Lambda physics
Lambda Physik was a manufacturer of lasers , especially excimer lasers , based in Göttingen . It was taken over by Coherent and renamed. The location in Göttingen was retained. Lambda Physik was the first company to emerge from a Max Planck Institute . Since about 1988 Lambda Physik has been a "corporate sponsoring member" of the Max Planck Society.
history
The company was founded in 1971 by Dirk Basting and Bernd Steyer, both scholarship holders at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry at the time , and is headquartered in the industrial area in Göttingen-Grone . Steyer and Basting both received their doctorates in 1975 under the supervision of their doctoral supervisor Fritz Peter Schäfer . It was Schäfer who allowed them to set up a company outside of working hours to use the institute's infrastructure to set up a company. In 1981 Steyer left the company and Coherent became the majority shareholder.
Initially, the company produced high-performance nitrogen lasers . There were also excimer lasers (the world's first commercial laser in 1977) and dye lasers (and associated laser dyes ).
Areas of application of the excimer lasers (pulsed ultraviolet lasers) produced by Lambda Physik were:
- Photolithography (especially microlithography) in the semiconductor industry
- Flat screen (conversion of amorphous production of silicon into polycrystalline in the manufacture of thin film transistors , also referred to as a TFT-annealing (thin film transistor, TFT))
- Drilling extremely fine nozzles for inkjet printers
- Ophthalmology ( Eye - operations , for example. Refractive Surgery )
- Laser ablation for cleaning works of art
In 1994 the company received the German Business Innovation Prize .
In 2000, the company was converted into a stock corporation and the company went public in the Neuer Markt segment (NEMAX 50 index).
After conversion back into a GmbH and exclusion of minority shareholders , the company is now one of Coherent, Inc .
literature
- Michael Globig: If you think long-term, you have to be serious - Lambda Physik - the first company to emerge from a Max Planck Institute , in: MPG-Spiegel 1/98, pages 38-40 (series of articles "Companies as supporting members of the MPG ").
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Globig: If you think long-term, you have to be serious - Lambda Physik - the first company to emerge from a Max Planck Institute , in: MPG-Spiegel 1/98, pages 38 and 39 (series of articles "Firms as sponsoring members of MPG ")