Engineering, Production & Testing

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 »
Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 16, 2011
Labsphere Introduces New LED Measurement Systems
Labsphere Introduces New LED Measurement Systems Labsphere announces its new XSLMS series light measurement systems which features extended dynamic range for different wavelength ranges and a broad variety of interchangeable light measurement accessories. NIST traceable total spectral flux standards enable simple in-house system recalibration and verification of the system. Spheres with diameters from 10 inch to 3m with a nearly perfect Lambertian reflection of 98% are available. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 23, 2011
EV Group Expands Portfolio of Products to Address Fast-Growing HB-LED Market With Launch of EVG620HBL Mask Alignment System
EV Group Expands Portfolio of Products to Address Fast-Growing HB-LED Market With Launch of EVG620HBL Mask Alignment System EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer-bonding and lithography equipment for the advanced semiconductor and packaging, MEMS, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and emerging nanotechnology markets, announced the latest addition to its portfolio of products created to optimize the manufacture of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB-LEDs), compound semiconductors and power electronics. The new EVG620HBL fully automated mask alignment system builds on EVG's field-proven mask aligner platform, adding a high-intensity ultraviolet (UV) light source and five cassette stations – significantly more than competitive offerings – to enable continuous fabrication of devices. As a result, the EVG620HBL delivers unparalleled throughput of up to 165 six-inch wafers per hour (up to 220 wafers per hour in first print mode) with the industry's highest alignment accuracy and yield. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Mar 03, 2011
Nordson ASYMTEK Fluid Dispensers Jet Precisely into Narrow Cavities To Improve Side-View LED Manufacturing Process
Nordson ASYMTEK Fluid Dispensers Jet Precisely into Narrow Cavities To Improve Side-View LED Manufacturing Process Nordson ASYMTEK, a leader in dispensing, coating, and jetting technologies, introduces jet dispensing for manufacturing side-view LEDs. The system jets 0.1 to 0.2 mm dots through windows as small as 0.4 mm into the LED cavities. Side-view LEDs illuminate the displays in devices such as tablet computers, smart phones, and e-readers. Nordson ASYMTEK's Spectrum™ S-920N jetting system automatically maintains a consistent shot weight with software-managed dispense parameters. Closed-loop dispensing eliminates the need for time-consuming operator adjustment. Unlike other multi-headed needle dispensing systems, Nordson ASYMTEK's system is easier to set up and maintain in production, keeping your process under machine control. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Apr 01, 2011
Essemtec Builds Production Line for LED Tubular Lamp
Essemtec Builds Production Line for LED Tubular Lamp Until recently LED TL-tubes, a replacement for fluorescent lamps, had to be manufactured in a lavish modular design. In the future, using the new LED assembly line with a large-area printer from Essemtec, PCBs for such lamps can be manufactured fully automatically in a single, cost-efficient production run. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Apr 28, 2011
New Automation Platform Delivers Uninterrupted LED Production
New Automation Platform Delivers Uninterrupted LED Production J P Sercel Associates (JPSA), a world leader in innovative laser micromachining systems and automation technology, announces worldwide shipments of its new Integrated Automation Platform (IAP) to semiconductor and LED manufacturers. The IAP is a high volume production robot dedicated to providing uninterrupted processing of wafers, which lowers LED manufacturing costs. Read more »
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