Aktuelles › Fur­ther Jen­op­tik invest­ments at Ber­lin Adlers­hof Tech­no­logy Park

Jen­op­tik is again inves­t­ing in equip­ment for its pro­duc­tion of semi­con­duc­tor lasers.

Jen­op­tik is equip­ping its Ber­lin loca­tion with fur­ther new high-tech faci­li­ties and is thus pre­pa­ring its­elf for the plan­ned capa­city expan­sion of semi­con­duc­tor mate­rial for high-power diode lasers. The pro­duc­tion site in Ber­lin Adlers­hof spe­cia­li­zes in semi­con­duc­tor laser manu­fac­tu­ring. The pro­duc­tion line includes epi­taxy, wafer pro­ces­sing and facet coa­ting. Invest­ments are curr­ently being made pri­ma­rily in the front-end pro­cess of wafer pro­ces­sing and in facet coating.

Jen­op­tik will com­mis­sion new metal­liza­tion plants for wafer pro­ces­sing by the begin­ning of 2020 at the latest. These machi­nes enable various metal lay­ers to be applied to semi­con­duc­tors by vapor depo­si­tion or sput­te­ring. In addi­tion, the so-cal­led lift-off pro­cess will be moder­ni­zed with a new machine. This ser­ves to remove the pho­to­re­sist mask after expo­sure on the semi­con­duc­tors. For the final pro­cess step, the facet coa­ting, Jen­op­tik will also be using a new plant and, simul­ta­neously, a new tech­no­logy start­ing in the fall of 2019. This will con­tri­bute more stron­gly to the sta­bi­liza­tion and hig­her out­put power of laser bars. 

The tech­ni­cal moder­niza­tion of all sys­tems allows for the pro­duc­tion of laser diodes with a hig­her out­put power and impro­ves relia­bi­lity. “With the new invest­ments, we want to expand the total pro­duc­tion capa­city, increase the value added in the pro­cess chain and acce­le­rate the world­wide order pro­ces­sing of lasers”, says site mana­ger Dr. Jür­gen Sebastian.

Jenoptik’s semi­con­duc­tor laser bars are mainly used in the fields of medi­cal tech­no­logy and life sci­ence, for exam­ple for hair rem­oval, as well as for advan­ced manu­fac­tu­ring tech­no­lo­gies. The invest­ments also serve to address new mar­kets, such as LiDAR sen­sors in the auto­mo­tive indus­try. In the same way, glo­bal rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment pro­jects in Europe, Asia and the USA can also be sup­ported thanks to the new pro­duc­tion equipment.

Jen­op­tik faci­lity in Berlin 

Jenoptik’s laser pro­duc­tion plant was estab­lished in 2002 when JENOPTIK Diode Lab GmbH was foun­ded as a spin-off from the Fer­di­nand Braun Insti­tute, Leib­niz Insti­tute for High Fre­quency Tech­no­logy (FBH) in Ber­lin. In March of this year, all acti­vi­ties and busi­nesses were trans­fer­red from JENOPTIK Diode Lab GmbH to JENOPTIK Opti­cal Sys­tems GmbH as part of the stan­dar­diza­tion of cor­po­rate struc­tures and processes.

The com­plete pro­cess line for the pro­duc­tion of semi­con­duc­tor lasers takes place in clean rooms with class 100 and 1,000 (ISO 5 and 6) which meet the strict cle­an­li­ness requi­re­ments for the pro­duc­tion of semi­con­duc­tor lasers and wafers. The wafers are struc­tu­red and pro­ces­sed into laser bars, which are then deli­vered to cus­to­mers world­wide, pro­ces­sed into high-power diode lasers in Jena and inte­gra­ted into laser systems.

In recent years, the pro­duc­tion faci­lity has deve­lo­ped into a state-of-the-art high-tech pro­duc­tion faci­lity as a result of various invest­ments. Fol­lo­wing an exten­sive expan­sion of the pro­cess line for the pro­duc­tion of semi­con­duc­tor lasers in 2012, an invest­ment in a new step­per fol­lo­wed last year.

Images are available for down­load from the Jen­op­tik image data­base in the Light & Optics / Press gallery.

About Jen­op­tik and its Light & Optics division 

Jen­op­tik is a glo­bally ope­ra­ting tech­no­logy group. Opti­cal tech­no­lo­gies are the very basis of our busi­ness with the majo­rity of our pro­ducts and ser­vices being pro­vi­ded to the pho­to­nics mar­ket. Our key tar­get mar­kets pri­ma­rily include the semi­con­duc­tor equip­ment indus­try, the medi­cal tech­no­logy, auto­mo­tive and mecha­ni­cal engi­nee­ring, traf­fic, avia­tion as well as the secu­rity and defense tech­no­logy indus­tries. Jen­op­tik has about 4,000 employees worldwide.

The Light & Optics divi­sion is a glo­bal OEM sup­plier of solu­ti­ons and pro­ducts based on pho­to­nics tech­no­lo­gies. Jen­op­tik pro­vi­des a broad port­fo­lio of tech­no­lo­gies com­bi­ned with deep expe­ri­ence of more than 25 years in the fields of optics, laser tech­no­logy, digi­tal ima­ging, opto-elec­tro­nics and sen­sors. Our cus­to­mers are lea­ding machine and equip­ment sup­pli­ers working in areas such as semi­con­duc­tor equip­ment, laser mate­rial pro­ces­sing, health­care & life sci­ence, indus­trial auto­ma­tion, auto­mo­tive & mobi­lity and safety, as well as in rese­arch insti­tu­tes. As a deve­lo­p­ment and pro­duc­tion part­ner, the Light & Optics divi­sion focu­ses on advan­cing cut­ting-edge tech­no­lo­gies to improve our cus­to­mers’ sys­tem per­for­mance and ulti­m­ately rea­lize pro­duct out­co­mes that reach new heights enab­led by our highly-inte­gra­ted pho­to­nic solu­ti­ons. The sys­tems, modu­les and com­pon­ents based on pho­to­nics tech­no­lo­gies help our cus­to­mers over­come their future challenges.

Cont­act

Denise Thim

JENOPTIK I Light & Optics
Head of Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons & Marketing
+49 3641 65–4366
moc.kitponej@smetsys-lacitpo