Nitride Supplier Links Page

Updated March 23rd, 2004

Recent additions: Structured Materials Inc., Lumilog, Mantis Deposition Ltd., Bandgap Technologies, Monocrystal, TopGaN, New Wave Research and TDI Inc.

When compiling the market report GaN Wide Bandgap Materials & Devices for Elsevier Advanced Technology, it quickly became apparent that the level of interest in these materials for opto and micro-electronic applications has reached amazing proportions. Only a decade ago these difficult materials were the province of just a few die-hards who went against the prevailing R&D mood in semiconductors knowing that they must be on to something. Thanks to the pioneering work of such luminaries as Pankove, Amasaki and not to mention Shuji Nakamura, the opto world was turned on its head as far as R&D and device production was concerned. Once the poor cousin of other III-Vs such as GaAs and InP, GaN and its related compounds have become a very big business one which is going from strength to strength.

Herein we provide an alphabetical listing of companies with a known interest in the field replete with URLs to take you to them. We would caution, however, that such is the level of competition in this field that most likely a lot more is going on than these websites will tell you. Some of the key players reveal only the salient facts such is their worry as to protection of their hard-won knowledge - competitive advantages can be won or lost by loose lips! It is a balancing act of proving your product has what it takes versus letting the other guys know what you know.

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