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Laser Technology News 2001 p1:

• Silicon On Sapphire Devices Could Lead To Speedier Chips
  Using light beams in place of metal wires, engineers at The Johns Hopkins University have devised a cost-effective method to speed up the way microchips talk to each other. The method takes advantage of unusual characteristics associated with silicon on sapphire technology, a new way to manufacture microchips
• Cree Achieves Record CW Power for GaN RF Devices
  At the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) held recently in Washington, DC, Cree, Inc., announced that it has demonstrated record setting radio frequency (RF) continuous wave (CW) power performance from a gallium nitride (GaN) High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT). The GaN HEMT device achieved 108 W of CW RF output power at 2 GHz.
• MKS Announces Two Capacitance Manometers for 300mm Processes
  MKS Instruments, a manufacturer of components and subsystems for vacuum- and gas-based processes, has announced two new process-specific Baratron capacitance manometers. The new manometers are specifically designed for high stability pressure measurement in PVD and dielectric etch semiconductor processes
• KSU Researchers Fabricate Blue Micro LEDs
  A team of researchers, led by Kansas State University professor Hongxing Jiang and K-State associate professor Jingyu Lin, has created blue micro LEDs that are more efficient than conventional LEDs. Basically, putting hundreds of interconnected miniature LEDs in the same space one conventional LED used to take could boost the efficiency by 60 percent
• Given Imaging Uses Mathworks Tools to Develop Ingestible Imaging Capsule
  The MathWorks, Inc., has announced that engineers at Israel-based Given Imaging Ltd. implemented MATLAB as the core technology platform in the development of the M2ATM Capsule, a new method for physicians to examine the human intestinal tract. The ingestible capsule holds a miniature video camera, which transmits images of the intestinal track back to the attending physician via a receiver worn by the patient
• Three-Five Systems Shows Microdisplay With 2.3M Pixels
  Three-Five Systems, Inc. is giving the first public demonstrations of the recently announced Brillian 1920, a high-resolution, reflective, Liquid Crystal on Silicon Microdisplay. The demonstration will be held in booth #43 at the 19th Annual Flat Information Displays Conference in Monterey, California December 11-13, 2001.
• Tuilaser Offers Line-Narrowed Excimer Laser For FBG Writing
  Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) are basic elements in DWDM technology. To meet the demands of the FBG writing industry, Tuilaser has designed a new UV light source with a temporal coherence length of 5 mm, the BraggStar Industrial-LN.
• Kodak, Sanyo Form Joint Venture to Make OLED Displays
  Eastman Kodak Co. and Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. announced the formation of a global joint venture, the SK Display Corp., to manufacture organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays for consumer devices such as cameras, PDAs, and portable entertainment machines. This represents the next step in the companies' joint development of OLED technology: the manufacture and sale of active-matrix OLED displays
• European Satellites Communicating Using Laser System
  Recently, a data link between satellites was established using a laser beam as signal carrier. On board ESA's Artemis satellite is the SILEX system that provides an optical data transmission link with the CNES Earth observation satellite SPOT 4, which is orbiting the earth at an altitude of 832 km while Artemis is in a parking orbit at 31,000 km.
• High-Sensitivity Spectrometer Analyzes Multiple Gases
  MKS Instruments, Inc., a manufacturer of components and subsystems for vacuum- and gas-based processes, has announced the On-Line MultiGas 2030 Analyzer for monitoring single emission stacks in fabs for PFC abatement efficiency.

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