AMISTAR has experience in the production, fabrication and characterization of high purity advanced monocrystalline semiconductor materials of commercial significance. Amistar personnel have expertise in the preparation of bulk III-V and II-VI compound semiconductors in polished wafer form for microwave and logic circuits as well as for infrared detection.
The company was incorporated in 1992 by employees from Cominco/ Johnson Matthey operations where they held key operations and research positions.
Amistar has a close association with the Canadian Space Agency research programs which provide insight into the microgravity processing of advanced materials.
With support of the Canadian Space Agency, in March, 1996, the company had six InSb crystal growth experiments delivered to the Russian space station Mir by NASA STS-76.
In conjunction with the University of Victoria, Amistar is researching the crystal growth of protein materials to provide crystallographic structure clata for use in the pharmaceutical industry and mathematical modelling of crystal growth processes.
Amistar is near the successful completion of a two year program to develop the equipment and techniques required for commercial growth of THM products. We have demonstrated the process with
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Ternary and Quaternary Antimonides Semiconductor Wafers