AOI Opens New Manufacturing Facility, Moves Operations.Business Editors & High Tech Writers SUGAR LAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000 Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AOI AOI Area Of Interest AOI Automated Optical Inspection AOI Art of Illusion (3D modeling software) AOI Associated Oregon Industries AOI Angle Of Incidence AOI Age of Innocence (David Hamilton book, also a band) ) announced today that it has completed the first phase of its move into the company's new manufacturing facility located in Sugar Land, Texas. AOI's new 24,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility will consolidate the fast-growing company's administrative offices, laboratories and three production lines in one headquarters. "This move represents a very important milestone for AOI. We are now transforming ourselves from a great research company into a great research and manufacturing company," said AOI president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Thompson Lin. "Our team is very excited about the move because, with our enhanced capabilities here, we'll be able to accelerate product deliveries," said Lin. The new production capability will allow AOI to enhance volume shipments of its groundbreaking single-mode DFB DFB acronym for dark, firm, dry meat. Called also dark cutting beef. quantum cascade lasers Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are semiconductor lasers that emit in the mid- to far-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and were first demonstrated by Jerome Faist, Federico Capasso, Deborah Sivco, Carlo Sirtori, Albert Hutchinson, and Alfred Cho at Bell Laboratories with emission wavelengths of 4.6 and 5.2 microns. These lasers are suitable for sensing applications, such as detecting carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. and ammonia. As well, the new plant provides production capacity for AOI's upcoming line of mid-infrared photodetectors and Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting e·mit tr.v. e·mit·ted, e·mit·ting, e·mits 1. To give or send out (matter or energy): isotopes that emit radioactive particles; a stove emitting heat. 2. a. Lasers (VCSELs). The new facility was specially designed for the company and includes 6000 sq. ft. of class 1,000 and 10,000 clean room space to house the company's array of advanced semiconductor crystal growth and processing equipment. Laboratories, additional production equipment, and office space for more than 75 employees occupy the remaining space. Following the first phase of the move, AOI employees are busy qualifying the packaging, testing and materials characterization facilities. In mid-December the company will initiate phase two of its move when it takes delivery of three new multi-wafer MBE MBE (in Britain) Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE n abbr (BRIT) (= Member of the Order of the British Empire) → título ceremonial MBE n abbr (Brit) (= systems including two 3x2-inch systems and a single 4x4-inch system. The company anticipates that the MBE systems will be operational in January. To accommodate its rapid growth, the company plans to start construction of a second building in April 2001. That building will contain more than 50,000 sq. ft. of clean room and office space. About AOI Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AOI) is a vertically integrated optoelectronics company that designs, grows, processes and packages advanced semiconductor optoelectronic components, including lasers, photodetectors and LEDs primarily for the biosensing and telecommunications markets. The company currently employs more than 30 people and is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, south of Houston. AOI is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. . For additional information: www.ao-inc.com |
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