POET Technologies Inc (PTK)

[LordChappy]

Guess most post on the Nasdaq side, but what competitors does POET expect to have in the near future?

Any customers currently or in near future?

What are we looking at in terms of speculation?

[EuGray001]

How so?

[JIgnacio732]

You're not serious??

[Cuppy]

It also ignores a lot of serious issues and potential problems.


Such as?

[buccaneer1961]

I recently contacted IBK Capital and told them that their 'Technology' page was out of date & today I was notified that they changed the webpage, where OPL used to be, so no reference to the solar division anymore! www.ibkcapital.com/technology/overview/ For those who are new to the stock, IBK Capital has funded the company with close to $40 Million since inception!

[buccaneer1961]

POET Trade Information:

CUSIP: 73044W104
ISIN: CA73044W1041

Other (Broker) websites depict POET Technologies Inc. as:
PTK.V, V.PTK, PTK.C, C.PTK, CN.PTK, PTK.CN, CA.PTK, PTK.CA, PTK.VN, VN.PTK, CVE.PTK ...

Toronto Stock Exchange: (Trades as "PTK" on the TSX.V):
http://web.tmxmoney.com/quote.php?qm_symbol=PTK

OTC International: (Trades as "POETF" on the OTCQX)
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/POETF/company-info

Börse Frankfurt: (Trades as RI4.F, WKN "A1W3GM" on XETRA):
http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/en/equities/OPEL+technologies+inc+ag+CA6834881006

Börse Stuttgart: (Trades as RI4.SG, WKN "A1W3GM" on SWB)
https://www.boerse-stuttgart.de/rd/en/aktien/factsheet?ID_NOTATION=27976398

Börse Dösseldorf: (Trades as RI4.DU, WKN "A1W3GM" on DUS)
http://www.boerse-duesseldorf.de/aktien/wkn/A1W3GM

Börse Berlin: (Trades as RI4.BE, WKN "A1W3GM" on Xontro)
http://www.boerse-berlin.com/index.php/Shares?isin=CA73044W1041

Börse München: (Trades as RI4.MU, WKN "A1W3GM" on MUN)
http://www.boerse-muenchen.de/fuer-anleger/kurse-und-maerkte/aktien/kurs-wertpapierdetails/uebersicht/isin/CA73044W1041/name/POET_TECHS_INC..html

Alpha Stock Exchange: (Trades as "PTK" on Alpha)
http://www.alphatradingsystems.ca/special-security/english?symbol=PTK

Although Alpha has stopped providing info on companies to the general public.
This counts for all companies, albeit one can view Alpha trade totals on Stockwatch etc.

Trade data:

Total trading volume TSX Venture Exchange:
http://web.tmxmoney.com/quote.php?qm_symbol=PTK

Time and Sales for "V.PTK":
http://quotes.freerealtime.com/dl/frt/M?IM=quotes&type=Time%26Sales&SA=quotes&symbol=V.PTK&qm_page=46637

Historical Data for POET Technologies Inc. "V.PTK":
http://www.stockhouse.com/companies/history/v.ptk/poet-technologies-inc

Realtime quotes "POETF" on OTCQX:
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/POETF/quote

Time and Sales for Poet Technologies Inc. Common "POETF":
http://quotes.freerealtime.com/dl/frt/M?IM=quotes&type=Time%26Sales&SA=quotes&symbol=POETF&qm_page=63526

Historical Data for Poet Technologies Inc. Common "POETF":
http://www.stockhouse.com/companies/history/poetf/opel-technologies-inc-common

Short Sales "PTK" & "POETF":
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/POETF/short-sales

"PTK" on Barcharts:
http://www.barchart.com/opinions/stocks/PTK.VN

"POETF" on Barcharts:
http://www.barchart.com/opinions/stocks/POETF

Daily Chart "PTK":
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=PTK.V&p=D&b=5&g=0&id=p95713176990

Weekly Chart "PTK":
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=PTK.V&p=W&yr=1&mn=0&dy=0&id=p98293165943

Daily Chart "POETF":
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=POETF&p=D&b=5&g=0&id=p58000482088

Weekly Chart "POETF":
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=POETF&p=W&b=5&g=0&id=p08428721682

Share Structure:

Authorized Shares: Unlimited (No misuse, check the past)
Shares Outstanding, Aug 13, 2013: 132,636,115
Warrants Outstanding, Aug 13, 2013: 42,478,569
Options Outstanding, Aug 13, 2013: 22,267,750
Free Trading Float, Aug 13, 2013: 124,805,100

__Date___Current_O/S_____Change___Share Price_
29-Nov:.....117,151,650.........................................0.45.
4-Dec:.......117,257,900..........106,250.................0.59.
18-Dec:.....117,357,900..........100,000.................0.62.
03-Jan:......117,528,615..........170,715.................0.55.
07-Jan:......117,628,615..........100,000.................0.55.
13-Feb:.....117,803,615..........175,000.................0.65.
14-Feb:.....132,203,615....*14,400,000.................0.61.
27-Feb:.....132,243,615............40,000.................0.59.
8-Mar:.......132,374,865..........131,250.................0.58.
14-Mar:.....132,474,865..........100,000.................0.62.
31-Jul:.......132,636,115..........161,250.................0.50.

* = Shares added from the Private Placement of $7.2 Mil.
All the other shares added are from Options & Warrants.
So no direct dilution, the company has enough money...

Canada Insider Trading of latest 6 months:
http://www.canadianinsider.com/node/7?menu_tickersearch=PTK+%7C+POET+Technologies

To see All the Company Insiders, go to: https://www.sedi.ca/
Select Language --> Reports --> Click "Access public filings" --> Click on View Summary Reports --> Select "Insider information by issuer" --> Under "Mandatory criteria:" Select "Issuer Number" & Enter "00003983" Click on "View" to see all the results.

[buccaneer1961]

http://www.poet-technologies.com/category/press-releases/

[buccaneer1961]

POET Technologies Disputes Reports of Insider Selling
August 28th, 2013

Toronto, ON, and Storrs, CT, August 28, 2013 – POET Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: PTK, OTC: POETF) (“the Company disputes the reports by www.canadianinsider.com that insiders of the Company have recently sold 155,000 shares of the Company, the… [Read More]


POET Technologies Moves to Next Phase of Commercialization Plan, Endorses Recommendations of Special Strategic Committee
August 16th, 2013

Toronto, ON, and Storrs, CT, August 16, 2013 – POET Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: PTK, OTC: POETF) (“the Company”) – developer of the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (“POET”) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated electronic and optical… [Read More]


POET Technologies – Incentive Stock Option Grant
August 14th, 2013

Toronto, ON, and Storrs, CT, August 14, 2013 – POET Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: PTK) (OTCQX: POETF) (the “Company”), announces the grant of additional incentive stock options under its stock option plan, to certain directors, officers,… [Read More]


OPEL Technologies Inc.. Changes Name to POET Technologies Inc.
July 23rd, 2013

Toronto, ON, and Storrs, CT, July 23, 2013 – OPEL Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: OPL) (“OPEL” or “the Company”), announces that it has filed Articles of Amendments under the Business Corporation Act (Ontario) dated July 23, 2013, thereby… [Read More]


OPEL Technologies Inc. Achieves Integrated Circuit Milestone via Proprietary POET Platform
June 27th, 2013

Storrs, CT, and Toronto, ON, June 27, 2013 – OPEL Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: OPL, OTC: OPELF) (“OPEL” or “the Company”) announces that it has achieved Milestone 6 in its development roadmap of the proprietary planar optoelectronic… [Read More]


OPEL Technologies Creates Advisory Board to Special Strategic Committee
June 27th, 2013

Toronto, ON, CT June 27, 2013 – OPEL Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: OPL and OTCQX: OPELF) (“OPEL” or “the Company”) today announces appointments to the Special Strategic Committee (SSC) and its Advisory Board. As announced on… [Read More]


OPEL Technologies Announces Results of Annual Meeting
June 21st, 2013

Toronto, ON and Shelton, CT June 21, 2013 – OPEL Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: OPL and OTCQX: OPELF) (“OPEL” or “the Company”) announces that its Annual General & Special Meeting (“AGM”) took place earlier today and that the… [Read More]


OPEL Technologies Inc. Establishes Special Strategic Committee Chaired by Executive Director Peter Copetti
June 10th, 2013

Storrs, CT, and Toronto, ON, June 10, 2013 – OPEL Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: OPL, OTC: OPELF) (“OPEL” or “the Company”) – the developer of the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated… [Read More]


OPEL Technologies Provides Facility and Development Status Update
June 3rd, 2013

Shelton, CT and Toronto, ON, June 3, 2013 – OPEL Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: OPL and OTCQX: OPELF) (“OPEL” or “the Company”) announces that it has made significant progress in rehabilitating OPEL’s research and development facilities located in… [Read More]


OPEL Technologies Mails Proxy Material
May 17th, 2013

Storrs, CT and Toronto, ON, May 17, 2013 – OPEL Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: OPL and OTCQX: OPELF) (“OPEL” or “the Company”) announces that, with respect to the Annual and Special Meeting of shareholders (“AGM”) to be held… [Read More]

[buccaneer1961]

http://adrianbrijbassi.com/2013/07/30/poet-technologies-says-it-has-the-worlds-next-great-microchip/

[buccaneer1961]

yawn...its in the bag and that's all there is to it

[ZincFinger]

POET (Opel Solar/whatever)'s financial statement.

I realize that OTC stocks and ventures do not have the reporting requirements that regular exchanges to. Nevertheless the recent financial report appears to set a new low for information content.

[ZincFinger]

maybe is the operative word! nothing is certain until it's been proven in high-technology. In addition there are serious credibility problems with Opel considering its past history.

on 2 March 2011 Opel stated that "all complements have been validated by third parties" and that they expected to have a fully functioning integrated chip with all complements "within a few months".

That statement was totally false! Only a transistor had been validated at that point and in the 29 months since then Opel (please excuse me! POET - the fourth name in three years! <<RED FLAG!)has been announcing a series of milestones some of which are third-party validations (and some only by Opal/POET) which raises the very obvious question: if Opel had already validated these complements in March 2011 why are they doing them again? There are still 3/9 announced milestones not yet validated/revalidated(?).

then there was the infamous "milestone that was't): POET (then Opel Solar (or was it Opel Technologies?) data PR which was carefully worded to give a very strong impression it was the achievement of a new milestone while never quite stating it explicitly and unambiguously. Many investors contacted POET (then Opel Solar/whatever) and asked for clarification: was it or was it not also? despite many requests from investors including e-mails with long lists of Opel shareholders demanding clarification of refused to state whether it was or was not a milestone. subsequent events revealed that it was not a milestone.

In the light of all the above, some investors feel that little confidence can be placed in POET (Opel Solar/whatever)'s current remaining milestones. perhaps talking about 5.00+ pps as a possibility rather than an inevitability would be far more appropriate. IF, not when.

[buccaneer1961]

DD Report of POET Technologies Inc. (f.k.a OPEL Technologies Inc.)



Business Description:

OPEL Technologies is a semiconductor device and process developer. With its head office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and its operations office in Storrs, Connecticut, the Company through ODIS Inc., a U.S. Company, designs III-V semiconductor devices for military, industrial and commercial applications, including infrared sensor arrays and ultra-low-power random access memory. OPEL Technologies has various patents issued and pending in the semiconductor POET process. The POET process enables the monolithic fabrication of integrated circuits containing both electronic and optical elements, with potential high-speed and power efficient applications in devices such as servers, tablet computers and smartphones.

Dr. Geoff Taylor, the Company’s Chief Scientist, and his team have developed the POET technology over the past 24 years funded in part by development grants provided by the US government and military. Dr. Taylor currently conducts research at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs, CT. The Company has 36 patents issued and 6 patents pending.

