The 101 Series

Introduction

Nitrides 101
The original
101 primer
(rough cut edition)

GaN 101
The Brightest Star
in the Compounds
Presentations
Instructors
Ordering

InP 101
InP in 2001: The Real
State of the Industry
Presentations
Instructors
Ordering

CompoundSemi's 1999 "101" Workshop Videos are no longer available

The info below is for
reference/history (or amusement) only
 
Fast-track to understanding the basics of key technologies
driving the compound semiconductor industry

CompoundSemi Online's 101 videos are taped live at select industry conferences. The initial 101 workshop in this series was held live in 1999 at the 2nd Annual Gorham Compound Semiconductor Outlook Conference. Titled Nitride 101, the informal videotaping of this "turn of the new century" production featured the compound semiconductor industry blue spectrum breakthrough artist, UCSB Professor, Shuji Nakamura, when he was still in the employ of Nichia Corporation in Japan. The 2.5 hour video primer has become a classic in our field and is especially useful to industry historians, market analysts, business people new to the Nitrides, and as a training tape by individuals, research labs, and corporations.

So you missed the live videotaping of
the 2001 GaN 101 & InP 101 Workshops...

The live taping of two follow-on 101 workshops, GaN 101: The Brightest Star in the Compounds & InP 101 in 2001: The Real State of the Industry, took place February 26th, 2001 in San Diego, California USA, as part of Gorham's Compound Semiconductor Outlook 2001 Conference. Attendees to both workshops have already received their videos. Conference attendees and the general public are welcome to purchase these videos. Visit the pages on the left-hand menu bar for more information on pricing and what you'll receive, or go directly to the GaN/InP order form .

GaN 101

What's all the excitement about GaN? Group III Nitrides aka "Gallium Nitride" (GaN) or simply "Nitrides" are the underlying compound semiconductor material combination used to produce the headline-making high brightness (HB) blue spectrum light emitting diodes (LEDs) and semiconductor laser diodes (LDs). Before GaN was proven by Shuji Nakamura to provide the performance and lifetimes needed for true blue (including green, blue, violet and ultraviolet) HB-LEDs and LDs, this technology remained in R&D status. Now all the leading lighting application companies are developing GaN based products as replacements for conventional lighting and lasing, including a replacement for standard white lights, compact disks (CDs) and digital versatile disks (DVDs). And that's just the beginning for GaN! Because of its unique and outstanding wide bandgap qualities, GaN is also growing rapidly as the material technology of choice for HB-LEDs and LDs in the other colors of the spectrum, and for all types of leading edge electronic components.

InP 101

What's all the excitement about InP? Indium Phosphide (InP) is the other top material science field on today's compound semiconductor scene. Noted especially for the incredible operating speeds that material type permits, the industry's key systems integrators of broadband fiberoptic and wireless components, such as Nortel Networks, Motorola, Lucent, Marconi, Infineon, JDS Uniphase, etc... are moving rapidly in the direction of employing InP-based components for their next generation communication systems. Financial and mainstream market professionals are discovering quickly that silicon technologies are being displaced by InP at the heart of many leading edge applications.

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