Masamichi Yokogawa

We have found EMCORE's TurboDisc technology to be uniquely suited for the large scale epitaxy production that is required by the wireless industry to meet the projected cost requirements needed to compete with conventional ion implantation device fabrication methods," said Masamichi Yokogawa, General Manager Engineering and Development Department, Semiconductor Division of SEI.

Sumitomo is the world's leading supplier of compound semiconductor materials and is uniquely positioned to distribute advanced InGaP technology at the reliability levels and volumes needed to meet market projections.As one of the world's largest compound semiconductor epitaxial wafer fabrication facilities, EMCORE's E²M foundry has the capability to provide 3", 4" and 6" wafers in reproducible volumes that are expected to enable the industry to meet the price and mass production requirements necessary.

EMCORE designs, develops and manufactures compound semiconductor wafers and devices and is a leading developer and manufacturer of the tools and manufacturing processes used to fabricate compound semiconductor wafers and devices.The Company's products and technology enable customers in the United States and internationally to manufacture commercial volumes of high-performance electronic devices using compound semiconductors.EMCORE's products are used in a wide variety of applications, including satellite, data, wireless and telecommunications, consumer and automotive electronics, computers and peripherals, and lighting.

Masamichi Yokogawa, Sumitomo's general manager of the Epi-Solution Division, anticipates that demand for blue-violet lasers for next-generation DVDs will begin to take off as early as 2005.Eventually, demand will reach levels comparable to those for the red and infrared gallium arsenide laser diodes used in today's DVD and CD systems-that's about 30 million laser diodes per month for red and 100 million for infrared, and a combined market, in 2002, of $1.4 billion, according to Strategies Unlimited.

He expects that the market for industrial applications will begin to grow even sooner-as early as this year.
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It requires a special polishing method," Yokogawa says.