� Berlin WideBaSe � develops semiconductors for highs speed's applications

Ten enterprises and three research institutes started at the beginning of of July their co-operation with the development, production and the selling of materials, equipment, elements and systems on basis of breitl�ckiger semiconductors (Wide Bandgap Semiconductors). The Federal Ministry for education and research promotes the structure of the technology platform � Berlin WideBaSe � from July 2010 to 2013 with altogether 6.5 millions euros in the promotion context enterprise region semiconductor with broad gap offers outstanding material properties and makes extremely compact and very fast achievement elements as well as high performance light emitters possible in the ultraviolet spectral region. Berlin WideBaSe bundles the know-how and technical resources of the thirteen citizens of Berlin partner from research and industry within this range. With the initiative the regionally existing technological and economic authority for semiconductor components is to be united and developed on the basis of nitride semiconductors (AlInGaN). Under the guidance saying " large gap � complete Vernetzung" address the involved ones different application fields along added value chains (equipment construction � substrates � epitaxy � element processing � mounting technique � system employment). To the group Advanced Microwave Technologies, BeMiTec, CrysTec, Eagle yard belong photonics, to Jenoptik, LayTec, OSA Opto Light, OSRAM, RTG microanalysis as well as Sentech of instrument as enterprise partners. Research establishments involved are the Ferdinand brown institute, Leibniz institute for very high frequency technology, the Leibniz institute for crystal growth as well as the technical University of Berlin. The markets addressed from Berlin WideBaSe are enough of production plants for the semiconductor technology, particularly of breitl�ckigen semiconductors (corroding and deposition plants, sensors for the production control), over substrates and epitaxy wafer up to elements and modules for the UV technology and the power electronics. The emphasis of the work lies on the field of the optical technologies, in which Berlin has a special strength.� The allies meet a comprehensive know-how, which illustrates the entire added value chain in a radius of only 25 kilometers. Represented only enterprises of the processing industry and equipment manufacturer are not, also asset investments can locally be realized and developed. � both in optoelectronics and in electronics this complete networking is world-wide singularly �, like that Matthias Gamp of the Jenoptik section optical systems, which is speaker of the compound project. � The project is coordinated of the Ferdinand brown institute, that those� Initiative had started before approximately two years, in order to unite citizens of Berlin the potential to compound semiconductors with large band gap in a project. The Leibniz institute is involved in seven that altogether eight subprojects as research partners and plays thus a central role in the overall project. Glossary: Wide Bandgap Semiconductors � WideBaSe � stands for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors. Those are compound semiconductors such as gallium nitride (GaN), aluminum nitride (AIN), zinc oxide (ZnO), or silicon carbide (SiC). From their large gap specific electronic and opto-electronic characteristics result like high carrier mobilities, high break-through field strengths, excellent heat conductivity and operability also at high temperatures. For optoelectronics it is important that some of them the effective mutual transformation of electricity and radiation in the short-wave visible and within the UV range permit. In electronics these singular material properties permit extremely compact and thus very fast achievement elements. They form from there the condition for high-innovative high frequency and microwave systems, which would be practically not realizable in conventional technologies. This comprehensive application scope makes the breitl�ckigen compound semiconductor investigated in � Berlin WideBaSe � to one of the key technologies 21. Century: the very high frequency power electronics� and optoelectronics.

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