In brief: Aixtron, chip printing, Infinera, JDSU
Red LEDs are go at Changelight
Xiamen Changelight has started mass production of red LEDs within days of installing two AIX 2600G3 reactors from Aixtron.
“Only two weeks after installation we took over the reactors and started the mass production of red LEDs yielding 120 mcd,” said Professor Wang Xiangwu, Changelight s technology vice-president.
Changelight s first two MOCVD systems have 12x4 inch and 49x2 inch configurations, and the company bought a third AIX 2600G3 recently.
Semprius gets money to print transistors
An ambitious attempt to make transistors on plastic substrates is benefiting from a US National Science Foundation phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant worth $150,000.
Durham, NC, based Semprius aims to make devices for flexible displays cost-effectively, hoping its transfer printing approach to electronic manufacture can succeed where no other company has.
The funding will go towards developing materials and processes for maximum manufacturing yield, and troubleshooting circuit defects.
European team-mate scores for Infinera
Photonic integrated circuit (PIC) innovator Infinera is providing the optical backbone for EWE Tel, a German regional telecom operator, thanks to its new sales and marketing partner.
NK Networks and Services has helped EWE Tel evaluate Infinera s digital optical networks based on the InP PIC since 2005, with EWE Tel now concluding that it will provide flexible and economic coverage for its 300,000 customers.
As a result, Infinera and NK Networks have agreed to work together to provide marketing, sales and support of Infinera s products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
JDSU inks supply deal
RED-C Optical Networks has selected JDSU to be its main supplier of components for optical amplifiers and subsystems.
“JDSU s market-leading suite of 980nm pump lasers is an important element of the agreement, which also covers other lasers and active components, and passive components that are used in RED-C s leading edge amplification product portfolio,” a spokesperson for JDSU told compoundsemiconductor.net.
JDSU also said that RED-C is “a smaller but growing customer for JDSU, and one with which we have a strong and collaborative relationship”.
