Kyma Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of crystalline aluminum nitride (AlN) and gallium nitride (GaN) materials and related products and services, today announced an upcoming presentation by their Chief Science Officer on the performance characteristics of their recently launched high speed high power photoconductive semiconductor switch (PCSS) at Photonics West in San Jose, CA which takes place this week.

Kyma’s announced their PCSS product as their first device product just late last year, calling it the KO-Switch™, a double entendre meaning both “Kyma Optical” and “KnockOut” because it is optically triggered and because of its ability to generate a powerful pulse of electromagnetic radiation in less than one-billionth of a second.

Dr. Jacob Leach, Kyma’s Chief Science Officer, will present the talk entitled “High voltage bulk GaN-based photoconductive switches for pulsed power applications” at the conference. He has been working closely with Kyma’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Bob Metzger, who has served as Kyma’s lead in the ~ 2 year long KO-Switch™ development project. Leach’s presentation will outline how the device characteristics including erected voltage, on-resistance, and current density, vary with electric field bias and varying pulsed laser excitation parameters.

Dr. Leach's presentation is paper 8625-69 and will be given at 3:00PM on Thursday in Session 14: Novel Devices.

Kyma has sold several units of the KO-Switch™ already in 2013 and is working with a number of large companies to understand its potential to support several high performance high power switching applications.

For more information about the KO-Switch™ contact Kyma’s Sales Department at sales@kymatech.com.

About Photonics West

Photonics West is the most influential conference for biophotonics and biomedical optics, high-power laser manufacturing, optoelectronics, microfabrication, and green photonics. For more information about Photonics West visit their website at http://spie.org/x2584.xml.

About Kyma Technologies

Kyma is a leading provider of crystalline nitride semiconductor materials, device, and equipment solutions for energy efficient lighting and electric power management.

The market for nitride semiconductor devices was ~$10B in 2012 and is expected to surpass $60B over the long term, including $30B in visible lighting applications and $30B in power electronics applications.

For more information about Kyma Technologies, visit www.kymatech.com, e-mail info@kymatech.com, or call the company directly at 919.789.8880.

Kyma is a registered trademark of Kyma Technologies, Inc.