GT Solar has received a new order from Taiwan-based LED wafer manufacturer, Tera Xtal Technology Corporation.

GT Solar will supply Tera Xtal sapphire cores for increasing their production of epitaxial-ready LED wafers.

It’s said that GT’s new sapphire production facility increases the availability of high quality sapphire material for its LED and specialty market sapphire customers.

In the beginning, material allocation will satisfy both LED and specialty market customers, but long term, as its equipment customers ramp into high volume production, the company expects that the majority of its sapphire production to be allocated to meet new specialty market growth in areas such as high energy lasers, medical devices, and applications requiring large area substrates for the aerospace and defence industries.