Optoelectronics involves the conversion of light to electricity, or electricity to light, using advanced semiconductor materials and devices. Working closely with customers, Spire R&D engineers and scientists design, fabricate and test state-of-the-art epitaxial wafers and devices to address customers’ specific needs.

Technology areas that Spire Semiconductor R&D develops include:

• Custom epitaxial wafers
• Terahertz sources and detectors
• Semiconductor photodiodes and lasers based on silicon and III-V compounds
• High efficiency solar cells