Hamamatsu Photonics
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (Japanese joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3771800004 |
| founding | September 29, 1953 |
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Hamamatsu , Japan
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| management | Akira Hiruma (President and CEO) |
| Number of employees | 3,197 |
| sales | 120691000000 ¥ (1 billion euro ) |
| Branch | Optics and electronics industry |
| Website | www.hamamatsu.com |
| As of September 30, 2015 | |
The company Hamamatsu Photonics KK ( Jap. 浜松ホトニクス株式会社 , Hamamatsu Hotonikusu Kabushiki Kaisha ) is a Japanese manufacturer of optoelectronic sensors , light sources and optoelectronic components and instruments from Hamamatsu , Shizuoka Prefecture .
history
The company, operating under the name Hamamatsu Photonics since 1983, was renamed Hamamatsu TV Co., Ltd. in 1953 . Founded by Horiuchi Heihachiro, a former student of Takayanagi Kenjirō , the father of Japanese television .
The company started producing photocells and photomultipliers in the 1950s . In the 1960s Vidicons and in the late 1970s photodiodes and optical position sensors expanded the product range. In 1973, Hamamatsu Television Europe GmbH (now Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland GmbH ) was founded in Germany. Today Hamamatsu Photonics is one of the most important manufacturers of optoelectronic sensors (the global market share in 2007 was 60%).
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Among other things, Hamamatsu Photonics developed the largest photomultiplier R1449 ever built with a diameter of approx. 50 cm in the early 1980s . By May 1982 the company had supplied 1,050 units of these for the Kamioka Nucleon Decay Experiment . For the neutrino detector of the follow-up project Super-Kamiokande , 11,200 units of the successor model R3600-05 were delivered in the 1990s .
Hamamatsu Photonics continues to be one of the suppliers of the detectors ( ATLAS , CMS , LHCb and ALICE ) of the Large Hadron Collider at the European Nuclear Research Center CERN near Geneva . For the co-development, improvement and production of avalanche photodiodes (140,000 units) for the electromagnetic calorimeter of CMS and silicon strip detectors (22,000 units) for the CMS tracker for tracking of particles produced was the company in 2003 and 2005 with the CMS Crystal Award at CERN excellent.
Products
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Sensors :
The photodetectors in the product range that use the external photoelectric effect include photomultipliers, microchannel plate photomultipliers and image intensifiers . The photodetectors that use the internal photoelectric effect include CCD and CMOS sensors , pin photodiodes and avalanche photodiodes, as well as optical position sensors ( position sensitive devices ). A large number of semiconductor detectors for X-rays or infrared radiation are also produced. -
Light sources :
The product range includes light sources such as gas discharge tubes , hollow cathode lamps , semiconductor lasers and light emitting diodes . -
Optoelectronic instruments :
These include spectrometers and fluorescence spectrometers , as well as CCD, EM-CCD, CMOS and streak cameras .
Competitor
In the field of semiconductor sensors and cameras, the main competitors include e2v Technologies (UK), PerkinElmer (USA) and Micron Technology (USA). Photomultiplier are only produced by a few other companies worldwide, for example the Photonis Group (France, Netherlands, USA), ET Enterprises (UK), ProxiVision (DE) or ADIT (USA).
literature
- Sachi Hatakenaka: Optoelectronics in Hamamatsu: In search of a photon valley. In: MIT IPC Working Paper Series. IPC-04-004, Cambridge 2004 ( PDF ).
- Ikujiro Nonaka, Vesa Peltokorpi, Hisao Tomae: Strategic knowledge creation: the case of Hamamatsu Photonics . In: International Journal of Technology Management . tape 30 , no. 3/4 , 2005, p. 248-264 , doi : 10.1504 / IJTM.2005.006709 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Corporate profile. Hamamatsu Photonics KK
- ↑ Annual Report 2015
- ^ Company History 1980s. Hamamatsu Photonics KK, accessed May 26, 2013.
- ^ Company History 1950s. Hamamatsu Photonics KK, accessed May 26, 2013.
- ^ Company History 1970s. Hamamatsu Photonics KK, accessed May 26, 2013.
- ↑ Rika Takahashi: 'Yara-maika': Hamamatsu pulls the spirits of Japanese industry. ILC NewsLine, Linear Collider Collaboration, June 7, 2007 (accessed May 27, 2013).
- ↑ Development of 20-inch PMT. Major research projects - Hamamatsu Photonics KK, accessed May 26, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Hamamatsu Photonics KK: Si detectors for high energy particles (Chapter 09). In: OPTO-SEMICONDUCTOR HANDBOOK. 6.1 Particle collision experiments. ( Memento of March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) PDF file, p. 226.
- ^ Eleanor Rusack: CMS Crystal Awards. CERN CMS Collaboration, December 7, 2011 (accessed May 29, 2013).
- ^ Products - Optical sensors. Hamamatsu Photonics KK, accessed May 26, 2013.
- ^ Products - Light sources. Hamamatsu Photonics KK, accessed May 26, 2013.
- ^ Products - Photometry systems. Hamamatsu Photonics KK, accessed May 26, 2013.
- ^ Products - Cameras. Hamamatsu Photonics KK, accessed May 26, 2013.