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Langley. Device structure and epitaxy growth methods will be guided by the NASA Langley’s research team.
The intellectual properties of patented growth methods, characterisation methods, epilayer structures, and device structures & fabrication methods will belong to NASA Langley. And NASA says no intellectual properties will be exchanged.
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Opel changes its name to focus on III-V POET technology
The firm will now concentrate its efforts on gallium arsenide (GaAs) based solar cells
Opel Technologies Inc. announced at its AGM, last week that the shareholders approved the change of the company’s name to “POET Technologies Inc.,” the New By-Law No. 1, the 2013 Stock Option Plan and the election of the following nominees to the Board of Directors as was proposed in the Information Circular:
The board members are:
Mark Benadiba, Peter Copetti, Adam Chowaniec, John F. O’Donnell, Samuel Peralta, Leon M. Pierhal, Geoff Taylor, Chris Tsiofas
All directors received the required majority vote from shareholders.
In a subsequent board meeting that followed the AGM, the board reappointed the following executive officers for the company:
Mark Benadiba, Executive Chairman Leon M. Pierhal, President & Chief Executive Officer Kevin Barnes, Treasurer & Chief Financial Officer Lee Shepherd, Vice President of Technology Michel Lafrance, Corporate Secretary Blaine Grisel, Controller
The shareholders also approved the re-appointment of Marcum LLP, Accountants & Advisors, of New Haven, Connecticut, as the auditors of the firm for the ensuing year.
Shareholders were presented with updates by Mark Benadiba and Leon M. Pierhal on the status of the
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company. Both reinforced that the core component of the company’s strategy going forward is to continue to develop the POET platform.
POET enables monolithic fabrication of integrated circuit gallium arsenide devices containing both electronic and optical elements on a single wafer.
Following the AGM, shareholders were provided the opportunity to take a tour of the ODIS facility to further reinforce the stated objective to drive monetisation efforts of the POET platform.
Shareholders in attendance were welcomed by the ODIS Team at the facility and given a showcase of the intricacy of this III-V technology.
Opel is the developer of the POET platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated circuit devices containing both electronic and optical elements on a single semiconductor wafer.
With a head office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and operations in Storrs, Connecticut, the company, through ODIS Inc., a U.S. company, designs III-V semiconductor devices for military, industrial and commercial applications.
NREL develops 31.1 percent efficiency III-V solar cell
The organisation says the conversion efficiency of its InGaP/GaAs cell sets a world record for a two-junction solar cell measured under one-sun illumination
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Lab has announced a world record of 31.1 percent conversion efficiency for a two-junction solar cell under one sun of illumination.
The previous record of 30.8 percent efficiency was held by Alta Devices.
The tandem cell, made of an InGaP cell atop a GaAs cell, has an area of about 0.25 square centimetres and was measured under the AM1.5 global spectrum at 1,000 W/m2.
The cell was grown inverted, similar to the NREL- developed inverted metamorphic multi-junction (IMM) solar cell - and flipped during processing. The cell was covered on the front with a bilayer anti-reflection coating, and on the back with a highly reflective gold contact layer.
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