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Dec 14, 2011
Mentor Graphics Announces Industry’s First Integrated Solution for Component-to-System Thermal Characterization and Analysis
Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the electronic industry’s first combined technology for thermal characterization and simulation with T3Ster® hardware test products and its FloTHERM® software. The Mentor Graphics® T3Ster product is the world’s leading advanced thermal transient tester for semiconductor device packages and LEDs. Mentor’s FloTHERM product is the de-facto standard for electronics thermal simulation and analysis to predict airflow, temperature and heat transfer throughout electronics equipment including components, boards, and entire systems. The unique interface between T3Ster and FloTHERM seamlessly creates accurate thermal simulation models. The thermal characterization offering is unique because it is the only JESD51-14 compliant solution available on the market today.
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Dec 14, 2011
NGK Introduces New Wafer Products for Electronic Devices at SEMICON Japan
NGK Insulators, Ltd. (President: Taro Kato; Headquarters: Nagoya, Japan) has developed new wafer products for electronic device applications, such as ultra high brightness (UHB) LEDs and smartphones. The Company will exhibit samples of these wafers for the first time at SEMICON Japan 2011, which will be held December 7 through 9 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.
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Jan 24, 2012
AvaSpec-RS Series - the World’s Most Configurable Microspectrometer
Avantes launches the world's first Miniature Spectrometer with an exchangeable slit. Available in April, this spectrometer makes you choose the right selection between throughput and resolution, every time you need to.
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Jan 24, 2012
Soitec and Sumitomo Electric Announce Major Milestone in Strategic Joint Development of Engineered GaN Substrates
Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., a leading worldwide provider of compound semiconductor materials, have reached a major milestone in their strategic joint development program started in December 2010 by demonstrating four- and six-inch engineered gallium nitride (GaN) substrates and launching pilot production lines to enable wider market adoption. These substrates ─ produced by transferring ultra-thin high quality GaN layers from a single GaN wafer to produce multiple engineered GaN substrates ─ are ideally suited for manufacturing advanced high-brightness light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for the lighting market and power-efficient controllers for the electric vehicles and energy markets.
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Jan 25, 2012
Gamma Scientific Introduces New Spectrometer for Quick and Easy LED Testing
Gamma Scientific, a pioneer in light measurement instrumentation since 1961, has developed a low-cost spectrometer to provide quick and accurate testing for LEDs. The RadOMA Lite is a high-performance, linear CCD array spectrometer designed to test LED intensity and total flux. Gamma Scientific will be showcasing the RadOMA Lite and their complete line of LED test and measurement solutions in booths 501 and 600 at the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, CA from February 7-9, 2012.
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Jan 25, 2012
Instrument Systems Announces New Products for 2012
Instrument Systems launches new products for LED measurement and testing. The CAS 120 is a new series of the proven CCD Array Spectrometers, specifically developed for price-sensitive applications in spectral light measurement, such as LED production testing. The new own current source for LED testing is the LSM 350 4-quadrant source, developed to meet the requirements for production testing of LEDs and LED wafers.
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Feb 15, 2012
GPD Global’s PCD4H Dispense Pump Improves Yields for LED Manufacturers
GPD Global, a manufacturer of precision fluid dispensing systems for high-volume 24/7, low-volume/high-mix and R&D production, announces that its PCD4H Dispense Pump yields excellent results with phosphor and non-phosphor-filled LED encapsulation as viewed on the color chart by tightly grouped results.
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Mar 07, 2012
Plansee's Newly Developed Mo-Cu R670 Prevents Cracks in LED Semiconductor Layers
With Mo-Cu R670, PLANSEE has developed a new molybdenum-copper composite material for semiconductor wafer substrates. The material ensures optimized heat dissipation in LED chips.
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Dec 30, 1969
opsira Introduces robo-goniometer for Flexible Measurement Tasks
opsiras robo-goniometer enables flexible measurements of a number of angle-dependent photo- and radiometric parameters, combining various advantages of different conventional goniometer types into one device.
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Mar 14, 2012
Kulicke & Soffa Launches Dedicated Solution for LED Packaging Markets
Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. today announced the formal launch of the LUMOS™ Capillary, a dedicated bonding solution for LED packaging markets.
