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AIXTRON joins solid state lighting R&D
AIXTRON is to take part in a project targeting the improvement of LED technology for solid state lighting. The three-year project will be conducted by the Laboratory of Semiconductor Optics, Stepanov Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and is funded by the International Science & Technology Center in Russia (ISTC).
AIXTRON is to take part in a project targeting the improvement of LED technology for solid state lighting. The three-year project will be conducted by the Laboratory of Semiconductor Optics, Stepanov Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and is funded by the International Science & Technology Center in Russia (ISTC).
The target of this new project is to improve LED performance and explore silicon as a low cost alternative for substrates. Conventionally, more expensive sapphire or silicon carbide substrates are used. Using silicon would drastically reduce LED production costs. The Electromagnetic Theory department (ITHE) of the RWTH university in Aachen, Germany, is also participating.
