BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that one of its key specialized epitaxy customers has committed to an order for about $300,000 of foundry development, to be delivered over the next six months.
The customer is developing a specialty LED application for which BluGlass will be supplying the green and blue LED epiwafers for their unique product.
"This order from one single customer for epitaxial development is the largest foundry order that the company has received to date," notes BluGlass' managing director Giles Bourne. "It forms part of our strategy of growing the custom epitaxy and revenue-generating service part of our business over the coming months," he adds. "We see this large repeat order as a testament to our team's ability to deliver custom epitaxy at an industry-competitive standard."
Spun off from the III-nitride department of Macquarie University of Sydney, Australia in 2005, BluGlass developed a low-temperature process using remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) to grow materials including gallium nitride (GaN) and indium gallium nitride (InGaN) on glass substrates, potentially offering cost, throughput and efficiency advantages for the production of LEDs and concentrated solar cells.
