Blanding / Pinjarra / Mountain View / Takeo City / Chiba / Santa Clara / Montreal / Ripon / Saxonburg / Zhengzhou City / San Diego / /
Company
RF Micro Devices Inc. / Picogiga International / Technology Spire Corp. / Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. / EMCORE Corp. / Internet References Cited Compound Semiconductor.net / ATMI Inc. / Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. / ChelaTech Corp. / Paramount Pictures Corp. / Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. / Showa Denko / Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Co. / Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. Ltd. / Gold Canyon Resources Inc. / ATP / Time Warner Corp. / Global Communication Technology Corp. / II-VI Inc. / Compound Semiconductor / Humboldt County NV / TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. / Sony Pictures Entertainment / Sensors Unlimited Inc. / Bookham Technology plc / Universal Studios Inc. / Sensor Electronic Technology Inc. / Fox Group / MGM Studios / Strategies Unlimited / Formosa Epitaxy Inc. / United States Mineral Resources / Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. / HRL Laboratories LLC / Kingmax Optoelectronics Inc. / Arima Optoelectronics Corp. / Teledyne Technologies Inc. / Shandong Aluminium Corp. / Nokia / Sharp Corp. / 20th Century Fox / Lumileds Lighting U.S. LLC / NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices Ltd. / Nanocrystal Lighting Corp. / iSuppli Corp. / LEDs / Sony Corp. / GEO Gallium / Global Communication Semiconductors Inc. / Henan Branch of China Aluminum Co. Ltd. / Roskill Information Services Ltd. / Matsushita Electric / Suntek Compound Semiconductor Co. / New Line Cinema / Showa Denko K.K. / GEO Specialty Chemicals Inc. / PennWell Corp. / Celeritek Inc. / NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America Inc. / Kingmax AlGaInP / Nichia Corp. / Recapture Metals Inc. / Diodes / Cree Inc. / Teledyne Wireless / Entech Inc. / Soitec Group / Republic / Fox Entertainment Group Inc. / Epistar Corp. / WIN Semiconductors Corp. / Sharp Laboratories of Europe / Trex Enterprises Corp. / Spectrolab Inc. / Epitech Corp. / Compound Semiconductor.net / Tyntek Corp. / Rusmet.net / Panasonic / The Walt Disney Co. / Boeing Co. / Kappes / Cassidy & Associates / Giga Epitaxy Technology / Devices International Inc. / Win-Eldrich Mines Ltd. / Procomp Informatics Ltd. / Raytheon Co. / Cited Compound Semiconductor / General Motors Corp. / Toshiba Corp. / Nitronex Corp. / Hydro-Photon Inc. / Warner Brothers Inc. / /
Continent
Asia / /
Country
United Kingdom / China / Finland / Kazakhstan / Malaysia / Columbia / Hungary / France / Japan / Canada / Australia / Slovakia / Korea / Taiwan / Germany / Russia / United States / Singapore / Ukraine / South Korea / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
M&A / Bankruptcy / Business Partnership / Product Release / Reorganization / Company Expansion / /
Facility
University of Maine / University of Illinois / GCT foundry / GaAs foundry / Tokyo Institute of Technology / U.S. Bankruptcy Court / Taiwanese GaAs foundry / Caswell facility / GaN factory / National Institute of Standards and Technology / /
IndustryTerm
manufacturing facility / Gallium metal imports / wireless communications / energy / wireless communications market / car windshields / semiconductor technologies / business technology transfer research contract / typical energy output / electronic applications / individual media types / cellular telephone handset manufacturer / manufacturing center / crude gallium / speed applications / metal-oxide chemical vapor deposition / Metal imports / Gallium metal / millimeter-wave imaging systems / transparent circuit technology / electricity / Navigation applications / fixed wireless base station market / chip producer / production technology / solar energy / non-line-of-sight covert communications / electronics warfare / products / follow-on satellite / cellular telephone / imaging / manufacturing process / manufacturing capacity / metal / continuous-wave device / defense electronics / triple-junction high-efficiency solar cells / wafer processing capacity / cellular telephone market / cellular telephone handset sector / wireless infrastructure / cellular telephone keypad backlighting / chips / short-range applications / car safety / communications systems / night-vision technology / wireless local area networks / /
NaturalFeature
Maui / Mount Haleakala / Painted Hills / /
OperatingSystem
Microsoft Vista / /
Organization
U.S. Department of Energy / U.S. Department of Commerce / National Institute of Standards and Technology / University of Illinois / NASA’s Glenn Research Center / Tokyo Institute of Technology / U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey / Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency / U.S. Government / U.S. Department of Defense / United States Army / Securities and Exchange Commission / U.S. Missile Defense Agency / U.S. Census Bureau / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / University of Maine / /
Person
Buena Vista / Hengyang Fenghuang / /
Position
GaAs chip producer / producer / optical head / statistical assistant / manager of the company / Major / market analyst / /
Product
GaAs / LED / Visible-InGaAs / the world’s smallest dual wavelength range camera / InAs/GaAlSb mm-wave sensor / GaN / Ga / GaNbase LEDs / Luxeon / AlGaInPbase / InAs/GaAlSb / Visible-InGaAs / Lumileds Luxeon / /
ProgrammingLanguage
php / /
ProvinceOrState
Quebec / Maine / Utah / California / New Jersey / Aichi Prefecture / Illinois / Pennsylvania / Hawaii / Henan / North Carolina / /
Region
Japan Asia / /
Technology
radiation / production technology / GaN-on-silicon technology / semiconductors / cell phones / 29 million chips / night-vision technology / semiconductor / blue laser / transparent circuit technology / microwave / GaN-base LED chips / Blu-ray technology / pdf / laser / lasers / production chips / GaN technology / use LED-backlight technology / local area networks / mobile phones / integrated circuits / chemical vapor deposition / semiconductor technologies / HVPE technology / two separate chips / LED chips / cellular telephones / medical diagnostic / 77-GHz technology / wireless communications / cellular telephone / 130 million chips / base LED chips / 200 million chips / /
Gallium By Deborah A. Kramer Domestic survey data and tables were prepared by Carolyn F. Crews, statistical assistant. Gallium metal and gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafer imports continued to supply most of the U.S. gallium