Changguang Huaxin won the First Prize of Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Award

03/01

2022

3 On the 1st of the month, the People's Government of Jiangsu Province announced the decision regarding the 2021 Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Awards. Changguang Huaxin was selected for the First Prize of the Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Award, even more so, the only company in Jiangsu Province in the past five years to independently apply and win the First Prize.

Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Award

The Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Award is established by the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government to implement the innovation-driven strategy, promote scientific and technological innovation projects, accelerate the construction of an innovative province, encourage and support major industrial technological innovation needs, and focus on the construction of an independent and controllable modern industrial system in our province. It rewards basic and applied scientific and technological projects that have achieved key technological or system integration innovations in technological inventions, technological development, social welfare, and major projects, have been applied for more than two years, and have made important contributions to Jiangsu's economic construction and social development.

The First Prize of this Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Award was independently applied for by Changguang Huaxin. The project titled "Key Technologies and Industrialization of High-Brightness, Long-Life, High-Power Semiconductor Laser Chips."

High-energy lasers are a key strategic development area in China, and high-power semiconductor laser chips are the core mother light source in contemporary high-energy lasers. They are the "heart" of high-energy laser systems and play an irreplaceable role in advanced laser manufacturing and national strategic high technology (laser) fields. For many years, China has been unable to break through key technologies such as cavity surface treatment, resulting in a long-term situation of "having the device but no chip," which has seriously restricted the development of China's high-energy laser field.

With the support of national key R&D programs and provincial achievement transformation projects, Changguang Huaxin has focused on the core indicators of high-power semiconductor laser chips—power, brightness, lifespan, and efficiency—and has conducted 10 years of technical research and innovation in the three most critical technical areas (cavity surface cleavage and passivation treatment, chip structure design and fabrication process, epitaxial structure design and material growth), achieving major breakthroughs. The core indicators have been tested by third-party authoritative institutions, fully meeting or even partially exceeding the advanced levels abroad.

Since its establishment, Changguang Huaxin has insisted on independent research and production of high-power semiconductor laser chips, mainly focusing on the research, production, and sales of high-power semiconductor laser chips, high-efficiency semiconductor VCSEL chips, high-speed optical communication chips, and their devices and systems. It has built the world's only two and the country's only 6-inch high-power semiconductor laser chip wafer vertical integration production line, achieving independent and controllable capabilities in chip design, key equipment, process technology, and raw materials.

The company's products have been applied in relevant national major projects or engineering and have played an important role in advanced laser manufacturing, new energy vehicles, and other fields, changing the "having the device but no chip" bottleneck in China's high-energy laser field. In addition, the Suzhou Semiconductor Laser Innovation Research Institute, jointly established by Changguang Huaxin and Suzhou High-tech Zone, is about to be put into use. The project has a total investment of 500 million yuan, covers an area of nearly 23,000 square meters, and has a building area of 50,000 square meters, including R&D buildings, office buildings, and production process buildings.

The research institute will fully utilize Changguang Huaxin's existing advantages in high-power semiconductor laser chips, horizontally expand into high-efficiency semiconductor VCSEL chips, high-speed optical communication chips, laser lighting, laser display, and other directions and fields. At the same time, through the research institute platform, it will attract high-end talents globally in this and related fields, forming a mass introduction and agglomeration effect, building a first-class domestic semiconductor laser chip R&D platform, creating a semiconductor laser industry highland, further promoting the localization and industrialization process of semiconductor laser chips, and creating a fully independent and controllable Chinese laser chip!

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