Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT),has announced that Sino-semic have selected its Cobra plasma etch systems for their manufacturing facilities in Taizhou City.  

Sino-semic is a manufacturer of VCSELs for face recognition.

The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, or VCSEL is a semiconductor laser diode which emit a perpendicular beam from the top surface, rather than the edge as in conventional semiconductor lasers.

“VCSEL based devices are entering another exciting phase of growth,” said Richard Pollard, managing director at OIPT.

Li Jun, vice general manager at Sino-semic, writes: 

“We chose Oxford Instruments to supply our ICP etch equipment because they offer cutting edge plasma processing systems and unrivalled process support, which will be invaluable to us during our production scheme”.

The Cobra process systems are used in the production of devices such as lasers, RF and advanced LEDs.