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Contact Info:

121 Richmond Street West
Suite 501
Toronto, ONT M5H 2K1
Canada

Website: http://www.opelinc.com
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Financial Reporting/Disclosure:

Reporting Status: International Reporting: TSX Venture Exchange
Audited Financials: Audited
Latest Report: Mar 31, 2013 Interim Financial Report
CIK: 0001437424
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
OTC Market Tier: OTCQX International

Profile Data:

SIC - Industry Classification: 3674 - Semiconductors and related devices
Incorporated In: Canada
Year of Inc: 2007
Employees: 28 a/o Dec 31, 2011

Company Officers/Contacts:

Leon M. Pierhal: CEO
Kevin Barnes: CFO
Blaine Grisel: Controller

Company Directors:

Mark Benadiba: Chairman
John F. O'Donnell
Samuel Peralta
Leon M. Pierhal
(see more info below)

Company Notes:

Formerly=Opel Solar International, Inc. until 9-2011
Formerly=Opel International, Inc. until 12-2010

Service Providers:

Auditor/Accountant:

Auditor, Marcum LLP
750 Third Ave
New York, NY, 10017
212-485-5500
http://www.marcumllp.com
[e-mail]

Legal Counsel:

Pierce Atwood LLP
Legal Counsel, DAD/PAL
Merrill's Wharf
254 Commercial Street
Portland, ME, 04101
207.791.1100
http://www.pierceatwood.com/

Investor & Public Relations Firms:

Grayling USA
The Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, New York 10174

Christopher Chu: Director
Direct: [phone]
Mobile: [phone]
Skype: chrischugrayling
Facebook: Grayling NY
Email: [e-mail]
Twitter: www.twitter.com/GraylingNY

Atomic Public Relations, LLC
http://www.atomicpr.com/#contact

Transfer Agent:

Equity Financial Trust Co
200 University Ave
Suite 400
Toronto, ONT, M5H 4H1

Toll Free: 1.866.393.4891
T: 416.361.0152
F: 416.361.0470
http://equityfinancialtrust.com/corporate-site-map/contact/
Email: [e-mail]

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Stock & Trade Information:

CUSIP: 683488100
ISIN: CA6834881006
WKN: A1JHST, RI4

Torronto Stock Exchange: (Trades as "OPL" on the TSX.V):
http://web.tmxmoney.com/quote.php?qm_symbol=OPL

OTC International: (Trades as "OPELF" on the OTCQX)
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/OPELF/company-info

Frankfurt Stock Exchange: (Trades as "A1JHST" on XETRA):
http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/en/equities/opel+technologies+inc+ag+CA6834881006

Alpha Stock Exchange: (Trades as "OPL" on Alpha)
http://www.alphatradingsystems.ca/special-security/english?symbol=OPL
Alpha has stopped providing info on companies to the general public. (One can view Alpha trade totals on Stockwatch etc)
(other websites depict OPL as: V.OPL, OPL.V, OPELF, CVE:OPL, CN:OPL, OPL:CN, CA:OPL, OPL:CA, OPL.VN, VN.OPL ...)

OPL on Barcharts:
http://www.barchart.com/opinions/stocks/OPL.VN

Short Sales:
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/OPELF/short-sales

Share Structure:

Authorized Shares: Unlimited (No misuse, check the past)
Shares Outstanding, May 21, 2013: 132,474,865
Balance Warrants, Dec 31, 2012: 26,778,569
Balance Options, Dec 31, 2012: 17,602,750
Options Exercisable, Dec 31, 2012: 6,850,500
Free Trading Float, Dec 31, 2012: 88,093,546

Insider Holdings:

Canada Insider Trading of latest 6 months:
http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?ticker=opl

To see All the Company Insiders, go to: https://www.sedi.ca/
Select Language --> Reports --> Click "Access public filings" --> Click on View Summary Reports --> Select "Insider information
by issuer" --> Under "Mandatory criteria:" Select "Issuer Number" & Enter "00003983" Click on "View" to see all the results.

Institutional Ownership (- 10%):
Pinetree Capital Ltd: 10,547,500

Company Reports & Disclosure Information:

Company Financial Reports & Disclosure on OTCQX:
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/OPELF/filings

Company News & Disclosure on SEDAR (Canadian SEC equivalent):
http://www.sedar.com/DisplayCompanyDocuments.do?lang=EN&issuerNo=00003983

Company News & Disclosure on TSX Venture:
http://infoventure.tsx.com/TSXVenture/TSXVentureHttpController?GetPage=CompanyDocuments&PO_ID=1074440&HC_FLAG2=Y&NewsReleases=on&BulletinsMode=on

Investment Industry Regulatory Organization (Canadian FINRA equivalent):
http://www.iiroc.ca/Pages/default.aspx

OPL Info SoS Delaware (Use Entity Search & enter "ODIS" or "OPEL"):
https://delecorp.delaware.gov/tin/GINameSearch.jsp

OPELF on DTCC:
http://search2.dtcc.com/?q=OPEL+Technologies+Inc.&x=13&y=12&sp_p=all&sp_f=ISO-8859-1

OPELF on OTCBB:
http://www.otcbb.com/asp/dailylist_search.asp?SearchSymbolForm=TRUE&OTCBB=ALL&searchby=symbol&searchfor=OPELF&searchwith=Starting&image1.x=-266&image1.y=-461

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Company Info & News Releases:

News Releases & Archived Events:
http://www.opelinc.com/news/

Corporate Presentation 2nd Q 2013 (read in conjunction with June 27, 2013 PR):
http://www.odisinc.com/documents/OPEL%20Corp%20Presentation%202013%20v13-4.pdf

June 27, 2013 PR, OPEL Technologies Inc. Achieves Integrated Circuit Milestone via Proprietary POET Platform:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/opel-technologies-inc-achieves-integrated-circuit-milestone-via-proprietary-poet-platform-1806744.htm

ODIS, Inc. & POET Business Overview:
http://www.odisinc.com/documents/ODIS.pdf

Optical Interconnection of High Speed Circuits:
http://www.odisinc.com/documents/WhitePaper28Mar11_Si_Photonics_vs_POET.pdf

ODIS Intellectual Property Appraisal Report (Redacted):
http://opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Redacted-ODIS-Intellectual-Property-Appraisal-Report.pdf

How to sell Silicon Valley on the death of silicon:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/the-challenge/how-to-sell-silicon-valley-on-the-death-of-silicon/article13093729/

The end of Moore’s law: Q&A with POET technologies’ Peter Copetti:
http://memeburn.com/2013/07/the-end-of-moores-law-qa-with-poet-technologies-peter-copetti/

OPEL Technologies Creates Advisory Board to Special Strategic Committee:
http://www.opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NR-27June2013-SSC-Advisory-Board-final.pdf

OPEL Technologies Announces Results of Annual Meeting 2013:
http://www.opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NR-21June2013-AGM-Results.pdf

OPEL Technologies Provides Facility and Development Status Update:
http://www.opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NR-3June2013-FacilityDev-Update.pdf

Breaking Moore's Law: How chipmakers are pushing PCs to blistering new levels (OPL is featured halfway through the article:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033671/breaking-moores-law-how-chipmakers-are-pushing-pcs-to-blistering-new-levels.html

Proven growth markets for Clean Technology companies:
http://www.tmx.com/en/pdf/Cleantech_Sector_Sheet.pdf

OPEL Technologies Inc on the TSX Venture 50 list of promising companies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSX_Venture_50

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SBIR Awards: NASA, Department of Defense: US Air Force, US Navy, Missile Defense Agency:



Links on the NASA website to SBIR's:
http://sbir.nasa.gov/sbirweb/search.jsp?q=ODIS&image.x=0&image.y=0&image=Search&site=Website&client=sbir_frontend&proxystylesheet=sbir_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&fromSearch=Y

NASA SBIR (2010) Solicitation: Optoelectronic Infrastructure for RF/Optical Phased Arrays:
http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase2/SBIR-10-2-O1.01-9727.html?solicitationId=SBIR_10_P2

NASA SBIR: Optoelectronic Infrastructure for RF/Optical Phased Arrays. (TRL end of contract 5):
http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase2/SBIR-10-2-O1.01-9727.html?solicitationId=SBIR_10_P2

NASA SBIR: Optoelectronic Infrastructure for RF/Optical Phased Arrays. (TRL end of contract 7):
http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase2/SBIR-10-2-O1.01-9727.html?solicitationId=SBIR_10_P2

NASA SBIR Optoelectronic Infrastructure for RF/Optical Phased Arrays (Award details Phase 1):
http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase2/SBIR-10-2-O1.01-9727.html

NASA SBIR Optoelectronic Infrastructure for RF/Optical Phased Arrays (Award details Phase 2):
http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase1/SBIR-10-1-O1.01-9727.html

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Department of Defense: SBIR Research Centre:
http://www.dodsbir.net/selections/

List of SBIR Awards for the Department of Defense for ODIS:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/254696

These are the SBIR's & STTR's that OPEL received before they were a publicly traded company:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/256466

Department of Defense, US Navy SBIR (2010) Phase 1: Integrated Optoelectronics for Optical CDMA:
http://www.navysbir.com/10_2/244.htm

Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency SBIR (2008) Phase 1: Photonic control technology for Phased Arrays:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/254701

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List of SBIR's for the Department of Defense, US Air Force:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/TechSearch/Default.aspx?kwa=odis

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR (2008) Phase 1: An Optically Switched Thyristor as a Thz pulse Source:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/254699

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR (2009) Phase 1: Thyristor-HFET logic based on optical signal transfer:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/254705

USAF (2009) Complete P1 Invited P2: Integrated wide-bandgap semiconductor photoconductive switch with a terahertz antenna:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/award/AwardDetails.aspx?pk=15165

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR (2009) Phase 2 Final: High Frequency Optoelectronic Oscillator:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/Include/Report/SummaryReport.aspx?pk=91340E9D-38E3-4A8D-A73C-5BFE4EBD509C&type=TechMall

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR (2009): High Bandwidth Optoelectronic Data Interfaces for Satellites:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/Include/Report/SummaryReport.aspx?pk=EFB9CC2D-06D2-4655-B11F-18F5A1B356B4&type=TechMall

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR 2009 Phase 1: Optoelectronic directional couplers for optical switching fabrics:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/Include/Report/SummaryReport.aspx?pk=54FE8547-B006-4A9D-B15E-7349BC5942F6&type=TechMall

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR 2010 Phase 2: Optoelectronic Directional Couplers for Optical Switching Fabrics:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/Include/Report/SummaryReport.aspx?pk=57CD1CEF-D3A8-4713-B2A3-52F5617BE3B5&type=TechMall

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR 2010 Phase 2: Monolithic InfraRed pixel structures enabled by Thyristor-HFET EO logic:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/8151

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR (2010) Phase 1: An Optoelectronic Ultra Low Power RAM:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/Include/Report/SummaryReport.aspx?pk=B87DCBB3-6910-4774-AE41-3EF24F72D4EC&type=TechMall

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Technology Readiness Levels Demystified:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/trl_demystified.html

ODIS was one of only 10 companies selected for the CPP in 2008:
http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/docs/FY08-SBIR-Commercialization-Pilot-Program-Report-to-Congress.pdf

US Department of Defense, Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) & Commercialization Pilot Program (CCP):
http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/docs/FY08-SBIR-Commercialization-Pilot-Program-Report-to-Congress.pdf

Government Contracts Awarded to OPEL:
http://www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/opel_inc_005862623.asp?yr=10

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Audio clips of POET Presentation in Toronto with Management Executives:

POET Presentation Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1n6DX1wQB4

POET Presentation Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9yj3u5Nig

POET Presentation Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv249NrEtkY

Audio clips of the tour at the Ucoon labs of last years AGM (quality not so good):

UCONN Lab Tour POET Ion Implantation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt5g9bxypMM

UCONN Lab Tour wave guide station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pOEx67PvQ

UCONN Lab Tour IR Detector being developed by BAE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMANBeXx9xA

UCONN Lab tour POET test station Silicon versus POET:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYDMN0NLEs

UCONN Lab Tour POET test station advantages of POET:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbbpX7s4pN0

UCONN Lab Tour test station complimentary logic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8fArGKOcI

Team OPEL, Executive Team Members:

Leon M. Pierhal - President and CEO:



Mr. Pierhal has over forty years of management experience in Semi-Conductor, Telecommunications and Computing Technology development companies such as Amdahl Corporation, Intel Corporation, Masstor Systems Corporation, and Jupiter Technology. As a senior management executive with broad international experience, Mr. Pierhal has had direct responsibility for P&L, sales and marketing, and corporate development for several major companies requiring strategic expertise. He has experience with capitalizing and launching technology startups, mergers and acquisitions of technology companies, as well as turning around emerging companies by developing new sales divisions, channels and strategic partners. Mr. Pierhal has assisted a significant number of companies with capital formation and re-capitalization from private and public sources. He contributed exceptional strategic and tactical vision, strong team development and leadership skills. In addition, Mr. Pierhal has impressive experience in the area of technology startup company development and serves as an Outside Board Member to several such firms as well. Mr. Pierhal also remains as the President of ODIS, Inc.

Kevin Barnes - Treasurer & Chief Financial Officer:



Mr. Barnes has been serving as Controller since 2007 and has been actively involved in the Financial Statements and Management’s Discussion & Analysis preparation since then. Mr. Barnes is a member of the Institute of the Certified Management Accountants of Australia and an Accredited Chartered Secretary. Mr. Barnes currently serves as a Corporate Controller and Business Performance Manager for one of the world’s largest language training institutes. Prior to this, he was a reporting manager with Duguay and Ringler Corporate Services, a Company specializing in financial reporting for publicly traded Companies.

Lee Shepherd - Vice President, Technology:



Mr. Shepherd has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Physics from Carleton University. He has 27 years of experience in business, technical, and military leadership roles. He has spent the last 18 years in the Telecommunications/Information Technology industry serving in technical, management, architecture, and entrepreneurial roles of ever-increasing scope and responsibility. He is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IT Millwrights Corporation; previously Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Neterion, and Designer, Team Leader & Architect with Bell-Northern Research and Nortel. For more information: http://www.opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Lee-ShepherdResume.10.28.12.pdf

Team OPEL, Board of Directors:

Mark Benadiba - Executive Chairman:

Mark Benadiba currently serves on the board of directors of Cott Corp. (NYSE: COT) (TSX: BCB). Mark Benadiba was involved in helping Cott Corp. shift its strategy to refocus on its core business activities in late 2008. He has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, strategic alliances and negotiating licensing agreements.

