RF Micro Devices Inc. / EMCORE Corp. / Defense Night Vision Laboratory / Rhône-Poulenc S.A. / Roskill Information Services Ltd. / Rhodia Inc. / GEO Specialty Chemicals Inc. / Cree Research Inc. / Air Force Research Laboratories / Compound Semiconductor / Recapture Metals Inc. / General Electric Co. / TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. / Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. / IQE plc / Alpha Industries Inc. / GELcore LLC / Strategies Unlimited / GE Lighting Div / United States Mineral Resources / ANADIGICS Inc. / Eagle-Picher Industries Inc. / Kopin Corp. / RIBER SA / AIXTRON AG / GE / Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd. / Metal Bulletin / Wafer Technology Ltd. / Thermo Optek Corp. / International Quantum Epitaxy / Spire Corp. / VG Semicon Ltd. / Honeywell / Hitachi Cable Ltd. / Methode Electronics Inc. / Bell Laboratories / IQE Inc. / Dowa Mining Co. / Chicagobased Methode Electronics Inc. / Bandwidth Semiconductor LLC / Quantum Epitaxial Designs Inc. / Epitaxial Products International Ltd. / Sanders Co. / /
Continent
Europe / Asia / /
Country
Hungary / France / Japan / Australia / Slovakia / United Kingdom / China / Wales / Taiwan / Germany / Kazakhstan / Malaysia / Russia / United States / Ukraine / South Korea / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
M&A / Business Partnership / Natural Disaster / Company Expansion / /
Facility
Pennsylvania facility / GaAs facility / North Carolina State University / EMCORE’s facility / Department of Defense Night Vision Laboratory / MBE facility / National Institute of Standards and Technology / Cornell University / /
IndustryTerm
internet access / wireless communications applications / manufacturing area / manufacturing facilities / power switching devices / Internet Journal Nitride Semiconductor Research / illumination applications / automotive applications / metal-organic chemical vapor deposition / manufacturing capacity / metal / potential applications / merchant epiwafer supplier / optoelectronic devices / wireless communications market / electronics applications / telecommunications / cellular telephone market / fiber-optics communications systems / digital wireless / nextgeneration transistors / manufacturing / space-based military systems / gradient freeze technology / radar systems / cellular and personal communications systems handsets / gallium metal / homoepitaxial device / wireless handsets / cellular applications / manufacturing capabilities / wireless data / low-brightness applications / chemical composition / communications systems / technology / state lighting products / optical fiber communications systems / gallium-base devices / radio frequency semiconductor devices / volume applications / /
Organization
U.S. Air Force / office of Naval Research / Bureau of the Census / U.S. Bureau / Cornell University / National Institute of Standards and Technology / Department of Defense Night Vision Laboratory / Air Force / North Carolina State University / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / /
Position
statistical assistant / producer / conductor / Major / principal driver / /
Product
GaAs / InGaP / /
ProvinceOrState
Utah / New Jersey / Pennsylvania / North Carolina / Massachusetts / /
PublishedMedium
Oceania / Photonics Spectra / D Magazine / /
Region
Oceania / Western Europe / /
Technology
radiation / gradient freeze technology / integrated circuits / optical fiber / digital camera / chemical vapor deposition / optoelectronics / cellular telephones / semiconductor / bipolar transistor / semiconductor devices / wireless communications / microwave / digital video / cellular telephone / laser / lasers / http / radio frequency / /
GALLIUM By Deborah A. Kramer Domestic survey data and tables were prepared by Carolyn F. Crews, statistical assistant. Gallium demand in the United States was satisfied by imports, primarily high-purity material from Fra