Held in Dallas, Texas
Agenda Topics
 

Next Generation Laser Diodes
What are the technology drivers, and where they are headed
Lead Instructor: Christopher Pinzone, PhD, Dir of Photonic Materials -- Ahura Corporation

GaN Electronics, Gaining Ground
The latest strides, from substrates to applications
Workshop Coordinator: Umesh Mishra, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering -- University of California Santa Barbara
Instructors:
    Huili (Grace) Xing -- UC Santa Barbara
    Primit Parihk, Process Dev Manager (GaN Electronics) -- Cree SB Technology Center

What does "recovery and rebuild" mean, and entail? And how vital are the compounds to renewed success?

Keynote Address: Telecom and Datacom - Wireline, Opto and Terrestrial

Despite the overall slowdown, the communications market can still only be described as "huge". Hear the latest on tele/data-communications market trends and drivers.

The handset market continues to play a massive influence on the plans of device and module manufacturers. You'll hear the current projections and trends in the overall handset device market.

GaAs is still growing and going strong. Competing technologies are expected to make further in-roads to GaAs' traditional applications, but new growth areas are more than making up for it.

You'll hear about new initiatives, including the DARPA's GaN program, designed to build the infrastructure that will help transform the science of wide bandgap semiconductors into workable technology.

The concept of "convergence" has massive implications on the compounds, and may provide a critical element to bringing down the costs while increasing the profits and enabling long anticipated market opportunities.

-- Substrates: How many inches of what flavor, and how good is the quality... really? Materials to be covered include GaN, SiC, GaAs, Sapphire, AlN and others.
   Participants scheduled to include:
      Cree, Inc. - Calvin Carter, Co-Founder & Director of Materials Technology
      Kyma Technologies - Drew Hanser, Dir of R&D
      Dow Corning - Fred Buether, Global Market & Business Development Manager
      Saint Gobain - Kevin Gray, Project Leader
      Crystal IS - Keith Evans, COO & VP Business Development

-- Tools and Epiwafers: How are they improving...?
   Participants scheduled to include:
       Aixtron - Rainer Beccard, Director Marketing
       Thomas Swan - Neil Gerrard, Technical Director
       Veeco - Paul Fabiano

Getting there, and staying on top sometimes means keeping it simple and just doing what you do best
    Participants:
        Anadigics - Ron Rosenzweig, Founder & Chairman
        Cree - John Palmour, co-founder, Executive VP, Advanced Devices
        ... with additional panelists, to be announced

The more you fit onto the module, the more of the design you win.
     Participants:
         TriQuint Semiconductor - Ralph Quinsey, President/CEO
         Skyworks Solutions - Mohy Abdelgany, Vice President, RF Solutions
         ... with additional panelists, to be announced

Widening the Offering via the Acquisition Route: The joys and woes of assimilating, integrating and managing the acquisitions as a route to capturing more of the design.
    Participants:
      Emcore - Reuben Richards, President/CEO
      TriQuint - Tom Cordner, Executive VP
      Veeco - David Reamer, VP Strategic Marketing and Business Development,

                       ... Followed by a panel discussion on related topics

With the global economic and market adjustments, more companies are going fabless and turning to wafer, device and module assembly solutions. What's behind it, where's it going?

Hear about nanopatterning's broad-reaching impact on how nano devices, micro structures, optical components and semiconductor devices will be manufactured in the future.

VCSELs continue to get better and move into new application spaces. You'll hear the latest updates on the overall VCSEL market, current applications and performance trends, including a progress report on 850nm manufacturing, trends in technical adoption at other wavelengths and a look at some new application spaces that are showing promise.

While they received massive investment for research in defense applications in the 1980s, GSE's were largely passed over in the 1990s. Is their commercial reality now at hand?

An update on two emerging markets for consumer and enterprise Internet access via 2-way millimeter wave wireless links. Insights into the challenges the industry must overcome to meet this demand for ultra-high speed wireless and satellite based Internet delivery.
 

The brewing battle to control the last mile, including business and technical challenges. What technical breakthroughs can change the whole equation? What can happen to make full-bandwidth cost effective?
Topics to Include:
    The case for fiber/cable? The costs can run into the billions... who picks up the tab?
    Going Wireless... breakthroughs, such as direct satellite and WiMax
         are happening, are the customers willing?