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United States : SWIR development facility launched by Sensors Unlimited [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Infrared detector and imaging specialist Sensors Unlimited has formally launched its new development facility in Princeton, New Jersey. The United Technologies subsidiary will advantage from above 90,000 square feet of additional space, with the site housing a custom-built compound semiconductor wafer fabrication area, along with packaging, assembly, and test labs. With above 100 employees 50 of whom are engineers the site will aim on the research and development of new short-wave infrared (SWIR) detectors and cameras, for which demand is rising in both military and commercial sectors. That technology depends on highly developed III-V semiconductor production, and Sensors Unlimited has specific expertise with indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) photodiodes for high-performance near-infrared imaging applications. John Trezza, general manager of United Technologies force protection business, which comprises Sensors Unlimited, said: We created this state-of-the-art facility to attract the best and the brightest engineers in this field. The research and development we re doing here has immediate real-world applications from supporting military missions to detecting manufacturing defects. More particularly, those military applications comprise laser tracking of weapons and communications systems, night vision, imaging payloads for drones, and more conventional surveillance. In the scientific realm, key applications comprise spectroscopy, microscopy and astronomy, while a Sensors Unlimited camera recently revealed a hidden Picasso painting through multispectral imaging. Established in 1992 by Greg Olsen and Marshall Cohen, Sensors Unlimited was then sold to the fiber-optic component maker Finisar in 2000 for $600 million. However following the optical communications bust , the company was sold back to its management team just two years later and for only $6 million. Sensors Unlimited was then sold to aerospace firm Goodrich for $60 million in 2005 the same year that Olsen spent some of his windfall becoming the third private citizen to orbit the Earth on board the International Space Station. Olsen is at present president of GHO Ventures, an angel investor company that is also established in Princeton. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |