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substrates. With projected defect rates 10 times lower than substrates currently on the market, these substrates should improve the quality of existing LED, laser and electronic products, while also making possible whole new categories of UV devices.
The result will be improved white lighting for consumer and industrial uses, more efficient power systems in hybrid vehicles, sharper colour on flat- screen TVs, and better air and water purifiers. Nitride will use the funding to perfect the technology, and to begin manufacturing and sales in late 2011. “The number of biomedical and industrial applications of LED technology is rapidly growing,” said Karen Linder, co-deal lead for Nebraska Angels in Lincoln. “Nitride Solutions’ novel method of creating substrates on which these crystals can be grown will change the market. The technology is revolutionary, and the leadership team has the commercial experience and the scientific skills that will make the company successful.” “We expect to benefit with both high financial rewards and the satisfaction that we will have been part of the effort of applying hard science to alleviating some of the world’s most vexing problems, including cheap access to pure water,” said Muriel Taylor, president and CEO of Aurora UV in Santa Barbara.
Nitride is still seeking a small group of financial and strategic investors to finalise the round, which will stay open until September.
Aixtron – SINANO training
centre established in China The manufacturer of MOCVD equipment will provide one CRIUS II system and one AIXG5HT system at SINANO’s facility to train its customers and potential customers’ engineers.
Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech & Nano-bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SINANO) signed an agreement on June 22 in Suzhou with Aixtron to co- establish the “Aixtron - SINANO MOCVD Training Centre” agreement.
As a leading manufacturer of MOCVD equipment, Aixtron will provide one CRIUS II MOCVD system and one AIXG5HT MOCVD system at SINANO’s facility to train its customers and potential customers’ engineers on the usage of MOVCD systems. SINANO’s process and maintenance engineers will also be trained by Aixtron for the system operations.
MOCVD is the most critical epitaxial growth equipment on the upstream chain of semiconductor lighting industry and requires high-level operation staff. By building the Aixtron - SINANO MOCVD Training Centre, SINANO and Aixtron will play advantages of each party’s, for training the high- end industry professionals and to provide the talent supports for both Yangtze River Delta region and the national optoelectronics and photovoltaic industry development.
What’s more, based on this cooperation, the two sides prepare to establish a MOCVD R&D centre, with a view to fundamentally improve China’s MOCVD epitaxy technology and MOCVD equipment manufacturing capacity.
Yang Hui, director of SINANO and Wolfgang Breme, CFO of Aixtron attended the agreement signing ceremony.
July 2011
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