nanoarun

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