October 3rd, 2011
Congratulations to SAFC Hitech Research Chemist Sarah Hindley who recently won first prize for the oral presentation of ‘Metal Organic Chemical Vapour Deposition of Vertically-Aligned ZnO Nanowires using Oxygen Adducts’ at the EuroCVD18 Conference, which took place 
in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland from the 4th – 9th September 2011.
The presentation of a summary of an original paper, authored by Sarah and A. C. Jones, S. Ashraf, J. Bacsa, A. Steiner, P. R. Chalker, P. Beahan, P. A. Williams, R. Odedra, won Sarah a first prize of 300€.
The presentation looks at Zinc Nanowires and how better results can be achieved in terms of the severe pre-reaction (particulates, poor composition control, poor morphology) using conventional MOCVD methods by using new, less reactive ZnO precursors. It then goes on to look at precursor (Me2Zn.L) design, structure and processing via Liquid Injection CVD. The summary findings indicated that:
- Me2Zn.L allow ZnO nanowire growth on Si(111) substrates at ~500oC in the absence of a seed layer
- Me2Zn.L adducts controls initial reaction with O2 via the formation of a gas phase species [MeZn(OMe).(L)]
- MeZn(OMe) is the reactive surface species control ZnO nanowire growth kinetics
You can download Sarah’s presentation here.
September 23rd, 2011
In this article published this month in Wiley’s peer review journal, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a team made up of Dr. J. Bacsa, Prof. A. C. Jones and Dr. A. Steiner of the Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool; Dr. F. Hanke and Dr. G. R. Darling of the Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool, Sarah Hindley and Raj Odedra of SAFC Hitech examine Dimethylzinc and diethylzinc compounds, which were amoung the first organometallic compounds ever synthesised by Frankland in the mid-ninteenth century.
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September 14th, 2011
In the September 2011 issue of the UK’s Speciality Chemicals magazine, SAFC Hitech’s Geoff Irvine and Xioahong Chen talk about the electronic chemicals market, and how materials innovation continues to enable to microelectronics market overcome new challenges, such as the migration to new materials within the semi space.
The article also focuses in on the importance of supply chain integrity, which was brought into sharp focus by the tragic events in Japan in March, when the earthquake and tsunami severely impacted the Japanese electronics supply chain. Finally, the article looks at strategic partnership0s and investments, and in particular where SAFC Hitech has worked to bring additional capacity online to service current and future needs in key areas.
You can read the full article on pages 12 and 13 of Speciality Chemicals here.
May 25th, 2011
In February of this year, SAFC Hitech Chief Technology Officer Ravi Kanjolia spoke at the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara as part of a session that sought to address manufacturing issues and strategies for LEDs, chaired by Solid State Technology’s Pete Singer. The session examined some of the challenges facing the industry as it seeks to meet the demands of high volume LED production for use across an increasingly wide a variety of applications, including backlight illumination in flat panel displays and TVs, solid state and architectural lighting and so on.
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You can download Sarah’s presentation here.