ACREO Purchases EMCORE Discovery Platform with RealTemp for Development of Quantum Well IR Detector Arrays
The new company ACREO AB near Stockholm merges the optoelectronics R&D expertise at IMC AB and AB IOF
Somerset, NJ, USA. EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq: EMKR) today announced the sale of a TurboDisc® MOCVD platform to ACREO AB of Sweden. The D-180 tool will be used as the key platform in developing manufacturable devices such as Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors (QWIPs). The sale included EMCORE s new RealTemp™ pyrometry monitoring capability. QWIPs are the key devices used in advanced imaging applications, such as infrared cameras. ACREO has selected a process capable of handling 4 inch wafers which are necessary for the production of the relatively large QWIP array devices.
ACREO AB was founded in August of 1999 and is a merger between Industrial Microelectronics Center (IMC) AB and the Institute of Optical Research (AB IOF). ACREO AB specializes in market-driven applied research and development in microelectronics and optics, and has 130 employees. The company has close relations to the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), and is located in Kista, which is a suburb of Stockholm. The Imaging Department at ACREO undertakes contract R&D and production in the areas of detector arrays, displays, optical information processing and image quality.
"At ACREO, we utilize several designs of detectors in the IR range, of which the most important is the Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP)," explains Bernhard Hirschauer, ACREO s scientist in charge of projects which will utilize the new D-180 platform. "The majority of applications for these IR devices is in the measurement of thermal radiation, including non-contact temperature measurement combined with imaging." This category of devices are typically used in applications as diverse as night vision and cancer diagnostics, explains Hirschauer.
"We were especially impressed by EMCORE s demonstration of the RealTemp capability on the D-180 platform because of the stringent specifications unique to QWIPs and other leading edge products ACREO is developing," said Jan Y. Andersson, manager of the Imaging Department at ACREO. "The RealTemp pyrometry system accurately determines true substrate temperature measurement and control which enables us to more rapidly improve the overall quality of our highly sensitive materials. That capability simply wasn t possible until the existence of EMCORE s RealTemp. We feel this platform will allow ACREO to develop more efficient production processes that will equate to overall cost-savings which we will be able to pass along to our customers."
EMCORE s RealTemp is an emissivity corrected pyrometry tool that overcomes the inaccuracies usually involved in using conventional pyrometry and enables users to determine the precise temperature of wafers in a production scale MOCVD reactor. By simultaneously measuring, in-situ, the emissivity and radiance from the substrate, the accurate surface temperature of the substrate can be determined in real time, without disrupting the growth process. A novel, real time emissivity sorting algorithm is used to ensure that emissivity and temperature measurements are collected only from the substrate surfaces.
More information on EMCORE Corporation and the company s TurboDisc MOCVD platforms can be obtained via the company s website at http://www.emcore.com and information on RealTemp is specifically available on http://www.emcore.com/systems/components.html
Information on the new ACREO AB Company is on their website, http://www.acreo.se/
EMCORE Corporation is the leading vertically integrated materials science Company in the field of compound semiconductors. EMCORE offers comprehensive solutions for the compound semiconductor industry and its customers by operating six internal divisions: EMCORE Research & Applications Laboratory, TurboDisc® production systems, EMCORE Electronic Materials (E²M) epitaxial wafer foundry, and EMCORE Electronic Devices (E²D), MODE, and EMCORE Photovoltaic discrete device fabs. For further information about EMCORE, visit http://www.emcore.com.
For more information contact: Tom Miehe, VP Marketing and Sales EMCORE Corporation, Somerset NJ +1 732-271-9090 ext: 4188 Email: Tom_Miehe@Emcore.com
Tom Miehe, VP Marketing and Sales EMCORE Corporation, Somerset NJ +1 732-271-9090ext: 4188 Email: Tom_Miehe@Emcore.com
E-mail: Tom_Miehe@Emcore.com
Web site: http://www.emcore.com
