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KCC, I remember I while back when you were outlining the business management expertise Silorix lacked, and I may have posted, after you said they had a few excellent devise engineers or something like that, and I said it sounds like Lightwave could just buy them out at some point, or acquire their devise engineers to benefit Lightwave.
We'll see. Either way, they aren't worth our distraction at the point! Onward and upward Lightwave Logic!
Very interesting comment by Atikem Hailemariam, but also helps us understand the types of testing/design - Foundries - packing and then Line Card assembly that happens for some products as Jabil slide shows. Process goes back and forth across various parts of two continents four times before finished product. Onshoring will be very helpful indeed to speeding up the process.
I'll be visiting a good friend of mine in Europe end of this month, who works for Infineon and travels often to Indonesia to deal with the operations supply chain process at their plants. He was not so familiar with polymers, but I'll share some developments that are going on in Colorado with Lightwave, and see if he is familiar with the Infineon photonics area of business. Always best to cover these topics in person.
OT: Physicist Herbert Kroemer, 95, developed laser technology that helps humankind stay connected
(Wash Post Obituaries)
Herbert Kroemer, Nobel winner who developed laser tech, dies at 95
The German-born physicist developed a new kind of semiconductor that became crucial to the development of cellphones, CD players, fiber-optic networks and other touchstones of the Information Age
By Harrison Smith
March 28, 2024 at 7:19 p.m. EDT
Herbert Kroemer in the lab at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2000. He was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in physics that year. (Tony Mastres/UC Santa Barbara)
Herbert Kroemer, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who spearheaded the development of a new kind of semiconductor, leading to Information Age advances at the heart of everything from bar-code scanners, CD players and cellphones to satellite communications and fiber-optic networks, died March 8 at 95.
His death was announced by the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he had been on the faculty for nearly 50 years. A statement from the school’s chancellor, Henry T. Yang, did not say where or how he died but credited Dr. Kroemer with “transforming UC Santa Barbara into a leader in engineering and materials science.”
A German-born researcher with a thick white beard and heavy skepticism of scientific authority, Dr. Kroemer was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in physics in 2000 for developing semiconductor heterostructures, layered devices that proved foundational to advanced lasers and high-speed transistors.
He shared his half of the prize with the Russian physicist Zhores Alferov, who worked independently but in parallel to develop the devices; the other half went to Jack Kilby, a researcher at Texas Instruments who played a central role in the invention of the integrated circuit, or microchip.
Together, their work “laid a stable foundation for modern information technology,” the Nobel committee said.
Dr. Kroemer launched his scientific career at research labs in West Germany and the United States in the mid-1950s, shortly after the creation of the transistor. The device helped usher in the development of modern electronics, replacing the vacuum tube as an electronic switch and amplifier. Although it was typically built from a single material, usually silicon, Dr. Kroemer proposed creating a faster transistor using a kind of sandwich, or heterostructure, comprising different materials.
In 1963, he applied his heterostructure research to lasers, which had been invented just three years earlier but could work only at low temperatures and for short pulses. Dr. Kroemer developed a way to circumvent those issues, coming up with the basic principle of a device known as the double heterostructure laser, the foundation of the first commercial semiconductor laser.
The devices “are used worldwide in fiber optic networks and enabled the internet, transforming the world,” his colleague John Bowers, director of UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency, said in a tribute.
“It was a question of making something possible that without heterostructures simply couldn’t have been done at all,” Dr. Kroemer told the New York Times after winning the Nobel. Without the structures, he added, “there would be no CD players and no CDs,” along with no LED lights and countless other electronic devices.
Dr. Kroemer started out as a theoretical physicist — his first employer, a telecom lab run by the German postal service, insisted that he stay away from research equipment for fear that he would break something — and said that when he developed the idea of the heterostructure laser, he was interested only in the fundamental science behind the concept.
“I really didn’t give a damn about what the uses were,” he told IEEE Spectrum, the flagship magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
But his bosses at Varian Associates, a Silicon Valley research firm, refused to grant him resources to develop the technology, “on the grounds that ‘this device could not possibly have any practical applications,’ ” he recalled in his Nobel lecture. Other researchers, including Alferov, went on to build and refine the first heterostructure lasers.
“It was really a classical case of judging a fundamentally new technology, not by what new applications it might create, but merely by what it might do for already existing applications,” Dr. Kroemer said in his lecture, calling for institutions to focus less on the question of what cutting-edge science might be “good for.”
“The problem is pervasive, as old as technology itself,” he added, noting that the double heterostructure laser “was simply another example in a long chain of similar examples. Nor will it be the last.”
Dr. Kroemer in 2000 at his office at UC Santa Barbara. (Scott Nelson/AFP/Getty Images)
The oldest of three sons, Herbert Kroemer was born in Weimar, Germany, on Aug. 25, 1928. His father was a civil servant, his mother a homemaker. Neither had a high school education, nor did they have much of an interest in science. Still, they sought to encourage Dr. Kroemer’s natural affinity for math, physics and chemistry, including by buying a roughly 20-volume encyclopedia for him.