Peter Copetti - Executive Director:

Peter Copetti has over 25 years of capital markets and management experience in key leadership roles. He has been the chief architect and strategist of the transformation at OPEL Technologies, since joining the company in June 2012. Mr. Copetti was personally responsible for the restructuring of both secured and unsecured debt, negotiated new equity infusion into the company, and re-focused the company on its original technical vision of monolithic optoelectronic integration, leading to OPEL's resurgence as a leading platform innovator in the semiconductor industry.

Dr. Samuel Peralta - Director:

Samuel Peralta has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wales; with business certificates from Rotman School of Management and the Schulich School of Business. He brings technical continuity to OPEL's board, with industry-recognized expertise in communications, inspection and robotics, in mobile software and hardware, and business transformation. Dr. Peralta is also currently business director for Kinectrics Inc. and sits on the board of directors of Windrift Bay Limited.

John F. O'Donnell - Director:

Mr. O’Donnell earned a BA (Economics) and a LLB and has practiced law in the City of Toronto since 1973. He is currently counsel to Stikeman Keeley Spiegel Pasternack LLP. His practice is primarily in the field of corporate and securities law and, as such, he is and has been counsel to several publicly traded companies. Mr. O’Donnell is currently also a director of RX Gold & Silver Inc. and Nerium Biotechnology Inc.

Chris Tsiofas - Director:

Mr. Tsiofas earned a Bachelor’s of Commerce Degree from the University of Toronto in 1991 and has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario since 1993. He is a partner with the Toronto Chartered Accountancy firm of Myers Tsiofas Norheim LLP. Mr. Tsiofas has also been involved as an operating partner in various private enterprises over the years and is able to offer managerial and operational insight.

Dr. Adam Chowaniec - Director:

He was previously the founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of Tundra Semiconductor (acquired by Integrated Device Technology), Chairman of Zarlink (acquired by Microsemi), and Chairman of Bel Air Networks (acquired by Ericsson). Previously, he was President and CEO of Calmos Systems, acquired by Newbridge Networks and renamed Newbridge Microsystems, where he served as President and as a Vice President of Newbridge Networks. He has also served on the boards of SiberCore Technologies, Liquid Computing, Microbridge, GEAC and Amiga. He currently serves on the boards of Solantro Semiconductor. Dr. Chowaniec holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University, as well as both a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield. In 2010, he was recognized by the California Computer Museum as one of the founding fathers of the personal computer.

Dr. Geoff Taylor - Director:

He is Chief Scientist at OPEL and has led development of the Planar Optoelectronic Technology (POET) platform over the past two decades, directing a focused team at the ODIS subsidiary of OPEL. Dr. Taylor possesses an extraordinary technical background made-up of 30 years of design and development experience in electronic and optical device physics, circuit design, opto-electronic technology, materials and applications. He is concurrently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Photonics at the University of Connecticut and is responsible for ODIS’ development efforts at the gallium arsenide (GaAs) growth and fabrication facility. With over 150 papers in the world’s most respected journals, and dozens of patents, Dr. Taylor is widely regarded as the world's leading authority on GaAs solid-state physics, III-V opto-technology, as well as the pioneer in the development of monolithic integrated opto-electronic circuits.

Previously, Dr. Taylor served as a Distinguished Member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs, developing inversion channel technology for III-V materials. At Honeywell and Texas Instruments he helped to develop critical optical technology for the Jupiter Orbital Probe as well as the development of key circuits and devices for very-large-scale-integrated (VLSI) chips. Dr. Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and an M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University.

Profile of Professor Geoffrey W. Taylor:



Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering:
http://www.ee.uconn.edu/faculty.php?f_id=18

Office: ITE Building 459
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Education:
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Queens University, Kingston, Ont., 1966
M.A.Sc., Electrical Enginering, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., 1968
Ph.D., Electrical Enginering, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., 1972

Research Interests:
Background in the areas of materials, devices and circuits for microelectronics. Early work in material defects, MOS device modeling, and circuit performance of Si based VLSI technology. Interests in the device limitations, the circuit configurations and the systems problems associated with VLSI. Translation of Si inversion channel device concepts to III-V systems for optoelectronics. Development of FET and bipolar devices in heterostructure systems. Research on optoelectronic devices includes detectors, lasers, amplifiers, modulators and passive optical devices. Current interest is in the implementation of optoelectronic integrated circuits ?IC? that combines the functions of optical and electronic devices in a single chip, infrared imaging and THz detection. Applications are circuits and subsystems for optical interconnect, optical computing, optical signal processors, and RF analog photonic systems such as phased array radars and wireless communication systems. Particular emphasis on the development of optoelectronic switches for new circuit functions such as high speed AD and DA, VCO, PLL and logic blocks. Targeted applications are DWDM systems for metro access, photonic switching systems for packet switching and optoelectronic interfaces for high speed memories, processors and networks.

Modeling of laser diodes, Vertical Cavity Lasers, intersubband absorption, photoluminecence. ultra high speed electronic devices, rare earth doped lasers, THz device physics.

Memberships:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS)
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Publications:
Archival Technical Journal Publications:

"A Thyristor-Based Photoreceiver Based on the Dual-Channel Double-Heterostructure Optoelectronic Switch"
(with H. Opper), IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 40, pp. 1074-1086, 2004.

"Characterization of the Switching Parameters in the Dual-Channel Double Heterostructure Optoelectronic Switch"
(with H. Opper, J. Cai, R. B. Garber and R. Basilica), IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices, Vol. 51, pp. 1091-1094, 2004.

"Derivation of the Switch-On Parameters in the Dual Channel Double Heterostructure Optoelectronic Switch"
(with H. Opper, J. Cai, R. B. Garber and R. Basilica), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 96, pp. 7612-7624, 2004.

"Correlation of Theory with Experimental SOA's"
(with W. Zheng), IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. , No. , pp. , May, 2005.

"Microwave Magnetic Properties of Co50/(SiO2)50 Nanoparticles"
(with M. Wu, Y.D. Zhang, S. Hui, T.D. Xiao, S. Ge and J.I. Budnick), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 80. No. 23, pp. 4404-4406.

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Patents awarded to Geoff W Taylor, OPEL & Uconn:

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22Geoff+W.+Taylor%22#hl=en&tbm=pts&sclient=psy-ab&q=ininventor:%22Geoff+W.+Taylor%22&oq=ininventor:%22Geoff+W.+Taylor%22&gs_l=serp.12...0.0.0.72735.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..19.psy-ab.8Mf5yfT-Wzs&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=d5d4cafb6e690c15&biw=1236&bih=590

Patents awarded to OPEL, Inc:
https://www.google.com/search?sa=N&hl=en&biw=1236&bih=590&tbm=pts&tbm=pts&q=inassignee:%22Opel,+Inc.%22

List of Patents for OPEL/ODIS & Dr. Taylor & Uconn:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=74245127

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What is so interesting about POET Technologies Inc?!

- OPEL Technologies (TSXV: OPL) Completes $7.2 Million Private Placement:
http://www.investmentpitch.com/video/0_hlkf4i5m/OPEL-Technologies-TSXV-OPL-Completes-72-Million-Private-Placement
POET Technologies Inc. closed an oversubscribed equity financing of $7.2 million in February 2013. This gives the company enough cash to continue to achieve technology milestones, as well as execute an aggressive public relations campaign in the months ahead.

- Over the past year, POET Technologies Inc. has strengthened its board of directors and has added technical expertise to the management team in order to maximize the value achieved by the monetization process.

- As part of a restructuring effort initiated in the summer of 2012, the company recently divested its solar business. The solar business had become unprofitable due to unfavourable solar industry conditions. The company’s resources are now completely focused toward developing and monetizing POET.

- An optoelectronic device using POET technology can potentially achieve estimated cost savings back to the manufacturer of 80% compared to the compound silicon devices that are widely used today. These cost savings alone could represent billions of dollars of market value to a company who acquires and implements the technology.

- POET Technologies Inc. announced in December 2012 the successful completion of its most important technological milestone to date: "Continuous Wave Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Demonstration”. This milestone was a significant achievement in that all components are in place for on-chip integration of photonic circuits in the same semiconductor framework as electronic circuits. This is a key milestone in the acceleration of POET for commercial application.

- In March of 2013, POET Technologies announced radio frequency and microwave test results for complementary transistors fabricated using the POET process at BAE Systems’ lab in Nashua, New Hampshire. This milestone is the latest update on the POET development work being done in partnership with BAE Systems Electronic Solutions. BAE entered into a contract with ODIS Inc. (a U.S.subsidiary) in 2008 with the intent of replicating specific POET devices in a third-party environment at BAE Systems Reed Microelectronics Center. The validation work being done by BAE is a strong endorsement of the viability of POET as a commercially scalable technology.

- Research by McKinsey in 2011 indicates that, of the leading integrated device manufacturers, only Intel and Samsung have the resources to invest in manufacturing chips smaller than 22nm in the current silicon semiconductor world.

- According to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), the global semiconductor market is expected to grow 4.5% during 2013 to $303 billion and 5.2% during 2014 to $319 billion.

- OPEL’s POET technology is applicable to a large portion of the total semiconductor market as it is possibly the most comprehensive solution yet to increasing semiconductor performance in an economic and functional manner. In the near term, POET could potentially address the following markets: (Source: Gartner, PWC)
* Optical semiconductor – $37.4 billion 2015 Forecast
* Sensors and actuators – $14.1 billion 2015 Forecast
* Analogue ICs – $55.9 billion 2015 Forecast
* Discrete semiconductor – $28.6 billion 2015 Forecast

- On June 27, 2013 another Milestone was reached, ahead of schedule!



POET OVERVIEW:

OPEL's new and patented semiconductor fabrication process, POET (Planar Optoelectronic Technology), is based on a unique Group III-V materials structure. The POET materials structure is a four-layer, PNPN, electrical structure having two sets of independent quantum wells, and is specifically designed to support both active optical elements (laser, photoreceiver), and high-speed complementary HEMT and HBT transistors. This materials structure is realized as an epitaxy grown on a semi-insulating GaAs wafer. The processing of these wafers into products is done using a series of steps similar to those used in silicon processing, and is scalable to deep submicron feature sizes. POET device yield will thus be similar to that of silicon, much higher than that characteristic of many current III-V processes. This gives OPEL a technology basis that is uniquely powerful, that is economical to produce, and that is extensible in generations. Capitalizing on POET capabilities, OPEL will offer products into the communications, optoelectronic, RF/wireless, sensor, and imaging markets.

POET is a uniquely-powerful mixed-signal process, integrating high-performance analog and digital electronics with high-performance active optical elements. OPEL ICs integrate a dense mix of active optical elements and optical waveguides together with logic and mixed-signal elements on a single chip, thus manufactured in one serial process. The key elements integrated in the process, all simultaneously available for design, are: The Optical Thyristor (OT), Complementary HEMT and HBT devices, and Di-electric-Isolation.

Optical Thyristor:

The Optical Thyristor is a multiple-use device, and is the backbone of POET. The OT is a four-terminal device having both optical and electrical inputs and optical and electrical outputs. Depending on application and design, an OT can be a laser, optical amplifier, or photoreceiver, or may execute various electrical operations. An additional aspect of the POET OT is a process step that allows for emission and reception of light in-plane, parallel to the chip surface. Lasers and photoreceivers may either be designed with vertical emission, or use this step to have in-plane emission. This step allows on-chip optical interconnections, and also supports a low-cost multiple-fiber attachment system that OPEL has designed.

Various modifications of the basic POET epitaxial structure will support emission or reception at wavelengths of 980, 1310, or 1550 nm. OPEL's innovative structure and fabrication also provides detection and emission from the 3 to 20 m m band via the unique attributes of its quantum well structure.

OT Lasers:

POET lasers are of a third-generation fabrication using an implant confinement technique and have improved efficiency and reliability over the proton-confined and oxide-confined devices currently available. Either vertical emission, or in-plane emission may be employed, depending on design needs. When the in-plane feature is employed, vertical cavity lasers are formed in stripe geometries, and have end emission. Such vertical cavity traveling wave lasers have ratios of peripheral length to active area much higher than conventional circular VCSELs, dissipating power more readily, and resulting in higher reliability components of longer life. All POET lasers can be driven by a logic voltage signal, further lowering power requirements and increasing efficiency. Wall plug efficiency will exceed 50%.

