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Agnitron Expands Equipment Ability Beyond Other Manufacturers
The Agilis MOCVD platform was expended with new equipment innovation, a dual-use capability, which allows the user to retune the system to grow a different family of semiconductor material with…
Poster Presentation At CS MANTEC Minnesota On The Scalability Of β-Ga2O3 And Related Alloys Grown By MOCVD
Agnitron will be participating with a poster presentation at CS Mantec conference Thursday May 2nd. Ga2O3 a novel material has remarkable material properties that suits it for applications in high…
Agnitron Selected By AFOSR For Phase II Project
A 2017 Air Force (AFRL) SBIR Phase I program “Development of Ga2O3 Epitaxial Layers and Heterostructures for Power Device Applications” awarded Agnitron Technology for the study of Aluminum incorporation in…
ONR Selects Agnitron for Next Generation III-N MOCVD Project
Agnitron has been selected by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for a Phase I SBIR program to develop a next generation III-N MOCVD system. The program objectives will pursue…
Agnitron Develops Key MOCVD Capability For 10kV+ β-Ga2O3 Switches
New records set for β-Ga2O3 background concentration and bulk film electron mobility. Download a pdf of this press release here. August 21, 2018, Eden Prairie, MN - Agnitron Technology has…
Agnitron β-Ga2O3 Growth Work Featured In June Issue of Compound Semiconductor Magazine
Direct download the article from http://data.angel.digital/pdf/Compound_Semiconductor_Issue_4_2018.pdf or find it at https://compoundsemiconductor.net/magazine.
Five Agilis β-Ga2O3 MOCVD Systems In Production by Agnitron To Fulfill New Orders
Agnitron’s Agilis MOCVD β-Ga2O3 configuration is now available for general market customers and extends the same system configurations as have been used by the Agnitron team to produce reported works…
ONR Extends Agnitron’s β-Ga2O3 MOCVD Growth Program Into Phase II
Through the course of a 2017 Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsored STTR P1 program the Agnitron Technology and UCSB team completed major strides to improve capabilities for Metal Organic…
CrayoNano Grows Epitaxial AlGaN Nanostructures on Graphene at Agnitron
CrayoNano AS of Norway partnered with Agnitron Technology for an extended material growth initiative which concluded in October 2017. The growth activities were performed at Agnitron’s MOCVD laboratory and served…
Agnitron Funded By DoD To Study Growth Of Gallium Oxide Heterostructures
Agnitron has expanded their β-Ga2O3 R&D efforts to study incorporation of Aluminum for the purpose of enabling bandgap engineering within the material system. The Phase I program is funded by…
Miller To Give Invited Talk At AVS Minnesota Chapter Meeting
Ross Miller, Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Agnitron, will deliver an invited talk at the AVS Minnesota Chapter Meeting on September 26, 2017 titled, "MOCVD Growth and Equipment…
Agnitron Receives Follow-on Order From Customer for 2 Production-Scale MOCVD Systems
Agnitron has confirmed an order to supply 2 production-scale MOCVD systems for a laser diode production company expanding operations to a new facility in Asia. The As/P growth systems will…
Agnitron Technology Partners with SVTA to Offer MOCVD-MBE Platform for Advanced Research
Agnitron Technology and SVT Associates (SVTA) have announced a technical collaboration to offer material science researchers an advanced R&D equipment platform combining both MOCVD and MBE reactors in an integrated…
Agnitron Receives Order for Laser-Diode Production MOCVD System
Agnitron has received an order from a California-based company to supply an MOCVD system for growth of communication laser-diode structures. The small production-scale MOCVD system will offer 6x2” wafer loading…
Agnitron Receives Order From National Laboratory for Imperium-MOCVD™ Software Upgrades
Agnitron will be supplying two Imperium-MOCVD™ control software licenses to a US Government National Laboratory in 2016. The upgrades will be installed on legacy MOCVD systems which no longer receive…
Agnitron Partners with UCSB to Lead Gallium Oxide Material Growth Study
Agnitron and the University of California, Santa Barbara are partnering to study fundamentals of the β-Ga2O3 MOCVD growth process in an upcoming Navy Funded research program. The effort combines world renowned…
