Minor & Light Metals / Gallium: Global Industry Markets and Outlook, 8th Edition 2011

Contents

  • 1. Summary
  • 2. Introduction to gallium
  • 3. Gallium production
  • 4. Notes on producing countries
  • 5. Gallium demand
  • 6. Gallium in electronic devices
  • 7. Principal manufacturers and processors of gallium arsenide substrates
  • 8. Principal markets for GaAs substrates
  • 9. Gallium nitride
  • 10. Gallium antimonide
  • 11. Gallium phosphide
  • 12. Other competitive substrates
  • 13. Other applications for gallium
  • 14. Gallium prices and price trends

Gallium: Global Industry Markets and Outlook, 8th Edition 2011

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Chapters Listing

Num Title Pages
1 Summary 2
2 Introduction to gallium 8
2.1 Chemical and physical properties of gallium
2.2 Gallium sources and resources
2.2.1 Occurrence of gallium
2.2.2 Commercial sources of primary gallium
2.2.3 Gallium recovery and resources
2.2.3.1 Recovery as a by-product of aluminium
2.2.3.2 Recovery as a by-product of zinc
2.2.3.3 Recovery as a main product
2.2.3.4 Recovery from scrap (secondary recovery)
2.2.3.5 Refining and purification of recovered gallium
3 Gallium production 5
3.1 Current production
3.2 Future production
4 Notes on producing countries 26
4.1 Australia 1
4.1.1 AMAC Alloys
4.1.2 GEO Specialty Chemical Inc.
4.2 Bolivia 1
4.2.1 South American Silver Corp.
4.3 Canada 3
4.3.1 Neo Performance Materials Ltd.
4.3.2 Potential gallium projects
4.3.2.1 China Minmetals Corp.
4.3.2.2 Pacific Booker Minerals Inc.
4.3.2.3 Strategic Metals Ltd.
4.3.2.4 Great Western Minerals Group Ltd.
4.3.2.5 AurCrest Gold (formerly Tribute Minerals Inc.)
4.3.2.6 Zinccorp Resources Inc.
4.4 China 6
4.4.1 Aluminium Corporation of China Limited
4.4.1.1 Guangxi Branch
4.4.1.2 Guizhou Branch
4.4.1.3 Henan Branch
4.4.1.4 Shandong Branch
4.4.1.5 Shanxi Branch
4.4.2 Beijing JiYa Semiconductor Material Co., Ltd.
4.4.3 China Crystal Technologies Co., Ltd.
4.4.4 East Hope mianchi Gallium Industry Co.
4.4.5 Emei Semiconductor Material Factory & Institute
4.4.6 Guangzhou Litop Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd
4.4.7 MCP Jin Shu (Shenzen) Co Ltd
4.4.8 Nanjing Jin Mei Gallium Ltd.
4.4.9 Sichuan Western Minmetals Co., Ltd
4.4.10 Sumika Electronic Materials (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
4.4.11 Tianjin Jinbolan Fine Chemical Co., Ltd
4.4.12 Yunnan Luoping Zinc & Electricity Co., Ltd
4.4.13 Vital Specialty Materials
4.4.14 Zhuhai Fangyuan
4.4.15 Zijin Mining Group
4.5 France 1
4.5.1 Azelis Electronics
4.6 Germany 2
4.6.1 MCP HEK GmbH
4.6.2 PPM Pure Metals GmbH
4.7 Hungary 1
4.7.1 MAL Hungarian Aluminium Ltd.
4.8 India 1
4.8.1 Hindalco Industries Limited
4.8.2 National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO)
4.8.3 Vedanta Resources plc
4.9 Japan 4
4.9.1 Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
4.9.2 Furukawa Denshi Co., Ltd.
4.9.3 Nichia Corporation
4.9.4 Nippon Rare Metal, Inc.
4.9.5 Rasa Industries, Ltd.
4.9.6 Sumitomo Metal Mining (SMM)
4.9.7 Sumitomo Chemical
4.10 Kazakhstan 1
4.10.1 Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC
4.11 Namibia 1
4.11.1 Emerging Metals Limited
4.12 Netherlands 1
4.12.1 Umicore Precious Metals Refining
4.13 New Zealand 1
