May 30, 2009
Good on-line resources on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) on the site of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Good job.
Positive and negative aspects of using Arbitration as a way to resolve contractual disputes retained our attention.
In the video lecture by Ms. Catherine Kessedjian, an law professor in Paris and […]
May 29, 2009
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) makes available a good body of knowledge on international trade and on dispute resolution on its web sites.
Particularly useful and informative is The Digest of Case Law on the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods. However, the framework provided by the United […]
May 20, 2009
A long delayed book on sapphire by Elena Dobrovinskaya and al. is finally available at Springer.
Elena Dobrovinskaya is the Chief Scientist at Rubicon Technology, a leading US sapphire manufacturer. Rubicon Technology also uses a variation of Kyropoulos growing method for sapphire.
The book has a lot of valuable information and is a “must have” […]
May 13, 2009
High volume LED makers reach for the lasers, from compoundsemiconductor.net
Diamond is not the best friend of manufacturers seeking to upgrade LED production from 2-inch to 4-inch diameter wafers, according to Electro Scientific Industries.
…laser scribing systems are significantly more economical than diamond tools for larger diameters.
…increased areas call for a proportionate increase in the […]
May 12, 2009
From the company’s web site:
“SemiLEDs is the only manufacturer of vertical LEDs on a metal alloy substrate; the MvPLEDTM. These devices are fabricated using SemiLEDs’ proprietary and patented technologies. MvPLEDTM is the next generation high power LEDs for solid state lighting applications.
SemiLEDs’ chip has been optimally designed, solving common problems of many conventional […]
Compound semiconductor published an article that continues the thread started in our earlier entries. In this article, we found answers to some of our questions.
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May 5, 2009
…despite the joint effort’s promising results and significant yield benefits, SemiLEDs does not currently have any plans to upgrade its Taiwan production lines to the larger format.
“We are in […]
A press release by Aixtron (see our previous post), inspired a comment on our part and triggered an emails exchange with Dr. Christian Geng, General Manager Greater China of AIXTRON.
An extract of our email:
…In your recent comment (see extract and reference below), you noted that 6″ substrate should become competitive.
As an equipment manufacturer, we work […]
AIXTRON and Semileds report first success with UHB blue LEDs on 6-inch sapphire wafers
Aachen/Germany, April 30, 2009 – A collaboration between AIXTRON and Semileds has resulted in the successful fabrication of GaN-based blue LED chips on 6-inch sapphire wafers. Not only were optical results encouraging but also the process is sufficiently close to production compatibility […]
An optimized TO38 package makes the blue laser diode from Osram Opto Semiconductors the smallest in its class. This takes the world one step closer to a vision of tiny projectors that can be integrated into mobile devices such as cell phones and digital cameras.
Lasers represent the next milestone in the development of mobile devices […]
In May 2008,Evalueserve published a white paper Patent Landscape in China with analysis and advise, notably based on the Schneider Electric vs Chint case (see our previous posts on the subject).
In the white paper, Evalueserve provides sound analysis. The citation below describes patent strategy insights.
The following are some key insights that can be learned […]