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Semicon West Product Preview


THE GLOBAL HI-TECH ELECTRONICS PUBLICATION July, 2014


POET’s Breakthrough Leap to End Moore’s Law Limits


Flexible clean room cables from Cicoil star at Semicon West, along with many other offerings in our Product Pre- view, starting on . . .


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Shifting Sales Focus to Medical


Electronics


EMS provider Valtronic, the company has shifted market- ing and sales focus to drive medical sales while continuing to explore LED lighting as an- other possible business; and automated handling solutions for PCBs gets a new look from PROMATION...


Page 18 This Month's Focus: Test & Assembly


How one OEM continues to do its own manufacturing; die-at- tach solutions for 3D packag- ing; managing solder waste; new approaches to weeding out counterfeit components; using ultrasound to pinpoint problem semiconductors.


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Toronto, Ont., Canada — An exciting new technology leap in semiconduc- tor chip design based on a combina- tion of optics and GaAs promises to change integrated circuits drastical- ly, making them up to 10X to 100X faster than conventional silicon while reducing power consumption 80% — making the development very


eco-friendly. Prototypes will be ready for display and testing with third parties by the end of 2014. The new development comes


from POET Technologies (TSX: PTK and OTCQX: POETF), a publicly list- ed Company and the developer of the “POET” Platform. POET’s head of- fice is in Toronto, ON, Canada, and


its research and development lab is in Storrs, CT. POET designs III-V semiconductor devices for military, industrial and commercial applica- tions, including infrared sensor ar- rays and ultra-low-power random ac- cess memory. POET Technologies has several patents issued and pend- ing for the POET process, with po- tential high speed and power-effi- cient applications in devices such as servers, tablet computers and smart- phones. It has been the company’s mission to provide a valid solution to the ageing designs used in tradition- al silicon CMOS. The Company’s name is an


acronym for “Planar Opto-Electronic Technology”, a revolutionary III-V process used to monolithically build electrical, optical, and electro-optical integrated circuits. POET supports a


Continued on page 8 Dr. Geoff Taylor writing ebeam gate features on a POET wafer.


Terahertz Detectors with Carbon Nanotubes Improve Image Detection


Livermore, CA — Researchers at San- dia National Laboratories, along with collaborators from Rice University and the Tokyo Institute of Technolo- gy, are developing new terahertz de- tectors based on carbon nanotubes that could lead to significant improve- ments in medical imaging, airport passenger screening, food inspection and other imaging applications. A paper in Nano Letters journal,


“Carbon Nanotube Terahertz Detec- tor,” debuted in the May 29 edition of


the publication’s “Just Accepted Man- uscripts” section. The paper describes a technique that uses carbon nan- otubes to detect light in the terahertz frequency range without cooling. Historically, the terahertz fre-


quency range — which falls between the more conventional ranges used for electronics on one end and optics on another — has presented great prom- ise along with vexing challenges for researchers, said Sandia’s Francois Léonard, one of the authors. “The photonic energy in the ter-


ahertz range is much smaller than for visible light, and we simply don’t have a lot of materials to absorb that light efficiently and convert it into an elec- tronic signal,” said Léonard. “So we need to look for other approaches.”


Terahertz Technology Researchers need to solve this


technical problem to take advantage Continued on page 6


Megan Wendling receiving her


sixth Councilor of the Year aware from SMTA China’s Abby Tsoi during recent NEPCON China.


The award was presented on


April 23, 2014 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Cen- ter in conjunction with the SMTA China Annual Award Ceremony.


Continued on page 6


Megan Wendling: 6th Consecutive Councilor of the Year Awardfrom SMTA China


Naples, FL — The Councilor of the Year Award from SMTA China went to Megan Wendling for the sixth con- secutive year. Megan is president of MW Associates, a global all-electron- ics marketing and electronics assem- bly consultancy agency.


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