OT Photoreceivers:

As photoreceivers, OTs have high sensitivity, are self-contained, and do not require TIAs (TransImpedance Amplifiers) to produce usable outputs. Incident light of adequate intensity will produce a direct electrical logic signal. Analog amplification and thresholding is not required in OPEL OT photoreceivers. All optical OT structures can be made selectively as lasers or photoreceivers, further adding to POET IC flexibility. The in-plane emission feature of POET allows easy connection to on-chip passive waveguides. This waveguide technology features enlarged waveguide apertures to facilitate ease of coupling to single mode fibers with very low device insertion loss. This feature is also key to OPEL's low-cost multiple fiber attachment technology via waveguides. OPEL has devised a packaging technology to match this horizontal I/O coupling, further maintaining the cost-effective approach.

OT Electrical Applications:

The optical thyristor can also act as an electronic device in storage, logic and millimeter-wave oscillator applications. OTs can form single-device static RAM cells, and can be designed for bistable logic uses (flip-flops). An OT with an optical cavity forms a uniquely low-noise voltage controlled oscillator. OTs acting as comparators are the heart of our ultra high speed A/D converter designs.

POET Transistors:

POET transistors suit a wide range of high-performance needs. Electronic designs can be performed using an arbitrary mix of complementary Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBT), or unique complementary High Electron Mobility Transistors (CHEMT).

Complementary HEMT Transistors:

The POET process offers both p-channel and n-channel HEMT devices with complementary threshold voltages. These devices are usable in both low-noise RF applications and in very high-speed low power logic. Complementary HEMT logic has a speed-power ratio similar to that of silicon CMOS, owing to the higher mobility of the HEMT structure, and can form very low power logic running at speeds to over 100 GHz. This allows the integration of dense logic circuitry with low power, high speed, and small size. This allows any mix of analog circuits and logic circuits to be included in an IC, design, when such integration can improve system performance.

Complementary HBT Transistors:

Complementary HBT devices operate in various analog and RF applications into the Terahertz range.

Dielectric Isolation:

One of the POET design elements supporting effective optoelectronic integration is its high-quality dielectric isolation. DI "islands" are formed by deep trench etch through the entire epitaxial structure into the substrate. Under each active "island" is a layer of oxide produced in the process step in which the lower mirrors are formed. The electrical coupling path between such dielectric "islands" is through the oxide of one region, through a semi-insulating substrate, then through the oxide of another island. This DI produces a much higher isolation than the reverse-junction and deep trench isolations of silicon, and is essentially a free product of the POET process.

This high-quality isolation is a principal factor in our being able to produce mixed -signal designs such as optoelectronic transceivers. Without this isolation, a typical implementation problem is a resulting crosstalk between the more sensitive receive section and the higher-powered transmit section. POET DI greatly reduces such a problem and allows OPEL to produce such integrated designs.

POET-Based IC designs:

OPEL integrated circuits contain combinations of optical and electronic devices designed to meet specific application, and are manufactured in the POET process. Designs are all fabricated using the same POET process, then tested, optically and electrically, as one single manufactured unit, minimizing cost. All of the elements of OT lasers, OT photoreceivers, OT logic circuits, optical interconnect, HBT transistors, HEMT transistors and dielectric isolation are useable in any number and combination, as the design requires, just as in any other semiconductor process.

This makes POET far and away the most powerful, versatile optoelectronic mixed signal process in existence.



- The Company is seeking to monetize the revolutionary POET platform.
(In Part 3 of the POET Presentation they expect to see +- $1 Billion $$ & this would equate to +- $6.6/share. Liquidation event!)

[buccaneer1961]

looking forward to the road to 5.00+ pps! so many things coming here

[ZincFinger]

How many companies can you name that have changed their name THREE TIMES in less than three years? The name change from Opel Solar to Opel Technologies was to get away from the Solar connection. POET was then their only area under development. If they thought a change to POET Technology was necessary why did they not do it then? The only explanation I can see is that burying something under two name changes is even more effective than burying it under one. (Opel did a lot of things prior to the chance to Opel Technologies that damaged it's credibility. It's done similar things since. (The "milestone that wasn't", etc).

Just how many rounds of burying the past with a name change does it take before one has to acknowledge that the pattern is a problem? Four? Five? A dozen?

Many people think that three is excessive (and two is excessive for ONE product change!

NOTE: there is nothing whatsoever in this post that is not directly relevant to Opel Technologies (now POET Technologies and formerly Opel Solar and before that a couple of other names as well)

[ZincFinger]

You ignoring the main point: Opel's flagrantly false statement that "all components have been validated by third parties and we will have a fully integrated chip within a few months"

(ONLY a transistor had been validated).

That false statement by Opel gave the incorrect impression that one of the ASSUMPTIONS in the Pellingrino report had already been met.

At that time (2 March 2011)no one had any way of knowing that this critical statement by Opel management was completely false.

What is especially revealing here is that none of the accomplished milestones since then would have been necessary had that statement been true! So your observation about the subsequent milestones being accomplished is totally irrelevant.

The fact that SOME, but by no means all, of the accomplishments falsely claimed by Opel management to have been done as of 2 March 2011 have been done in the twenty eight months since in no way whatsoever invalidates my basic point that Opel management lied to give a false impression that one of the things ASSUMED in the Pellingrio Report had already been already been accomplished at that time.

[buccaneer1961]

Also StockCharts shows the new symbol PTK.V (old OPL.V) with the historical data included!

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=PTK.V&p=...9770257354

[ZincFinger]

There is considerable room for doubting that trading of US ADRs CURRENTLY HELD may not resume as they should. The change from OPELF to POETF was not a NAME change but a STOCK CODE change.

The stock code changed from OPELF to POETF but the name was still listed as "Opel Technologies" and NOT as "POET Technologies" therefore it appears that the NAME change has not been done yet.

The the problem with the inability to trade OPELF for two months after the last name change was due to the NAME change and not to anything related to the stock code.

NOTE that NEW ADRs will be able to trade in any event so just seeing shares of POETF trading will not demonstrate that the old shares can trade yet! We won't know until there is evidence that US ADRs that were held BEFORE the name change are trading.

[ZincFinger]

Why SOME of us are here is to discuss all relevant issues both pro and con

[ZincFinger]

It also ignores a lot of serious issues and potential problems.

Yes, it is good information. But it is very unbalanced, IMHO and therefore dangerous if not supplemented with other more objective sources.

[buccaneer1961]

OPEL Technologies Inc. Changes Name to POET Technologies Inc.



OPEL Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OPL) (OTCQX:OPELF) ("OPEL" or "the Company"), announces that it has filed Articles of Amendments under the Business Corporation Act (Ontario) dated July 23, 2013, thereby changing its name to POET Technologies Inc. There is no consolidation of capital and no exchange of shares is required.

Trading under new name - It is anticipated that trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the new name will commence on July 25, 2013, subject to confirmation by TSX Venture Exchange bulletin. The Stock Symbol "OPL" will change to "PTK" and the CUSIP and ISIN numbers have been changed to 73044W104 and CA 73044W1041 respectively. The Stock Symbol for trading in the U.S. on the OTCQX has changed from "OPELF" to "POETF".

Purpose - The purpose of the name change is to better reflect the Company's business and highlight the POET platform. "The name change to POET Technologies exemplifies the scope of the Company's current focus and is consistent with Management's efforts to monetize the POET technology and provide added value for shareholders," said Executive Director, Peter Copetti.

Semiconductor Technology - The POET (Planar Opto Electronic Technology) Platform is a patented semiconductor fabrication process that uses gallium arsenide technology to combine electronic and optical elements on a single integrated circuit, intended to enable semiconductor manufacturers to make microchips that are far faster and more energy efficient than current silicon devices, and far less expensive to produce.

Website - In conjunction with the name change, the Company is redesigning its website and has changed the domain name. The new website at www.poet-technologies.com is expected to go live on Friday, July 26, 2013.

About OPEL Technologies Inc.

OPEL is the developer of the POET platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated circuit devices containing both electronic and optical elements on a single semiconductor wafer. With head office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and operations in Storrs, CT, the Company, through ODIS Inc., a U.S. company, designs III-V semiconductor devices for military, industrial and commercial applications, including infrared sensor arrays and ultra-low-power random access memory. The Company has 32 patents issued and 6 patents pending, primarily for its semiconductor POET process, which enables the monolithic fabrication of integrated circuits containing both electronic and optical elements, with potential high speed and power-efficient applications in devices such as servers, tablet computers and smartphones. OPEL's common shares currently trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "OPL" and on the OTCQX under the symbol "POETF". For more information please visit our website at www.poet-technologies.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Michel Lafrance, Secretary

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Contacts:

Grayling

Christopher Chu

[phone]

[e-mail]

[ZincFinger]

Nobody wanted to BUY OPELF! During the last two weeks virtually no shares of OPELF were traded even though they were offered at a price far below OPL.V. That indicates that it was not an unwillingess to sell, but and unwillingness to BUY that was responsible.

This virtual halt on trading activity on OPELF, where the trading dropped to a very tiny fraction of its usual already small volume and the prices were consistently well below the exchange adjusted Price on OPL.V, occurred following the announcement of Opel's impending name change. IMHO, given that it occurred with OPELF and not OPL.V, it was clearly due to the prior experience of the inability to trade OPELF for over two months following the previous name change. This was exacerbated by Opel management's grossly inadequate response when asked what they were doing to prevent recurrence of this problem with OPELF. Opel management's response was that what they would be careful to avoid submitting the application during trading hours. But that was what was responsible for the trading halt in OPL.V and had nothing whatsoever to do with the inability to trade OPELF. Many people undoubtedly concluded it was therefore highly likely that the same problem will occur with the US ADRs while Canadian shares would probably be able to continue trading without problem.

Given that it is no sprites whatsoever that almost no one wanted to buy any OPELF although clearly many were quite eager to sell it.

conveniently for Opel management, one of the many effects of the name change result is an inability to chart anything that happened to OPELF shares prior to the stock code change to POETF. I suspect that the real underlying motivation for the name change is this and many other associated effects where past history and events become greatly obscured. The market loses a huge amount of data on companies where name change is instituted making this an attractive move for companies that wish to bury their past. And as discussed in previous posts Opal technologies, now poet technologies has a great deal of past to bury.

[buccaneer1961]

Valuation reports are always done on assumptions, everybody knows that.
Many variables to work with, and things do change, thats why there's a disclaimer attached alluding to that fact. But just take a look at the accomplished milestones since then, of which some components have been validated in the 3th party fab aka BAE Systems!

[buccaneer1961]

The company first changed it name to better reflect their solar business, and then they sold their solar division, hence a new name change was appropriate! & now that new management members were added they decided to change it again to POET Technologies Inc. Nothing wrong with reflecting your current business in a new name change, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. On the contrary, it shows that they're not stuck in a tunnel vision like others.


LMAO @ "a huge red flag" LOL

[buccaneer1961]

WARNING to potential buyers of US ADRs who may fall victim to false advice.
Its always better to buy shares directly of the main exchange where the company is domiciled, which is the TSX.V. (Investing 101). But if your broker doesn't allow you can always buy the ADR, which is listed on the OTCQX. The old symbol "OPELF" is already changed into "POETF" & that is a very clear sign that management is trying to prevent the delay of last time. Management already said that their counsel is aware of what happened then and now that POETF is done before the name changes shows they are listening to their shareholders.


Also "(last time the SP went from 70 to 40 while OPELF shareholders were unable to trade.". At the time of the last name change OPL had a solar division, and the whole market tanked right when OPL was in the process of changing its name. The decision to do a name change was done months before, so no one could foresee at that time that months later the solar market would decline the way it did. It was convergence of unforeseen circumstances back then and no reason to create such a fuss. Also OPL.V shareholders witnessed a decline from 0.70 to the 0.40 area while they couldn't sell their shares due to the lock during a name change. But since OPL doesn't have a solar division anymore and knowing that management is clearly taking the right steps a recurrence of those events are very unlikely to happen again! Besides, when the stock went down the smart ones bought more and could swing trade them later on

[buccaneer1961]

ha ha !!! nobody cares to sell those shares ...2 mos is nothing...unless one is a day trading flipper then its their fault...this isn't some scam,never has been,never will be!

[ZincFinger]

WARNING to potential buyers of OPELF (US ADRs AKA "death traps")

OPELF to POETF is a SYMBOL change and NOT the name change!

The ADRs are still not safe until after the NAME change has been processed. If you buy POETF now and the name change is snagged like it was last time, you may be unable to sell those shares for TWO MONTHS while OPL.V and holders of POETF with shares AFTER the name change can trade at will.

If you don't wait til after the name change you may get caught in a death trap. (last time the SP went from 70 to 40 while OPELF bagholders were unable to trade.

[ZincFinger]

What you forgot to mention is that that $1 Billion estimate was from the Pellingrino Report which very explicitly stated that it was based on a number of ASSUMPTIONS, including that it worked (which has yet to be proven)
that it is economic to produce (which does not necessarily follow from 3rd party validation).

RE: "No shady transactions!" Many Opel investors would strongly disagree with that.

