19/01/2012
Venture capital fund LitCapital further expands its investments’ portfolio. The newest investment agreement was recently signed with a semiconductor technologies company Brolis Semiconductors UAB that specializes in the design and development of long-wavelength mid-infrared laser diodes. The company also plans to use financing from the EU Structural Funds for the development of lasers’ production technology in order to apply it to the commercial market.
Brolis Semiconductors’ UAB founders are scientists with the background in nanoelectronics, at the moment finishing their PhD studies at the Walter Schottky Institute, Technische Universität München, where they were engaged in the research of complex semiconductor compounds’ growth technology and these compounds’ application in the development of novel optoelectronic devices. Mastered technology led to a breakthrough in the development of world-record long-wavelength mid-infrared semiconductor and quantum cascade lasers of unique specifications.
The company plans to further improve and optimize this technology to make it reproducable and reliable, which will allow its application to the commercial market. Brolis Semiconductors UAB has already attracted the attention of several high-tech companies from US and EU, which have expressed serious intentions of buying their products.
Prof. Markus-Christian Amann, Brolis Semiconductors UAB co-founder‘s scientific advisor and Director of the Walter Schottky Institut and Dean, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universitat Munchen:
“Brolis Semiconductors UAB commercializes high-tech compound semiconductor materials and devices for advanced infrared applications. Already during their research work at this institute, the co-founders attracted high international visibility and acknowledgement in this rapidly growing field. With their leading semiconductor technology and processing skills, Brolis Semiconductors UAB is expected to become a major international supplier for innovative compound semiconductor wafers and devices.”