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Mar 20, 2012
Ideal Measuring System for Mid-Sized SSL Luminaires and LED Modules
Instrument Systems, the global market leader for LED metrology, launches a new measuring system for Solid-State Lighting applications with the LGS 250 goniophotometer.
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Apr 11, 2012
Labsphere Launches illumia® Line for Light Measurement
Labsphere, Inc. has introduced the illumia® and illumia®pro series of LED and light measurement systems. The new systems offer flexibility in measuring thermal, optical, and electrical characteristics of LEDs and arrays, as well as solid state and traditional lighting products.
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Apr 13, 2012
Essemtec Presents Innovations at SMT Nuremberg 2012
At the upcoming SMT/Hybrid/Packaging 2012 exhibition in Nuremberg, Essemtec will present several innovations, including Scorpion, the highly flexible dispensing system, as well as two new printers for low-/mid-volume sizes.
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Apr 23, 2012
KLA-Tencor Announces New CIRCL™ Suite
Today KLA-Tencor Corporation announced a new, high-throughput defect inspection / metrology / review system for leading-edge chip manufacturers: the CIRCLTM suite. Designed for operation in lithography, outgoing quality control (OQC) and other process modules, this new cluster tool monitors the front side, back side and edge of the wafer for defects and, in parallel, measures wafer edge profile, edge bead concentricity and macro overlay error. Data collection is governed by DirectedSamplingTM, an innovative approach that uses results from one measurement to trigger other types of measurements within the cluster as needed.
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May 25, 2012
Kyma Demonstrates 10-Inch Diameter Aluminum Nitride on Sapphire Template Product
Kyma Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of crystalline aluminum nitride (AlN) and gallium nitride (GaN) materials and related products and services, is pleased to announce the successful demonstration of a 10-inch diameter aluminum nitride (AlN) on sapphire template.
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Jun 15, 2012
VEECO Introduced Three New Models MOCVD
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) introduced three new models of its market-leading TurboDisc® metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems for the production of high brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs): TurboDisc MaxBright® M™, TurboDisc MaxBright MHP™ and TurboDisc K465i HP™.
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Jun 21, 2012
PRUF LED Flips Switch on State-of-the-Art, Fully Automated Manufacturing Line
ROBINSON, Texas – PRUF LED has flipped the switch on the most cutting-edge, fully automated SMT production facility to manufacture a broad spectrum of LED lighting panels, including the only 4-foot panels produced in the United States, proving once again why the company is a leader in the LED (light emitting diode) lighting industry.
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Jul 18, 2012
Labsphere illumia®lite a World First in Portable Spectral Flux Analysis
Labsphere, Inc. has expanded its illumia LED and light measurement product range with the introduction of illumia®lite. The portable system packages the accuracy of sphere-based measurement in a cost-effective handheld device suitable for use on the production floor, in the lab or in the field.
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Jul 24, 2012
AIXTRON Introduces AIX G5+: 5x200 mm GaN-on-Si Technology for the AIX G5 Reactor Platform
With its latest product, AIX G5+, AIXTRON SE has introduced a 5x200 mm GaN-on-Si (Gallium Nitride on Silicon) technology package for its AIX G5 Planetary Reactor® platform. Following a customer-focused development program, this technology was designed and created in AIXTRON’s R&D laboratory and consists of specially designed reactor hardware and process capabilities. It is now available as a part of the AIX G5 product family and any existing G5 system can be upgraded to this latest version. Details of G5+ have already been disclosed to some of AIXTRON’s key customers.
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Aug 03, 2012
Oxford Instruments Introduced New PlasmaPro® 100 System
Oxford Instruments has recently launched the PlasmaPro 100 system, their latest generation etch and deposition tool, offering world leading performance. The system is ideally suited to many key market applications, including MEMS, HBLED, Semiconductor Electronics, Failure Analysis and Photovoltaics. It is an advanced, innovative system that has been developed by Oxford Instruments to address the exacting needs of Production users, who demand not only the very latest technological innovations, but also the superb customer support offered by the Company.
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