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VPEC orders more Aixtron MOCVD reactors


VISUAL PHOTONICS EPITAXY CO. LTD. (VPEC) has ordered two more AIX 2600G3 IC MOCVD systems fully equipped to handle seven 6-inch substrates (7 x 6”) in a single run.


VPEC placed the order to expand its microwave epiwafer volume production. The systems have been installed by Aixtron’s local Taiwanese offi ce.


Neil Chen, VPEC Vice President, comments, “Our RF microwave device business operation unit will be using the new systems to support our latest capacity expansion designed to meet ever higher demand from customers. We have been using the AIX 2600G3 for more than ten years now with our last multiple systems order having been completed in 2010. This last production capacity addition has put us in the solid commercial position to invest once more in Aixtron’s high quality equipment.”


VPEC chose the Aixtron systems due to


their robustness and extended uptime, along with high throughput. “Aixtron excels at supplying equipment with these features, along with prompt service and process support, all of which are vital for our successful business,” Chen concludes.


Aixtron´s Vice President Southeast Asia Christian Geng adds, “Driven by the demand for mobile phones and Wi-Fi, the need for RF power amplifi ers based on compound semiconductor heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) continues to rise and microwave device makers are presently adding MOCVD production capacities.”


Visual Photonics Epitaxy Co. Ltd., a semiconductor epitaxial wafer pure play foundry, was founded in 1996 and is based in Ping-Jen City, Taiwan. The company provides solutions for wireless communications, optical fi bre communications, and solar cell applications.


Plessey order ALSI laser tool


ADVANCED LASER SEPARATION INTERNATIONAL (ALSI) NV has received an order for a laser dicing system from Plessey Semiconductors for its Plymouth, UK based LED manufacturing facility. Keith Strickland, Chief Technology Offi cer at Plessey says, “An essential process step to achieve our cost and LED performance targets is the singulation of the fi nished wafer into LED dies.


ALSI demonstrated their experience in dicing and proved in short turnaround time to be able to meet our challenging process, cost and delivery requirements. “ALSI’s multi-beam process will be key to the back- end processes to be included in the fabrication line in Plymouth.”


IHS: LED lamp retail price falls 11.8%


The December 2013 release of IHS’ LED lamp retail price tracker has found the global average LED lamp retail price was $24.5, indicating a fall of 0.4 percent in December over November 2013 and 11.8 percent fall over the same time last year.


IHS says that over the past twelve months the lumens per dollar ratio of LED lamps has increased by 31 percent to 29.9 lumens per dollar. IHS has been tracking the LED lamp retail pricing trends for over two years. Each month IHS analysts sample over 2,500 individual LED lamps sold in retailers across 15 countries globally.


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Many players to monopolise chip on board LED market


ACCORDING to Infi niti Research’s report, “Global Chip on Board LED Market 2014-2018”, the global Chip on Board (COB) LED market will grow at a CAGR of 41 percent over the period 2013 to 2018. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the declining ASP of LEDs.


The global Chip on Board LED market has also been witnessing the increasing demand of COB LED in general lighting applications. However, the fl uctuating global economic conditions could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.


The key vendors dominating this market space are Citizen Electronics co. Ltd., Cree Inc., Nichia Corp., Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Philips Lumileds Lighting Co., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd. Other vendors mentioned in the report are Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd., Lumens Co. Ltd., and LG Innotek Co. Ltd.


Commenting on the report, an analyst from the team says the shift from traditional lighting sources to solid-state lighting technology has resulted in the wider adoption of COB LEDs.


COB LEDs are wide-area light emitters and thus, are increasingly used in highway and street lighting, which require large amounts of light spread across a large area. COB LEDs produce better colour mixing, better lighting effect, and require very low thermal resistance systems, thereby enhancing the total consumer experience. Thus, greater power density, effi cient heat dissipation, small space requirement, and high performance makes COB LEDs more suitable than conventional LED packages for various general lighting applications.


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