- 28 March 2006 -

Silicon meets GaAs: AmberWave and Purdue university cooperate to integrate materials

AmberWave Systems Corp announced a cooperative agreement with Purdue University to jointly develop technologies for the integration of semiconductor devices on III-V materials.

Richard Faubert, President and CEO of AmberWave said, "This partnership with Purdue continues AmberWave's tradition of working with leading research universities to advance promising semiconductor research to commercialization. We have been working on III-V material technology for some time and this collaboration with Purdue will significantly enhance that development. We are excited about this new relationship with Purdue and Dr. Ye."

The principal investigator working in this collaboration is Dr. Peide (Peter) Ye of Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Ye is an expert in III-V MOSFET technology and atomic layer deposition (ALD) and was previously a researcher at Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems. Dr. Ye's background in solving the challenges of new materials development was the compelling reason for AmberWave's selection of Purdue as a partner in this research.

"AmberWave's experience at taking novel ideas from the research lab to the manufacturer was crucial to our decision to cooperate in this effort," said Dr. Ye. "AmberWave not only brings a strong development capability with expertise in deposition and defectivity in mixed-material systems, but also has an effective business development process with an ability to see results through to commercial use."

Purdue University's College of Engineering enrolls more than 6,400 undergraduate students and nearly 2,500 graduate students in 14 technical programs. In its most recent rankings, U.S. News and World Report places Purdue's engineering programs eighth nationally.

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