4.14 Poland 1
4.15 Russia 1
4.15.1 Basel Cement
4.15.2 Novosibirsk Integrated Tin Works
4.16 Slovakia 1
4.16.1 CMK
4.17 South Korea 1
4.17.1 Korea Zinc Company
4.18 Ukraine 1
4.18.1 Nikolaev Alumina Refinery
4.18.2 Business Partners CJSC
4.19 UK 1
4.19.1 Mining & Chemical Products Ltd.
4.20 USA 3
4.20.1 Neo Performance Materials Ltd.
4.20.2 GEO Specialty Chemicals, Inc.
4.20.3 Gallium Compounds LLC
4.20.4 Gold Canyon Resources Inc.
4.20.5 Nyrstar NV
5 Gallium demand 16
5.1 Historic demand
5.1.1 Japan
5.1.2 USA
5.1.3 China and Europe
5.2 Current demand
5.3 Future demand
5.3.1 ICs (semi-insulating GaAs)
5.3.2 LEDs (semiconducting GaAs and GaN)
5.3.2.1 Display
5.3.2.2 Lighting
5.3.2.3 Photovoltaics
5.3.3 Magnets
6 Gallium in electronic devices 5
6.1 The advantages of gallium arsenide
6.1.1 Speed
6.1.2 Wide temperature range
6.2 Gallium arsenide semiconductors
6.3 Single crystal growth methods
6.3.1 VGF: Vertical Gradient Freeze
6.3.2 LEC: Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski
6.3.3 CZ: Czochralski
6.4 Deposition of epilayers
7 Principal manufacturers and processors of gallium arsenide substrates 11
7.1 China
7.1.1 China Crystal Technologies (CCT)
7.2 Europe
7.2.1 Germany
7.2.1.1 Freiberger Compound Materials (FCM)
7.2.1.2 Integrated Compound Semiconductors Ltd (ICS)
7.2.2 Russia
7.2.2.1 GIRMET Ltd
7.2.3 Slovakia
7.2.3.1 CMK Ltd
7.2.3.2 Phostec s.r.o.
7.2.4 UK
7.2.4.1 Filtronic Compound Semiconductors Ltd. (FCS)
7.2.4.2 IQE plc
7.2.4.3 Wafer Technology Ltd
7.3 Japan
7.3.1 DOWA Electric Materials Co., Ltd.
7.3.2 Furukawa Denshi Co., Ltd.
7.3.3 Showa Denko
7.3.4 Hitachi Cable
7.3.5 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd (SEI)
7.3.6 Sumitomo Chemical
7.3.7 Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
7.4 Taiwan
7.4.1 Procomp
7.4.2 Semiconductor Wafer Inc.
7.4.3 Giga Epitaxy Technology Corp. (GET)
7.4.4 Millennium Communication Co. Ltd (M-Com)
7.4.5 Arima Optoelectronics Corporation (AOC)
7.4.6 Transcom
7.4.7 WIN Semiconductors Corp.
7.4.8 Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC)
7.4.9 Visual Photonics Epitaxy Co., Ltd (VPEC)
7.5 USA
7.5.1 AXT, Inc.
7.5.2 Galaxy Compound Semiconductors, Inc.
7.5.3 IntelliEPI
7.5.4 Kopin Corporation
7.5.5 M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc.
7.5.6 MTI Corp.
7.5.7 RF Micro Devices, Inc. (RFMD)
7.5.8 Spire Corporation
8 Principal markets for GaAs substrates 15
8.1 Semiconducting GaAs for optoelectronics
8.1.1 Infrared emitting diodes (IREDs)
8.1.2 Laser Diodes (LDs)
8.1.3 Photodetectors
8.1.4 Visible LEDs
8.2 Semi-insulating GaAs for integrated circuits
8.2.1 Digital ICs
8.2.2 FETs
8.2.2.1 MESFETs
8.2.2.2 HEMTs
8.2.2.3 pHEMTs
8.2.2.4 mHEMTs
8.2.3 MMICs
8.3 Photovoltaic cells
9 Gallium nitride 7
9.1 GaN Laser Diodes
9.2 GaN LEDs
9.3 Other developments in GaN-based devices
10 Gallium antimonide 1
11 Gallium phosphide 1
12 Other competitive substrates 2
12.1 Indium phosphide
12.2 Organic LEDs (OLEDs)
12.3 Sapphire
12.4 Silicon carbide
12.5 Silicon germanium
13 Other applications for gallium 4
13.1 Batteries
13.2 Catalysis
13.3 Dental lasers
13.4 Fusible alloys
13.5 Magnets
13.6 Pharmaceuticals
13.7 Ski waxes
13.8 Other minor uses of gallium and gallium compounds
14 Gallium prices and price trends 4
14.1 Future price trends

