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April 1, 2004...We're fortunate to live in a time when little boys and girls dream of actually
traveling in space and go beyond just watching astronauts and cosmonauts on
television news or on Star Trek episodes. And if those who dream such dreams
work hard enough and get the right education and training it takes to make the
cut, those dreams can indeed come true. That's the case of one of our own, Greg
Olsen, CEO of Sensors Unlimited in Princeton,
New Jersey USA. Greg, now 58, who will soon make his childhood dream come true,
has been named the next private space explorer to travel to the International
Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Greg will begin cosmonaut training
next month at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
The launch date for his flight is scheduled for April 2005. Company
news release. Perspective and commentary on Greg Great Adventure can be
found in our April 1 editorial, to your viewing left, this issue. Crystal IS Scores Two More Nitride SBIRs from DARPAApril 1, 2004...Crystal IS of Watervliet, New York USA has won two new Phase I Awards under
DARPA’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. One of the awards
is associated with DARPA's program to develop “epi-ready” substrate surfaces
geared to speed the development of low cost high performance devices across
a wide range of device types and applications. The other SBIR program is associated
with a high-risk, high-payoff technical approach based on combining the benefits
of native AlN substrates with recently developed quantum dot technology and
has the potential to enable the first high-efficiency deep-green LEDs which
may be important for a variety of applications including solid state white lighting.
“We are very appreciative for the continuing support we have received from
DARPA and other DoD agencies. Such support has been critical in helping us drive
towards the commercialization of native single crystal AlN substrate technology
which has strong potential to positively impact many high value electronic and
optoelectronic device applications,” remarked Dr. Leo Schowalter, Crystal
IS co-founder, president and CEO. Leo will be providing an update on these programs
when he speaks at CompoundSemi Online's upcoming Blue
2004 event in Taiwan this May.
Both programs entail key subcontracts to Albany NanoTech of the University
of Albany-State University of New York for research and development on its state-of-the-art
III-nitride epitaxial growth facilities. The Albany NanoTech program is under
the direction of Professor Fatemeh Shahedipour. “Professor Shahedipour and
Albany NanoTech are establishing an impressive effort in III-nitride materials
development and our respective capabilities are highly complimentary. We are
very hopeful that our relationship will continue to grow as more opportunities
unfold,” said Dr. Keith Evans, Crystal IS VP Business Development. Keith
provided the industry with an update of their progress in December at our annual
Compound Semi Outlook conference. Professor
Shahedipour added, “We view our partnership with Crystal IS as an important
component of our advanced compound semiconductor R&D roadmap. We are excited
about taking an active role in the establishment of a center of excellence in
epitaxial growth at our College for Nanotechnology, recently announced by Governor
Pataki, to support New York State’s high tech companies, as embodied by Crystal
IS.” Company
news release
Lumileds Reaching Out to Lighting DevelopersApril 1, 2004...Once again in the HB-LED industry lead, this time for innovative programs that
help customers get up to speed faster/better, Lumileds Lighting of Palo Alto,
California USA has taken the initiative to form what they're calling the Luxeon
Lighting Network. This looks to be a training program pointing the overall
HB-LED technical community in the direction the need to go next. The program
is designed specifically to aid lighting specifiers in executing projects that
utilize LED-based illumination. Lumileds announced the program at Lightfair
in Las Vegas this week. Luxeon Lighting Network is a certification, training
and technical support program designed to assist the lighting specification
community in bringing the design advantages, longevity and energy efficiency
of solid-state lighting to their clients. The program will give specifiers access
to a pool of lighting manufacturers and other suppliers with proven expertise
in engineering and fabricating LED-based luminaires. "Lighting specifiers
interested in LED illumination want to work within the existing lighting industry
infrastructure, but until now it has been difficult to identify vendors with
the reliable LED experience and knowledge," said Keith Scott, market development
manager with Lumileds Lighting. "Our Luxeon Lighting Network bridges that
gap by establishing a group of certified luminaire manufacturers that specifiers
can call to produce predictably performing LED lighting solutions tailored to
client needs." Details are included in the company
news release. Matheson Tri-Gas Releases Next Gen 100% Arsine PurifierMarch 31, 2004...Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. of Parsippany, New Jersey USA has announced the release
of its next generation of 100% arsine purification media called NANOCHEM
ASX-II. While matching the efficiency of its predecessor, the new media
removes killer impurities such as H2O in arsine and the patented inorganic media
eliminates the occurrence of pressure build-up and nearly doubles the moisture
capacity, thereby dramatically extending the purifier's lifetime. In addition,
the new media is expected to remove Oxy-acid impurities. These oxygen-containing
impurities can be incorporated into III-V films (e.g., GaAs, InGaAs, AlGaAs,
InGaAsP) during growth, causing reduced carrier concentration and loss of photoluminescence
efficiency. Company
news release TriQuint Announces High Volume InGaP HBT Foundry ProcessMarch 31, 2004...TriQuint Semiconductor of Hillsboro, Oregon USA, noted as a major compound
semi true "foundry" has announced that it now will offer its high-volume
TQHBT3 InGaP heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) process as one of its foundry
offerings. The devices are fabricated in TriQuint's 150mm Oregon wafer manufacturing
facility. This process, the next generation evolution of TriQuint's mature,
high-volume TQHBT process, enables designers of RF amplifiers for cellphone,
WLAN, WiMax and broadband power applications to achieve increased gain, power
level and efficiency for a given device size due to higher transistor performance.
"The TQHBT3 process offers our foundry customers improved performance for
several key parameters important for their power amplifier applications,"
said Rob Christ, TriQuint's Foundry Marketing Director. "TQHBT3 features
higher beta, more gain per stage, improved power added efficiency, and world
class ruggedness." The TQHBT3 process is an extension of TriQuint's current
InGaP HBT process, which has been in high-volume production for over 3 years.
Company
news release Two Stage MMIC Doubler Offered by Mimix BroadbandMarch 31, 2004...Mimix Broadband, Inc. of Houston, Texas USA has introduced a GaAs MMIC two
stage doubler that can be used to drive fundamental mixer devices. Using 0.15
micron gate length GaAs pHEMT device model technology, this doubler converts
input signals in the 9 to 14 GHz frequency range to output signals in the 18
to 28 GHz frequency range. This device has +12 dBm output drive. This doubler,
identified as 12DBL0230, is designed to drive Mimix's XR1002 receiver, and is
well suited for wireless communications applications such as millimeter-wave
point-to-point radio, local multipoint distribution services (LMDS), SATCOM,
and radar applications. "By locating the doubler close to the receiver, the
transmission losses incurred by the high frequency local oscillator signal can
be minimized," stated Dr. Jim Harvey, CTO of Mimix Broadband, Inc. "The
device also has application in up-converters or direct modulated FSK systems,
where a 9 to 14 GHz signal needs to be doubled to the 18 to 28 GHz frequency
range." Company
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