UEC orders Aixtron MOCVD

UEC orders Aixtron MOCVD

Helsinki & Harvard buy Thomas Swan MOCVD UEC orders Aixtron MOCVD United Epitaxy Compan~ t h r o u g h p u t production systems (UEC) based in Hsin...

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Helsinki & Harvard buy Thomas Swan MOCVD

UEC orders Aixtron MOCVD United Epitaxy Compan~

t h r o u g h p u t production systems

(UEC) based in Hsinchu and

tinder full production, we nmv

( loscd Coupled S h o w e r h e a d

Tainan,Taiwan has ordered

haxe the p r o o f that w e can

F.tluipmcilt (TSSF.) has -,old a 3x2-

(;aN M()CV1) system at Harvard

a n o t h e r A I X 26OOG3 24 x 2-

ensure and ltlrther improve otlr

inch Close Coupled Shlrwcrhcad

t q~iversity in the Nanoscience

inch ttT MOCVI) Planetary

leading edge in nitride-based

Thomas bwan Scientilit

(CCS) MOCVI) system INN

and Nanolechnology Research

Reactor to furtller r a m p up

LE1) p r o d u c t s with ultra-high

Helsinki l lniversit.v ol ]cchnolog)

(;enter for the g r o u p of

p r o d n c t i o n of lll-nitride ultra-

brightness, ;it even more

designed lot the growth of(,~b\s

Professor Charles l.ieber fi)r the

high-brightness yellow, blue

remarkably reduced running

and (tan based inaterials

groveth of a broad range of

and green I,E1)s.

costs.This is one of the ke'~ f:tc-

re;ride based nanoscale photonThe CCS system will bc used liNr

ic alld electronic structures.

Ihe research of :ltlvallced seilli-

C(NIIdtlcIOF strucl;urcs used ill

The ttarvard g r o u p is an R&I)

optoelectronics and li)r Ol)limis-

e x p o n e n t in controlled g r o w t h

ing tile growth of gl'otip ![l

of Selllieonductor natlov¢ires to

nitridcs based on silio,n . u b -

provide well-defined nanoscale

Stnlles. ()El. will also li >cus on the

building blocks for the assem-

development ot dilute nit rides,

bly of mum-devices, l s i n g this

such as (;aAsN alld (;ahlAsN tint

approach the Lieber g r o u p has

(iaAs-hased

emil;lets al %%;1%e-

demonstrated devices ranging

lengths Nil' 13 aud l.S~,~am, t;irwt-

flx)m ultrahigh p e r | b r m a n c e

tots thai is driving I,EI) market 'Based on o n r e x p e r i e n c e rising

development," said ( ; Tu, presi-

A i x t r o n s 2 4 x 2-inch high

dent of UF.C.

EpiWorks offer 808nm laser epiwafers

Atmel and Newcastle work on strained Si

EpiWnrks, INN:.has a n n o u n c e d a high-performancc 808nm (;aAs laser wali:r.

ing advanced &.vices IOr metro-

nanoscak: transistors and inte-

'GaAs-based F,OSmn lasers are a

politan area networks and optical

grated logic to the world's

necessity [i)r rlunlerotlS intlustri-

intereonnects al these Itqecolll-

smallest LEI)s with emission

mnnication wax ek*ngl hs

front [ rv with GaN to near IR

Atmel is w o r k i n g w i t h a team

al applications such :is marking.

of r e s e a r c h e r s ;it Newcastle

with lnP nanowires, and recentProR:ssor [tarr~ Lipsallerl from

ly injection lasers based on sin-

Helsinki tnixe,rsitx o i

gle n a n o w i r e active cavities.

coding and soldering7 sakl

1_ni~.ersity in the 1/K to devel

l)ax id Ahmari. Executive VP ;it

n p a strained silicon p r o c e s s

EpiWorks.Typical production

lor p r o d u c t i o n . T h e project

data from Epi\~orks

will be based at A t m d s lab

Technolog) said"The p r m e n

AIGaAs/GaAs 808 nm industrial

near Newcastle, and ,,,<'ill

process characteristics and

Prntcssor Lieber said "The TSSE

reproducibilit) of thc TSSI! (;( iS

system should provide a qnan-

reactors enable us 1,.; have a

turn jump li~rward in the cnn-

giant ad%,ancclllelll ill our tech-

trnlled grow,'th of (;;iN based

nology.The developn~en! of the

nanowircs and next generation

The first phase will involve

were taken lr(Nnl a laser bar tllal

nev¢ in-situ opl:ical nionilt)ring

n a n o w i r c heterostructures, and

integrating strained silicon into

employed 46 emitters with an

tool is all imp~ wtant illeallS ik)N"

is tlaereby expected to enable

Atmel's CMOS process, and is

80-micron stripe width and a 1

the fabrication of st;tie olqhe-art

very substantial advances rang-

e x p e c t e d to take about a year.

m m cavity lenglh, l.aser bars

dilute nitrides

ing fl-om high ntobili D' electron-

O t h e r players in the field

utilising Epi~'orks wafers also

ic dexices to the assemb b of

include IBM, lntel,Aixtron and

demonstrate excellent reliabili-

TSSE is also al~out to completc

multi-coh)r UV-VIS n a n o w i r e

AnlbcrWave. working with

ty, and neglilzible degradation

the installation of at ~,x2-inch

[.El) and laser arrays."

b o t h A M D and UMC.

alter 120(1 h o u r s of lilt' testing.

structures

laser cnstonlers incltldes all ()tit

involxe a te;lm of five

put p o w e r of 20W. slope effi

r e s e a r c h e r s lead by Professor

ciencv of 1. 1%X/A and a thresh-

A n t h o n y O'Neill.

old current o1'-.qA.The data

d ii~' ii ~;~k ~!!~/~i~ .. d v i n E adv,-:,nced c o m p o u n d

semiconductor

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