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Welcome!
 Crystal IS, Inc. is the market leader in the
commercialization of single-crystal
aluminum nitride (AlN)
substrates for the cost-effective production of high power,
high temperature, and optoelectronic devices such as blue and
ultraviolet lasers.
What Crystal
IS does:
The nitride semiconductor industry provides devices that are used in
stoplights, future high-storage DVDs, military applications,
biomedical, information technology, wireless communication, display
lighting, future high power microwave devices and much, much more. This
industry is expected to grow to $10 billion annually by 2010 although
improved substrate technologies are still needed.
That’s where Crystal IS has impact.
Crystal IS has a goal: to produce the best single-crystal
aluminum nitride (AlN)
substrates for the nitride semiconductor industry. These are
better quality than any other nitride substrate on the market and are
now larger in diameter too.
This impact is all about increases—increases in size, growth
rate and yield so that the overall cost per individual device unit is
reduced.
Crystal IS is increasing
nitride crystal growth diameters to proportions typical of established
compound semiconductor fabrication—sizes that are unprecedented
for nitride semiconductors. Larger, high
quality wafer sizes means more useable devices per substrate at
a cost that is below what is possible with current substrates (such as
sapphire or silicon carbide). This means these substrates will be
appropriate for commercialization.
Read more about the technology.
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