Looking for additional reading material as a teenager during World War II, Dr. Kroemer went to the library twice a week, making his way through the science section and becoming fascinated by “the realization that from a small set of very fundamental laws one could draw very, very far-reaching conclusions,” as he put it in an oral history.
After graduating from high school in 1947, he enrolled at the University of Jena, where he studied under the physicist Friedrich Hund during the city’s postwar Soviet occupation. As the social climate became increasingly repressive, lecture attendance dwindled; some of his more liberal classmates vanished without explanation.
“You never knew whether they had fled to the West, or had ended up in the German branch of Stalin’s Gulag,” he recalled in an autobiographical essay.
While working for the Siemens company in Berlin during the summer of 1948, Dr. Kroemer decided to resettle in West Germany, getting a seat aboard a return flight of the Berlin airlift. He enrolled at the University of Göttingen and received a PhD in physics in 1952, writing his dissertation on “hot electron” effects in transistors.
Dr. Kroemer conducted some of his early heterostructure research at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J., and settled in California in 1959, joining Varian Associates in Palo Alto. He moved there with his wife, Marie Louise, and their young children, including a 2-year-old daughter, Sabine, who drowned in a pool shortly after they arrived, according to a report in the local Peninsula Times Tribune.
His wife died in 2016. Information on survivors was not immediately available, but they had five children, according to IEEE Spectrum.
Dr. Kroemer joined the faculty at the University of Colorado in 1968 and moved to UC Santa Barbara in 1976, eventually holding joint appointments in the electrical and computer engineering department and the materials department. He received one of Germany’s highest governmental honors, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, in 2001, and was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor the next year.
Dr. Kroemer, left, receives the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm. (Henrik Montgomery/Scanpix Sweden/AFP/Getty Images)
After receiving the Nobel Prize, Dr. Kroemer gained a burst of attention, which he largely tried to ignore. “You get a lot of invitations where you know darn well you’re being invited for decoration. Those I mostly turn down,” he told a UC Santa Barbara interviewer. “But there is one kind of invitations where I feel I can give back to society — invitations talking to students,” whom he spoke with at elementary and high schools.
“Society has been good to me,” he said, “and that’s one way I can return that.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/28/herbert-kroemer-dead/
Yeah for Programmable Photonics. Next on Deck, scalable Lightwave Logic modulators.
Amen. Jose already said a few years ago Lightwave "was Gold". I agree 💯%
Another Elite 8 women's game tied at half tonight! Great competition and competitors!
Here we go, someone sent in the Klowns again! Saying Lebby should yell from the rooftops. How immature and disconnected you are from professional reality, it is really hard to believe.
Is that the game plan you Klowns came up with in your earlier special meeting this morning?
Very weak, lame, false and plain wrong. You boys are extremely fragile. Too funny! 😂
Getting ready for Lightwave Lift Off. Lightwave to Mars, then Pluto..and than galaxies beyond. .......before Pluto we'll drop a capsule containing Rear_End and his Klown associates embedded into the UrAnus crust (or is that the crusties? lol) 😝 with a small marking that will pop up to show our disrespect of all your lies. 😂🚀🛸
Huh, have your options expired yet Red?
I'm OK, are you OK?
Sounds like you were not happy with the lack of response to your posts. Don't take it personally, and keep reposting as if someone missed something. I trust those following here can make their own decisions.
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This one looks the same too. Two for two, on repeated links.
Hope you got easter candy into the baskets and hid them for the children and/or grandchildren before you went to bed. 🐇
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I knew I had read that other post link before. I thought you had some new stuff to show.
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And you are "wrong, as usual". Ding Dong! lol
They'll never learn!
Other problems yes (continual share dilution) but that really isn't relevant to what Xena is pointing out on NWBO.
Great post frobinso! Bummed I won't be able to meet you at ASM this year, but maybe at an East coast Delaware gathering.
Happy Easter to you too! Christ has risen, as my Orthodox faith says many times during midnight resurrection service. This year in early May, as we follow the Gregorian calendar. Blessings to all faithful and humble Lightwave longs, and to the company leadership and employees!! 🐇 🥚🥚 🌹🪺🌻
Thanks tradero, and this is what "open eyes" means in terms of the quality of performance, from a little searching I did this morning from a non-Lightwave conference paper 2015 titled, "Passive and Electro-Optic Polymer Photonics and InP Electronics Integration"; click on the links below to see the actual images. Cool stuff, and especially the results that Lightwave is producing with their polymers!
Astro, sure seems like it! 💪
Lightwave Logic closed last Friday at $4.15, and closed today (shortened 4 day week) at $4.68, up 12.8% (up all four trading days this week!) Through the 50 dma at $4.34, and 200 dma is on deck at $5.3 (simple 200 dma), whereas $4.96 is the exponential 200 dma (I tend to use) for next week!
