HBTs Developed for 40 GB/s Fiber Optics Networks and Next Generation Wireless Handsets
Kopin Announces Advanced Carbon-Doped InP-based HBTs
Taunton, MA. Kopin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), the leading provider of gallium arsenide (GaAs) heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) for wireless and fiber-optic telecom applications, today announced the introduction of carbon-doped Indium Phosphide (InP)-based HBTs. These transistors are considered a keystone technology for components used in wireless and high-speed optical communication.
"InP is the next generation semiconductor after GaAs," stated Dr. John C.C. Fan, Kopin s president and chief executive officer. "Compared to GaAs HBTs, InP HBTs demonstrate superior speed, operating voltage, power efficiency and thermal properties. We are currently growing carbon-doped InP HBTs in our production organometallic chemical vapor deposition (OMCVD) systems, the preferred technique for large-scale manufacturing. This major breakthrough enables a new generation of high-performance, reliable, cost-effective InP HBT circuits for a wide variety of exciting applications, including 40-gigabit per second (Gb/s) fiber optic circuits (OC 768) and efficient power amplifiers for third-generation wireless phones."
"Our proprietary, and patent-pending process overcomes previous difficulties to incorporate sufficient quantities of carbon into InP HBTs, especially by OMCVD. Although beryllium-doped InP HBTs have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), carbon-doped HBTs are preferable because carbon is a more stable dopant."
"The addition of InP HBTs to our product mix provides our customers and partners with a wider selection of devices," Fan continued. "We are now beginning to sample InP HBTs with select Kopin partners."
Dr. Roger E. Welser, Kopin s Director of Transistor Technology, commented, "We have achieved active carbon doping levels exceeding 1 x 1019/cc, a critical threshold for many circuit applications, and are steadily increasing the doping level for even higher speed circuits. The transistor characteristics of large-area InP HBTs grown and fabricated at Kopin are excellent, suggesting very high material quality is obtained by our OMCVD process."
About Kopin
Kopin Corporation is a leading manufacturer of GaAs transistor products and miniature flat panel displays for advanced communications and digital imaging applications. The Company s GaAs HBT transistors are used to produce power amplifier circuits for CDMA, GSM, TDMA and PCS wireless telephone handsets as well as multi-gigabit circuits for fiber optic and Internet data transmission. Kopin s CyberDisplay family of ultra-small, high-density imaging devices is designed for portable communications and consumer products including camcorders and digital cameras and wireless Internet appliances. Kopin s Web site is located at www.kopin.com.
CyberDisplay is a trademark of Kopin.
Statements in this news release about Kopin Corporation s InP-based HBTs are made under "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could materially affect future results. Among these risk factors are general economic and business conditions and growth in the GaAs and InP integrated circuit and materials industries, the impact of competitive products and pricing, availability of integrated circuit fabrication facilities, the Company s ability to successfully expand its production facilities, cost and yields of HBT transistor wafers, loss of significant customers, acceptance of the Company s products, continuation of strategic relationships, and other risk factors and cautionary statements listed from time to time in the Company s periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including, but not limited to, the Company s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999, and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2000.
Contact: Kopin Corporation Matthew Micci mmicci@kopin.com or Richard Sneider rsneider@kopin.com Tel: (508) 824-6696 or Sharon Merrill Associates, Inc. Scott Solomon Tel: (617) 542-5300 ssolomon@investorrelations.com
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