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Veeco hosts MOVCD meeting for Taiwan-based LED players
LED manufacturers flocked to Veeco's MOCVD user meeting to debate manufacturing challenges
Veeco Instruments reveals that more than 150 LED manufacturing customers attended its MOCVD User Meeting in Tainan,Taiwan.
As the company reports, players from most of Taiwan’s top LED manufacturers such as Epistar Corporation, FOREPI, Genesis Photonics, Huga Optotech, Tekcore, Epileds and Arima Optoelectronics attended.
Speaking about "The Trend of LED Chips for Lighting" at the event, Charles Li, Genesis Photonics vice president of research and development addressed key drivers that he believes will help to commercialise LEDs for general lighting, such as cost reduction, which can be achieved by developing better high current LED chip technology.
Other topics presented at the meeting included “Driving Down LED Manufacturing Costs with TurboDisc MOCVD Products”, from Veeco’s senior director of business development, Jia Lee, and an update on “GaN on Silicon LED Manufacturing” from Kenny Sun, Veeco’s director of the Taiwan Technology Center (TTC), located in Hsinchu Park.
Tim Liu, Veeco’s vice president and Greater China country manager, concluded: “We are pleased to have had the opportunity to engage with Taiwan’s leading LED manufacturers. Our MOCVD User Meeting provides an excellent forum where we focus on our customers’ manufacturing challenges and provide solutions to maximise their productivity and yield, while reducing costs.”
Veeco recently introduced a new suite of MOCVD systems based on its TurboDisc technology to accelerate worldwide adoption of LED lighting by reducing manufacturing costs.