SPY up -- +0.35%
Nasdaq down -- -0.3%
Dow Jones up -- +0.45%
Russell 2000 up -- +2.2%
Looks like Da small caps won bigly, and Lightwave Logic and CEO Dr. Lebby threw Da 12.8% gain Hammer Down! 🔨🔨 💯🚀🛸🤑
Agent Orange Squash Vapor --
I heard through a second hand source that at the 2024 Optical Fiber Conference in San Diego, during the Rump Session, an "on the ground" person heard a man asking another man dressed all in black, "So are you finally going to manage the short position issue?", and the man in black, with distinguished looking glasses, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Yes! I'm ready to F*CKIN RUMBLE!!" Boom! 💯🚀🛸🤑
Absolutely Rkf! The Pre-Launch. 🚀 count down has begun! Once in a Lifetime! NSS!😜
Great, hope that works out in your favor!
Hmmm, is your new name (handle) AdamN (= Adam ANT; T from previous TP handle) in reference to issues you have that are related to Adam Ant's history?? 🤔 BOOM!
What has happened to Adam Ant?
Where Is '80s Sensation Adam Ant Now?
Adam Ant was treated for depression, anorexia, and bipolar disorder in his 20s. His struggles continued and he was back in psychiatric care in 2010.
PS; Hope you find your meds ASAP, cause "a mind is a terrible thing to waste" 😏
Thanks Zadie. I'm 95% on the polymer that will soon have a very large first deal, and 5% on NWBO based on a number of governance metrics, dilution, and regulatory complexity.
Cool. So this is an entirely different area than the current deals Lightwave Logic is working on for deals with a Foundry, Transceiver maker (with 4 x 200G lane modulators within) and buyer (Data Center owners/operators such as Google (parent Alphabet), AWS (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), META, etc, etc.......?? in other words, same benefits but for high speed data transmission for On-chip optical interconnects? If so, then, Double Cool!
Maybe Google is involved as the company to received transceivers on the first big deal that Lightwave is working to finalize, for EO transmission between Data Centers and beyond!? 🚀🛸🛰️🤑
Hey Xena -- I didn't know your back story on that beautiful picture of your pheasant farm escapee. Could that you had a very nice friendship with them as you gardened.
Do you own any NWBO these days, or primarily/mostly just LWLG?
Good to see both NWBO and LWLG over their respective 50 dma prior to anticipated news we'll all been waiting for! 🚀
Sir, I believe you should stick to hoeing the fields for this Spring's plantings.
You should be able to do better with your outcome than frenetic trading and posting
on the NWBO board as investors/traders/speculators/shorters play their hand.
50 cents range may soon be a think of da past.
13.7k block at 11:58 am @ $4.40 further below. Nice! They are getting itchy!
(Thanks Xena for the formatting tip to post tables!)
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Maybe he's a variant of Ted Kaczynski's gene pool? 🤣
And some more buying action of 2 to 5k size blocks just a few minutes ago.
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LWLG cross above the 50 dma again (4.35) and is now showing good interest as it is bidding $4.42 at HOD.
Little 5k block bought earlier at $4.38 (10:40 am). The third day after our Monday news could be interesting!
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Astro, I can appreciate your sentiments, and both you and snez (who I met briefly at ASM in 2021) regarding those that have passed, like Gates and others.
That said, they and many others won't want to see Lightwave walk away from the fruits of their years of labor with an under handed buyout. It would just be a slap in the face of those who were faithful for years, and also the value of this proprietary company. Maybe I'll die before the big fruits, but if my heirs get the rewards, I'll be smiling Mile High by then many miles above the clouds! 😎
Hang in there! And stay healthy and well! The big vertical journey will soon begin.
You post like a short, just like veinous. Therefore, they conclude you are short, which is a reasonable deduction.
A buyout would be a sin in my opinion, based on all the bricks that have been laid.
Those feeling desperate, or near death might want a buyout to round out their wealth before passing.
I'm looking for generational wealth, not $11 dollars a buyout share, and feeling all happy and gimpy!
Sorry Charlie Thinking_clouds_and_foggy_thoughts
NSS. lol
Thank you very much KCC for that additional color. Sounds like a lot should be happening in the next 2 months if there is a full court press to get this disruptive and innovative product that will have HIGH demand into the market. Cool. "In Lebby We Trust" Boom! 🚀
What a complete slime ball shark Andy B is and especially was making an illegal options trade from insider information, and traded it in a relatives stock account!
He really got off with a hand slap for the most part! Poor Martha Stewart had to go to white collared jail for some months! Hah, the injustice!
What is funny is that Rear_end gave you an emoji of an flying saucer, which I use as the 2nd stage warp speed after a rocket launch of Lightwave off the pad. The flying saucer is the next evolution of stock price appreciation after the mass commercialization kicks in 2026 and beyond into the verticals.
I believe Rear_end, thinks it is just a "Ufo", and I would say, yes, it is an unidentified flying object, photonic lightspeed low energy super high transmission rate power by patented LIghtwave Logic polymers and device technologies dummy! 🤣🚀🛸🪐⭐️