BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Jul 18, 2013) - As LED lighting becomes an $80 billion industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers (epi-wafers) LEDs are made from will grow to $4 billion in 2020, ...

LONDON — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has held a groundbreaking ceremony for an R&D center and wafer fab to develop and make light emitting diodes for lighting ...

SEOUL/TOKYO, March 28 (Reuters) - Samsung LED and Japan's Sumitomo Chemical have agreed to set up a 80 billion won ($72 million) joint venture in Korea to produce sapphire substrates used to make ...

LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED packaging service provider Lextar Electronics, in view of fast growing demand for LED lighting, will expand its monthly LED epitaxial wafer production ...

Seeking to reduce the cost of solid-state lighting and related applications, LED manufacturers are taking a page from the IC industry: They are looking at larger wafer sizes and new materials in the ...

Market will grow significantly if costs continue to decrease at current rates, but there is nothing similar to Moore’s Law in this sector. The LED market remains hot, particularly in the solid-state ...

Soitec and Sumitomo Electric Industries have demonstrated four- and six-inch engineered gallium nitride (GaN) substrates and are launching pilot production lines as they move toward wider market ...

Today, the spotlight beams down brighter than ever on LEDs to provide more energy-efficient, lower-cost illumination. Underscoring that urgency, the International Energy Agency says that lighting ...

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As LED lighting becomes an $80 billion industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers (epi-wafers) LEDs are made from will grow to $4 billion in 2020, according to Lux Research. As LED lighting becomes ...