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Rubicon Technology to Present at J. P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium

^{Published on 2011-02-23 10:10:34 - Market Wire}
 

FRANKLIN PARK, Ill.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--[ Rubicon Technology, Inc. ] (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today announced that ita™s president and CEO, Raja Parvez, has been invited to present at the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium in Santa Clara, CA on Thursday, February 24, 2011.

The purpose of the J.P. Morgan symposium is to present and highlight companies who are focused on the technology centered on the adoption of LEDs for general lighting applications.

As the only vertically integrated manufacturer of high quality, large diameter sapphire wafers in large volumes, Rubicon is provider of choice for manufacturers of LEDs worldwide. Rubicon delivers the sapphire wafer capacity necessary to support the growing demand for LEDs in the consumer electronics and general lighting industries in products such as light bulbs, large displays, traffic lights, HDTVs, tablets, netbooks, and mobile phones leverage LEDs. The company recently announced the production of 12-inch polished wafers, the largest high-quality, sapphire wafer ready for production of LEDs (light emitting diodes).

About RBCN: Rubicon Technology, Inc. is an advanced electronic materials provider that is engaged in developing, manufacturing and selling monocrystalline sapphire and other crystalline products for light-emitting diodes (LEDs), radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), blue laser diodes, optoelectronics and other optical applications. The Company applies its proprietary crystal growth technology to produce very high-quality sapphire in a form that allows for volume production of various sizes and orientations of substrates and windows. Rubicon is a vertically-integrated manufacturer with capabilities in crystal growth, high precision core drilling, wafer slicing, surface lapping, large-diameter polishing and wafer cleaning processes, which the Company employs to convert the bulk crystal into products with the quality and precision specified by its customers. The Company is actively developing larger diameter products to support next-generation LED, RFIC and optical window applications.

Further information is available at [ www.rubicon-es2.com ].