Lasers
- Nakamura joins UCSB
- OSRAM announces laser achievement
- Nichia announces laser commercialization
- Xerox announces DFB nitride laser
- CW GaInNAs laser at 1.3µn (Photonics Online)
- Nichia pushes lasers, will sample in 1998 (EETimes)
- Experts raise doubts about Northwestern results
- SDL makes powerful entry into Blue Laser derby
- Nakamura takes off his substrate at Semicon West (Scientific American)
- Northwestern Reports Laser in MIJ-NSR
- Lasers at MRS Fall '97.
- HP-Meijo collaboration reports ridge-guide cleaved facet laser..
- Nichia extrapolates to 10K hours, Xerox, Sony report lasers
- Xerox joins the blue laser party (Yahoo)
- UCSB publishes laser in MIJ-NSR
- Nichia Overgrowth, UCSB laser reported at ISCS '97
- Fujitsu laser is highlight of LEOS rump session
- Cree Looking for Laser Development Partner (NandO)
- Cree and Nichia report at EMC
- Cree reports CW operation of QW laser in GaN/SiC. (Fujitsu)
- Fujitsu joins the GaN/SiC Laser Race, Promises Commercialization by 2000
- Hitachi plays the blues on DVD (news.com)
- Book Review: "The Blue Laser Diode"
- Toshiba acheives pulsed laser (Laser Focus)
- News Flash on the Nichia Laser Diode
Conferences
- Summary of the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN2000).
- Summary of the Fourth European GaN Workshop EGW-4 in Nottingham, England, 2-5 July 2000..
- Short Summary of the Strasbourg E-MRS meeting, Strasbourg (France) May 30 - June 2, 2000.
- Report on TMS Workshop on "Doping, Dopants and Carrier Dynamics in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors" in Copper Mountain Resort, Colorado, April 2-6, 2000.
- Summary from the Sixth Wide Bandgap III-nitride Workshop, Richmond, Va, 12-15 March, 2000.
- Summary of the 20th International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors (ICDS-20).
- Summary of the Lateral Epitaxial Overgrowth Workshop, Juneau, Alaska, Aug 2-5, 1999.
- Summary of the 3rd International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS 3).
- Summary of the 3rd European Gallium Nitride Workshop.
- FET highlights at MRS Spring '98 Symosium F.
- Summary of Workshop on Compliant and Bonded Substrates
- News from MRS Fall '97. Highlights: Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth, Piezoelectric/Polarity Effects, Lasers
- News from ICNS '97 in Tokushima
- Nichia Overgrowth, UCSB laser reported at ISCS '97
- 1997 Electronic Materials Conference
- 1997 Fall MRS Update
- 1997 Device Research Conference
- Conference Summary of EGW-2 1997
- Conference Summary of E-MRS 1997
- Summary of MRS Spring '97 Symposium D
- MIJ-NSR to host web versions of MRS Spring '97 Symposium D papers
- Highlights from the Fall MRS 1996 Nitride Symposium
- Nitrides at 1996 International Semiconductor Laser Conference
- Summary of nitride work at the 1996 International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors
- Summary of the 1996 Device Research Conference/Electronic Materials Conference
- Summary of the 8th International Conference on MOVPE
- Japanese Violets
- Summary of the MRS Spring '96 Symposium on Wide Bandgap Materials
- Summary of the International Symposium on Blue Lasers and LED's
- Summary of the Photonics West Meeting
- Summary of MRS Fall Meeting
LEDs
- HP offers traffic-light green LED's (Yahoo)
- Toyodo-Gosei publishes LED Specs
- EMCORE Pushes Blue LED Production Technology (Emcore)
- Siemens OK's Cree's Conductive Buffer Layer (Yahoo)
- Cree Ships Conductive Buffer Layer LED (Yahoo)
- HP offers high brightness InGaN LED's (HP)
- Nichia Offers White LED's (Nichia)
- Siemens will sell Cree LED's (Siemens)
Business
- Cree 98Q3 Revenues up 53% (Yahoo)
- EMCORE 98Q2 Revenues up 7% (Emcore)
- Cree 98Q2 Revenues up 55% (Yahoo)
- Elsevier Advanced Technology Report Projects ~Billion Dollar Market by 2001
- Cree 98Q1 Revenues up 46% (Yahoo)
- Cree Looking to Expand (NandO)
- Cree Revenues up 92% for Year (Yahoo)
- ATMI Posts Record Earnings in 1997 Q2 (Yahoo)
Other News
- Nakamura joins UCSB
- Openly to assist in MIJ-NSR Operation
- Navy SBIR for "Low Parasitic Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor"
- Report on "Hard Electronics" in Japan
- ONR Announces Piezo-Electronics Program
- MIJ-NSR names Monemar Associate Editor-in-Chief
- Book Review: "GaN and Related Materials"
- Cree Releases 2" SiC substrates
- Nitride related BAA's from DARPA
- Happy Birthday, HAL
- Shuji's Light Show- The Movies!
- ONR Bulk Nitride Crystal Program
- New Wide Band Gap Development Programs Contemplated
