Taiwan and Lithuania Center for Semiconductors and Materials Science established in Lithuania with focus on Taiwan’s laser technology
2022-02-23
The Center of Crystal Research at National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) and the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC) established the Taiwan and Lithuania Center for Semiconductors and Materials Science in Lithuania, integrating both countries’ strengths: Taiwan’s crystal growth technologies and Lithuania’s laser technology to jointly develop advanced thin disc laser (TDL) systems.
As the globe faces a chip shortage, a survey by a major Taiwanese job bank also reveals that the shortage of semiconductor professionals will reach an average of 34,000 openings per month in the fourth quarter of 2020, which is the highest number in the past seven years. Director of the Center of Crystal Research, Professor Mitch Chou, pointed out that the Taiwan and Lithuania Center for Semiconductors and Materials Science offers a platform to develop talents for industry, academia, and research. Director Chou envisions that win-win cooperation with Lithuania will speed up Taiwan’s goal to develop an independent laser system.
Director Chou said that the industrial laser giant, Trumpf, demonstrated the high-power thin disc laser system in the Laser & Photonics Taiwan exhibition held in December 2021.This technology is mainly used for heterogeneous metal welding, automotive battery cutting, solar panel cutting, and high-precision drilling. Its broad applications indicate a trend for the development of such laser technologies.
Several senior Lithuanian government officials attended the opening ceremony, including Vincas Jurgutis, the Vice-Minister at Ministry of the Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania, and Dalia Kreiviene, the Director of External Economic Relations and Economic Security Policy Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More than 50 professors and researchers from both Taiwan and Lithuania joined the workshop on optoelectronics and material science after the ceremony, including professors from NSYSU’s Department of Photonics Yi-Jen Chiu, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Chuck Lee, and Yung-Jr Hung, Yu-Ju Hung, Yuan-Yao Lin, Chun-Ta Wang, Wei-Chun Lin, and professors from the Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science Da-Ren Hang, Kevin Chiu, Ahmed El-Mahdy, and Johann Lüder.
The National Development Council Minister Kung Ming-hsin led a trade delegation to Central and Eastern Europe last October and also visited Lithuania and signed a memorandum of understanding that included six items of cooperation, including crystal growth and semiconductor technology. The establishment of the Taiwan and Lithuania Center for Semiconductors and Materials Science took the lead from the recent signing.
Taiwan representative to Lithuania, Eric Huang, expressed that the National Development Council announced in January the establishment of a US$ 200 million “Central and Eastern Europe investment fund.” This fund will prioritize investments in Lithuania and focus on industries that are of strategic interest to both Taiwan and Lithuania. The opening of the Taiwan and Lithuania Center for Semiconductors and Materials Science is foreseen to be an important milestone in bilateral industrial cooperation, in which the jointly developed solid-state thin disc laser technology is anticipated for application in precision machinery, metal processing, and semiconductor industries in both Taiwan and Lithuania in the near future.
The Center of Crystal Research at NSYSU has already collaborated with the Baltic countries for seven years. In March 2020, Taiwan and the Baltic States Research Center on Physics was established in Latvia, with participation from Lithuanian scientists.
The Center of Crystal Research at National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) and the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC) established the Taiwan and Lithuania Center for Semiconductors and Materials Science in Lithuania, integrating both countries’ strengths: Taiwan’s crystal growth technologies and Lithuania’s laser technology to jointly develop advanced thin disc laser (TDL) systems.
As the globe faces a chip shortage, a survey by a major Taiwanese job bank also reveals that the shortage of semiconductor professionals will reach an average of 34,000 openings per month in the fourth quarter of 2020, which is the highest number in the past seven years. Director of the Center of Crystal Research, Professor Mitch Chou, pointed out that the Taiwan and Lithuania Center for Semiconductors and Materials Science offers a platform to develop talents for industry, academia, and research. Director Chou envisions that win-win cooperation with Lithuania will speed up Taiwan’s goal to develop an independent laser system.
Director Chou said that the industrial laser giant, Trumpf, demonstrated the high-power thin disc laser system in the Laser & Photonics Taiwan exhibition held in December 2021.This technology is mainly used for heterogeneous metal welding, automotive battery cutting, solar panel cutting, and high-precision drilling. Its broad applications indicate a trend for the development of such laser technologies.
Several senior Lithuanian government officials attended the opening ceremony, including Vincas Jurgutis, the Vice-Minister at Ministry of the Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania, and Dalia Kreiviene, the Director of External Economic Relations and Economic Security Policy Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More than 50 professors and researchers from both Taiwan and Lithuania joined the workshop on optoelectronics and material science after the ceremony, including professors from NSYSU’s Department of Photonics Yi-Jen Chiu, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Chuck Lee, and Yung-Jr Hung, Yu-Ju Hung, Yuan-Yao Lin, Chun-Ta Wang, Wei-Chun Lin, and professors from the Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science Da-Ren Hang, Kevin Chiu, Ahmed El-Mahdy, and Johann Lüder.
The National Development Council Minister Kung Ming-hsin led a trade delegation to Central and Eastern Europe last October and also visited Lithuania and signed a memorandum of understanding that included six items of cooperation, including crystal growth and semiconductor technology. The establishment of the Taiwan and Lithuania Center for Semiconductors and Materials Science took the lead from the recent signing.
Taiwan representative to Lithuania, Eric Huang, expressed that the National Development Council announced in January the establishment of a US$ 200 million “Central and Eastern Europe investment fund.” This fund will prioritize investments in Lithuania and focus on industries that are of strategic interest to both Taiwan and Lithuania. The opening of the Taiwan and Lithuania Center for Semiconductors and Materials Science is foreseen to be an important milestone in bilateral industrial cooperation, in which the jointly developed solid-state thin disc laser technology is anticipated for application in precision machinery, metal processing, and semiconductor industries in both Taiwan and Lithuania in the near future.
The Center of Crystal Research at NSYSU has already collaborated with the Baltic countries for seven years. In March 2020, Taiwan and the Baltic States Research Center on Physics was established in Latvia, with participation from Lithuanian scientists.
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