Agnitron To Supply MOCVD System To University For Oxide Film Growth
Agnitron Technology has been selected by an Eastern US University to supply a custom R&D MOCVD system to support an advanced oxide material research and development program at the University. The supplied…
Agnitron Supplying CVD/MOCVD Equipment for 2-D Materials Growth
Since the isolation of Graphene in 2003 the scientific community has buzzed about the possibilities for this extraordinary material. In the time since the first exfoliation experiments this interest has grown to…
Imperium Control Software Upgrade Selected By Production Group in Japan
Agnitron Technology has received an order for an Imperium-MOCVD™ control system upgrade on a Veeco E300 LDM MOCVD system for a production group in Japan. Imperium was selected for the E300 DeviceNet based…
Agnitron to Refurbish and Upgrade E450LDM MOCVD System
Agnitron Technology has confirmed an order upgrading a Veeco E450 DeviceNet MOCVD system from a manufacturing company in the United States. As part of the project, the system gas panel will…
Agnitron Receives Order for Custom Agilis R&D MOCVD System
Agnitron Technology has confirmed an order for an Agnitron OEM design Agilis R&D MOCVD system. The order was placed by a major research university in the United States and offers…
Agnitron to Participate in Fall MRS Meeting
Agnitron Technology will be making a presentation on their latest growth work for high Mg content MgZnO films at the Fall MRS meeting. The presented results are part of the…
East Coast Laboratory Selects Imperium Control Software
Agnitron Technology has installed an Imperium-MOCVD™ control system upgrade on a Veeco D125 MOCVD system for a research group on the East Coast of the United States of America. Imperium…
Agnitron to Convert E300 GaN MOCVD System for As/P Growth
Agnitron Technology has confirmed an order for a refurbished and upgraded Veeco E300 MOCVD system from a production company in the United States. As part of the project, Agnitron will…
Agnitron Receives Order For Two D125 MOCVD Control System Upgrades
Agnitron has received an order for two D125 MOCVD Control System Upgrades from a US based production company. This upgrade will include replacement of the obsolete PLCs and DOS based…
University Selects Agnitron for Supplying Turn-Key MOCVD Solution
Agnitron has just received a purchase order from a major Southwestern United States University for an upgraded Emcore D125 MOCVD system. The R&D scale platform has been upgraded with state…
Agnitron Receives Order for E300LDM Imperium- MOCVD Control Software Upgrade
The appeal of Agnitron’s Imperium-MOCVD™ continues to grow its ability to give new life to the well know D and E series Emcore/Veeco MOCVD platforms. Agnitron has received its latest…
Agnitron to Supply MOCVD Chamber Upgrade to Reduce Gas Consumption
Agnitron Technology announced today receipt of a purchase order from a major California University upgrade an existing Emcore D125 LDM MOCVD system with a D75 reactor to reduce gas consumption…
Agnitron to Supply Device-Net Imperium-MOCVD Control Software Upgrade in Europe
Agnitron Technology, Inc. has announced today the receipt of purchase order from a major global technology company for an Imperium-MOCVD™ control software upgrade. The Imperium platform is a Windows 7…
Agnitron Technology Receives Order for Custom Modified MOCVD System
Agnitron has started the year with a purchase order from a European University for a modified Emcore D180 MOCVD system. This R&D scale platform has also been upgraded with state…
Agnitron Selected By DoD For Phase II Project
Agnitron Technology was recently notified their Phase II STTR program titled Solar Blind MgZnO Photodetectors has been selected by the Army Research Office (ARO) for negotiation. In the Phase I…
Veeco And Agnitron Form Partnership For R&D MOCVD
Veeco Instruments, Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) has announced today on its website the formation of a strategic partnership with Agnitron Technology for offering refurbished MOCVD systems and upgraded software controls for…
Agnitron To Ship 1500°C Reactor Upgrade for D180 MOCVD System
Eden Prairie, MN, July 11, 2014 - Agnitron Technology, Inc. is scheduled to ship its latest 1500°C+ reactor upgrade for the Veeco MOCVD D-series Legacy System platform. The single 2…
Released: Third Generation Imperium-MOCVD Control Software
