Strong results for Veeco, more MOCVD sales for Aixtron

Veeco continues to see strong orders from China and other regions, while Aixtron has reported more reactor sales in Taiwan.

Veeco has reported revenue of $255 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2011, of which Led & Solar revenue was $215 million and Data Storage revenue was $40 million. Revenue was down 15% sequentially, but increased 89% from the same quarter last year. The company's gross margin was 51% and non-GAAP net income was $57 million.

Veeco's bookings for the quarter totaled $231 million, of which $198 million was in LED & Solar. John Peeler, Veeco's CEO, said: "We continued to experience strong demand for MOCVD systems and, while China remained the majority of our bookings, we also received orders from key customers in Taiwan, Korea and the US."
In February 2011, Veeco announced its newest-generation MOCVD system, the TurboDisc MaxBright. Peeler said that Veeco shipped three MaxBright four-chamber systems during the first quarter of 2011.

"Orders have been received from three of the top-tier Taiwanese LED makers, as well as from key customers in Korea and China," said Peeler. "Customers are clearly recognizing that we are helping to enable the industry's transition to Led lighting with a unique value position and the most productive MOCVD systems on the market."

Looking forward, Peeler said that Veeco expects MOCVD order patterns to "remain lumpy from quarter to quarter depending upon the timing of customer deposits. We see order strength continuing in China as it builds its LED infrastructure for solid-state Lighting, and quoting activity in Korea and Taiwan is also picking up with improved utilization rates being reported at key customers."
Further Aixtron systems

In related news, Aixtron SE announced that its latest Close Coupled Showerhead MOCVD platform system, the CRIUS II, has been successfully qualified for mass production by Chi Mei Group.

The 55x2-inch wafer configuration CCS CRIUS II was installed and commissioned by the local Aixtron service team at facilities near the Southern Taiwan Science Park.

Also, Aixtron has received repeat orders from Taiwan-based led chip maker Epistar for multiple AIX G5 HT reactors in a 14x4-inch configuration. The systems are delivered in the first and second quarter of 2011.

Aixtron described the repeat order as "a further endorsement of G5's very rapid time-to-production and excellent system-to-system reproducibility, both of which are key factors in a highly competitive market and a considerable driver of cost reduction."

Ming-Jiunn Jou, president of Epistar, said: "The new reactors will form the backbone of our planned capacity expansion for our high-brightness LED production program. In particular, we have been impressed by the run-to-run and system-to-system reproducibility the G5 has shown. This makes the G5 the leading MOCVD system in terms of throughput and yield, allowing us to quickly ramp up our capacities and expand our product portfolio even further in the direction of solid-state lighting products."

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Guizhou-based LED Company Orders GT Solar $218.9 Million Advanced Sapphire Crystallization Furnaces

Guizhou-based LED Company Orders GT Solar $218.9 Million Advanced Sapphire Crystallization Furnaces

Reportedly, Guizhou Haotian Optoelectronics Technology Co. LTD (HTOT) has ordered the advanced sapphire crystallization furnaces totaling $218.9 million from GT Solar.

This Chinese Led company plans to launches operations to manufacture sapphire and other crystalline products used in LEDs.

Additionally, the order not only marks HTOT's entrance into the fast-growing LED industry, but also continues GT Solar's market momentum for its sapphire crystalline growth technology. The order will be included in GT Solar's backlog for its current Q1 FY12, which ends on July 2, 2011.

Plus, GT Solar has also received another order worth nearly $94 million orders from Powertec Energy Corp., a Taiwanese polysilicon producer.

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PowerSecure Received $15 Million of New Awards

PowerSecure Received $15 Million of New Awards

PowerSecure International, Inc. is announced to receive $15 million of new awards for products and services across its Energy and Smart Grid Solutions business lines.

Among the awards, there are including orders for $2 million of Led lighting products, $5 million of Utility Infrastructure projects, and approximately $8 million of Interactive Distributed Generation® (IDG®) smart grid power systems.
The largest of the awards includes an Interactive Distributed Generation system to support a municipality, the installation of a new substation on behalf of a second municipality, and the installation of the Company's new EfficientLights Led shelf Lighting product for a major U.S. grocer's open-style refrigerated cases.

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Philips adds Trilux to list of licensees for LED luminaire program

Philips adds Trilux to list of licensees for LED luminaire program

Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) and Trilux GmbH have entered into an Led license agreement. Trilux, an Arnsberg, Germany-based Lighting manufacturer, will gain access to Philips' patent portfolio via the Philips LED Luminaire licensing program.

"We are very pleased that Trilux has joined our licensing program. Philips believes that sharing its Led lighting solutions through licensing will accelerate the adoption of led lighting and foster the growth of the LED industry," said Arian Duijvestijn, General Manager Lighting at Philips Intellectual Property & Standards.
"As a top European luminaire supplier in the general illumination field, Trilux is very pleased to have found a renowned partner in Philips for constantly developing the LED technology," said Dietmar Zembrot, Managing Director at Trilux. "We believe this agreement will enable us to further strengthen our offering of advanced LED lighting solutions to our customers."

The agreement with Trilux follows earlier agreements between Philips and other key lighting players including Zumtobel, Osram and JB Lighting.

Philips' SSL licensing program includes many of the company's LED luminaire-related inventions. Philips says that its aim is "to speed up market adoption and growth by making available [our] patented technologies to third parties."

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Makes a Breakthrough on Green LED

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Makes a Breakthrough on Green LED

It's reported that Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a new method for manufacturing green-colored Leds with greatly enhanced light output.

