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performance green LED wafers. I know we can rely on the quality of Aixtron engineering and always appreciate their responsive local support.
Genesis recently won a large order which has taken us over our existing capacity limit so we must quickly bring in new expansion for our LED epi production line. When we receive the first CRIUS II system at the end of this year, we will transfer our recipes from our existing systems to the new platform before applying it to the systems to be delivered in 2011. We also anticipate placing further system orders during next year as we expand to meet demand.”
“The new generation of Aixtron MOCVD not only doubles productivity but also provides even better epitaxial results,” says Bastian Marheineke, VP Sales Aixtron. “The CRIUS II provides a straightforward migration path and scalability minimizing the time-to-market steps required. We’re committed to fully support for our customer’s success with the new platform.”
Founded in 2002, Genesis Photonics is headquartered in Tainan Science-based Industrial Park in Taiwan. With its advanced semiconductor technologies and efficient management, the company has rapidly grown going public in 2004.
The company’s business focus is to provide GaN-based LED epi-wafer and chip products for applications that include general lighting, electronic displays, monitor backlights and automobile lamps. Genesis Photonics’ latest high-power LEDs are in great demand and considered the leading luminous components and energy-efficient lighting products. The company has its own brand of LED light bulb (LEDplux) which is marketed throughout Japan, China and Taiwan.
GigOptix to Receive $5 Million for On-Chip Integrated Transceiver
The firm is the recipient of $5 Million in federal funding for its On-Chip integrated photonic polymer transceiver from the U.S. Senate Committee.
GigOptix,a leading supplier of high performance
electronic and electro-optic components that enable next generation 40G and 100G fiber-optic telecommunications and data-communications networks, has announced the continued federal support of its On-Chip Integrated Photonic Polymer Transceiver program.
U.S. Senator Patty Murray, a senior member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and a tireless advocate for Washington businesses, helped to secure $5 million as part of the fiscal year 2011 Department of Defense Appropriations bill recently passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee. This appropriation bill must still receive approval by the United States Senate and the final legislation must be passed by the Congress and signed by the President.
This federal support will allow GigOptix to qualify its Thin Film Polymer on Silicon (TFPS) modulators to the stringent temperature stability required by military standards. Additionally, GigOptix will begin designing and testing the second iteration of the integrated driver with the polymer optical modulator on a standard BiCMOS wafer and completing the integration of the receiver side on separate chips, all for the next generation 400Gbps optical communication systems.
Current technologies are physically too large and energy-intensive to sustain the anticipated levels of bandwidth growth in the coming years. This funding will accelerate important development into faster, smaller, and more energy efficient power and communications systems to provide accurate, timely information that will enable the military to maintain its edge in communications technology.
Raluca Dinu, Vice President and General Manager of GigOptix Bothell said, “GigOptix is the industry leader of high performance electro-optic polymer solutions, both for active and passive applications as stand-alone hybrid products as well as monolithic integrated layers onto Integrated Circuits (ICs). Because of the support of Senator Murray, we are able to push forward with critical research on ultra broadband, low power communications systems that help the military maintain its superiority. The U.S. Air Force and the United States Government are looking for solutions to the growing problems of speed, size, integration, weight and power of current technologies. The additional funding support demonstrates confidence
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