Final testing has just been completed for Agnitron's third generation release of Imperium-MOCVDTM. The Windows 7 based control software package is an EpiView replacement and offers all standard features users…
Agnitron Wins DoE Research Contract
Agnitron Technology has announced their recent funding proposal, titled “Investigation of Donor and Acceptor Ion Implantation in AlN,” has been selected for a Phase I program by the Department of Energy (DoE)…
Agnitron Selected for NASA Research Contract
Agnitron Technology announced today their Phase I proposal, titled “Radiation Hard Multichannel AlN/GaN HEMT for High Efficiency X- and Ka-Band Power Amplifiers”, submitted under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
Agnitron Sponsored Local Robotics Team Going To National Competition
The Agnitron Technology sponsored Eden Prairie High School "Team 2502" Talon Robotics Team recently earned a spot in the upcoming National FIRST Robotics Competition April 23-26th, 2014 in St. Louis,…
Agnitron Technology Introduces Pyroelectric Coefficient Measurement Platform
Agnitron Technology, Inc. announced today the recent delivery of a state of the art metrology tool to the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Components & Subsystems Technology Division (AFRL/RYD) in…
Agnitron Technology Receives Order From AFRL For MOCVD System
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2013, Eden Prairie, MN Agnitron Technology, Inc. announced today the receipt of order from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Dayton, Ohio for a…
Agnitron Competitively Selected by NRL to Supply MOCVD System
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 11, 2013, Eden Prairie, MN Agnitron Technology, Inc. announced today the receipt of order from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for a Gallium Nitride (GaN)…
BluGlass Raises LED Ambitions
Following federal funds, BluGlass is eyeing GaN on silicon LED markets. BluGlass now hopes to take its remote plasma CVD process to LED and power electronics markets. [Credit: BluGlass] In…
Sapphire Substrates To Lead Future LED Markets
Come 2020, US analyst business, Lux Research, predicts sapphire-based LEDs will still dominate a multi-billion dollar LED lighting industry. Compound Semiconductor finds out why. With LED lighting forecast to become…
Agnitron Releases Next Version of IMPERIUM-MOCVD Control Software
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 9th, 2013, Eden Prairie, MN Ultimate control, unparalleled flexibility, supreme process stability. Agnitron Technology, Inc. announced today release of its second…
Agnitron Technology Wins Competitively Selected NSF Contract
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Agnitron Technology Selected for NSF Contract July 1, 2013, Eden Prairie, MN Agnitron Technology announced today their Phase I proposal, entitled…
Agnitron Technology Receives Order For Upgraded MOCVD System
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Agnitron Technology Receives Order For Upgraded MOCVD System June 24, 2013, Eden Prairie, MN Agnitron Technology, Inc. announced today the receipt of purchase order from an West…
Agnitron Technology Wins Competitively Selected DoD Contract
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Agnitron Technology Selected for DoD Contract June 21, 2013, Eden Prairie, MN Agnitron Technology announced today their Phase I proposal, entitled…
LED Patents Monopolize III-Nitride Technology
June 10, 2013 From April 2012 to late March 2013, roughly 350 patent applicants related to AlGaN, InGaN and GaN were filed. These were by organisations based in Japan, Korea, USA and…
Cause of LED Droop May Be Explained
Auger recombination could be responsible for the LED droop phenomenon Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and colleagues at the École Polytechnique in France say they have identified…
Hybrid Silicon Prepares To Displace InP Photonic Chips
Will hybrid silicon be the platform of choice for complex photonic integrated circuits? Compound Semiconductor talks to Martijn Heck from the University of California, Santa Barbara, to find out more.…
U.S. PVMC and NREL to partner on development of thin film PV cells and modules
The U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), an industry-led collaboration headquartered in New York at the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), has partnered with the U.S. Department of…