For example the time Opel issued a PR carefully worded to give the impression a milestone had been achieved without explicitly saying so. Many investors asked for clarification from Opel: was this, or was it not, a milestone. Opel refused to say. Later it became evident that it was NOT a milestone. I'd call that pretty shady.

[ZincFinger]

There were a huge number of warrants given in that secondary (equal to the number of shares sold. So your claim about "no worries about dilution" is just plain wrong. IF all exercised those warrants would be just as much additional dilution as the shares sold.

Warrants create a resistance to SP increase until they are all exercised.

[ZincFinger]

Note that that will be the THIRD name change in three years!

Some would consider that to be a huge red flag. Many inconvenient things get obscured by name changes.

[ZincFinger]

"10:1 advantage" is totally meaningless without any reference whatsoever to WHAT is in a ratio of 10:1!

[buccaneer1961]

well many investors love it and believe otherwise! thus its why we are here ;)

[ZincFinger]

Please explain just exactly HOW it is "irrelevant now" that on 2 March 2011 Opel stated that "all components have been validated by a third party" and yet since then all these components supposedly already validated are (with the sole exception of the transistor) listed as NEW MILESTONES being validated!

What you are apparently missing is that this is not merely a question of delays, but a very serious issue of credibility!

One has to wonder if obscuring this (and a number of similar incidents (like the "milestone that wasn't") is the real motivation for the name change (the THIRD in three years, which in itself is something of a red flag in most people's eyes). Two would be unusual, but THREE?!

[ZincFinger]

Your links are useless

The first only returns information for the last 6 months and OPL.V's trading halt and OPELF's inability to trade were both long before that.

The second returns only a "404 - File or directory not found."


RE:OPELF not TECHNICALLY being a "trading halt" OK so it was merely an "inability to trade" the difference to an OPELF shareholder was ZERO. Technically it was not a "trading halt" since it was not the Canadian exchange that did it. But the effect was exactly the same: OPELF shareholders (AKA "bagholders as the SP went from 70 to 40 while they were unable to trade) were unable to trade OPELF at all for over two months. Most stockholders would call that a "trading halt" no mater what the cause was, there was a halt in their ability to trade.

That's a trivial and utterly insignificant error in terminology and the meaning was absolutely unambiguous from the accompanying text and there is no possibility whatsoever that anyone drew the wrong conclusion due to that insignificant misapplication of "trading halt". I very explicitly stated that the issue was related to the DTC and their requirements and on one could possibly have misapprehended it to be talking about a problem with the Canadian exchange. The discussion made crystal clear what the exact reason for the inability to trade OPELF.

And that reason was Opel not supplying required information in the original application and then not correcting that error for over two months despite being informed by shareholders from the very beginning of the problem. That was careless slipshod work at the beginning and wanton disregard for OPELF shareholder interest from then on. Several sources (including a broker) stated that Opel NEVER corrected the problem and ultimately OPELF resumed trading only because the brokers took matters into their own hands and used an expensive and complicate manual processing including physical delivery (not thru the mails).
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RE: "The issue was related to the DTC & temporarily being ineligible for trading"
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which is exactly what I said and you could not possibly have missed that (assuming you actually read my post rather than blindly parroting sevenodoubles false claims. I made it explicitly clear that the exact reason for the inability to trade (which a layperson would call a "halt" in trading whether the exchange or the DTC did it) was due to the DTC refusing to process the shares. The end result for OPELF bagholders was exactly the same: their OPELF shares could not be traded.
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RE: "OPELF started trading on the OTCQX on May 16 2012 & the previous name change was in Aug of 2011, that was a different situation to start with, in 2011 there was no American market for those shares."
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Completely irrelevant. OPELF was trading on the American market before it moved to the OTCOX, so that's just a red herring. The volume then was about the same as it is currently. And there is a huge different between low liquidity (which people knew when they bought) and inability to trade at all for two months!

OPL.V shares also had a period of inability to trade for an entirely different reason (it was officially a 'halt') but it only lasted three weeks.

What is interesting about the OPL.V halt is that it was also done for entirely predictable reasons and had Opel bothered to check the rules adequately in advance it could have been readily prevented: all that they had to do, apparently was to submit the application outside of trading hours and the halt would not have occurred (which raises a very serious and disturbing question about the Canadian exchange itself which I'll go into in a later post. TSX.V stocks may have deep inherent problems due to the exchange policies and ADRs are an obvious death trap.)

So Opel made TWO separate errors at the same time, both should have been predictable and easily preventable but for Opel's incorrect procedures and both had the effect of making old shares unable to be traded for a significant period while new ones could be traded with no problem A coincidence which raises the question; DID OPEL DO THIS DELIBERATELY? Was there some advantage it gained by having shares unable to trade for three weeks? Actually there is a very obvious one!

The OLD shares were unable to trade. The NEW shares (under the new name) could trade as usual.

So what Opels "coincidental" double error did was prevent any shareholders holding at the time of the name change from selling while shares could be readily bought. It doesn't take much intelligence to figure out how this benefited Opel by leading to a higher share price. They got away with it with no repercussions at all. What better way to boost the SP than by "locking up" current shares by "mistakes" accompanying the name change?
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RE:Your sources are either badly informed because brokers don't take matters into their own hands, they act upon instructions of the Transfer Agent, FINRA, the DTC etc!
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your assumptions are incorrect and unfounded although inappropriately stated as facts.] I've been told by two separate, unrelated and credible sources that the brokers DID take matters into their own hands (i.e.: circumvent the normal channels thru the DTC) Brokers must keep their customers satisfied. Many like myself were taking their complaints many steps up the corporate ladder. They were not "acting upon the instructions of the ..DTC" as you misrepresent it. In fact they CIRCUMVENTED the regulations of the DTC by using other means!


Note tha(whatever happened to OPL.V trading was totally irrelevant to the discussion The brokers in the end had no option but to do the tranfers thru unconventional means to circumvent the DTC process as a direct result of Opel's refusal to supply the infomration required. KNOWING that this is what happened last time Opel management stated that
1) they have not updated on the rules to ensure that they know CURRENT requirements for data AND stated that they will not do so "until the time comes" (i.e. time of application AND
2) they very clearly stated that if at that time they discover that if information is required that they do not have they will NOT delay the application but will proceed regardless.

It is difficult to see how that could be construed as anything other than wanton disregard with full knowledge of OPELF shareholders' interests.

NOTE: this is a repost for compliance with TOS

The stock code for OPELF changed today to POETF but the name is still listed as "Opel Technologies" And there's been no announcement of a name change so presumably it hasn't been done yet and the stock code change was premature.

[buccaneer1961]

A MUST READ!

- OPL has all their paperwork in order, up-to-date on all reports!

- Cash on hand a/o Mar 31, 2013 of $6,892,718

- Assets a/o Mar 31, 2013 of $8,671,855

- Liabilities a/o Mar 31, 2013 of $1,437,429

- No lawsuits!

- No shady transactions!

- No questionable characters involved!

- No toxic financing!

- Everything is as legit as it gets!

- OPL received an oversubscribed PP of $7.2 mil earlier this year!

- They have been sponsored by many SBIR grants, thats why the OS is relatively low!

- No worries about dilution!

- No RS history!

- Their technology is the brainchild of Dr Taylor for over 20 years, developed at the univ of Connecticut and the time to monetize it is upon us & we're here to benefit from that!

- Involvement of BAE Systems, one the biggest military contractors in the world!

- Involvement of NASA, US Air Force, US Navy, DoD Missile Defense Agency...

- They have 36 Patents, 6 Patents pending!

- OPEL Technologies Creates Advisory Board & Special Strategic Committee to monetize the POET Platform. Check their names: https://www.otciq.com/otciq/ajax/showFinancia...?id=107142

- Later this year a White Paper with the latest data points will be disseminated to all licensed partners, Silicon Valley & +- 50 companies and solicit them to participate in a bidding war of a well orchestrated auction to sell the revolutionary POET Platform.

- If you listen to Part 3 of the audio clips of the Toronto meeting then, as an answer to how much they expect of the sale of POET, they say around $1 Billion $$!

- $1,000,000,000 : 150,000,000 (Fully Diluted shares) = $6.6/share!

- Check the DD, do the math & SPREAD THE WORD!

[buccaneer1961]

Couple of things to consider:

OPL has all their paperwork in order, up-to-date on all reports, no lawsuits, no shady transactions, no questionable characters involved, no toxic financing, everything is as legit as it gets! They have 36 Patents, whereof OPL holds all the rights, they have been sponsored by many SBIR grants, thats why the OS is relatively low & no RS history! OPL received an oversubscribed PP of $7.2 mil earlier this year, so no worries about dilution! Their technology is the brainchild of Dr Taylor for over 20 years, developed at the univ of Connecticut and the time to monetize it is upon us... and we're here to benefit from that

[buccaneer1961]

id be a buffoon to challenge all this great dd!
its solid and honest

[buccaneer1961]

this has so much upside!

[narnia1000]

KUDOS TO sevenOdouble ON THIS DOCUMENT

DD Report of POET Technologies Inc. (f.k.a OPEL Technologies Inc.)



Business Description:

OPEL Technologies is a semiconductor device and process developer. With its head office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and its operations office in Storrs, Connecticut, the Company through ODIS Inc., a U.S. Company, designs III-V semiconductor devices for military, industrial and commercial applications, including infrared sensor arrays and ultra-low-power random access memory. OPEL Technologies has various patents issued and pending in the semiconductor POET process. The POET process enables the monolithic fabrication of integrated circuits containing both electronic and optical elements, with potential high-speed and power efficient applications in devices such as servers, tablet computers and smartphones.

Dr. Geoff Taylor, the Company’s Chief Scientist, and his team have developed the POET technology over the past 24 years funded in part by development grants provided by the US government and military. Dr. Taylor currently conducts research at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs, CT. The Company has 36 patents issued and 6 patents pending.

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Contact Info:

121 Richmond Street West
Suite 501
Toronto, ONT M5H 2K1
Canada

Website: http://www.opelinc.com
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Financial Reporting/Disclosure:

Reporting Status: International Reporting: TSX Venture Exchange
Audited Financials: Audited
Latest Report: Mar 31, 2013 Interim Financial Report
CIK: 0001437424
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
OTC Market Tier: OTCQX International

Profile Data:

SIC - Industry Classification: 3674 - Semiconductors and related devices
Incorporated In: Canada
Year of Inc: 2007
Employees: 28 a/o Dec 31, 2011

Company Officers/Contacts:

Leon M. Pierhal: CEO
Kevin Barnes: CFO
Blaine Grisel: Controller

Company Directors:

Mark Benadiba: Chairman
John F. O'Donnell
Samuel Peralta
Leon M. Pierhal
(see more info below)

Company Notes:

Formerly=Opel Solar International, Inc. until 9-2011
Formerly=Opel International, Inc. until 12-2010

Service Providers:

Auditor/Accountant:

Auditor, Marcum LLP
750 Third Ave
New York, NY, 10017
212-485-5500
http://www.marcumllp.com
[e-mail]

Legal Counsel:

Pierce Atwood LLP
Legal Counsel, DAD/PAL
Merrill's Wharf
254 Commercial Street
Portland, ME, 04101
207.791.1100
http://www.pierceatwood.com/

Investor & Public Relations Firms:

Grayling USA
The Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, New York 10174

Christopher Chu: Director
Direct: [phone]
Mobile: [phone]
Skype: chrischugrayling
Facebook: Grayling NY
Email: [e-mail]
Twitter: www.twitter.com/GraylingNY

Atomic Public Relations, LLC
http://www.atomicpr.com/#contact

Transfer Agent:

Equity Financial Trust Co
200 University Ave
Suite 400
Toronto, ONT, M5H 4H1

Toll Free: 1.866.393.4891
T: 416.361.0152
F: 416.361.0470
http://equityfinancialtrust.com/corporate-site-map/contact/
Email: [e-mail]

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Stock & Trade Information:

CUSIP: 683488100
ISIN: CA6834881006
WKN: A1JHST, RI4

Torronto Stock Exchange: (Trades as "OPL" on the TSX.V):
http://web.tmxmoney.com/quote.php?qm_symbol=OPL

OTC International: (Trades as "OPELF" on the OTCQX)
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/OPELF/company-info

Frankfurt Stock Exchange: (Trades as "A1JHST" on XETRA):
http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/en/equities/opel+technologies+inc+ag+CA6834881006

Alpha Stock Exchange: (Trades as "OPL" on Alpha)
http://www.alphatradingsystems.ca/special-security/english?symbol=OPL
Alpha has stopped providing info on companies to the general public. (One can view Alpha trade totals on Stockwatch etc)
(other websites depict OPL as: V.OPL, OPL.V, OPELF, CVE:OPL, CN:OPL, OPL:CN, CA:OPL, OPL:CA, OPL.VN, VN.OPL ...)

