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Hopes for the new year So, was it just a stupid reversal of polarity that took away an additional work from me ? and also ended uo breaking the sample ? Well, so was it, december 19, I had my LASER ready, dot on the deadline, but the basic diode test showed an open... The top p contacts must have been okay, for it showed a good pad to pad 1 kohm resistance, and naturally the fingers pointed to the back n contact.. Another day polishing the backside, and doing the metal all over again, and in between an extra-cautious cleaning broke the sample, at about 1/5th from one side, a very parallel to the edge cleave at that ... And today, it all boiled down to reversal of polarity, and I am now left with a "sample of hope" for the new year... yeah, come Jan 2 and I would hopefully have delivered the second successful "mode-lockable" laser, and also, adding on to my credibility as Chris pointed out "Pretty much every wafer you touched, you've got working lasers out...

Okay Its been really long.... as always, want to post, want to post, but never get to it Even now, I am just going to post some "old news" and lazy off into something else This set, was from december 7 ------------------ http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?hpFlag=Y&chklogin=N&autono=207889&leftnm=lmnu1&lselect=0&leftindx=1 To complete the loop, a consortium of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and SemIndia (a group of NRIs) and Indian Equipment Manufacturing company (another NRI consortium) announced plans to set up separate fabrication units. -------------- http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=ousiv&storyID=2005-11-30T081345Z_01_HO029525_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-INDIA-AMD-DC.XML NEW DELHI (Reuters) - SemIndia plans to invest $3 billion in a semiconductor chip-making factory in India, with technology from America's Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) (AMD.N: Quote , Profile , Research ), officials from the companies said ...

http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?chklogin=&autono=190868&leftnm=lmnu9&leftindx=9&lselect=5 US nanotech firm plans investments Joydeep Ray / Ahmedabad June 07, 2005 Cientifica Inc, the US-based supplier of nanotechnology information, has decided to invest in a big way in the Mumbai-based Yash Nanotech, a division of Yash Management & Satellite Limited (YMSL). Cientifica had forged a strategic alliance with Yash Nanotech in May, which so far has been only a technical, consulting and marketing partnership. Cientifica, is now looking at selling its nanotechnology experience mainly in the textile, chemicals and petrochemicals sector in the country and also planning to make India its global nanotechnology outsourcing hub, said Tim Harper, chief executive officer of the company. Harper told Business Standard, “With our global presence across London, Madrid, Oslo, Singapore and Mumbai, Cientifica has now decided to make substantial investment in the I...

http://us.rediff.com/money/2005/jun/15spec1.htm In 1987, Pratul Shroff, now president and CEO of the Ahmedabad-based eInfochips, returned to India. He'd worked in the United States for several years after obtaining a master's degree in computer engineering from Cornell university. The electronics engineer from BITS, Pilani, had worked for Intel and had been one of the designers of the 80186 chip, which helped launch the personal computer era. The Rs 19 crore (Rs 190 million) (2003-2004) eInfochips is now targeting revenues of Rs 138 crore (Rs 1.38 billion) in five years time. In 1999, K Ramachandra Reddy started MosChip Semiconductor Technology in Hyderabad after having worked for 20 years at Silicon Valley designing semiconductors. No single Indian company then was a fabless company (a fabless semiconductor company designs, develops and tests a chip, but mass production happens in a foundry). "I wanted MosChip to be the first semiconductor product company from India and b...