Rubicon Technology to Speak About New Process to Produce Large Optical-Grade Sapphire Windows at SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing 2013
Rubicon to showcase its line of optical sapphire products
at the event
Rubicon
Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire
substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical markets,
today announced that Dr. Jonathan Levine, Director of Technical Business
Development, will be speaking about the “Synthesis and characterization
of large optical-grade sapphire windows produced from a horizontal
growth process” on Wednesday,
May 1 at SPIE
Defense, Security and Sensing 2013 in Baltimore, MD. In addition,
Rubicon will showcase its line of optical products for use in defense
and aerospace, instrumentation
and analytical processing, sensors
and detectors, semiconductor
process equipment, and medical
and laser applications at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing
2013 exhibition from April 30 through May 2 at the Baltimore Convention
Center in booth #920.
Until now, existing methods used to produce optical-grade sapphire
windows haven’t met demands for thickness and size in certain military
and other applications. Rubicon’s new technological platform is capable
of growing panels of much greater thickness. Dr. Levine will discuss
Rubicon’s research into a new horizontal growth process to produce
monolithic sapphire sheets large enough for use in next generation
optical windows for military and civilian applications.
“As sensor technology and applications have evolved, the size
requirements for sapphire sensor windows have grown substantially,” said
Raja M. Parvez, President and CEO, Rubicon Technology. “With our strong
history in scaling sapphire crystal growth and commercial scale
production processes, we have successfully produced very large sapphire
blanks using a highly modified horizontal directional solidification
process. Dr. Levine will share information about important advances in
large sapphire windows with the SPIE community at the conference.”
Sapphire is a desirable material for high-performance applications due
to its optical transparency, physical strength, resistance to abrasion
and corrosion, temperature durability, chemical inertness, and
bio-compatibility. As a result, it is ideally suited for extreme
environments where material durability is just as important as optical
clarity.
Rubicon will have a number of optical sapphire products of different
sizes and orientations on display at SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing
2013 along with a wide range of sapphire products including sapphire
cores, ingots, windows, domes and blanks. Rubicon will also be
displaying large diameter wafers ranging in size from 4 to 6 and 8
inches.
About Rubicon Technology
Rubicon Technology, Inc. is an advanced electronic materials provider
that is engaged in developing, manufacturing and selling monocrystalline
sapphire and other crystalline products for light-emitting diodes
(LEDs), radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), blue laser diodes,
optoelectronics and other optical applications. The Company applies its
proprietary crystal growth technology to produce very high-quality
sapphire in a form that allows for volume production of various sizes
and orientations of substrates and windows. Rubicon is a
vertically-integrated manufacturer with capabilities in crystal growth,
high precision core drilling, wafer slicing, surface lapping,
large-diameter polishing and wafer cleaning processes, which the Company
employs to convert the bulk crystal into products with the quality and
precision specified by its customers. The Company is the world leader in
larger diameter products to support next-generation LED, RFIC and
optical window applications.
Further information is available at www.rubicon-es2.com.