Uniroyal Technology Corporation Announces Two Leading Silicon Carbide Scientists Join Sterling Semiconductor
SARASOTA, Fla. Sterling Semiconductor, Inc., a subsidiary of Uniroyal Technology Corporation, announced today that it has added two world-renowned silicon carbide scientists to its technology team.
Silicon carbide, with its robust physical and electrical properties, is becoming an increasingly important semiconductor material in the advancement of high performance electronic devices. Sterling s progress in its development of SiC conducting and semi-insulating substrates and SiC devices has progressed rapidly through internal funding as well as numerous United States defense contracts. The addition of Dr. Olle Kordina and Dr. Michael MacMillan to Sterling s technology team accelerates its entry into SiC device markets for commercial and military defense applications such as high frequency communications, including improving and miniaturizing on-board aircraft and ship radar, electronic systems such as automotive engine control and industrial motor control, and mobile wireless applications.
Sterling has an exceptional base of SiC scientists at its Virginia and Connecticut facilities focusing on SiC wafer expansion and SiC semi-insulating substrates, said Robert L. Soran, President and Chief Operating Officer of Uniroyal Technology Corporation. Doctors Kordina and MacMillan bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to our epitaxy and device production site in Tampa, while increasing Sterling s capability to provide its commercial and government customers with SiC products that best fit their needs, said Mr. Soran.
Dr. Olle Kordina has joined Sterling as Senior Scientist for epitaxy and device production and brings with him extensive experience in CVD growth and bulk growth of silicon carbide, as well as epitaxial film growth for device production. Most recently, Dr Kordina was Senior Scientist at Linko-ping University in Sweden where he developed epitaxial structures for radio frequency and power devices. Prior to Linko-ping University, he was employed as Senior Scientist at Cree, Inc. Dr. Kordina received his Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Licentiate of Technology in Solid State Physics from Lund University and earned his Doctorate in Materials Physics at Linko-ping University.
Joining Sterling from Northrop Grumman Corporation, Dr. Michael F. MacMillan is Epitaxy Scientist and Program Administrator at its Tampa facility. At Northrop, Dr. MacMillan s research included SiC and gallium nitride (GaN) epitaxial film growth for power and radio frequency device structures, as well as characterization of these products. Prior to joining Northrop, he studied SiC epitaxial film growth as Visiting Scientist at Linko- ping University. Dr. MacMillan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his Masters and Doctorate in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh. He has co-authored a number of publications on different aspects of SiC materials and devices.
Dr. Kordina and Dr. MacMillan will be based in Sterling s Tampa, Florida facility where they join the Sterling s growing technology team which includes crystal growth scientists Dr. Shaoping Wang and Dr. Edward Sanchez in Connecticut; Dr. Cengiz Balkas, Dr. Volker Heydemann and Dr. Nikolay Yushin in Virginia; and device scientist Dr. Gilyong Chung in Florida.
Uniroyal Technology s Compound Semiconductors & Optoelectronics business segment includes Uniroyal Optoelectronics, LLC, Sterling Semiconductor, Inc., and NorLux Corp. Uniroyal Optoelectronics manufactures high brightness light emitting diodes (HB-LEDs), a rapidly growing market with applications such as traffic signals, indoor/outdoor signage and automotive applications. Brand names include POWER-Ga(i)N™ and POWER-BR(ite)™. Sterling Semiconductor is a leading producer of silicon carbide (SiC) substrates, epitaxial thin films on SiC substrates and is developing SiC devices for wireless communications, industrial process control, and power amplification. NorLux Corp. specializes in the design and manufacture of custom lighting solutions utilizing light emitting diodes (LEDs). Well-known brand names in Uniroyal s Coated Fabrics and Specialty Adhesives segments include NAUGAHYDE® and NAUGASOFT® in coated fabrics and, SILAPRENE®, HYDRA FAST-EN® and GUNTHER ULTRA/BOND® in adhesives.
The Company s common stock and warrants trade on the Nasdaq/NMS under the symbols UTCI and UTCIW, respectively.
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