Engineering, Production & Testing

Products, Materials + Tools | Aug 13, 2010
Count On Tools Announces Expanded LED Nozzle Series
Count On Tools Announces Expanded LED Nozzle Series Count On Tools Inc., a leading provider of precision components and SMT spare parts, announces the expansion of its LED nozzle series. By working closely with the LED component manufacturers, Count On Tools guarantees secure picking of all fragile components and accurate placement on circuit boards. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Jul 26, 2010
TDI announces the release of new InGaN substrates for light emitting devices
Technologies and Devices International, Inc. (TDI), the leading developer and supplier of compound nitride semiconductor materials, today announces availability of the world’s first InGaN substrate materials. InGaN is the key compound semiconductor material used for the fabrication of GaN-based ultra violet (UV), blue, green, and white light emitting diodes (LEDs) and blue laser diodes (LDs). InGaN materials serve as the light emitting regions of these light-emitting devices and determine device parameters including efficiency, light output power and lifetime. InGaN substrates are needed to provide material match for InGaN-based device epitaxial structures and to boost device performance. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Aug 26, 2010
Labsphere's TOCS LED Measurement System Conforms to LM-79 and LM-80 with Single Instrument
Labsphere's TOCS LED Measurement System Conforms to LM-79 and LM-80 with Single Instrument To more easily meet new reporting specifications, Labsphere’s new Thermal/Optical/Electrical LED Measurement Systems (TOCS) enables measurement of optical properties as a function of temperature and operating current using a single instrument. The TOCS complies with IESNA LM-79 and LM-80 standards, delivering accurate and reproducible LED measurements. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Aug 31, 2010
Cree Demonstrates High Quality 150-mm Silicon Carbide Substrates
Cree Demonstrates High Quality 150-mm Silicon Carbide Substrates Cree, Inc. announced today that it has achieved a major breakthrough in the development and wide scale commercialization of silicon carbide (SiC) technology with the demonstration of high quality, 150-mm SiC substrates with micropipe densities of less than 10/cm2. The current Cree standard for SiC substrates is 100-mm diameter material. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Sep 14, 2010
Selective Radiation Soldering For Flex-Circuits
Essemtec Switzerland introduces a new solution for soldering heat-sensitive, flexible materials such as Mylar ― a selective IR oven. The principle: the specifically selected wavelength of the IR radiation is absorbed by the solder joint but not by the foil. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Oct 19, 2010
Eulitha Unveils New Photolithography Technology for Photonics Patterning, Called PHABLE
Eulitha Unveils New Photolithography Technology for Photonics Patterning, Called PHABLE Eulitha AG, a Swiss based nanolithography company, has developed a proprietary photolithography technology for low-cost and high-throughput fabrication of photonic nanostructures. This solves a major ongoing problem faced in the fabrication of high-resolution photonic structures since standard photolithography equipment either lacks the required resolution or its cost is prohibitively high. The patented technology enables the formation of periodic nanostructures over large areas for such applications as LEDs, solar cells and flat-screen displays. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Nov 12, 2010
Advanced LED Processing Technologies for C-Plane Sapphire Substrates Enable 50% Reduction in Polishing Time
Advanced LED Processing Technologies for C-Plane Sapphire Substrates Enable 50% Reduction in Polishing Time PETER WOLTERS is introducing to the LED market a new polishing slurry that has demonstrated a 50% reduction in the time required to complete final polishing for flip chip or through substrate LED’s (see figure 1). This development utilizes a combination of chemical and abrasive technologies to decrease the cost of ownership or the manufacturing cost of the LED when manufactured on C-plane sapphire. “As demonstrated by our testing, the time required to achieve a comparable final surface finish has been reduced by half in substrates of identical incoming quality”, said David Suica, President of Peter Wolters of America, the PETER WOLTERS Competence Center for Sapphire Polishing. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Dec 02, 2010
Labsphere Launches High Speed LED Characterization Spectrometers
Labsphere Launches High Speed LED Characterization Spectrometers Designed for a full range of LED characterization measurements, Labsphere (www.labsphere.com) has introduced the CDS-5400 and CDS-9800 High Speed LED Spectrometers. Both models offer reliability, speed and accuracy with a choice of spectral range to suit specification application needs. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Dec 09, 2010
Essemtec Introduces New LED Manufacturing and Assembly Technologies Product
Essemtec Introduces New LED Manufacturing and Assembly Technologies Product Essemtec announces that it will highlight Pantera-XV at the upcoming LED EXPO, taking place in New Delhi, India, from December 17-19, 2010. Pantera-XV is a highly versatile, Swiss-quality pick-and-place, suitable for LED, standard SMD placement and dispensing. High-quality dispensing valves from Vermes also will be featured. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Dec 16, 2010
Philips Lumileds Leads LED Industry with Mass Production on 150 mm Wafers
Philips Lumileds is the first power LED manufacturer in mass production on 150 mm wafers and is now producing millions of GaN based LEDs weekly on the larger substrates. Lumileds has the most advanced LED manufacturing and operations environment and capability in the world. The company continues to lead the industry in never before possible lumen-per-dollar and lumen-per-watt performance in lighting applications and in the drive to increased adoption of solid-state lighting solutions. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Jan 21, 2011
KLA-Tencor Launches New Inspection and Analysis Systems: CANDELA® 8620 HB-LED Inspection System, ICOS® WI-2220 LED Wafer Inspector & KLARITY® LED Defect Analysis System
Today, KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced its new Candela® 8620 substrate and epitaxy (epi) wafer inspection system. In addition, KLA-Tencor introduces broad portfolio of process control solutions designed to improve productivity of LED device fabs. KLARITY LED offers automated defect analysis for LED yield enhancement and rapid time to results, while ICOS WI-2220 provides low cost of ownership to support LED industry cost per lumen goals. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Jan 26, 2011
New 12-Inch Sapphire Wafers for High Quality Lighting and Consumer Electronics Industries
New 12-Inch Sapphire Wafers for High Quality Lighting and Consumer Electronics Industries Rubicon Technology, Inc., a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today announced the production of 12-inch polished wafers, the largest high-quality, sapphire wafer ready for production of LEDs (light emitting diodes). Rubicon now offers a complete range of high quality sapphire substrates including two-, three- and four- inch core, and six-, eight- and 12-inch wafers. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 09, 2011
Veeco Introduces MaxBright MOCVD Multi-Reactor System
Veeco Introduces MaxBright MOCVD Multi-Reactor System Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today the introduction of the TurboDisc(R) MaxBright(TM) Gallium Nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Multi-Reactor System for production of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs). MaxBright has already been accepted by a leading LED manufacturer and Veeco is currently shipping MaxBright systems to additional top manufacturers in Korea, Taiwan and China. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 10, 2011
Tower Automatic Storage System Increases the Flexibility of Production
Tower Automatic Storage System Increases the Flexibility of Production Variosystems, the international electronics manufacturing subcontractor, manages thousands of components for its customers and assembly jobs. Until recently the component storage has required big efforts. Today, the Tower automatic storage system from Essemtec simplifies logistics and increases the flexibility of the production. Component reels and trays can now be stored locally in production. Read more »
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