In brief: AXT, Intense, Comlase, Modulight and SST
AXT joins SEMI
Substrate and raw materials supplier AXT has joined the SEMI organization as a corporate member.
The Fremont, CA, company is currently undergoing a company rebrand that has also seen it set up five joint ventures in China offering raw materials, crystal growth crucibles and MBE components.
Phil Yin, AXT's CEO, said, "Our goal has been to support and encourage the adoption of the SEMI standards [used] for silicon manufacturing in the compound semiconductor industry as well."
Intense and Comlase collaborate
UK-based laser manufacturer Intense has set up a development partnership with the Swedish firm Comlase.
The two companies plan to use Comlase's Nitrel processing technology (see related story) in conjunction with Intense's quantum well intermixing approach to develop advanced high-power lasers and widen their application base.
Modulight bags $1.8 million contract
Modulight, the laser specialist with a semiconductor fab in Finland, is to develop high-power laser diode bars under a new $1.8million contract.
The bars, which will be used for pumping high-power solid-state lasers, are scheduled for delivery by the end of 2006.
HBT pioneer wins Sarnoff gong
Mau-Chung Frank Chang, chief technology adviser to the US-based RFIC supplier Silicon Storage Technology (SST), has won the 2006 IEEE David Sarnoff Award for his development of GaAs HBT power amplifiers.
The award, which recognizes significant contributions to electronics, will be received by Chang on February 6 at the 2006 International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco.
Chang is regarded as a key developer of new ways to manufacture and monitor reliable GaAs HBT power amplifiers that have helped make the HBT such a success in wireless communications.
