Our mission: To be a world leader in the development of advanced materials for next-generation semiconductor, photonics and alternative energy applications
Advanced Materials are the cornerstone of the Electronics, Semiconductor and Solar Photovoltaic arenas. Novel materials in conjunction with scaling have allowed for the continuation of increased device performance. The industry foundation is built upon providing evolutionary and revolutionary advances to meet the respective roadmap requirements.
Translucent’s ‘optical silicon’ foundation is the original materials development project upon which the company was founded in 2001. The development of optically active silicon which is fully compatible with current silicon chip fabrication techniques has been a long held objective of the semiconductor industry, and is becoming ever more critical to the continued progress of the silicon chip industry according to Moore’s Law. In particular, the development of a silicon laser and optical amplifier - both requiring optical gain - and silicon optical interconnects scaleable to current and future nano-technology nodes is of fundamental importance to such progress.
Translucent has embarked on a Proof-of-concept program for solar energy conversion materials that have been utilized in the photonics initiative with respect to photo-electric conversion. Current activities for solar photovoltaics are continuing to focus on producing prototype cells for third party testing and industry validation.