Led by led by Christian Wetzel, professor of physics and the Wellfleet Constellation Professor of Future Chips at Rensselaer, the research team etched a nanoscale pattern at the interface between the LED's sapphire base and the layer of GaN that gives the LED its green color.

It has received a good result. The new technique results in green LEDs with significant enhancements in light extraction, internal efficiency, and light output.

According to Wetzel, currently, every computer monitor and television produces its picture by using red, blue, and green. And we already have powerful, inexpensive red and blue LEDs. A similar green LED should lead to a new generation of high-performance, energy-efficient display and illumination devices. This new research finding is an important step in the right direction."

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Rensselaer researchers boost green LED efficiency

Rensselaer researchers boost green LED efficiency

Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute leverages a nanoscale pattern to boost the optical efficiency of green Leds in the lab.

Green LED efficiency has long lagged behind the capabilities of red and blue devices, but researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have reported significant improvements in the lab. The team is forming nanoscale patterns on a sapphire substrate that boosts light extraction, internal efficiency, and light output.

More efficient green LEDs would benefit both solid-state Lighting (SSL) in general-illumination applications and TV and display technology. Equally efficient red, green, and blue (RGB) LEDs could yield white light for illumination and could improve the color gamut in display or TV applications.
Rensselaer researchers boost green LED efficiency

Some early led backlights for TVs utilized RGB LEDs, but the designs generally had to include two green LEDs for every red and blue one - adding significant expense and power consumption to the design. Likewise, RGB LEDs have been used in lighting but the need for extra green LEDs limits the applicability.

Green LED inefficiency stems from a semiconductor physics phenomenon called the charge separation effect. In green LEDs, electrons and electron holes are separated in the quantum-well region of the device. Light is generated when electrons combine with electron holes, but the separation results in fewer such combinations in green LEDs. Researchers have struggled for years with the problem.

Christian Wetzel, Professor of Physics and the Wellfleet Constellation Professor of Future Chips at RPI, is leading the green LED research team. The team etched a nanoscale pattern between the sapphire substrate and the gallium nitride (GaN) material in which the LED is grown.

The team reports a doubling in the internal quantum efficiency of the LED. Moreover, the design enhances light extraction by a factor of 58%. The result could be brighter green LEDs although its unclear how soon the research could be applied in LED production.

"Every computer monitor and television produces its picture by using red, blue, and green. We already have powerful, inexpensive red and blue LEDs. Once we develop a similar green LED, it should lead to a new generation of high-performance, energy-efficient display and illumination devices. This new research finding is an important step in the right direction," said Wetzel. "Green LEDs are proving much more challenging to create than academia and the industry ever imagined."

The research team published the results of its work in a paper entitled "Defect-reduced green GaInN/GaN light-emitting diode on nanopatterned sapphire" that was published in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

Wetzel's team was supported by the US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Solid-State Lighting Contract of Directed Research, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC), which is led by Rensselaer.

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The Foley City Council May Made a LED Trial Program

The Foley City Council May Made a LED Trial Program

The Foley City Council is thinking about making a trial program for a system to use Leds to replace florescent and incandescent lights.

The council is scheduled to vote this program on May 4. According the official, the system will start by installing the lights in a few locations in city buildings and officials will decide if the savings are worth the costs of converting other structures to the new Lighting. He said an led light will pay for itself in energy savings in about four years.

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Energy Focus Received NASA's $600,000 Award for LED Lighting Development

Energy Focus Received NASA's $600,000 Award for LED Lighting Development

Lately, the research and development team from Energy Focus, Inc. have received a $600,000 Phase 2 Small Business Technology Transfer ("STTR") program grant named as "Innovative Solid State Lighting Replacements for Industrial and Test Facility Locations," from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ("NASA").

Roger Buelow, Energy Focus CTO, was delighted to have received the Phase 2 notification grant, and commented that "The award is to replace existing test stand and parking lot fixtures with high performance Led lighting including Hazardous Location and Explosion-Proof lights that build off of technology first conceived under DARPA SBIRs. The work allows us to develop the concepts we presented to NASA in our Phase 1 work."

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Sino American to Build Semiconductor and LED Companies

Sino American to Build Semiconductor and LED Companies

Recently, Sino American Silicon Products is reported to divide its semiconductor and Led departments into two independent companies named as "Huanchiu Wafer "and "Sapphire Technology" ,completely owned by the company, which will retain its core photovoltaic business.The base day for the split is set on October 1. And the two new companies will apply for listing their shares on the domestic bourse within one year.


Opposite to the trend of merger in the local PV industry, the spin-off will transform the structure of Sino American into a sprawling holding company, consisting of the six major businesses of poly-silicon in the upstream sector, PV crystal and silicon wafer, solar cell, PV module and system, semiconductor, and LED.

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The Foley City Council May Made a LED Trial Program

The Foley City Council May Made a LED Trial Program

Lately, Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and his Deputy Minister of State Martin Zeil have made a visit to Optogan's Led plant in St. Petersburg.
Optogan group introduced the recent developments in the field of Led lighting and reported on their development aims for the Russian and global market.

According to the company, it has office locations, among others, in Landshut and St. Petersburg. The plant in Landshut produces high performance led chips, conducts and directs the international business. St. Petersburg is responsible for the LED housing and packaging along with the end assembly of luminants and luminaires.

Hans Peter Ehweiner, CEO of Optogan GmbH, noted that "Our offices complement each other perfectly. Due to a Russian modernisation offensive, the primary energy consumption should be reduced by 40 % by the end of 2020. With the introduction of LED technology Optogan is able to make a decisive contribution."

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