In 1997-98, it undertook the development project of "GaAs Horizontal Single Crystal Growth System" in the United States.
This project is a large-scale project that the Institute of Nonferrous Metals (Youyan Silicon Valley) and a listed company in Silicon Valley, American crystal technology company American Xtal Technology (AXT for short) will discuss for many years. Due to the industry advantages of Aerospace Hongda and the rich engineering experience and practical ability of aerospace origin, we dared to participate in the competition, and finally AXT company signed a contract with our company. And at the fastest speed (the contract period is seven months), the system design, production, experiment, test run and ten qualified single crystal rod samples were pulled out with its equipment. The pass rate is 80%.
Aerospace hongda completed the contract as scheduled and passed the appraisal of American experts. At that time, it was very sensational in AXT Company; it is rare in China to complete this project in such a short time.
As the overall level of system engineering is higher than the expected requirements, the equipment of the whole system has been completely designed, and the closed-loop automatic control of the whole process of single crystal growth is realized. (The domestic "non-ferrous institute" was manual, and the technology abroad was blank at that time. Aerospace Hongda took the lead in applying computer technology to this field and making it improved.)
As a "single crystal pulling", Hongda is a layman and can achieve And it is higher than the technical requirements of the United States (it should be said to be very demanding), and the other partner is very surprised (even a company in the United States, even with a certain scale and certain technical strength, it is difficult to complete such a difficult task in such a short period of time. project.) The American AXT Company fully affirmed the professional and technical strength of Hongda, especially the multi-disciplinary and inter-professional technical competitiveness and comprehensive quality.
This technology, Aerospace Hongda successfully transferred to AXT, and also helped them successfully build factories in China. The completion of this project is of great significance to Aerospace Hongda. On the one hand, it has accumulated financial reserves for subsequent research and development; more importantly, it has trained the team through actual combat.
In 1999, it developed a "motor controller" for AXT and supplied 300 sets for it. As an export product, the company insists on quality first and strict management. The personnel have the quality of military product production for many years, and have created a record of zero anti-revision rate, which has been well received by the United States. Later, due to the economic crisis affecting AXT's expansion plans, subsequent contracts could not continue.