Dr. Mark Sobey, President of Coherent Lasers, has officially retired

Recently, Hamamatsu Photonics in Japan completed the construction of a new building at Miyakoda Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Hamami ku, Hamamatsu City. The completion ceremony was held on July 29th, and the factory will start full production in November 2024, increasing overall production capacity by 2.5 times.Source: Hamamatsu PhotonicsIt is reported that Hamamatsu Photonics focuses on the developm...

It is reported that researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada have reported a study on the plasticity of copper oxide nanowires induced by femtosecond laser. The related research was published in Applied Surface Science under the title "Femtosecond laser induced plasticity in CuO nanowires".Metal oxide nanowires are ideal materials for manufacturing nanodevices, especially strain senso...

       近日，从江苏通用半导体有限公司传来消息，由该公司自主研发的国内首套的8英寸碳化硅晶锭激光全自动剥离设备正式交付碳化硅衬底生产领域头部企业广州南砂晶圆半导体技术有限公司，并投入生产。 图：8英寸SiC晶锭激光全自动剥离设备       该设备可实现6英寸和8英寸碳化硅晶锭的全自动分片，包含晶锭上料、晶锭研磨、激光切割、晶片分离和晶片收集，一举填补了国内碳化硅晶锭激光剥离设备领域研发、制造的市场空白，突破了国外的技术封锁，将极大地提升我国碳化硅芯片产业的自主化、产业化水平。       该设备年可剥离碳化硅衬底20000片，实现良率95％以上，与传统的线切割工艺相比，大幅降低了产品损耗，而设备售价仅仅是国外同类产品的1／3。       近年来，碳化硅功率器件在大功率半导体市场中所占的份额不断提高，并被广泛应用于新能源汽车、城市轨道交通、风力发电、高速移动、物联网等一系列领域...

The research teams from the Laser Fusion Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, the Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Peking University, and Shenzhen University of Technology reported experimental verification of the driving pressure enhancement and smoothing of hybrid driven inertial confinement fusion on a 100 kJ laser equipment.The relev...

Tokamak Energy is currently developing a new laser measurement technology for controlling extreme conditions inside fusion power plants.The laser based dispersion interferometer system is being tested at the company's headquarters in Oxford and will be installed on its world record breaking fusion machine ST40 later this year.Clean, safe, and renewable nuclear fusion power generation occurs inside...