OPL on Barcharts:
http://www.barchart.com/opinions/stocks/OPL.VN

Short Sales:
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/OPELF/short-sales

Share Structure:

Authorized Shares: Unlimited (No misuse, check the past)
Shares Outstanding, May 21, 2013: 132,474,865
Balance Warrants, Dec 31, 2012: 26,778,569
Balance Options, Dec 31, 2012: 17,602,750
Options Exercisable, Dec 31, 2012: 6,850,500
Free Trading Float, Dec 31, 2012: 88,093,546

Insider Holdings:

Canada Insider Trading of latest 6 months:
http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?ticker=opl

To see All the Company Insiders, go to: https://www.sedi.ca/
Select Language --> Reports --> Click "Access public filings" --> Click on View Summary Reports --> Select "Insider information
by issuer" --> Under "Mandatory criteria:" Select "Issuer Number" & Enter "00003983" Click on "View" to see all the results.

Institutional Ownership (- 10%):
Pinetree Capital Ltd: 10,547,500

Company Reports & Disclosure Information:

Company Financial Reports & Disclosure on OTCQX:
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/OPELF/filings

Company News & Disclosure on SEDAR (Canadian SEC equivalent):
http://www.sedar.com/DisplayCompanyDocuments.do?lang=EN&issuerNo=00003983

Company News & Disclosure on TSX Venture:
http://infoventure.tsx.com/TSXVenture/TSXVentureHttpController?GetPage=CompanyDocuments&PO_ID=1074440&HC_FLAG2=Y&NewsReleases=on&BulletinsMode=on

Investment Industry Regulatory Organization (Canadian FINRA equivalent):
http://www.iiroc.ca/Pages/default.aspx

OPL Info SoS Delaware (Use Entity Search & enter "ODIS" or "OPEL"):
https://delecorp.delaware.gov/tin/GINameSearch.jsp

OPELF on DTCC:
http://search2.dtcc.com/?q=OPEL+Technologies+Inc.&x=13&y=12&sp_p=all&sp_f=ISO-8859-1

OPELF on OTCBB:
http://www.otcbb.com/asp/dailylist_search.asp?SearchSymbolForm=TRUE&OTCBB=ALL&searchby=symbol&searchfor=OPELF&searchwith=Starting&image1.x=-266&image1.y=-461

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Company Info & News Releases:

News Releases & Archived Events:
http://www.opelinc.com/news/

Corporate Presentation 2nd Q 2013 (read in conjunction with June 27, 2013 PR):
http://www.odisinc.com/documents/OPEL%20Corp%20Presentation%202013%20v13-4.pdf

June 27, 2013 PR, OPEL Technologies Inc. Achieves Integrated Circuit Milestone via Proprietary POET Platform:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/opel-technologies-inc-achieves-integrated-circuit-milestone-via-proprietary-poet-platform-1806744.htm

ODIS, Inc. & POET Business Overview:
http://www.odisinc.com/documents/ODIS.pdf

Optical Interconnection of High Speed Circuits:
http://www.odisinc.com/documents/WhitePaper28Mar11_Si_Photonics_vs_POET.pdf

ODIS Intellectual Property Appraisal Report (Redacted):
http://opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Redacted-ODIS-Intellectual-Property-Appraisal-Report.pdf

How to sell Silicon Valley on the death of silicon:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/the-challenge/how-to-sell-silicon-valley-on-the-death-of-silicon/article13093729/

The end of Moore’s law: Q&A with POET technologies’ Peter Copetti:
http://memeburn.com/2013/07/the-end-of-moores-law-qa-with-poet-technologies-peter-copetti/

OPEL Technologies Creates Advisory Board to Special Strategic Committee:
http://www.opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NR-27June2013-SSC-Advisory-Board-final.pdf

OPEL Technologies Announces Results of Annual Meeting 2013:
http://www.opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NR-21June2013-AGM-Results.pdf

OPEL Technologies Provides Facility and Development Status Update:
http://www.opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NR-3June2013-FacilityDev-Update.pdf

Breaking Moore's Law: How chipmakers are pushing PCs to blistering new levels (OPL is featured halfway through the article:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033671/breaking-moores-law-how-chipmakers-are-pushing-pcs-to-blistering-new-levels.html

Proven growth markets for Clean Technology companies:
http://www.tmx.com/en/pdf/Cleantech_Sector_Sheet.pdf

OPEL Technologies Inc on the TSX Venture 50 list of promising companies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSX_Venture_50

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SBIR Awards: NASA, Department of Defense: US Air Force, US Navy, Missile Defense Agency:



Links on the NASA website to SBIR's:
http://sbir.nasa.gov/sbirweb/search.jsp?q=ODIS&image.x=0&image.y=0&image=Search&site=Website&client=sbir_frontend&proxystylesheet=sbir_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&fromSearch=Y

NASA SBIR (2010) Solicitation: Optoelectronic Infrastructure for RF/Optical Phased Arrays:
http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase2/SBIR-10-2-O1.01-9727.html?solicitationId=SBIR_10_P2

NASA SBIR: Optoelectronic Infrastructure for RF/Optical Phased Arrays. (TRL end of contract 5):
http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase2/SBIR-10-2-O1.01-9727.html?solicitationId=SBIR_10_P2

NASA SBIR: Optoelectronic Infrastructure for RF/Optical Phased Arrays. (TRL end of contract 7):
http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase2/SBIR-10-2-O1.01-9727.html?solicitationId=SBIR_10_P2

NASA SBIR Optoelectronic Infrastructure for RF/Optical Phased Arrays (Award details Phase 1):
http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase2/SBIR-10-2-O1.01-9727.html

NASA SBIR Optoelectronic Infrastructure for RF/Optical Phased Arrays (Award details Phase 2):
http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase1/SBIR-10-1-O1.01-9727.html

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Department of Defense: SBIR Research Centre:
http://www.dodsbir.net/selections/

List of SBIR Awards for the Department of Defense for ODIS:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/254696

These are the SBIR's & STTR's that OPEL received before they were a publicly traded company:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/256466

Department of Defense, US Navy SBIR (2010) Phase 1: Integrated Optoelectronics for Optical CDMA:
http://www.navysbir.com/10_2/244.htm

Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency SBIR (2008) Phase 1: Photonic control technology for Phased Arrays:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/254701

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List of SBIR's for the Department of Defense, US Air Force:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/TechSearch/Default.aspx?kwa=odis

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR (2008) Phase 1: An Optically Switched Thyristor as a Thz pulse Source:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/254699

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR (2009) Phase 1: Thyristor-HFET logic based on optical signal transfer:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/254705

USAF (2009) Complete P1 Invited P2: Integrated wide-bandgap semiconductor photoconductive switch with a terahertz antenna:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/award/AwardDetails.aspx?pk=15165

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR (2009) Phase 2 Final: High Frequency Optoelectronic Oscillator:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/Include/Report/SummaryReport.aspx?pk=91340E9D-38E3-4A8D-A73C-5BFE4EBD509C&type=TechMall

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR (2009): High Bandwidth Optoelectronic Data Interfaces for Satellites:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/Include/Report/SummaryReport.aspx?pk=EFB9CC2D-06D2-4655-B11F-18F5A1B356B4&type=TechMall

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR 2009 Phase 1: Optoelectronic directional couplers for optical switching fabrics:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/Include/Report/SummaryReport.aspx?pk=54FE8547-B006-4A9D-B15E-7349BC5942F6&type=TechMall

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR 2010 Phase 2: Optoelectronic Directional Couplers for Optical Switching Fabrics:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/Include/Report/SummaryReport.aspx?pk=57CD1CEF-D3A8-4713-B2A3-52F5617BE3B5&type=TechMall

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR 2010 Phase 2: Monolithic InfraRed pixel structures enabled by Thyristor-HFET EO logic:
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/8151

Department of Defense, US Air Force SBIR (2010) Phase 1: An Optoelectronic Ultra Low Power RAM:
http://www.afsbirsttr.com/Include/Report/SummaryReport.aspx?pk=B87DCBB3-6910-4774-AE41-3EF24F72D4EC&type=TechMall

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Technology Readiness Levels Demystified:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/trl_demystified.html

ODIS was one of only 10 companies selected for the CPP in 2008:
http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/docs/FY08-SBIR-Commercialization-Pilot-Program-Report-to-Congress.pdf

US Department of Defense, Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) & Commercialization Pilot Program (CCP):
http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/docs/FY08-SBIR-Commercialization-Pilot-Program-Report-to-Congress.pdf

Government Contracts Awarded to OPEL:
http://www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/opel_inc_005862623.asp?yr=10

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Audio clips of POET Presentation in Toronto with Management Executives:

POET Presentation Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1n6DX1wQB4

POET Presentation Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9yj3u5Nig

POET Presentation Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv249NrEtkY

Audio clips of the tour at the Ucoon labs of last years AGM (quality not so good):

UCONN Lab Tour POET Ion Implantation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt5g9bxypMM

UCONN Lab Tour wave guide station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pOEx67PvQ

UCONN Lab Tour IR Detector being developed by BAE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMANBeXx9xA

UCONN Lab tour POET test station Silicon versus POET:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYDMN0NLEs

UCONN Lab Tour POET test station advantages of POET:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbbpX7s4pN0

UCONN Lab Tour test station complimentary logic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8fArGKOcI

Team OPEL, Executive Team Members:

Leon M. Pierhal - President and CEO:



Mr. Pierhal has over forty years of management experience in Semi-Conductor, Telecommunications and Computing Technology development companies such as Amdahl Corporation, Intel Corporation, Masstor Systems Corporation, and Jupiter Technology. As a senior management executive with broad international experience, Mr. Pierhal has had direct responsibility for P&L, sales and marketing, and corporate development for several major companies requiring strategic expertise. He has experience with capitalizing and launching technology startups, mergers and acquisitions of technology companies, as well as turning around emerging companies by developing new sales divisions, channels and strategic partners. Mr. Pierhal has assisted a significant number of companies with capital formation and re-capitalization from private and public sources. He contributed exceptional strategic and tactical vision, strong team development and leadership skills. In addition, Mr. Pierhal has impressive experience in the area of technology startup company development and serves as an Outside Board Member to several such firms as well. Mr. Pierhal also remains as the President of ODIS, Inc.

Kevin Barnes - Treasurer & Chief Financial Officer:



Mr. Barnes has been serving as Controller since 2007 and has been actively involved in the Financial Statements and Management’s Discussion & Analysis preparation since then. Mr. Barnes is a member of the Institute of the Certified Management Accountants of Australia and an Accredited Chartered Secretary. Mr. Barnes currently serves as a Corporate Controller and Business Performance Manager for one of the world’s largest language training institutes. Prior to this, he was a reporting manager with Duguay and Ringler Corporate Services, a Company specializing in financial reporting for publicly traded Companies.

Lee Shepherd - Vice President, Technology:



Mr. Shepherd has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Physics from Carleton University. He has 27 years of experience in business, technical, and military leadership roles. He has spent the last 18 years in the Telecommunications/Information Technology industry serving in technical, management, architecture, and entrepreneurial roles of ever-increasing scope and responsibility. He is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IT Millwrights Corporation; previously Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Neterion, and Designer, Team Leader & Architect with Bell-Northern Research and Nortel. For more information: http://www.opelinc.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Lee-ShepherdResume.10.28.12.pdf

Team OPEL, Board of Directors:

Mark Benadiba - Executive Chairman:

Mark Benadiba currently serves on the board of directors of Cott Corp. (NYSE: COT) (TSX: BCB). Mark Benadiba was involved in helping Cott Corp. shift its strategy to refocus on its core business activities in late 2008. He has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, strategic alliances and negotiating licensing agreements.

Peter Copetti - Executive Director:

Peter Copetti has over 25 years of capital markets and management experience in key leadership roles. He has been the chief architect and strategist of the transformation at OPEL Technologies, since joining the company in June 2012. Mr. Copetti was personally responsible for the restructuring of both secured and unsecured debt, negotiated new equity infusion into the company, and re-focused the company on its original technical vision of monolithic optoelectronic integration, leading to OPEL's resurgence as a leading platform innovator in the semiconductor industry.

Dr. Samuel Peralta - Director:

Samuel Peralta has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wales; with business certificates from Rotman School of Management and the Schulich School of Business. He brings technical continuity to OPEL's board, with industry-recognized expertise in communications, inspection and robotics, in mobile software and hardware, and business transformation. Dr. Peralta is also currently business director for Kinectrics Inc. and sits on the board of directors of Windrift Bay Limited.

John F. O'Donnell - Director:

Mr. O’Donnell earned a BA (Economics) and a LLB and has practiced law in the City of Toronto since 1973. He is currently counsel to Stikeman Keeley Spiegel Pasternack LLP. His practice is primarily in the field of corporate and securities law and, as such, he is and has been counsel to several publicly traded companies. Mr. O’Donnell is currently also a director of RX Gold & Silver Inc. and Nerium Biotechnology Inc.

Chris Tsiofas - Director:

Mr. Tsiofas earned a Bachelor’s of Commerce Degree from the University of Toronto in 1991 and has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario since 1993. He is a partner with the Toronto Chartered Accountancy firm of Myers Tsiofas Norheim LLP. Mr. Tsiofas has also been involved as an operating partner in various private enterprises over the years and is able to offer managerial and operational insight.

