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channel inventory situation improves, and as LED technology further penetrates both the backlighting market and the general lighting market, we expect significant strengthening of the market for sapphire substrates later this year,” he said.
“We remain optimistic on the long-term outlook for the LED market and Rubicon’s positioning to capitalise on the opportunity. To date, Rubicon has shipped more than 230,000 six-inch sapphire wafers to the LED manufacturing and RFIC industries. This has provided us with the experience and scale to drive process and cost efficiencies throughout our system while maintaining our industry leading quality and service. Cost and quality leadership are instrumental to the acceleration of LED adoption in the marketplace and, as such, are strategic priorities for Rubicon,” Parvez concluded.
Riber receives order for MBE research system in Argentina
The machine will be used for designing III-V component-based semiconductor devices
MBE equipment maker Riber is selling one of its Compact21 research systems in Argentina. This is the firm’s first sale in Argentina.
in Argentina. It will enable the laboratory strengthen its development capacities for designing III-V component-based semiconductor systems.
The Compact21 MBE systems are one of the world’s top-selling research systems. They offer flexibility and can meet the most demanding expectations for applied research on compound semiconductor materials.
GTAT to provide large diameter sapphire cores to Chongqing Silian
The firm will to supply 500,000 TIE (2-inch equivalent) of 6-inch diameter c-plane sapphire cores, which will be used to produce high quality sapphire substrates for the HB-LED industry
GT Advanced Technologies has announced that its subsidiary, GT Crystal Systems, has entered into a purchase agreement with Chongqing Silian Optoelectronics Science & Technology.
GT’s ASF furnaces produce high quality sapphire crystal material that is well suited for LED manufacturing
Riber Compact 21 MBE research system
The machine will be set up in the Institute of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies of Bariloche
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«We are pleased to announce this important agreement for large diameter sapphire cores and to continue our long and successful relationship with Silian,» said Cheryl Diuguid, GT Advanced Technologies› vice president and general manager of its Sapphire Equipment and Materials Group.
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