The latest news and information on optoelectronics manufacturing, including equipment and materials for LEDs, HB-LEDs, OLEDs, photonics, laser diodes, and MOEMS.
Lattice Power Has Silicon Substrate LED Yao Gang, Editor-in-Chief, SI China - 07/23/2008
Lattice Power Corp. (Nanchang, China) said it is in production with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made with its proprietary silicon-substrate technology. The company deposits GaN light-emitting materials on silicon substrates, reducing costs. More
Applied appoints optoelectronics, solar technology expert Stephen R. Forrest to board By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor - 06/13/2008
Adding a broad perspective on developing technologies and their usefulness for commercial applications, Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment leader Applied Materials Inc today said it has appointed optoelectronic device expert Stephen R. Forrest to its board of directors and as a member of the strategy committee of the board, effective immediately.
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Visionox Readies First Volume OLED Line Yao Gang, Editor-in-Chief, SI China - 06/11/2008
Visionox (Beijing, China) said its volume OLED production line will begin operation in October in Kunshan, Jiangsu. The company said it has started installing production equipment at the plant, which is expected to have an annual capacity of more than 10 million small-size OLED devices. Visionox’s OLED technology derives from R&D at Tsinghua University, where several professors began basic OLED research in 1996.
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Selete Achieves 5 GHz Pulses on Silicon Photonics IC Kenji Tsuda, Asia Contributing Editor - 06/05/2008
The Selete consortium in Japan has developed an optical interconnect based on a silicon waveguide. The approach connects a logic IC with an optical interconnect layer at 5 GHz.
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China Unveils First Homegrown MOCVD Equipment Yao Gang, Editor-in-Chief, SI China - 06/03/2008
Jiesheng Electric Co. Ltd. (Qingdao, China) has developed metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment, the first produced in China. MOCVD is key to the creation of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and other optoelectronic devices.
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SEA TADPOLE Promises Metrology Improvements Alexander E. Braun, Senior Editor - 05/29/2008
A new system that measures different types of aberrations present in laser short-pulse systems using lenses and other optical components allows users to create a distortion-free pulse at the focus.
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OmniVision, TSMC Develop Sensor Technology David Lammers, News Editor - 05/27/2008
OmniVision Technologies Inc. said it has developed a backside illumination (BSI) image sensor that will improve the quality and pixel density of CMOS sensors used in cell phone camera modules, among other applications. The BSI approach allows more light to strike the photosensitive area. OmniVision worked with foundry partner TSMC to develop the process flow.
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Practical, Scalable Quantum Logic Gate Demonstrated Alexander E. Braun, Senior Editor - 05/20/2008
Engineers and physicists from Stanford University and the University of California at Santa Barbara have demonstrated what they term “the potential progenitor” of a basic component of quantum computers — a practical, scalable logic gate that enables the interaction of two photons.
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Views on News David Lammers, News Editor, Semiconductor International November 16, 2007 An Engineer's Brilliant! Tale
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Vivek Bakshi, founder and president of EUV Litho Inc., explains why he started up the International Workshop on EUV Lithography, which took place in Maui in June. He also expands on recent developments in EUV, and why more research is needed.
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LED Design, Optimization Using TCAD Modeling Ricardo Borges, Wei-Choon Ng and Gergö Letay, Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, Calif., 04/01/2008
TCAD modeling is widely used in semiconductor manufacturing simulation and analysis routines, from wafer track schedulers to yield management systems. The optoelectronics industry is now applying TCAD to its manufacturing processes, enabling control of process variations and improved yields....
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LED Design, Optimization Using TCAD Modeling