Dr. Adam Chowaniec - Director:

He was previously the founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of Tundra Semiconductor (acquired by Integrated Device Technology), Chairman of Zarlink (acquired by Microsemi), and Chairman of Bel Air Networks (acquired by Ericsson). Previously, he was President and CEO of Calmos Systems, acquired by Newbridge Networks and renamed Newbridge Microsystems, where he served as President and as a Vice President of Newbridge Networks. He has also served on the boards of SiberCore Technologies, Liquid Computing, Microbridge, GEAC and Amiga. He currently serves on the boards of Solantro Semiconductor. Dr. Chowaniec holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University, as well as both a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield. In 2010, he was recognized by the California Computer Museum as one of the founding fathers of the personal computer.

Dr. Geoff Taylor - Director:

He is Chief Scientist at OPEL and has led development of the Planar Optoelectronic Technology (POET) platform over the past two decades, directing a focused team at the ODIS subsidiary of OPEL. Dr. Taylor possesses an extraordinary technical background made-up of 30 years of design and development experience in electronic and optical device physics, circuit design, opto-electronic technology, materials and applications. He is concurrently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Photonics at the University of Connecticut and is responsible for ODIS’ development efforts at the gallium arsenide (GaAs) growth and fabrication facility. With over 150 papers in the world’s most respected journals, and dozens of patents, Dr. Taylor is widely regarded as the world's leading authority on GaAs solid-state physics, III-V opto-technology, as well as the pioneer in the development of monolithic integrated opto-electronic circuits.

Previously, Dr. Taylor served as a Distinguished Member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs, developing inversion channel technology for III-V materials. At Honeywell and Texas Instruments he helped to develop critical optical technology for the Jupiter Orbital Probe as well as the development of key circuits and devices for very-large-scale-integrated (VLSI) chips. Dr. Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and an M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University.

Profile of Professor Geoffrey W. Taylor:



Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering:
http://www.ee.uconn.edu/faculty.php?f_id=18

Office: ITE Building 459
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Education:
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Queens University, Kingston, Ont., 1966
M.A.Sc., Electrical Enginering, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., 1968
Ph.D., Electrical Enginering, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., 1972

Research Interests:
Background in the areas of materials, devices and circuits for microelectronics. Early work in material defects, MOS device modeling, and circuit performance of Si based VLSI technology. Interests in the device limitations, the circuit configurations and the systems problems associated with VLSI. Translation of Si inversion channel device concepts to III-V systems for optoelectronics. Development of FET and bipolar devices in heterostructure systems. Research on optoelectronic devices includes detectors, lasers, amplifiers, modulators and passive optical devices. Current interest is in the implementation of optoelectronic integrated circuits ?IC? that combines the functions of optical and electronic devices in a single chip, infrared imaging and THz detection. Applications are circuits and subsystems for optical interconnect, optical computing, optical signal processors, and RF analog photonic systems such as phased array radars and wireless communication systems. Particular emphasis on the development of optoelectronic switches for new circuit functions such as high speed AD and DA, VCO, PLL and logic blocks. Targeted applications are DWDM systems for metro access, photonic switching systems for packet switching and optoelectronic interfaces for high speed memories, processors and networks.

Modeling of laser diodes, Vertical Cavity Lasers, intersubband absorption, photoluminecence. ultra high speed electronic devices, rare earth doped lasers, THz device physics.

Memberships:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS)
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Publications:
Archival Technical Journal Publications:

"A Thyristor-Based Photoreceiver Based on the Dual-Channel Double-Heterostructure Optoelectronic Switch"
(with H. Opper), IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 40, pp. 1074-1086, 2004.

"Characterization of the Switching Parameters in the Dual-Channel Double Heterostructure Optoelectronic Switch"
(with H. Opper, J. Cai, R. B. Garber and R. Basilica), IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices, Vol. 51, pp. 1091-1094, 2004.

"Derivation of the Switch-On Parameters in the Dual Channel Double Heterostructure Optoelectronic Switch"
(with H. Opper, J. Cai, R. B. Garber and R. Basilica), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 96, pp. 7612-7624, 2004.

"Correlation of Theory with Experimental SOA's"
(with W. Zheng), IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. , No. , pp. , May, 2005.

"Microwave Magnetic Properties of Co50/(SiO2)50 Nanoparticles"
(with M. Wu, Y.D. Zhang, S. Hui, T.D. Xiao, S. Ge and J.I. Budnick), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 80. No. 23, pp. 4404-4406.

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Patents awarded to Geoff W Taylor, OPEL & Uconn:

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22Geoff+W.+Taylor%22#hl=en&tbm=pts&sclient=psy-ab&q=ininventor:%22Geoff+W.+Taylor%22&oq=ininventor:%22Geoff+W.+Taylor%22&gs_l=serp.12...0.0.0.72735.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..19.psy-ab.8Mf5yfT-Wzs&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=d5d4cafb6e690c15&biw=1236&bih=590

Patents awarded to OPEL, Inc:
https://www.google.com/search?sa=N&hl=en&biw=1236&bih=590&tbm=pts&tbm=pts&q=inassignee:%22Opel,+Inc.%22

List of Patents for OPEL/ODIS & Dr. Taylor & Uconn:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=74245127

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What is so interesting about POET Technologies Inc?!

- OPEL Technologies (TSXV: OPL) Completes $7.2 Million Private Placement:
http://www.investmentpitch.com/video/0_hlkf4i5m/OPEL-Technologies-TSXV-OPL-Completes-72-Million-Private-Placement
POET Technologies Inc. closed an oversubscribed equity financing of $7.2 million in February 2013. This gives the company enough cash to continue to achieve technology milestones, as well as execute an aggressive public relations campaign in the months ahead.

- Over the past year, POET Technologies Inc. has strengthened its board of directors and has added technical expertise to the management team in order to maximize the value achieved by the monetization process.

- As part of a restructuring effort initiated in the summer of 2012, the company recently divested its solar business. The solar business had become unprofitable due to unfavourable solar industry conditions. The company’s resources are now completely focused toward developing and monetizing POET.

- An optoelectronic device using POET technology can potentially achieve estimated cost savings back to the manufacturer of 80% compared to the compound silicon devices that are widely used today. These cost savings alone could represent billions of dollars of market value to a company who acquires and implements the technology.

- POET Technologies Inc. announced in December 2012 the successful completion of its most important technological milestone to date: "Continuous Wave Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Demonstration”. This milestone was a significant achievement in that all components are in place for on-chip integration of photonic circuits in the same semiconductor framework as electronic circuits. This is a key milestone in the acceleration of POET for commercial application.

- In March of 2013, POET Technologies announced radio frequency and microwave test results for complementary transistors fabricated using the POET process at BAE Systems’ lab in Nashua, New Hampshire. This milestone is the latest update on the POET development work being done in partnership with BAE Systems Electronic Solutions. BAE entered into a contract with ODIS Inc. (a U.S.subsidiary) in 2008 with the intent of replicating specific POET devices in a third-party environment at BAE Systems Reed Microelectronics Center. The validation work being done by BAE is a strong endorsement of the viability of POET as a commercially scalable technology.

- Research by McKinsey in 2011 indicates that, of the leading integrated device manufacturers, only Intel and Samsung have the resources to invest in manufacturing chips smaller than 22nm in the current silicon semiconductor world.

- According to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), the global semiconductor market is expected to grow 4.5% during 2013 to $303 billion and 5.2% during 2014 to $319 billion.

- OPEL’s POET technology is applicable to a large portion of the total semiconductor market as it is possibly the most comprehensive solution yet to increasing semiconductor performance in an economic and functional manner. In the near term, POET could potentially address the following markets: (Source: Gartner, PWC)
* Optical semiconductor – $37.4 billion 2015 Forecast
* Sensors and actuators – $14.1 billion 2015 Forecast
* Analogue ICs – $55.9 billion 2015 Forecast
* Discrete semiconductor – $28.6 billion 2015 Forecast

- On June 27, 2013 another Milestone was reached, ahead of schedule!



POET OVERVIEW:

OPEL's new and patented semiconductor fabrication process, POET (Planar Optoelectronic Technology), is based on a unique Group III-V materials structure. The POET materials structure is a four-layer, PNPN, electrical structure having two sets of independent quantum wells, and is specifically designed to support both active optical elements (laser, photoreceiver), and high-speed complementary HEMT and HBT transistors. This materials structure is realized as an epitaxy grown on a semi-insulating GaAs wafer. The processing of these wafers into products is done using a series of steps similar to those used in silicon processing, and is scalable to deep submicron feature sizes. POET device yield will thus be similar to that of silicon, much higher than that characteristic of many current III-V processes. This gives OPEL a technology basis that is uniquely powerful, that is economical to produce, and that is extensible in generations. Capitalizing on POET capabilities, OPEL will offer products into the communications, optoelectronic, RF/wireless, sensor, and imaging markets.

POET is a uniquely-powerful mixed-signal process, integrating high-performance analog and digital electronics with high-performance active optical elements. OPEL ICs integrate a dense mix of active optical elements and optical waveguides together with logic and mixed-signal elements on a single chip, thus manufactured in one serial process. The key elements integrated in the process, all simultaneously available for design, are: The Optical Thyristor (OT), Complementary HEMT and HBT devices, and Di-electric-Isolation.

Optical Thyristor:

The Optical Thyristor is a multiple-use device, and is the backbone of POET. The OT is a four-terminal device having both optical and electrical inputs and optical and electrical outputs. Depending on application and design, an OT can be a laser, optical amplifier, or photoreceiver, or may execute various electrical operations. An additional aspect of the POET OT is a process step that allows for emission and reception of light in-plane, parallel to the chip surface. Lasers and photoreceivers may either be designed with vertical emission, or use this step to have in-plane emission. This step allows on-chip optical interconnections, and also supports a low-cost multiple-fiber attachment system that OPEL has designed.

Various modifications of the basic POET epitaxial structure will support emission or reception at wavelengths of 980, 1310, or 1550 nm. OPEL's innovative structure and fabrication also provides detection and emission from the 3 to 20 m m band via the unique attributes of its quantum well structure.

OT Lasers:

POET lasers are of a third-generation fabrication using an implant confinement technique and have improved efficiency and reliability over the proton-confined and oxide-confined devices currently available. Either vertical emission, or in-plane emission may be employed, depending on design needs. When the in-plane feature is employed, vertical cavity lasers are formed in stripe geometries, and have end emission. Such vertical cavity traveling wave lasers have ratios of peripheral length to active area much higher than conventional circular VCSELs, dissipating power more readily, and resulting in higher reliability components of longer life. All POET lasers can be driven by a logic voltage signal, further lowering power requirements and increasing efficiency. Wall plug efficiency will exceed 50%.

OT Photoreceivers:

As photoreceivers, OTs have high sensitivity, are self-contained, and do not require TIAs (TransImpedance Amplifiers) to produce usable outputs. Incident light of adequate intensity will produce a direct electrical logic signal. Analog amplification and thresholding is not required in OPEL OT photoreceivers. All optical OT structures can be made selectively as lasers or photoreceivers, further adding to POET IC flexibility. The in-plane emission feature of POET allows easy connection to on-chip passive waveguides. This waveguide technology features enlarged waveguide apertures to facilitate ease of coupling to single mode fibers with very low device insertion loss. This feature is also key to OPEL's low-cost multiple fiber attachment technology via waveguides. OPEL has devised a packaging technology to match this horizontal I/O coupling, further maintaining the cost-effective approach.

OT Electrical Applications:

The optical thyristor can also act as an electronic device in storage, logic and millimeter-wave oscillator applications. OTs can form single-device static RAM cells, and can be designed for bistable logic uses (flip-flops). An OT with an optical cavity forms a uniquely low-noise voltage controlled oscillator. OTs acting as comparators are the heart of our ultra high speed A/D converter designs.

POET Transistors:

POET transistors suit a wide range of high-performance needs. Electronic designs can be performed using an arbitrary mix of complementary Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBT), or unique complementary High Electron Mobility Transistors (CHEMT).

Complementary HEMT Transistors:

The POET process offers both p-channel and n-channel HEMT devices with complementary threshold voltages. These devices are usable in both low-noise RF applications and in very high-speed low power logic. Complementary HEMT logic has a speed-power ratio similar to that of silicon CMOS, owing to the higher mobility of the HEMT structure, and can form very low power logic running at speeds to over 100 GHz. This allows the integration of dense logic circuitry with low power, high speed, and small size. This allows any mix of analog circuits and logic circuits to be included in an IC, design, when such integration can improve system performance.

Complementary HBT Transistors:

Complementary HBT devices operate in various analog and RF applications into the Terahertz range.

