SLI announces significant breakthrough in yield.ENDICOTT, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 1996--Semiconductor Laser International Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SLIC SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit SLIC Scottish Library and Information Council SLIC System Licensed Internal Code SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Card SLIC Session Layer Interface Card (Alacritech, Inc. , SLICW), a manufacturer of high power lasers in the high power semiconductor diode laser (HPDL HPDL High Pressure Decorative Laminate HPDL Hale Page Diamond Lake (Minneapolis, MN community organization) ) market, today announced it has achieved yields that are much higher than yields achievable with conventional manufacturing technology. This breakthrough is a result of a U.S. Air Force patented manufacturing technology known as Desorption Desorption A process in which atomic and molecular species residing on the surface of a solid leave the surface and enter the surrounding gas or vacuum. Mass Spectrometry (DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. ) feedback control which SLI has an exclusive 10-year license for the manufacture of HPDLs. "SLI has recently hired Dr. Keith Evans, formerly of the U.S. Air Force Wright Laboratory, who is the inventor of DMS and the world's expert in MBE feedback control. His joining the company has brought significant benefit to GaAs crystal growth and high yield manufacturing," according to Dr. Geoffrey T. Burnham, 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. of SLI. This process allows for precise control of manufacturing HPDL's and is not fraught with significant variation in yield as is the case with conventional MOCVD MOCVD Metallo Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition MOCVD Metal Oxide Chemical Vapor Deposition technology. DMS takes advantage of the precision available in Molecular Beam Epitaxy A technique that "grows" atomic-sized layers on a chip rather than creating layers by diffusion. (MBE) and through a computer feedback control system it precisely corrects, automatically, for any variations that may occur. As a result, SLI has been achieving yields never before possible in this high technology area of GaAs high power semiconductor lasers. Most recently, SLI has demonstrated the ability to reproduce detailed growth structures on a run-to-run and wafer-to-wafer basis over a period of two and one-half years with virtually no variation in yield. SLI expects that this precise manufacturing control will give it significant advantages in both high volume production and low cost in a market place that has otherwise been subject to extremely low yields, variation in yields and very high cost. SLI is dedicated to quality manufacturing and production of high power semiconductor lasers at low cost. The company holds an exclusive license from the U.S. Air Force to develop and produce the world's only high power semiconductor laser diodes using a patented process for precision growth control. The technology has potential uses for applications in medical, dental, automotive, data storage, printing and telecommunications. CONTACT: Semiconductor Laser International Corp. Geoffrey T. Burnham, 607/754-0112 or Martin E. Janis & Company Inc. Bev Jedynak, 312/943-1100 |
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