Epic elects new president
EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium, has elected of Dr Drew Nelson, CEO of IQE (Cardiff, UK) as president of EPIC. Dr Nelson succeeds Jean-François Coutris of Sagem Défense et Sécurité, who completed two terms serving as the 2nd president of the consortium. Dr Nelson began his term on 5 April 2011, presiding the annual general assembly of EPIC in Paris, France. Dr Nelson co-founded EPI in
1988, raising start-up capital from Shell Ventures, and has held the role of chief executive officer at the company since 1996, when he led a management buy-out from Shell. In 1999 he led the merger of EPI with US-based QED, forming the IQE Group, which was subsequently listed, initially on
EASDAQ in 1999, then fully listed on the LSE in 2000. IQE has grown to be the largest
outsource manufacturer of advanced semiconductor wafers, supplying all 12 of the top wireless chip companies globally, and now consists of a group of eight companies spanning Europe, the US and Asia. In July 2000, Dr Nelson was
awarded a silver medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering for his contribution to British Engineering, and he was awarded the OBE for services to the Electronics Industry in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2001. In 2004 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and was awarded an Honorary Dr Eng degree from the University of Sheffield in 2005.
Laseroptik invests in iBs capacity to meet demand
German coating specialist Laseroptik has doubled its ion beam sputtering (IBS) capacity in order to meet a growing demand for high precision sputtered coatings. The upgrade from two to four industrial IBS systems will allow the company to meet various customer-specified requirements such as low-loss super mirrors, complex filter designs, or coatings on crystals. With a GDD measurement setup, Laseroptik now also offers chirped mirrors. Furthermore IBS coatings have
become an integral part of the Laseroptik Express service, which offers coatings and optics within
24h, one to two weeks, or three weeks for special prototypes. The company introduced IBS in 2007 as the fourth and most advanced coating technique it offers, alongside e-beam evaporation, ion-assisted deposition (IAD) and magnetron sputtering. The company’s IBS coating plants are designed with a primary RF plasma source, which uses argon ions to sputter off targets made of common coating materials. In order to guarantee very dense, low stress and well-oxidised layers, a second RF plasma source emits oxygen ions directly onto the substrate surfaces.
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