Introducing Quarter Wafer Sales by The Slice

Ross Bannatyne (Director of Business Development) & Thomas Poonnen, PhD (Director of Engineering)

 

 

 

Creating a Focal Plane Array (FPA) can be a costly endeavor. It involves hybridizing a digital readout IC (DROIC) with an infrared detector array, making a sandwich using indium bumps as the interconnect. The minimum order quantity (MOQ) for an off-the-shelf DROIC has archetypically been a whole wafer. For detector and FPA researchers, this full wafer MOQ has been a barrier-to-entry for using state-of-the-art DROICs - requiring the purchase of a full wafer when only a few handfuls of parts are required makes the process unnecessarily expensive.

To provide easier access to using our innovative Oxygen® RD0092 DROIC, Senseeker has become the first supplier in the industry to offer quarter wafers. We're responding to a demand from universities and research establishments who need a reasonable quantity of dies for R&D purposes, but don't want to pay for a whole wafer when their budget can be best used on other things.

Coupled with the off-the-shelf Oxygen RD0092 Electronics Evaluation Kit, the quarter wafer option is the most cost-effective entry point into using advanced digital readout IC technology. The Oxygen DROIC was designed with dual-band, dual-polarity inputs to allow it to be hybridized with a wide range of industry standard detector types. The 720p pixel array size is a commonly used format that has broad appeal and there are a multitude of different operating modes to optimize imaging performance in different FPAs and for different applications.

There is no longer the need to buy a whole pizza when you only have the appetite for a slice!

About Senseeker Engineering

Senseeker is a wholly US owned transducer IC semiconductor company that specializes in the design of state-of-the-art digital imaging sensors and readout integrated circuits for hybrid infrared image sensing arrays. Senseeker's products and IP enable designers to produce world class infrared image sensing solutions. Read more at https://www.senseeker.com.

 

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