Thursday, March 14, 2002

A cool thing about Radio is I can change the name of my weblog as the focus of my weblog changes.  Haven't decided yet if this is a good thing.  Time will tell. 9:39:21 AM  comment []     [Tomalak's Realm] Technology Review: Motorola's Superchip. Others, however, are so impressed with the potential of Ramdani's breakthrough that they believe the technology could fundamentally change the dynamics of the chip-making business, finally bridging the materials divide between silicon and compound semiconductors that has become a fundamental fact in the industry.  "Galium Arsenide, and old friend indede!  I spented much youthful time, nights and brain cells with this pair in another career.  The production process discovered here is novel today but like every breakthrough in this field, teams will spend the next years interating progress.  The lab I worked at had a team about 8 years ago that had a research process that reached a similiar result by lifting GaAs epi layers off substrates, floating them in water and then bonding them to the silicon.  It was amazing how the thin layers remained there through the natural bonding.  The process, a research process (would never make it to production), was great for testing the integration of the mismatched materials early on and designing and testing the first generation circuits (this process main possible years of knowledge in research labs all over the world before hign volume production processes (the scaling issue from a different perspective)).  The new process is a big gain for the large scale production of these devices where the need is do all growth in vacuum chambers on large substrates." 8:51:57 AM  comment []

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