Dielectric Isolation:

One of the POET design elements supporting effective optoelectronic integration is its high-quality dielectric isolation. DI "islands" are formed by deep trench etch through the entire epitaxial structure into the substrate. Under each active "island" is a layer of oxide produced in the process step in which the lower mirrors are formed. The electrical coupling path between such dielectric "islands" is through the oxide of one region, through a semi-insulating substrate, then through the oxide of another island. This DI produces a much higher isolation than the reverse-junction and deep trench isolations of silicon, and is essentially a free product of the POET process.

This high-quality isolation is a principal factor in our being able to produce mixed -signal designs such as optoelectronic transceivers. Without this isolation, a typical implementation problem is a resulting crosstalk between the more sensitive receive section and the higher-powered transmit section. POET DI greatly reduces such a problem and allows OPEL to produce such integrated designs.

POET-Based IC designs:

OPEL integrated circuits contain combinations of optical and electronic devices designed to meet specific application, and are manufactured in the POET process. Designs are all fabricated using the same POET process, then tested, optically and electrically, as one single manufactured unit, minimizing cost. All of the elements of OT lasers, OT photoreceivers, OT logic circuits, optical interconnect, HBT transistors, HEMT transistors and dielectric isolation are useable in any number and combination, as the design requires, just as in any other semiconductor process.

This makes POET far and away the most powerful, versatile optoelectronic mixed signal process in existence.



- The Company is seeking to monetize the revolutionary POET platform.
(In Part 3 of the POET Presentation they expect to see +- $1 Billion $$ & this would equate to +- $6.6/share. Liquidation event!)

[buccaneer1961]

ODIS’ New Laser Is A Work Of Art (Its an old article but still very informative)

http://compoundsemiconductor.net/csc/news-det...d=19733388

[buccaneer1961]

OPEL Technologies Inc. is the current name, and OPEL stands for Opto-Electronic. (optics and electronics combined). But soon the company will change its name into POET Technologies Inc. and POET is the abbreviation of Planar-Opto-Electronic-Technology, which enables monolithic fabrication of an integrated circuit of gallium arsenide devices containing both electronic and optical elements on a single wafer. The subsidiary that is developing POET is called ODIS, and this stands for OPEL Defense Integrated Systems... http://www.odisinc.com/

[buccaneer1961]

Canada Insider: http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?ticker=opl

[buccaneer1961]

OPEL Technologies Inc. Achieves Integrated Circuit Milestone via Proprietary POET Platform

https://www.otciq.com/otciq/ajax/showFinancia...?id=107156

[buccaneer1961]

OPEL's new and patented semiconductor fabrication process, POET (Planar Optoelectronic Technology), is based on a unique Group III-V materials structure. The POET materials structure is a four-layer, PNPN, electrical structure having two sets of independent quantum wells, and is specifically designed to support both active optical elements (laser, photoreceiver), and high-speed complementary HEMT and HBT transistors. This materials structure is realized as an epitaxy grown on a semi-insulating GaAs wafer. The processing of these wafers into products is done using a series of steps similar to those used in silicon processing, and is scalable to deep submicron feature sizes. POET device yield will thus be similar to that of silicon, much higher than that characteristic of many current III-V processes. This gives OPEL a technology basis that is uniquely powerful, that is economical to produce, and that is extensible in generations. Capitalizing on POET capabilities, OPEL will offer products into the communications, optoelectronic, RF/wireless, sensor, and imaging markets.

POET is a uniquely-powerful mixed-signal process, integrating high-performance analog and digital electronics with high-performance active optical elements. OPEL ICs integrate a dense mix of active optical elements and optical waveguides together with logic and mixed-signal elements on a single chip, thus manufactured in one serial process. The key elements integrated in the process, all simultaneously available for design, are: The Optical Thyristor (OT), Complementary HEMT and HBT devices, and Dielectric Isolation.

Optical Thyristor:

The Optical Thyristor is a multiple-use device, and is the backbone of POET. The OT is a four-terminal device having both optical and electrical inputs and optical and electrical outputs. Depending on application and design, an OT can be a laser, optical amplifier, or photoreceiver, or may execute various electrical operations. An additional aspect of the POET OT is a process step that allows for emission and reception of light in-plane, parallel to the chip surface. Lasers and photoreceivers may either be designed with vertical emission, or use this step to have in-plane emission. This step allows on-chip optical interconnections, and also supports a low-cost multiple-fiber attachment system that OPEL has designed.

Various modifications of the basic POET epitaxial structure will support emission or reception at wavelengths of 980, 1310, or 1550 nm. OPEL's innovative structure and fabrication also provides detection and emission from the 3 to 20 m m band via the unique attributes of its quantum well structure.

OT Lasers:

POET lasers are of a third-generation fabrication using an implant confinement technique and have improved efficiency and reliability over the proton-confined and oxide-confined devices currently available. Either vertical emission, or in-plane emission may be employed, depending on design needs. When the in-plane feature is employed, vertical cavity lasers are formed in stripe geometries, and have end emission. Such vertical cavity traveling wave lasers have ratios of peripheral length to active area much higher than conventional circular VCSELs, dissipating power more readily, and resulting in higher reliability components of longer life. All POET lasers can be driven by a logic voltage signal, further lowering power requirements and increasing efficiency. Wall plug efficiency will exceed 50%.

OT Photoreceivers:

As photoreceivers, OTs have high sensitivity, are self-contained, and do not require TIAs (TransImpedance Amplifiers) to produce usable outputs. Incident light of adequate intensity will produce a direct electrical logic signal. Analog amplification and thresholding is not required in OPEL OT photoreceivers. All optical OT structures can be made selectively as lasers or photoreceivers, further adding to POET IC flexibility. The in-plane emission feature of POET allows easy connection to on-chip passive waveguides. This waveguide technology features enlarged waveguide apertures to facilitate ease of coupling to single mode fibers with very low device insertion loss. This feature is also key to OPEL's low-cost multiple fiber attachment technology via waveguides. OPEL has devised a packaging technology to match this horizontal I/O coupling, further maintaining the cost-effective approach.

OT Electrical Applications:

The optical thyristor can also act as an electronic device in storage, logic and millimeter-wave oscillator applications. OTs can form single-device static RAM cells, and can be designed for bistable logic uses (flip-flops). An OT with an optical cavity forms a uniquely low-noise voltage controlled oscillator. OTs acting as comparators are the heart of our ultra high speed A/D converter designs.

POET Transistors:

POET transistors suit a wide range of high-performance needs. Electronic designs can be performed using an arbitrary mix of complementary Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBT), or unique complementary High Electron Mobility Transistors (CHEMT).

Complementary HEMT Transistors:

The POET process offers both p-channel and n-channel HEMT devices with complementary threshold voltages. These devices are usable in both low-noise RF applications and in very high-speed low power logic. Complementary HEMT logic has a speed-power ratio similar to that of silicon CMOS, owing to the higher mobility of the HEMT structure, and can form very low power logic running at speeds to over 100 GHz. This allows the integration of dense logic circuitry with low power, high speed, and small size. This allows any mix of analog circuits and logic circuits to be included in an IC, design, when such integration can improve system performance.

Complementary HBT Transistors:

Complementary HBT devices operate in various analog and RF applications into the Terahertz range.

Dielectric Isolation:

One of the POET design elements supporting effective optoelectronic integration is its high-quality dielectric isolation. DI "islands" are formed by deep trench etch through the entire epitaxial structure into the substrate. Under each active "island" is a layer of oxide produced in the process step in which the lower mirrors are formed. The electrical coupling path between such dielectric "islands" is through the oxide of one region, through a semi-insulating substrate, then through the oxide of another island. This DI produces a much higher isolation than the reverse-junction and deep trench isolations of silicon, and is essentially a free product of the POET process.

This high-quality isolation is a principal factor in our being able to produce mixed -signal designs such as optoelectronic transceivers. Without this isolation, a typical implementation problem is a resulting crosstalk between the more sensitive receive section and the higher-powered transmit section. POET DI greatly reduces such a problem and allows OPEL to produce such integrated designs.

POET-Based IC designs:

OPEL integrated circuits contain combinations of optical and electronic devices designed to meet specific application, and are manufactured in the POET process. Designs are all fabricated using the same POET process, then tested, optically and electrically, as one single manufactured unit, minimizing cost. All of the elements of OT lasers, OT photoreceivers, OT logic circuits, optical interconnect, HBT transistors, HEMT transistors and dielectric isolation are useable in any number and combination, as the design requires, just as in any other semiconductor process.

This makes POET far and away the most powerful, versatile optoelectronic mixed signal process in existence!

[buccaneer1961]

POET in summary is a disruptive technology and is in the final stages of being demonstrated as an adaptable and scalable technology, whilst being validated by BAE and others. So we know that the technology works. In a matter of months the world's first POET based monolithically integrated chip will be heralded as a technological breakthrough. Keep in mind each of the milestone's leading up to milestone #9 are all and each incredible achievements. My perspective on POET and monetization is simple. Once the major players in the chip industry digest the whitepapers and have had the opportunity to inspect, test and most likely independently validate / test POET, the current dynamics will change significantly. POET Tech. Inc only needs one or more Chip companies to engage POET as the future of chip technology and shareholders will reap huge upside.

Personally, due to the truly disruptive nature of POET and the massive spectrum of product applications it could be applied to, makes me confident there will be several interest suitors / acquirer's which should result in a bidding war; and this would be the best outcome for shareholder value. There are several ways monetization could take effect; an early adopter who just buys the company outright, joint ventures, a licensing deal with a major player with a period of exclusivity coupled with cash injection which would then lead to a buyout later in the future, multiple licensing deals in one or more verticals ..... the list would go on and on.

We just need to sit back and let the POET Tech. Inc. Monetization Team work through this complex process and let the results unfold. The fact that POET Tech. Inc. has successfully attracted several industry specialists who have all completed their own DD and are on board should give us all confidence that we truly do have a technology that is extremely special. That sends a message to me that we should make a great return on our investment in POET stock; moreover the question in my mind is how much and when. To that note I consider what was outlined in the Corporate Presentation 2013: www.odisinc.com

Currently the milestones are ahead of schedule, whitepaper's in circulation under NDA's and the Monetization Team forging ahead with their mandate. It doesn't really matter if this comes to fruition this year or early next year, however the coming months should reveal an incredible outcome. Enjoy the summer and let the POET Tech. Inc. decision makers do their job, as I expect and trust they will do it well.


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[buccaneer1961]

Globe says Opel claims 10:1 advantage over silicon chip

Opel Technologies Inc (C:OPL)
Shares Issued 132,474,865
Last Close 7/9/2013 $0.47
Wednesday July 10 2013 - In the News

The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition Geoff Taylor has spent three decades building what he believes is a better microchip. In a Globe special, Adrian Brijbassi writes Dr. Taylor is among the scientists who believe the silicon regime is near the end of its shelf life. A native of Mississauga, Dr. Taylor has created a microchip at his laboratory at the University of Connecticut that is made of gallium arsenide (GaAs), a widely available chemical compound that the professor of electrical engineering and photonics says has shown a "10-to-1 advantage" in performance over silicon. With his invention nearly complete, his hope now is to draw attention and dollars from companies whose wealth has derived from the production of silicon chips. Dr. Taylor's invention is owned by Opel Technologies, which is changing its name to Poet Technologies Inc. Opel was a multimillion-dollar solar company until last year, when it sold off its solar assets to focus on developing and selling Dr. Taylor's chips. It has 15 employees, most of them at the Connecticut lab, and a market capitalization of $61-million. Led by its co-founder, Dr. Taylor, Poet is preparing to approach chipmakers in Silicon Valley this summer.

[buccaneer1961]

Look at the progress they made since then! Delays and unforeseen circumstances happen in a development process. Read the Disclaimer! Besides what happened 2 years ago is irrelevant now. OPL also had suffered a lot of damage by hurricane Sandy, so that quickly adds many months of delays, but the important thing is they are on track now. Even better, they accomplished another milestone ahead of time!





Serious investors are more interested in the future, the near term future that is!
Within 6 to 9 months the revolutionary POET Technology will be sold to highest bidder in a well orchestrated bidding war. But before that a aggressive marketing campaign will unfold and the hot shots of Silicon Valley will know about it. OPL won't stay at these bargain prices for much longer once the word gets out and the hot buzz is spreading! I would hate to be on the sidelines, or sell my shares at the wrong time... WEEEE

[buccaneer1961]

it went down because moron flippers knew they had time to play

[buccaneer1961]

because im not an idiot ;)

[ZincFinger]

The SP went DOWN the day of that PR. Apparently the market was underwhelmed by it.

Could that be because way back in March 2011 (NOT 2013 or even 2012!) Opel said "All components of the technology have been validated by third parties, and the Company expects to have a fully integrated, operational chip within months."

So just exactly why did Opel need the first eight of the current nine milestones if it had already been done, according to them, over TWENTYEIGHT months before that PR?!?

And their milestone on the fully integrated chip of Q1 2014 is hardly convincing given that they predicted that would happen "in a few months" back in March of 2012.

Maybe that's why the market was less than impressed by that PR.