Tables Listing

Num Title
1 Properties of gallium
2 Abundance of gallium
3 Indicative gallium content of GaAs wafer scrap
4 Estimated virgin gallium production capacity, end-2008
5 Estimated virgin gallium capacity and forecast production, 2010
6 Gallium recycling in Japan, 2005 to 2009
7 Estimated secondary gallium capacity, 2010
8 Japanese supply of gallium, 2004 to 2009
9 CMK Gallium Recapture (4N), 2005 to 2009
10 CMK Gallium Refining (6N), 2005 to 2009
11 USA: Imports of gallium (scrap, unwrought and waste), 2004 to 2008
12 Japanese demand for gallium by end use, 2003 to 2009
13 USA Consumption of gallium by end use, 2004 to 2009
14 Gallium-based compound semiconductors
15 Some major suppliers of GaAs substrates
16 GIRMET Ltd: Gallium-based semiconductor crystals and wafers
17 Hitachi Cable: Next-generation optical disk systems
18 AXT: High-performance compound and single element semiconductor substrates
19 Major Devices
20 Visible LEDs
21 Worlds biggest LED epitaxy manufacturers by revenue, 2008 to 2010
22 IC Market Segments
23 Some solid-state devices (and their applications) to be found in MMICs
24 Commercial applications for GaAs MMICs
25 Worlds key GaAs foundries
26 Major SI GaAs epitaxial substrate suppliers
27 Worlds major GaAs device manufacturers
28 Relative cell efficiencies
29 Leading CIGS companies
30 semiconductor developers
31 GaN RF power device manufacturers etc
32 GaN epitaxial wafer providers
33 GaN substrate producers
34 GaN LED Applications
35 Leading GaN & InGaN LED suppliers
36 Indium Corporation of America: Fusible alloys
37 MCP Group: Eutectic gallium alloys

Figures Listing

Num Title
1 Chalco: Gallium production, 2005 to 2009
2 MAL: Gallium production, 2005 to 2009
3 World: Demand for gallium, 2006 to 2009
4 USA: Imports and apparent consumption of gallium, 2005 to 2010
5 World: LED backlight market penetration, 2008 to 2015
6 Illustration: Worldwide TV market by technology, 2004 to 2014
7 World: Growth in LED displays, 2008 to 2015
8 Illustration: Three crystal growth technologies
9 Visible LEDs
10 Characteristics comparison chart
11 Illustration: CIGS cell structure
12 Europe: Spot prices for gallium, 2000 to 2011
13 USA: Average annual price for gallium, 2000 to 2010
14 Europe: Spot prices for gallium, 2007 to 2011

Gallium: Global Industry Markets and Outlook, 8th Edition 2011

  • Published 02/05/2011
  • 108 pages, 37 tables and 14 figures.
  • ISBN 978 0 86214 575 0

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