designed to improve energy efficiency and overall performance of LEDs and power electronics, critical for furthering growth in solar, solid state lighting and other green technology markets. In order for materials to be accepted commercially there needs to be an appropriate process equipment infrastructure.
Veeco is receiving funding for a project targeted at lowering costs and improving brightness and efficiency of LEDs through new materials, substrates, and deposition technologies. Kyma Technologies will be supplying material and services to Veeco as part of this development project.
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Global smartphone market to grow 55% in 2011
THE worldwide smartphone market is forecast to grow 55% year over year in 2011 as a growing number of users turn in their feature phones for more advanced devices.
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors will ship a total of 472 million smartphones in 2011 compared to roughly 305 million units shipped in 2010. That figure will nearly double to 982 million by the end of 2015.
Veeco and Kyma team’s project is an excellent example of a research investment that ensures our future economic competitiveness. This project and others like it show that the Triangle is again leading the way investing in job creation, furthering our nation’s energy independence, and moving us one step closer to a clean energy economy.”
The market for nitride semiconductor devices was $12B in 2010 and is expected to reach $90B over the long term, including $60B in visible lighting applications and $30B in power electronics applications.
First Solar reaches 4 GW manufacturing milestone
FIRST SOLAR says it has manufactured 4 GW of thin-film photovoltaic CdTe solar modules since beginning commercial production in 2002.
A 4GW generation capacity is enough solar electricity to power around two million households, displacing more than 2.5 million metric tons of CO2 emissions a year—the equivalent of taking 500,000 cars off the road. The company also announced that its second factory at Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, has begun producing solar modules one month ahead of schedule.
The four new production lines are still expected to ramp to full production during the third quarter of 2011, bringing annual capacity at the two Frankfurt factories to more than 500 MW.
First Solar, which is one of the world’s leading producers of PV solar modules, also has manufacturing sites in Perrysburg, Ohio and Kulim, Malaysia, as well as new plants under construction in Mesa, Arizona and Vietnam. It recently completed the production ramp of its two newest plants in Malaysia.
The fast- growing
smartphone market, which will grow more than four times the rate of the overall mobile phone
market this year, is being fuelled by falling average selling prices, increased phone functionality, and lower-cost data plans among other factors, which make the devices more accessible to a wider range of users.
“The smartphone floodgates are open wide,” said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. “Mobile phone users around the world are turning in their ‘talk- and-text’ devices for smartphones as these devices allow users to perform daily tasks like shopping and banking from anywhere.”
“The growth trend is particularly pronounced in emerging markets where adoption is still in its early days. As a result, the growth in regions such as Asia/Pacific and Latin America, will be dramatic over the coming years.”
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