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Monocrystal participated in SNEC PV Power Expo 2009 which was held in Shanghai, PRC from May 6 to May 8, 2009. Although just the third annual exhibition, it has already become the largest regional event in the photovoltaics industry.

Monocrystal, Inc. – world’s leading provider of sapphire products and metallization pastes to semiconductor, optical, and photovoltaic industries, today announced key financial results that reflect pro-forma combination of Energomera’s electronic materials business, including Monocrystal and Atlas, for the full year ended December 31, 2008.

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Monocrystal Nears Mass Adoption of Solid State Lighting by Advancing on Ultra-Large 8” Wafers for LEDs.

Monocrystal, a leader in the synthetic sapphire and other advanced electronic materials markets, announced today that the company launched production of its ultra-large 8” C-plane epi-ready sapphire wafers for LED manufacturing in August.

Monocrystal was able to rapidly ramp up production of the new generation sapphire wafers for LEDs by leveraging its superior technology for large sapphire crystals growing – the company has routinely produced large sapphire crystals that exceed 65 kg since late 2005.

Another key factor that helped Monocrystal advance on 8” wafers for LEDs was its proprietary wafer fabrication technology developed earlier in spring for production of the new generation ultra-large 8” R-plane sapphire wafers for RFICs. Monocrystal already shipped its 8” wafers to LED and RFIC customers. More details...

Monocrystal exhibited at Euro Led 2008, which took place on 4-5 June, 2008 in Birmingham, UK.

Euro Led 2008 is the 5th annual Conference and Exhibition dedicated to the science, technology and application of HB LEDs and solid-state lighting.

Monocrystal took part in the Blue 2008 that was held on May 7–8, 2008 Ambassador Hotel, Hsinchu, Taiwan as a sapphire sponsor.

Oleg Kachalov, VP Sales & Marketing, presented the report “Sapphire solving the challenges of 4-to 8-inch substrates” that stated main issues of using large diameter sapphire substrates in LED production.