SOITEC : SOITEC'S NEW RF-SOI SUBSTRATES EXPAND THE FRONTIERS OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
January 26 2015 - 4:55PM
Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing
revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and
energy industries, has introduced its eSI90 substrate, the newest
high-end wafer in its radio-frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI)
product family. The eSI90 is designed to improve the RF performance
of mobile communication components such as high-linearity switches
and antenna tuners that are integrated in high-end smart phones for
LTE Advanced networks using carrier aggregation. This enables
multiple LTE carriers to be used together, providing higher data
rates to enhance user experience.
The new wafers are Soitec's second generation of eSI(TM)
substrates, based on engineered high-resistivity (HR) substrates.
Today, eSI substrates have been widely adopted by leading RF
semiconductor companies to address device cost and performance
needs for the 3G and 4G/LTE mobile wireless markets. Soitec's eSI90
product exhibits higher effective resistivity than first-generation
eSI wafers, enabling a 10-decibel (dB) improvement in linearity
performance in RF front-end modules to address the stringent new
requirements of LTE Advanced smart phones.
"Soitec continues to be the innovation frontrunner in RF-SOI
substrates for the mobile industry with the introduction of eSI90,
enabling high-performance RF devices for LTE Advanced and
next-generation smart phones," said Dr. Bernard Aspar, senior vice
president and general manager of Soitec's Communication & Power
Business Unit. "Today, we estimate that more than one billion RF
devices are produced each quarter using our eSI wafers. We are
pleased to help our customers, the leading RF IC companies, meet
the booming demand from the LTE Advanced market."
Soitec developed a new metrology standard, the Harmonic Quality
Factor (HQF), to predict the expected RF linearity of finished ICs.
HQF correlates with the second harmonic distortion value of a
coplanar waveguide deposited on the substrate. The new eSI90
wafers' HQF maximum value is set to -90 decibel-milliwatts (dBm)
compared to -80 dBm for first-generation eSI substrates. The lower
limit on eSI90 wafers enables chip makers to take advantage of
design and process improvements to increase the RF performance of
their semiconductor designs and to meet MIMO (Multi-Input
Multi-Output) and Carrier Aggregation LTE Advanced requirements,
providing faster data connections.
The new eSI90 substrates are already under evaluation at
multiple leading chipmakers and foundries. Production-ready samples
are now available from Soitec.
Soitec's eSI substrates: Soitec's innovative
eSI products, based on Smart Cut(TM) technology, are the first
'trap-rich' type of materials in full production. They incorporate
an innovative material (a trap-rich layer) between the
high-resistivity handle wafer and the buried oxide, which
significantly improves the performance of the finished ICs
manufactured on these wafers.
About Soitec: Soitec is an international
manufacturing company, a world leader in generating and
manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials at the frontier
of the most exciting energy and electronic challenges. Soitec's
products include substrates for microelectronics (most notably SOI:
silicon-on-insulator) and concentrator photovoltaic systems (CPV).
The company's core technologies are Smart Cut(TM), Smart
Stacking(TM) and Concentrix(TM) as well as expertise in epitaxy.
Applications include consumer and mobile electronics,
microelectronics-driven IT, telecommunications, automotive
electronics, lighting products and large-scale solar power plants.
Soitec has manufacturing plants and R&D centers in France,
Singapore, Germany and the United States. For more information,
visit: www.soitec.com.
International Media
Contacts (trade press) Camille Dufour +33 (0)6 79
49 51 43 camille.dufour@soitec.com (business
press) Marylen Schmidt +33 (0) 4 76 92 87 83
marylen.schmidt@soitec.com |
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Investor Relations Olivier
Brice +33 (0)4 76 92 93 80 olivier.brice@soitec.com |
Soitec press release in pdf
http://hugin.info/143589/R/1889701/668916.pdf
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